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This beauty has been working the same land in CT for 63 years.

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Probably made in good 'ole River City (Louisville, KY) but the Plant is long gone. The made way for UPS 'World Port'.... Several Billion spent several times. It seems to be working out.

It is sad sometimes to see great manufacturing operations end but end they do. Are they still spinning and weaving in the north east?

#1 dorf on 2010-12-04 21:17 (Reply)

Not really. The Slater Mill up in Webster, MA is still operating, but it's only a fabric dying operation now. The Stevens Mill in Dudley MA is closed as are the Belding thread and cloth operations in Putnam, CT - have been for years now. All the Slater operations in Blackstone, Oxford, Millis MA are closed too. I think there is still a Belding plant operating in Palmer, but that's only for speciality cloth and fabric - like Kevlar, Mylar and other exotic fabrics.

#1.1 Tom Francis on 2010-12-04 21:33 (Reply)

Is that an H model? I can't decide if its H or a C. That wide front is deceiving.

I had an A - '50 - white demonstrator that was purchased locally. IH painted their demonstrators white and placed them with dealers with the stipulation that when they were sold, they had to be painted red. I bought the tractor from Foskett Equipment here in Woodstock. -Harold is a HUGE IH collector and has a collection that is the envy of a lot of museums - complete collection of letter series tractors starting with the F-20 up through MTA. Anyway, after I broght the tractor home, I researched the serial number and BINGO - a white A demonstrator sold by Harold's Dad to a local farmer.

Heh, heh, heh - needless to say, Harold was really PO'd he let that one slip through his fingers.

Restored it and sold it a few years ago.

#2 Tom Francis on 2010-12-04 21:29 (Reply)

i'd say 8N but i thoink it's older --just, i had an 8N once and it's a dead ringer except for that wide front --

#3 buddy larsen on 2010-12-04 21:44 (Reply)

Its not a Ford.

#3.1 Tom Francis on 2010-12-04 22:08 (Reply)

i was referring to the Farmall 8N. They only made the one, and i'm the only person who ever saw it.

#3.1.1 buddy larsen on 2010-12-04 22:15 (Reply)

Hey BD, show the front view we sent! You guys are right - and there must have been 60 years of corrosion on the steering bar thing - momentarily at a loss for words!

Did a goose shoot this AM in a blind directly behind the steering wheel, but a famous CT guide had leased a big field about 500 yards further along. Wasn't using it this weekend but accidentally left his massive string of decoys in the field, possibly with corn, and about 500 Canadas made a bee-line for it at first light and stayed. We never saw another goose -- thus the tractor photos.
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#3.1.1.1 Gwynne on 2010-12-04 23:27 (Reply)

We have those freakin' geese in the corn field behind us. The hit the corn field for a while, then head down to the lake across the road for a while, then go back to the corn field for a while, etc., etc., etc.

Drives you nuts. :>)

#3.1.1.1.1 Tom Francis on 2010-12-04 23:43 (Reply)

Whoops - sorry.

#3.1.1.2 Tom Francis on 2010-12-04 23:33 (Reply)

I just looked in my handy dandy all purpose IH history book and I can't find a reference to a Farmall 8N tractor.

Would you mind giving me some details? Just curiosity.

#3.1.1.3 Tom Francis on 2010-12-04 23:41 (Reply)

Yes of course. You'll have to begin here:

http://apps.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/scicache/603/scimakelatex.59097.Dr+Buudderick+J.+Larsen.Henry+Ford+Farmall+8N+Project-Top+Secret.html

#3.1.1.3.1 buddy larsen on 2010-12-05 00:27 (Reply)

Should I be concerned that I actually understood some of that?

#3.1.1.3.1.1 Tom Francis on 2010-12-05 09:17 (Reply)

Oh, mercy, yes, YES

#3.1.1.3.1.1.1 buddy larsen on 2010-12-05 18:31 (Reply)

You're funny.
I have a Ford 8N made in 1945 (thus its called a 2N, but its almost identical)
and a 1940 Farmall.
Theres not much similiarity between the two except for the things all tractors have in common,

The thing that I like about the Ford tractor is how the parts look so much like the parts on the Ford cars

#3.2 bruce on 2010-12-05 08:47 (Reply)

My brother has a WWII vintage Navy Towmotor (used to tow aircraft) that is based entirely on the Ford 8N tractor. In fact, when we were restoring it, we compared a lot of what we were doing directly with an 8N manual.

It was an interesting restoration.

#3.2.1 Tom Francis on 2010-12-05 09:20 (Reply)

I first learned to drive on an IH Farmall just like that one, right around 1968. HA!

#4 GG on 2010-12-05 00:04 (Reply)

I first learned to drive on an IH Farmall just like that one, right around 1968. HA!
Note the big coil-spring shock absorber under the operator seat.

#5 GG on 2010-12-05 00:07 (Reply)

H and M farmall,two of the best tractors ever made.Lots of 'em still runnun and being used today.They are AS much fun as riding a motorcycle,horse or even your ol lady.*

#6 RL on 2010-12-05 01:48 (Reply)

I use the Farmall Model H that my grandfather bought new in 1940

#7 bruce on 2010-12-05 08:38 (Reply)

That is very interesting. That is an H.

Interesting - you don't see a lot of those wide front H models around. Obviously it is set up for hill work with the wide foot print.

Nice tractor.

#8 Tom Francis on 2010-12-05 09:25 (Reply)

Tractor? What tractor?

http://www.amaginations.com/user/photo_album_preview.php?pkid=38&recno=100

#9 Big___Al on 2010-12-06 15:10 (Reply)

I grew up running a 400, which followed the M, which followed the H. Hardly a difference between them, they just kept making a bigger version of the same tractor. In it's day there was simply no tractor more useful than the M, but International Harvester rode it's coatails for too long and by the time Deere came out with the 4020 in the early 1960's it was all over.

#10 ricefarm on 2010-12-06 16:16 (Reply)

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