Oh man does that bring back memory's, We had a 1046 with a comfort 2000 cab, we got 6000 hours on her as our main tractor on our grain farm in wales, we got it used with 5000 on. I'm kinda sad we didn't bring that old girl to Canada with us. I spent many hours driving 955, 956, and a the odd day a 1255 working for a silage contractor to, they all had really good syncro transmissions you could fly on the changes with . Your buddy's doing a good job, but the only IH like that to have a straight pipe should be a turbo !!!!!!!. Those original IH bullet exhausts whistle sounds way better when it's working hard than that straight pipe bark ever will. Those tractors and the big Ford six's like Georges are the only thing I'll drive without a radio, you can just listen to them sing all day. The strange thing is a Bepco type repro exhaust looks identical to the original but it don't whistle !, I got a new one here in the shed from my days in Wales i tried on the 46. When the guy I worked for changed the exhaust on his 1255 for a chrome pipe I got the old exhaust for our 1046. it fitted the manifold with a shim to tighten it a bit and has a bigger flow through it, that tractor went like a sexually interfered with ape as it freed up some extra power and it kept the whistle. See there are other good tractors out there than green ones L.O.L . Thanks for sharing Take care.
The 956 is running like a champ and Paul is doing great job keeping it running straight and true. The resto is coming along good and doing a nice job. Thanks and enjoy the week !
Thank you for your great variation of videos, takes me back to the days when I was on the farm. The farm I was on in Norfolk were still using spiked rear wheels, using the blue stock.
Great video , I have just bought a ford 6610 and it has been 30 years since I drove one of them , I had a grin from ear to ear on Sunday morning driving it home !
Nice video Mucker! My late dad used to say that machinery needs a decent workout to stop the barrels getting polished, Im inclined to agree. The farm where he worked had an MF 168 which did very little heavy work, an MF 30 seed drill was about the heaviest thing it pulled. This tractor always smoked and felt asthmatic compared to it's stablemate 185 which did all the ploughing and heavy cultivation at that end of the farm. When the 168 driver retired dad took on the 168 and after a few weeks it didn't smoke any more!
Paul's doing a good job of that Kurt. Nice tractor to drive as well.....a bit hampered by not having a camera mount, but really enjoyed my little play.
Thanks for that ,always wanted one preferably an International .where my old man worked in the eighties they had a whole fleet of various models .A friend of mine has recently brought a later case version 1455 really going to push him to take out out one day .if you was ever in Kent would make a great video he has a nice collection of modern classics seems a shame nobody sees them,anyway Merry Christmas 🎄👍🏻
Great vid Mr Muck! Lovely sounding tractor! Glad to see your channel growing :) You always make intresting vids and you seem like a top bloke. Keep up the good work. This is my favorite farming channel. Thanks for all your hard work making the vids. Cheers fella
Great tractors, the German built models were more expensive over the the English built models of the day but the extra cost was well worth it in the long run. That six cylinder was a good one too and hard to beat by the competitors.
Thanks LM, for 95 HP it's pulling all those Vibraflex shanks well, ...... they can take some pulling and that's not light land either. Well done to Paul on the repair and restoration work.
Lol awsome vid LM My freind and ooo man ya had me crackin up when ya said buggar off and have a salad!! Lol UHH and I did hear the other part to! ;-) So that is one beuteefull ole girl! And I hope that day was great for you!
Proper tractor, Sounds loads better for having the straight pipe than the original exhaust. Surprising how the XL cab hasn't really aged though. Look at the vision down to the front wheels.
I started to watch this during soybean harvest and didn't finish at that time. I'm an IH man myself and enjoyed that. You're right on about IH lugging power. I was a bit bugged by that floppy stack, though. Thanks for posting, Kurt. Later ,Tater!!
Straight pipe without any damping built in it sounds crap compared to the original whistler pipe, but thats my opinion :) love to see them in action, very nice tractors with those XL cabs
I remember my dad had one of these as a main ploughing tractor years ago he changed it for a fiat 160/90 because our neighbour had one love the look of the international but the fiat went really well
Drove a 1056XL just like that brand new back in 1984 Reg B693 CEG. Wonder where she ended up. Spent many an hour sitting on the headland with it ticking over waiting for the temp gauge to come out the red!
Nice old girl, miss my 1455xl, it was later one though with black cab, the very last ones you could get with 40kmh, although mine was a 30kmh with creeper box.
Cut my teeth on one of these, still have it on our farm, she's a bit rough looking now though. Has a great turbo whistle and I love the transmition whine. Always rember pulling a set of Cambridge rolls up a steep hill in too higher gear chucking out more smoke than a traction engine. Was too scared to drop a gear incase I couldn't get her to pull on 😂
Demonstrated a Howard 4 leg paraplow at the scottish ploughing championship in the 70s behind a 955 in fairly strong ground and Howard recommended 30hp per leg but the 955 just walked away with it 😊
Nice video chap, the lad is doing a great restoration job. Did the original exhaust give a whistle while it worked? Or am I thinking of the bigger 1255/1455?
....which is great fun for, oh, 10 minutes ? He's putting her back as it should be and when a decent exhaust comes up he'll get it but it's pointless without the whistle.
Kenny Barrett I spent summer on a 856xl the noise it made when braking was something I’ve never heard before the only way I can describe it is a ceramic sound that can be heard from 300 meters away
Hi nice tractor, how do you find the gear change? As far as i know there on the right hand side? Its just i know some internationals were very pron to sticking in gear when worn. Thanks in advance
Forgive my ignorance but how does that work? There's a club/group /bunch of mates that have some tractors and arable equipment and they know someone who has some land that needs cultivation and so they give up a Saturday or Sunday to essentially go contracting for free? Or is it more of a communal enterprise where everyone goes to everyone else's farm and does a bit in a many hands making light work kinda thing? Just not something we woolly maggot taxi farmers really seem to indulge in round here.
Yes basically someone has some land they keep aside for the event, the club/group organise the day, people come and watch. It's a brilliant way to see them working.
Lord Muck, why do farmers on your side of the pond tend to back up at every end to turn around instead of circling or laying of lands? It seems a terrible waste of time and hard on clutch and transmissions. I’d like to know.
Turning at the ends rather than going round in lands is so much more efficient - many many studies have shown this. The travelling round to set in using the lands system is a huge waste of time plus constantly circling creates massive compaction on the headlands. It's no harder on the clutch than any other operation.
Lord muck me and my brothers live in Devon and we have an nearly finished international 956 a Marshall 804 and a massey 3095 and a gray ferguson tef can you please tell me do you. Know anyone who has a international snoopy and what's your opinion of fiat's 180_90dt
Yes I know of a couple of Snoopys. The Fiat 180-90DT is a fantastic tractor but did suffer from final drive issues but all the same, a wonderful bit of kit.
Lord muck we are having problems which in your view what make of conventional baler would you have and sometime could you do a video on knotter setup and maintenance as we always have issues with our old new Holland 386 baler knots coming undun
Nice one Mucker. My first Job at 14 with good old man Tony Kirby gob bless him we had one these and it was our all rounder. We had engine upgrade and got 106hp. Poor girl was exhausted by time she was retired and last time saw her she was pulling header trailer and was used on the blower. Thanks old lady for being my first allocated Tractor. I didn't care what she was or how old she was she was mine and I treated her better then I did my girlfriend at the time lol?
I once drove the smaller IH, discing and found my knees got so bashed on the dash that it was a job to stand up after. Was a much easier ride in my MF1200. You have done some good videos this year.
Funny you mentioned that Ant, can you remember though when ploughing in a 1200/50 how your right knee smacked the edge of that bloody column on the seat/linkage control ?
Yes see what you mean, it is a bit pointy, the good thing with the 1200s is you can drive them sitting a lot of different ways, unlike the small IH where your feet have to stay in the same place. Have a look at my you tube channel to see my 1200s working.
