Lots of C International tractors were used in my area, South Central Ontario. These little tractors could carry a mid mount mower for cutting hay as well as two row scufflers to cultivate between corn rows. Couple things to keep in mind, the International C , H , W4 and even W6 and M where often the first tractors on many farms. They were used to do jobs formerly done by heavy horses. Tractors were hard to come by during WW 2, and not too many pre war farms had gone to or fully adopted tractors. So when the war was over, and things started to pickup economically speaking, farmers started to look at getting a tractor to speed up their work, along with their teams of horses. My dad started farming after his war was over in 1945, taking over from my grandfather. My Grandfather never owned a tractor, and my dad bought the first tractor in 1948 , a Case V with a three bottom trail plough. Before the Case tractor came to our farm, my dad and Grampa would both go to the field with a single plough and a team of horses, and could each plough one acre per day. That little CaseV tractor with its 3 bottom trail plough could turn out five acres with one man in the same time. Farmers had equipment built for work horses to pull already on the farm, so a farmer would cut the long wooden tongue down a bit shorter, and bolt a steel plate top and bottom side, to make it so the new tractor could then pull the cultivator, rake, wagon, grain binder, and maybe seed drill too. So early tractors really just replaced the teams of horses on farms in Eastern Canada and Northern USA. So little tractor like the IH C , fit well on many farms. By the end of the 1950s few farms had any horses left to work in the field. Farmers were buying increasingly bigger tractors and equipment built for tractors. And smaller tractors like the IH C had , just like the work horses they replace, found themselves now with no jobs left on the farm, except mowing hay, pulling a wagon, and scuffling corn. Herbicide soon took away the corn scuffling too. I believe that few of the early tractors really got worn out before they became out dated, and that is why so many are still putting around. Things like no 3pth no independent pto left these tractors to be traded in on newer better equipped tractors.
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