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I loved running farm machinery in the mid 60s on. I can't imagine the skill it took to start a Farmall H or M up with a forge harvester and a wagon without live PTO.
Just bought land, and they had a B with the cultivator/planter unit attached. It still runs! Thanks for helping me identify the cultivator planter unit
From what I could tell from research, it is the standard spiked cylinder. For its age, the previous owners took excellent care of it to be all original except for belts and elevator chain that I replaced.
This is a very typical scene from the neighborhood I grew up in. Spent many a summer haying as a kid, helping my grandfather and other farmers back in the late 50's/early 60's. Great times. Enjoy your channel a lot, thanks for posting.
Say you plugged it or needed to stop quickly. How did you stop the chopper of it was engine driven vs pto? Was there a disengagement within reach of the tractor seat?
This episode showed up in my daily YT feed, first time I ever heard of your channel. I really liked it, checked out your channel homepage and I subscribed. My grandfather had an F12, and I learned how to operate it when I was 9yrs old. Also used the side PTO wheel to drive a saw rig in the fall. Will never forget that Farmall. He also had two John Deere A's, one B and an M!
I bet they used DDT to kill the bugs too. LOL, but in all seriousness. tractors built to last for generations not like the throw away junk being made in the past 4 decades. I guess this is one machine the Japanese or Chinese missed out on copying.
My dad had one back in the late 70's, but it had 2 tires in front( close together) plus a crank start that would try to break his arm. Neat lil tractor.
Back in 1972, my stepdad and I restored a 1945 BN, which is the slightly narrower version of the B. We stuck a 59-inch Woods belly mower under it and used to to mow the 3+ acres until 2020, when I had to let it go. I loved sitting on that old tractor.
In 1985, Case bought out the financially troubled IH. They merged to form CaseIH. Then in 2005(?), backed financially by FIAT, New Holland bought out CaseIH, but the two companies remain separate, but share tractor platforms.
back when they would try to sell you something new and tell you details and what it can do compared to the older models and actually be convincing whether it is old tractor or old car commercials
Even the old 1 row choppers we're an improvement over cutting and shocking the corn by hand ,then loading the shocks by hand and hauling them to the silo and feeding them into a cutting box to fill the silo.
Running an old 1 row corn chopper is now nothing more than a collector item. I cant imagine these guys seeing a 800 horsepower New Holland self propelled chopping 12 rows at a time
