Yep, yer right, the H (and the M's too) needed a 7-8 mile an hour gear to go along with the 5 1/4 mph 4th and 15-16 mph 5th gear. My uncle's '50 H had the 7 mph 4th gear and it was nice....except it needed the slower 4th gear too. Drilling, mowing 2nd and 3rd cuttings, planting corn with 4 row planter, later cultivating and harrowing plowed ground were just a few jobs where the slower 4th was really about right and the faster 4th too fast with not enough engine power to pull anything much at reduced rpm. Dear old IH finally (too late again) fixed this problem pretty much with the Super H and M models.....along with giving the Super H the kinda power it should have had from the H model's beginnings. That's one thing about the John Deeres of that time, they had good speed selections of working gears....but their road gears were a little slow...and some will say the low was too fast for picking corn and combining. The later B's and A's got the slow low gear...but the road gear was even slower, especially for the B's...What dogs on the road! I always thought my Super M had enough gears....and it had plenty enough power to use them all efficiently. It was a wonderful big tractor....except it was brought out about 5 years too late. I'll bet that IH lost some sales in the H and M era because 4th was too slow and 5th too fast with no gear in between. If the Super models had come out in 1948 and the TA gizmo for the H and M and the wheatlands about 1950, IH would have squashed John Deere forever.
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