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Re: Matching my serial # to engine
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Posted by Hugh MacKay on November 25, 2005 at 02:24:58 from (216.208.58.150):
In Reply to: Re: Matching my serial # to engine posted by Jim Becker on November 24, 2005 at 18:42:26:
Jim: The information you've given in this post, more or less agrees with my thinking. I knew the SA and SC couldn't have been in the same sequence of engine numbers as the later number series tractors. In fact I could never see the SA and SC using the same sequence, numbers just didn't add up. However, from the info you have given both SA and SC did experience spread in tractor and engine numbers as production went along. Would it be fair to assume the extra engines were being used as U or stationary engines? I remember once in early 1950s, being at a local fair with my dad who at the time was looking at a second tractor to team with his new H. He was looking for a tractor that could do row crops, mow and rake hay, plus pull the manure spreader. He had his first loader on the H. His three brothers each had an A or SA as an only tractor on their farms, milking 12 to 20 cows. Dad was milking 25 and had been farming with a W4 and a team of horses. He had traded the W4 on the H, then realized horses should have gone and kept the W4 just to pull the manure spreader. Could have mowed and raked with H or W4, but dad was also growing some vegetable root crops and wanted an offset. Getting back to the fair and IH dealers display of new machines. His display was adjacant to the carnie rides. IH dealer was quick to point out that every one of those rides requiring about 20 hp had either a SA or SC engine. He had some great advertizing, 80% of those rides had an engine with a IH letter series grill. The dealer was quick to point out that if IH engines could withstand the abuse of those guys dished out, they would last most farmers a lifetime. How true, the dealer is gone to his rewards, so is dad, and his brothers, but most of those little Farmalls are still going. Can't accuse that IH dealer of false advertising. Would these U or stationary applications of engines explain the spread in engine and tractor serial numbers that continued to grow both with SA and SC? I also have a nagging suspicion those stationary engine numbers may have been larger than the spread.
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