Posted by LenNH on January 05, 2008 at 08:14:45 from (75.69.99.42):
In Reply to: F-20 factory seats posted by Scott Rukke on January 04, 2008 at 14:50:47:
My understanding is that cast seats go back to the 20s. My father's '29 10-20 had a pressed-steel seat (but smaller than those used on the later F-20s, F-12s, etc.). The late-model Farmall and the '36 F-20 that I spent many happy hours on in my silly youth both had pressed-steel seats. I have an original IHC brochure from about 1938 that shows a "rubber upholstered seat" that can be "supplied at slight additional cost." The seats with the shock absorbers are aftermarket, post WW II, as far as I know. I think they were probably modeled on the seats that came on SH and SM (these may have been available for retrofit to H amd M; I have seen them on some of these tractors, but don't know if IHC actually offered them or if people just bought them and put them on the older machines). I had an F-20 like this a few years ago. The seat is comfortable, but the mount is clumsy looking because it doesn't go right on the original seat mount. This tractor needs the hydraulic shock--every time the front wheels go up or down, the seat goes the other way, all day long. It's like a see-saw back there. Engineers in the 20s didn't always give much thought to the driver. Sometimes they didn't pay much attention in the 30s either. F-12s had the steering wheel much too low in relation to the seat. The F-14's higher steering wheel made this a much more comfortable machine to drive. Well, back then, we just got used to the discomforts. I remember vividly that there was no good place to put your feet on the F-20. If you put your feet on the axle, next to those little raised things, your knees were in your face. If you put your feet over the axle, then your ankles got a constant bashing from the hard axle casing. place to drive
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