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Excellent Book, Guy Fay!
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Posted by Harold H on January 14, 1999 at 17:32:33:
Guy, I just received my book which I ordered from Barnes and Noble and am very impressed by it. I have only had time to scan reed it but it is the most accurate and most complete book on Farmall and International tractors of that era that I have ever seen.
I would like to add one comment. On pages 59 and 87 you mention that a "cotton picker" version of the tractors was authorised in 1945. Actually there were two cotton picker versions; one for high drum cotton pickers and later, one for low drum cotton pickers, and each obtained reverse operation in a completely different way. The H's or M's ordered for low drum cotton pickers were basicly like the regular Farmall except for the transmission top (and a few other minor details). The transmission top was machined for shift rails on both sides and had two holes for the shift lever on the top. To reverse the operation of the tractor for use on the low drum cotton picker the differential was reversed (flipped) and the reverse set of shift forks was installed and the gear shifter was relocated to the opposite side. The cotton picker tractors for high drum cotton pickers were basicly (with a few minor details) like the regular Farmall except that they were equipped with the flange type rear axle housings of the HV or MV. To make the tractor reverse operation and provide higher clearance, bull gears were mounted on the flange housings rather than the chain housings of the HV and MV, along with a 7.50-20 single front wheel. This gave the tractors basicly the same clearance as the HV or MV but allowed for reverse operation. We also made a number of "home made" high clearance M's, 400's, etc, for sprayers and other applications by combining the two, ie, we would use the bull gears on the axles for clearance with the tall cotton picker single wheel, and reverse the transmission with the top from a low drum tractor to make it run forward again. This was quite common as there were a lot of cotton picker tractors available in the Mississippi Delta after the two row cotton picker came out and made the one row obsolete. Again, congraulations on your excellent book. Harold H
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