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Worked on them off and on for a year and a half. The one on the left is made from southern yellow pine hay mow flooring that came from a 130+/- year old barn on the farm he will inherit. We have a colorized drawing of the farmstead dated 1903 and that barn is in it. That farm was bought by my wife's family from the railroad in 1865. The one on the right is made from Black Walnut that was planted by my great-great-great grandfather (I assume) shortly after the civil war also. Other son will inherit that farm. There are still a handful of the original Walnut trees still there. Full extension drawer slides all around. Good thing they are both tall to see in the top row of drawers. Middle drawer, middle row hides a 6" deep hidden drawer behind the front half. Left cabinet is poly, right is paste wax. (Poly made the Walnut to dark for me.) Now, all I gotta do is build a dresser for each of the 7 grandkids. Better hurry, I ain't getting any younger.

Wife called me and said she saw a mountain lion on the way to work. I asked her how she knew it was on its way to work..she hung up on me. 🤷‍♂️

Not sure where these pictures came from. I would say they were taken in the PNW. Not sure I would want to go straight up or down some of those hills, even today.

Let's start a thread for photos of anything IH taken years ago that were originally not a digital photo. I'll go first: here is a pic of Dad cutting wood with his Farmall H sometime in the late 60s or early 70s.

That's me on the 560. Probably taken in 1964 or 65, I would have to have been maybe 4 or 5 years old. Can't get the saved photo to load without being rotated wrong, so did next best thing.

Here are a couple old farm pictures with my Gramp’s 1066. The first picture was taken before the second and is originally colour, the second picture was black and white and painted colour after. The 1066 is pretty new in the first pic.

Kinda like the neighbor calling about our dog chasing their kids on bike. I said, can't be our dog as he don't have a bike.

1973- me on the 2 year old 826 hydro and 550 plow. 1971. Hired man moving a butt log with the 806. Mike still has that tractor. 1975, disking my garden, after the 826 got its cab, and the 806 got the 826 fenders. Dad planting corn with the 656 Hi Clear that I still have. same 656 and New Idea loader, putting down cement for a soil concrete floor for a bunk silo Above pictures from when I worked on my Dad's farm. Next are at Moozoo (my farm). Oct 1985, filling my bunk silo with 966 and Allis unloading wagon. April 1986- 966 and IH 575 spreader. 966 and JD plow planting corn with my M and JD 494A planter.

this asshat found something up his sleeve for ol peckerwood from the hills of Vermont…..

When one wonders into my place im going to shoot it , i dont give a dam if it’s legal or not.

Finally was able to see one of these in person this past weekend. Might not be plush by today’s standards, but it was ahead of it’s time when it was built.

Must have vinyl seats, so their butthole can act like a suction cup?

My bestie from high school is in town for the week while her parents are away, they breed Golden Retrievers and currently have a litter 6 weeks old. There’s a nasty virus going around my daughter’s daycare, so I kept her home in hopes of not having plague for thanksgiving. “The Charlottes” had a good morning together and the puppies did too.

“The best part of waking up, is Folgers in your Croc”

Tenneco saved Case, IH, Steiger and others. I'm grateful for that. But it could have been a better transition.

Fabbed an adjustable engine hoist spreader bar. Neighbor is going to be pulling the one on his JD 1010 crawler for a rebuild this winter.

Lewis and Clark lake area.

Running late out to Hunting stand Fri. morning, Was worth it with this view!!

The UDLX models were a neat machine and definitely ahead of their time. I got to see one this year, too.

It is built by K-line which is probably one of the best speed tillers on the market. Lots of them around me. Require lots of HP. In my opinion they are compaction makers at a zone you don’t want compaction. Most run 2-3” deep. Latest fad in tillage tools which will fade like turbo tills

It worked! After checking the in and out hose connectors to the bucket valve were tight (they weren't!) I moved the lever a few times. The tractor started right up and the bucket raised, lowered and curled. To all of you who gave advice, I can't thank you enough. Your patience, respect and assistance solved a problem that had been blown WAY out of proportion by someone who I thought knew tractors. I now know a great place to hang out and read posts, responses and solutions. One never knows when something learned will be useful. Happy Thanksgiving!

10 year old killed one, he weren't scared. One of a zillion kills my kid has done.

I got some I can add. Here is one of our 815's doing wheat around 1972

So they're.... dandy lions?? Mike

Pimped the skidsteer (not really. Tires are just sitting beside it)

Most efficient tool ever developed to move compaction up into planting zone at a high rate of speed.

It still blows my mind to think a cat this big wanders around North America.

Not in Virginia as fish and game says they do not exist here. So, I suppose there wouldn't be anything to worry about if you shot one killing a calf. Couldn't possibly have been a lion, they don't exist here............

The first picture is of my family Farm and the two H’s The other two pictures are from the dealership in town that I live in now, they were taken out by the merger

Well we set are first job today, 72 trusses. Was wanting a boom truck for personal use. Wound up with a crane for hire... kinda funny how it works out.

That is not actually true, It's not a good picture, and you may need to blow it up because it's small and upside down. But Old Abe was in the center of my 1985 1460 combine steering wheel. Those pictures are from my auction.

1466 pulling 24' Brillion spring tooths around 1974-75

Saturday morning view from stand.

I say this with peace, love and understanding… That is about the most American coffee mug this Canuck has ever seen!

From what I've put together, the issues that led up to what happened 40 years ago is the sad part. My opinion is we were lucky the brand was saved in the merger and IHs engineering saved both brands. It was pretty disgusting how the Case side tried to and succeeded in erasing alot of IH history though.

Is that Mr Hankie in the back? Lets see who gets that one.

Near Regina, Saskatchewan about a month ago.

Found on FB "Gradall" excavator mounted on a Linn half-track truck chassis. This "Gradall" is the 1st one built. In the collection of the late Daryl Gushee in Maine.

Wrought is used in lots of ornamental stuff I believe. I don't work with it much personally. Nothing against it but not something I have gotten into. Forging it is slightly different than other steels.

Mr Hankie the Christmas Poo, that's a few moons old😁

Doing some u joints and ball joints on a 2010 Ram 3500. Put some Christmas decorations up in the garage today as well.

It should be noted this was an estate sale. I'm guessing it was "get it sold now, we're not going to put money into it". I just thought the auction reps comment was pretty good about how the JD boys couldn't fix it.

Mike says it would have been originally paired with a 90, then a 99, then a super 99. He knows the chronology of the Oliver stuff to a T. He told me the smoke cleaned up some in later passes. Here's a link to a video he shot yesterday, you don't get a good look at the exhaust though.

That’s a lot of kitty

Logger, he did that with coffee cup in 1 hand and can of Coppenhagen putting pinch in with the other. 'Logger' means '0 crap to give' in latin iirc

By way of an update… I was able to get the decompression valve freed up by removing the valve train and valve cover cup. Then I lubed it liberally, locked onto the end of the stem of the valve with a good set of vise grips, and worked it back & forth / up & down. Once we had it all back together, she fired up, switched over and ran on all 4. (thank you, Lord!) Today, I put some Power Service in the fuel and ran it in town for a bath. Further good news is that the TA turns out to be solid. 💪 As interesting as it is, I’ll more than likely eventually sell or trade it for something else a little more in line with my interests. -FT

I'm back, and hit the ground running! Had a few new parts waiting for me I was excited to install! First the NOS battery cover from FP Smith. I'll probably paint it at some point as its still Harlo yellow not Federal Yellow. A set of J hook battery hold down bolts with wing nuts were readily available and fit nicely, although the thread quality of the wing nuts left a lot to be desired. It holds the group 31 battery nicely in place! One of the forks was missing the lock pin that holds it from sliding. This was a problem on the haul home because the fork slid off the carriage and fell onto the deck of my trailer. Thankfully didn't fall off the trailer, so I wanted to keep this from happening again. After much research I found some NOS pieces at FP Smith and some new ones through CASE Construction. The spring (536756R1), washer (120394), and ring (398510R1) I got NOS from FP Smith. The pin however I couldn't find, IH part number 386652R1. After more research I determined that a CASE 584 Construction King forklift with the 4K mast shares most mast components with the 4500B. So I ordered CASE pin part number D38359 which was a perfect fit. Here is a photo of the parts partially together. If you slide the fork to the edge so the hole is off the edge you can insert the pin and spring from below and compress the spring from below to allow you to install the ring which is like a key ring. The washer was actually not needed as the original washer was welded to the fork on both of my forks, but I already paid for it so I put it on anyway. . Easy install! Of course after I was finished I realized the spring was missing on the other fork, and the pin was bent. But now I know I can get all new pieces from CASE Construction. For reference here are the part numbers below. Pin, IH Part number 386652R1 = CASE # D38359 Spring, IH Part number 536756R1 = CASE # D52904 Ring, IH Part Number 398510R1 = CASE # D41289