When I was a kid my grandma gave me a farmall M toy ever since that day I’ve been attached to farmall m’s they remind me of my grandma Miss you grandma ❤️❤️❤️
I worked on a small dairy farm that had a Super MTA and we used that every day even though he had a new 1066. That was one of the best tractors to use and that TA was really handy .
IH tractors and trucks were popular in Australia 🇦🇺 too, although we variants on some of the models, I know my great uncle ran a fleet of IH trucks in his transport company in the 50s, 60s and 70s, some were C1800 IH, others were cab over 1830a ACCO's and others butter box ACCO's.
My great grandpa had a MD and my dad and I just got one a few days ago it now runs and drives and me and my brother plan to take it and my dads M and also my grandpas about to be mine’s M on a tractor drive this summer
I have a 1952 Super M factory propane version that I have restored and I absolutely love it. Don't let the HP rating fool you. This is a very strong tractor. At the time, The Super M was the largest tractor you could buy.
Yes, but well developed by IH by the time of the MD. They used it on the TD-series crawlers built from the early 1930's. We had three TD40s on my Dad's farm, along with an M (built long before the Super M) and three Hs for planting and cultivating.
Cultivated many an acre of corn and soybeans with a Super MTA and 4-row cultivator working for a neighbor in the late 70's and into the 80's. It was also used as a secondary plow tractor, chore tractor for grinding feed and loading manure, as well as plowing snow. With the same owner the whole time. Great old work horse. Still in the same family as far as I know. Didn't know they only made them for 1 year.
Those where the greatest tractors ever built I know I worked at Louisville works for over 15 years and have used IH's for over 50 years. Still do to this day.!!
The 1954 Super MTA was also only the second year with full time independent hydraulics from the factory. The Super M and Super W6 shared an engine and were blessed to be offered an engine hot rodding kit from M&W. By increasing the compression ratio and upping the governed RPM's, draw bar horsepower could be jumped to as much as 56 horsepower. That turned your M from a 3x14 inch plow tractor into a 4x16 inch plowing rig. Of course, a lot of extra ballast was also in the mix.
That's not true. On the Farmall M it is, But The W-4, W-6, and W-9 series tractors, if equipped with hydraulics, had live hydraulics from the factory. They were available from the mid 1940s on I believe. The Super A and Farmall C touch control systems were a live system as well.
MV 's were my favorite, they were popular here on sugarcane farms,, I have owned 2,also a '54 Super M TA, with a single front wheel out of cotton and corn farm's of North La.
My grandfather bought a Farmall 'M' used back about 1968. However, he didn't like the tricycle front end, so he had a local tractor shop install a wide wheel steering set like was made for the Super 'M', and we liked it much better. Oddly, this tractor had one of the strangest engines I ever saw, and I notice that it is not included in this story. It was a five cylinder gas. I have never seen one before or since. As I recall, it also had a five-speed transmission. This tractor ran well, and gave good power and service.
I have a 1954 Super M with a trip bucket and a wide front. I use it to move snow and I keep the ground cultivated around the farmstead. I don't know what kind of cultivator it is but it was on the property when I bought it. I had to do some repairs. The M had a hydraulic pump leak that I, after 15 years, got fixed. I hope I never have to remove the hydraulic pump again. Also if any of you get an old tractor make sure that you check the rear end for water. Water gets in by condensation. The 1st year that I had it the water froze and took out the bull gear and the bearings put a hole in the rear end. Thank God I knew how to weld cast iron. The repair of the hole has lasted over 15 years. I did put JB Weld putty over the welds and this year I had to replace the putty. The bull gear replacement was not hard, just took some time. In the last two weeks, I have had it out every day moving snow, staying on it till I get too cold. Well, we just had another snowstorm so I will be at it again in the morning.
I currently have two Super MTA Farmalls. The running "joke" among tractor enthusiasts here in Iowa is that it is the "rarest tractor that everybody has!" It does seem like many are still up and running. I would be curious to know how many nationwide are still running? I may ask on a Farmall discussion board sometime. It will be hard to get an accurate count however.
Super M wide front was our daily driver on the farm in the 70's. Manure spreader, feed grinder, haybine, cultivator, field chopper, corn planter, corn picker....
Learned how to run the hay baler on a standard M when I was 8. 1962. Later in life I built an 80 hp super M motor for my dad and brother to tractor pull with.
My dad got a big bore kit or something like that on his M and my grandpa’s M when I was 5-6 years old and to this day he still has a photo in his shop of me and him working on it...he says it puts out around 70HP
I like the M and the MD. Party because my grandfather used a M alot on the Dairy Farm he worked on. Could you do another video like this but with the Farmall H?
If it's an M I like it. But if I was choosing from a collectable standpoint it would be the conversions like the Sheppard and the Detroit or the Cummins. Growing up in Pa and having a local dealer close back in the day that sold Sheppards I have always been fascinated by them. Someday I hope to own one of them.
Grew up on Family Dairy Farm, we had an H. 2 Super M. An MDTA, Sold the H got a 450 Diesel , Sold the 2 Super M's got a 706 last purchase was a 1066 with Cab.
I have my grandpas 47 M that he put a bunch of M&W options in after he shot a rod out the side of the block. I got it running again and changed it to 12v after it sat in an open shed for about 15 years. It dynoed 37hp and just needs new front bolster bushings.
We had an Farm All H series tractor with IH cotton stripper mounted on it. Cotton harvesting was the only farm task this tractor was used for on our farm.I don't recall the the H tractor was ever used for plowing. That was in the late 1950's or early 60's so It has been more than 60 years ago. I do remember that the tractor was parked in the late 1960's and never used again after a John Deere cotton was purchased to use on our John Deere 3020 series tractor. Wasn't the Farm All H series a smaller less powerful than the M?
One of my most favorite tractors was a SMTA that I traded a Super C for. I had to do quite a bit of work to it but it was worth it, my all time favorite baling tractor! It is the one tractor that I’m sorry I let my wife talk me into selling.
I'm a John Deere guy myself but I did like the m Farmall a lot of or neighbors farmed with m farmalls I also enjoyed driving my neighbors farmalls c with a belly mower attatchment
International Harvester owned and operated a open pit iron ore mine in Nashwauk Minnesota on the Mesaba iron range an later sold it to Cleveland Cliffs Iron Mining Company, the mine was known as the Hawkins Mine an it was started by George Crosby who started the Cuyuna iron range in north central Minnesota
That "pop, pop, brummmmm" meant our cows were gonna eat tonight. Dad had an M that had kinda been converted to a 12 volt system, so, of course, we left the six volt battery in it, and jumped it from a 12 volt in cold weather. You'd choke it and if you let it crank just a bit too long, it would flood and drip fuel from the carb, just inches from where one had to connect the jumper cables from the 12 volt battery if you were going to have any hope of starting it. Many a cold winter evening I hooked up the 12 volt to a burst of sparks, punched the starter and held the choke out and crossed my fingers that it would go, and more often than not, it did. Hot or cold, it sometimes took some doing, but it nearly always ran, got the job done.
THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I SAW A SHEPPARD CONVERSION BUT I HEARD OF THEM!! THE WEAK PLACE ON THE CHASSIS WAS THE BULL GEARS AND PINIONS ON THE REAR AXLE DRIVE! THE TORQUE AMPLIFIER WAS A BIT WEAK ALSO! THERE WAS ANOTHER WHEATLAND VERSION OF THE "M", THAT BEING THE W-6 SERIES! THESE TRACTORS WERE THE BEGINNINGS OF THE MODERN TRACTOR!
Love m all..i have a 47 and 50 M and a 52 super M..would love an Mta but they're kinda pricey around here. Maybe I'll find one that needs rebuilt one of these days...🤞
I own a 350 with the TA and independent PTO. While transmission technology has moved on, the TA still is impressive, and I won't own a tractor without independent PTO.
Harvester also offered a Detroit Diesel dealer installed conversion during the mid 50's. I have seen a couple of examples but I don't recall the specs.
I love them all . Although we only had one person that had a Farmall m when I was growing up. And he was our neighbor and I believe he pulled a three bottom or four bottom plow with that m. I know he had a sprain tooth arrow that worked on hydraulic cuz his had a hydraulic pump on it. Springfield herald had a hydraulic cylinder with wheels on it. Anyway I love them old tractors like that they're all awesome.
The Sheppard conversion is a bit of an oddity as IH made a diesel version of the Farmall M called the Farmall MD. it was built from 1941 onwards. There was also a diesel version of the MV high crop called the MDV. The most collectable of the Farmall M lineage would be the Super MDV-TA (high crop diesel - with Torque Amplifier) built in 1954 only, and only 36 were built
My neighbor told me he looked into getting a sheppard dealership. He went to Hannover pa and the showed him around. He claimed they had a refrigerated room where they tested cold starting. He claimed the lit a cold engine with no starting aids in sub zero temperature. The farmall diesel was an utter abortion.
In Britain the US built Farmall M was replaced by the British built Farmall BM in 1949. The 1940-48 US built Farmall M in Britain is a rarity nowadays as not many were imported during WW2
My father had a farmall M with before wide train, in France in 1960 he was dieselized with a Perkins 4-270 direct injection motor (rotary injection pump CAV) 57 HP. he travelled more than 20000h-
My brother's father in law repainted an old M, then brought it out to the farm to shake out the bugs making hay.We always baled with a JD60, but this old fart wanted to bale with his M.(no live pto) It was an IH 45 or 46 baler with a roller thrower and on the 60 two cyl. it worked great just under 540pto rpm, and the surging of the baler and the big tractor flywheel and the touchy knotter, it worked great, the live pto was a beautiful thing,putt putt putt tie bale. It wouldn't tie three bales in a row behind the M, and he set the brakes to get off while it was running to see what was up with the knotter(you've probably already guessed what was next) the baler flywheel rocking unloosed the barely working tractor brakes and away it went. Rolled the M,jacknifed the baler into a pretzel, wrecked the haywagon with 50 acres raked up ready to baler. His first question was "Do you guys have insurance ?" Our response : "No, but your wife had better hope you have life insurance ." We have many other Farmall failure stories back home, many revolving around non-operative braking, and after running JohnDeere so many years, especially the ones with PARK in the transmission you have to wonder how stupid can RED guys be?
I like all of the M series tractors. Supers are better. I like Diesels, too. But just the plain old M was a great tractor. There's a reason the M is consistently in the top ten list of the greatest tractors of all time and often top that list. The standard tread version W-6 series tractors are equally as good as the M, but seldom make it on any list, probably because fewer can relate to them.
@@RJ1999x What's wrong with them? We've had lots of them over the years and there's no picking and choosing between them and an M. The real early ones were harder to steer and the clutch was hard to push. But they fixed that on the later tractors and they are every bit as good as the M.
@@tyfrank3427 Where to start! Horrible to get on, horrible to start, horrible to steer, horrible to push the clutch or brakes, horrible to run the throttle, horrible ride, steered like a freighter, I can't imagine why anyone would build that tractor or why anyone would buy it. My uncle had one, it was just spiteful , had a friend that had one willed to him, he wanted me to get it running again, I told him to junk it, we stuck a pile of money into the obnoxious thing, he drove it and hated it told me to sell it. The guy that we buy tires from brought his cousin who was an IH collector to see it, he wanted it so my friend reached in his pocket to pay for it, I took him to the side and said don't buy that tractor , go buy him an M or something, but his cousin wanted it, do he bought it for him. They put new tires on the front, ran it around hated it and brought it back to my friend rather then pay for it, to this day he says he should have listened to me and walked away. He's had it for sale on and off nobody wants the thing, he finally dumped it just to get rid of it. My kid asked me why I hated that W6 so bad I told him go drive it, he made a 5 minute drive down the road and back, and said he understands completely!
@@RJ1999x You must have had an early W-6. The later ones are better. The clutch pedal is much easier to push and the steering is much better. Here the standard tractors dominate, so I guess we're used to getting on and off of them and working the pedals. I find the W-6 is easier to get on and off of than the M. My dad and I are big IH collectors and we owned and used several W-6s and Ms (and still do) There are some features I prefer about the M like the better ride and the easier to reach pedals. I prefer the live hydraulics on the W-6 to the lift-all on the M, and I prefer the drawbar on the W-6. As for the throttle, I actually prefer the W-6 throttle although it is stiffer, it also stays set. I don't care much for the early W-6s but sure do like the later ones about 1944 and newer. As far as starting, my Super W-6 will start 2 turns even in -20C weather. It starts and runs great and I use it all the time and really like it.
@@tyfrank3427 Where are you from? I'm curious, must be wheat country if standards were roaming the land. I'm from Wisconsin and row crop tractors are pretty much the norm. The throttle did stay put better then an M I will agree to that, but awkward to operate, my Uncle's had a vice grips clamped on it so the angle was better, which I've seen on others W6 and W-9. The tractor started fine, I meant the layout of the switches and the starter button. If I'm going to buy a tractor with a W in the model it's going to be a WD-45!
They made a lot more than around 2700 super M TA s .they made them none stop for ten to eleven months in 54.I know of about eight of them just in a ten mile radius of my house. There's probably more that I don't know of.
Yes. Maybe diesels, but Super MTA series started with the serial number 60001 and ended at 81848 according to the records I have. Our Super MTA is over 80000. There were also over 3000 Super W-6TA tractors built as well.
what about Hysler-- we had a "56-58" M with over size pistons.It ran a hammermill better than a 560! Hysler I understand reduces a tractor worth---because if breaks-- has to be removed--- no parts anymore.. we loved ours!!!!!!
