Re: Why Farmall's geared the way they are!

Posted by The Dukester on September 05, 2002 at 11:57:52 from (65.89.19.195):

In Reply to: Why Farmall's geared the way they are! posted by Ty on September 03, 2002 at 06:50:51:

I've always wondered why IH in their infinate wisdom made such a gap between the speed of fourth and fifth in the early H's and M's. I guess in 1938 or '39 when they designed those tractors, field speeds were slow like the F-14's and F-20's had, and to have a road speed was all that was needed to be up to date. Truth is, they really needed an additional gear or two to go between 4th and 5th, two more speeds woulda been nice. The '50 H my uncle bought new had the optional high speed fourth of 7 mph and was very useful, however it still needed the old "slow" 4th too, because the 7 mph was just a little fast and the 3rd was the same old 4 1/4 mph, and if you throttled back much you lost too much power. To spring tooth harrow(draggin'), plant corn, drill small grain, and last time through cultivating corn the old 4th was nice and to have had the new 7 mph 4th would have made the tractor just about perfect. We could have used the same extra speeds in the W-6 too, that's for sure.
Later on in life I had a Super M, and with the extra power that old girl had along with the faster 3rd and 4th, you could really get some work done. Of course the Super MTA my uncle had was just the ultimate tractor I thought at the time, what with 10 speeds, live hydraulics, independant pto, and a fire crater engine kit, that tractor was about as good as it could be for that time. It took a strong set of arms to steer it but for what it could do, I never complained. Later on, uncle put a Char-Lyn power steering kit on it too.
When He eventually traded it for a diesel 560, I thought he had lost his mind, I never did learn to like the 560's--too long and clumsy and that hummin', gutless engine noise bored me to death.
To my thinking IH built "nothin' much" between the Super series and the 06 series, sagging sales sorta prove that too, that's when they lost out to John Deere really. It wasn't what JD built, it's what IH didn't build(or engineer really), that cost them the lead in ag equipment sales.

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