the all new 88 Series International Harvester 2+2 Tractors from IH 

yes sir. :) thanks 4 watching. :)

Systorable 4 sare. :) strike hurts everything. but 2 bad it happened 2 ih

they striked because IH made way too many budget cuts in the late 70s to boost profits, which included dropping many product lines and severely cutting pay of employees.

the 2+2's r nice but i like the 86 series more & i have 1.. :)

@@MrJohndeere3720 wish I still did - and a place to use it. Maybe again one day

@@tannertuner what did u have ??

@@MrJohndeere3720 we got a 1586 new in 77 I think it was. It was the first big tractor for my grandfather’s farm. Up until then my grandfather had done everything with a 504. My dad and his brother in law rented hundreds of additional acres and planted soybeans and corn and 33 acres of tobacco, which at the time was a lot of human labor. Dad had a full time job and was actually commuting 70 miles to farm on the weekends and off days. They apparently had a hard time getting used to the hydraulic brakes on the 86 and busted the bull gear a couple of times. The second time was in planting season and it took a long time for the shop to get it fixed and it put us behind planting that year. So my dad found a 1566 open station at auction sometime not long after that to make sure we weren’t without a tractor again. The price he paid for the 1566 made a lot more sense than the new price on the new 86. That quiet cab with a/c and a fantastic stereo system were nice and I loved it. But they really should have bought a used tractor to start out with. He even could have bought a 1566 with a cab at an auction before the 86 went down but didn’t. We had a chance to buy a 986 from my dad’s uncle who was being foreclosed on and we kept it a while. I used it a bit while we had it. I actually wish we had bought that one because we started a hay business in the late 80s when I was in college. We used the 1566 for that but it was really too much tractor for a round baler. And it wasn’t so big I couldn’t have cultivated with it. I liked them all but the 986 really made a lot more sense in retrospect.

@@tannertuner o ok nice. :) i have a 1586 as well.. its 2 replace our farmall 400.. been slowly fixing it up.. mine is over kill 4 our farm but thats ok.. mines a 78 model.

thats what im thinking 2..

What!!!?!?!

Only as a collectors item. In reality, a FWA tractor is much more practical in todays world and a hell of a lot more reliable.

they r good tractors. :) ya sorry about the audio.:( ur welcome & thanks 4 watching. :)

Michael Halsall We had 13 IHC tractors, some over 50 years old and they all earned their keep.

nice. :) ya they have there ups & downs..

ur welcome. :)

yeup, 15 years ago I worked on a farm that ran 3 3588s and 1 3788. We blew out rear ends on 2 of them. one of them was almost impossible to shift the range box even tho it had been to 3 different dealers for repair. Granted three of them had well over 10000 hours on them. All in all they were decent tractors, looked pretty dang good too. My biggest gripe with them is for being 4x4 articulated they would get stuck so easy and it seemed like as soon as you started spinning, you were buried up to the axle.

All of IH's shifters were messed up at that time. Not just the longnose.

nice. :) thanks 4 watching. :)

ya they should :)

ya that can happen, sad. :(

pretty cool :) thanks 4 watching. :)

i go off of tractorhouse .com & they show 9k to 20k. so i would start at 13k only becuz of low hrs.

MRJOHNDEERE3720 shit and I heard that tires can be 900+ each!? That’s another 7200, he also has a 22ft PUL Flail mower as well in decent shape

if u plan on putting new tires on it, then add that $7200 2 the price of the tractor.. im not sure what the mower would go 4, i would need the make & model number of it. i paid $8900 for my 1586 but then i had 3K of work done 2 it + another $300 of work done 2 it that i did myself, so now my tractor could go for 12,200. but im not done yet..lol if u think 13K is 2 low u can go up, go up 2 what u think is a far price. the 9K to 20K i gave u is the price range i've seen most go 4.. ya big tractor tires are $900+. we have a ih 400 gas & when the back tire blew out we had a 1k bill. my tractor tires are 10x bigger then whats on the 400, so if i had a blow out, im looking at a 2K+ bill . & thats only for 1 tire..

ya but they would not be that good..

LOL :)

mgtowfish73 I was constantly having to steer. We just plowed wheat ground. l can't imagine row cropping.

i have heard that from other farmers as well!

mgtowfish73 I agree the 50 series should have come out much earlier ,the drive trains were far superior to the 86 series.

interman 77 what wasn’t superior about the 5088 series?

thanks. :)

NICE. :) ya im sare it does.. :)

they should have left the tanks under & behind the cab that would have shorten them up alot.. the reverse flow fan most likely did not have the power 2 work in extreme conditions..

@@MrJohndeere3720 Actually, behind the cab was a dumb idea too. The 86's had that, and you couldn't see the drawbar to hook up an implement, unless you used the mirror IH installed. Better place for the fuel tank would be under the steps, like all tractors have today.

@@GermanShepherd1983 well i dont mind the tank behind the cab. u can still see the drawbar but ur face would be in the window...lol but ya the best place is under the steps. most have the fill neck at eye level. where as the 86's had it over ur head..

ya that's never good. 2 bad there was some updated parts 2 fix that. thanks 4 watching :)

We installed little rubber ball clamps

ebay..

Yep d@mn Carter and his Soviet grain embargo, among his many other failures, which precipitated if not outright caused the 80's farm crisis... Well, that and the continuation of failed fiscal and ag policies, and stagflation coupled with super high interest rates and the Arab oil embargoes. I still remember as a kid sitting in line for gas... odd numbered plates could get gas one day, even number plates the next... Now we're getting ready to do it all again. Probly just quit this time around; don't feel like trying to muddle through for ten+ years waiting for things to get better... Later! OL J R :)

@@lukestrawwalker And…..this Democrat is not only doubling down on Carter’s “misery index”, they’re shooting for the moon‼️ Looking like lots of people will be setting their thermostats back to 68 again and wearing sweaters…..just like in Jimmy’s little “fireside chat”‼️

Before it's over we may be lucky to have beans and tortillas... I've never seen such total incompetence... OL J R

@@lukestrawwalker I wish it was only incompetence! It’s much more netherious

@@formerfarmer1718 yeah I think so too... There are no coincidences

they grenade no matter what....lol

@@MrJohndeere3720 my grandfather owned an IH dealership and I don't know how many we welded up to disable them.

@@tombig4011 o very cool. i wish IH was still there own business.. tell ur grandfather hes a badass guy. :) i know a guy who had his TA removed in his 1086.

ya they should, just as long as it does not have all that emissions BS on it , like all the newer tractors have..

MRJOHNDEERE3720 Wonder if anyone has put a Soucy Track system on a 2+2 anteater...

@@eatingamandarin dont no..

It wasnt Fords idea. And the Matbro Mastiff was closer to the anteater.

it needs 2 be redone..

u dont like it but yet ur subscribed 2 my channel??

+SubvenioArguo lol

ur just talkin crazy....lol

Thank you lol because me and my brother have always said this so I read all the comments to see how many other people said this lol. Our farmer neighbor had one for years and we were very impressed with how ugly it was 😂