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I saw the drone display they did in NY for the 9/11 tribute this year and thought it was really beautiful - 2,977 drones forming the DNA strands moving upwards and then turning into the shapes of both tower 1 and tower 2 was really an emotional watch. I still remember seeing it on the TV as a little girl and feeling horrified so I cant imagine what it was like to be in the towers, on the ground - or even in the same country. Sending love to all affected by that morning, and the days, weeks and years that have followed - the whole world really does remember with you ❤️🇺🇸

The 86 series is by far my favourite tractors. Bought my first hydro 186 in 2008 and I’ve been adding to my collection ever since. I have three 786s. Four Hydro 186s I have one of each, 886, 986, 1086 and a 1486. First Hydro 186 bought in 2008 and the 2350 loader put on it in 2012. It’s my snow tractor during the winter and it loads big square bales onto my trailers in the field. it’s got about 10,600 hours on it. The second one was the 986 I bought in 2011. This summer it’s been running a kuhn 9032 double rotary rake. In the past, it has done many jobs like running a manure pump or silage blower. Small square baler, disc mower or Tedder. it has also did a little bit of tillage work in the spring. The exact hours are unknown, but I would guess between 7000 and 7500. Third one I bought was a 1086 in 2012. Its main job now is raking hay with the same rake as the 986. It has done the same work as the 986 over the years. It has 7500 hours or so. The fourth is an 886 that was purchased in 2013. It was the lowest price tractor I bought because it needed an engine overhaul. It was leaking coolant into the oil I rebuilt the engine and since then it has done same jobs as the 9 and 1086. It has almost 9000 hours. The fifth tractor I bought in 2017 was a 786 with ROPS it has about 6500 hours and my buddy rents it for the summer to rake hay. The sixth tractor was also bought in 2017. a 1486 it had a complete restoration in 2021 and is now my main hay cutting tractor. It runs a Hesston 12 foot pivot tongue disc mower. since 2021 it’s only been unhitched from the disc mower once to get a clutch replacement. It has between 6000 and 7000 hours. The seventh tractor was bought in 2018. Another Hydro 186 with 2000 original hours. At the time it was the tractor. I paid the most for at auction. It runs the Tedder. it will probably get a loader in the future. The eighth tractor was another Hydro 186 with unknown hours. It has a turbo on it and look like it had a loader before I bought it. It now has a 2355 loader and it’s only job is to unload the trailers and stack the big square bales in the domes. then it reloads the trailers when I’m selling the hay. The ninth tractor was a 786 with an aftermarket cab. It’s got about 6000 hours and I don’t really use it because I don’t like the cab on it, It will get used to move stuff around the yard, in the future I plan on removing the cab and back to original factory open station.I bought it in 2020. The tenth tractor was another 786 with a factory cab and it had a 2350 loader. It doesn’t do much. Hours are unknown. Got it in 2022. The last tractor I bought late 2025 was a Hydro 186. 5400 original hours and came from the original owner. Has a really decent paint job within the last eight years and has been kept inside Always looking for more 86 series, especially a 1586. Also looking for 686 and Hydro 86. Someday, I might even buy all of the 4X86 four-wheel-drive tractors, but they’re not high on my list of tractors I want to buy because I don’t have any use for them. I have a 3388 and a 3588 2+2, just missing the 3788. The 1486 works hard on the disc mower. The two Hydro 186s with loaders work hard too. All of the others not so much.

The 86 series tractors were introduced 50 years ago today. We can't do pics but here's a factory movie. Thanks to @rustred for reminding us. Share your stories!

Yeah, nobody ever accused an AC guy of being snobby like some of the other colors out there. You know the one... it starts with J and/or lots of ether, and ends with Deere and hard feelings.

We still have the 1086 Grandpa bought new. Delivered March 14, 1979 but serial # denotes it as a 78' model tractor. It came from the factory with 8-track and 20.8's. It had the soft rear end gears that were replaced early on at the dealership. Grandpa said there were no factory duals available so it has worn white DMI duals its entire life and a full set of flame cut weights. It pulled a 12 row Kinzie planter for several years for my uncle before the planter was upgraded. Currently around 4300 hrs wearing the original BFG tires it came with new (to the best of my knowledge)

It was sold brand new by A.A. Anderson, of Harvard, IL. (dealer sticker on it). This would have been when the shop was "downtown" on 300 N. Johnson St??? Andy Anderson was REAL close with some well placed guys at IH and had access to lots of IH stuff others dealers didn't. He had a public showing of the new 460-560 tractors in June of 1958 and IH dealers saw them in August/September of 1958. Andy also got LOTS of low serial number stuff from IH and Hinsdale. I can personally trace several "501" tractors that came from there. The first IH 1468 V-8 made (#7101) is coming up on auction this Fall and it has an A. A. Anderson decal on it. It stayed local to the area its whole life so far. A.A. Anderson is no longer around...it was bought by the dealer I work for, Johnson Tractor a few years ago. There is a NO OLD IH stuff there. Alot of it went away when Andersons moved to a new location in the 1980's? that was eventually bought by Motorola (to make cell phones...but it never took off) and they were GIVEN a new place to move to that is their current location. Just like any OLD IH dealer, Anderson has some VERY TALL (and TRUE!!) tales to be told about it.

Got some great news, I have been struggling recently to find an apprenticeship placement alongside what would be my college place - had a meeting at the college this morning and they're happy to place me onto their level 2 course in the welding center of excellence and put my details into their "Talent Pool" which means I'll be one of the first in line when local companies register any vacancies. Its taken a bit of weight off of my shoulders to be honest as its been getting me down ontop of everything else! So for now, I'll be doing my level 2, focusing in the short term primarily on pipe and plate welding and getting a temporary seperate job to get by while I wait things out. Hopefully things will get better from now 🙏

I find it interesting that this is an IH forum and there’s always 2-3 people try turning it into a jaun deere forum. Talking about the 50th anniversary of the unveiling of a new series tractor and somehow it turns into a jd thread. Maybe someone should start a jaun Deere forum for the guys who obviously wear green underwear

A beautiful voluptuous woman wearing next to nothing holding a snap-on torque wrench in one hand and a sheep in the other.

all, i am on the tail end of a shingles episode - I believe i have had it flare up many times ovrer the years not realizing what it was because it presented as various issues internally my point to this is if they keep telling you there is nothing wrong they are likely wrong i wont go into the saga of my 30 year battle with that diagnosis over/over, pills/meds that never helped and all of my mysterious issues came/went w/out reason my latest presentation was internal pain near the drivers side of my spine - it came/went like acid reflux might - tired, weak, loss of appetite. the pain was more intense at times - aggravate by sitting in a chair or laying down because it irritated the nerves in my back got to the point i couldnt stand it, sleep was here/there and because of past blood clots/lung issues/heart arythmia i decided to go to the ER, same thing.........nothing wrong with you, went to DR, did all sorts of blood tests, low vitamin D is the only thing they found. So.........I kept feeding AI info, it settled on shingles even tho i have no presentation of sores/blisters. I was not familiar with internal shingles. Yes its a thing, has a diff name vs externally presenting shingles. The internal attacks the body and you have a virus running amuck in the nervous system. It travels around your torso, basically from the spine around to your sides at the rib cage level. For me it was a burning sensation with tingling/crawling like a bunch of worms moving around inside. This is what i fed into AI ( chat gpt ) and it said shingles. I asked my DR if they could give me something. In two days of meds I felt a change, after the 7 day of pills, i felt better but not great, lethargic, achey like flu, but better overall. I held out a couple days and gave in as it was coming back worse. I got another 7 days of antivirals and this time it seems to be staying away. I still feel tired and sluggish but doing small tasks and trying not to overdo it and relapse. Luckily my day job is on a computer so I have managed that ok. I did not get the shingles vax - i am contemplating it but still on the fence due to some minor risks and lack of trust of our blessed medical system who failed us along with the gov't and the great Fow Chee experiment. IF you have ever had chickenpox, the Shingles virus lays dormant in your system just like staph or strep. When we get weak it presents itself. the antivirals are hard on the kidneys so be aware of that. Hope this helps someone - Back in 1994 when i started having issues one Dr ( a former Army field dr. ) told me I dont know how to fix you BUT I know you have some smoldering virus in your system that keeps flaring up. Now I know what it was. It only took 32 yrs and self diagnosis.

Ahhh yes. We wont talk about the vast majority these days, however if you do find a spare man that is a man free to a good home laying around, do be sure to send him my way 😅 *this is entirely satire by the way dont send anyone to me you'll be prosecuted for trafficking.

I got an 86 Series brochure from The Paper Farmer this year at RPRU and it’s really neat. Printed in October 1976. Now I have the 66 series brochure printed in May 1971, this 86 series, and the 50 series from 1983.

Bought my first, a 1486, in the mid 90s, don't remember the exact year. Wow that cab was quiet and cool! Have several now. I sure like them.

Why? Supply and demand is working. If anything you should be mad at California for closing 3 refineries in the last few years. Severe lack of refining capacity is driving diesel prices.

Just told the family group chat that I've signed up to start a women's weight lifting class on a Wednesday.. I wish I could post the screenshot, mother is having kittens and asked if I was going to become a bodybuilder and do I infact like women now? As if my sexuality has anything to do with anything 🤣😭 I informed her, no, but if I have to move metal around to do my job, the arm and core strength to actually pick it up without breaking myself would be helpful! My dads response? Just dont get shoulders bigger than mine please 🤦🏼‍♀️ The saga continues....

Just me, but all this thinking and trying to repair the finger, I would have the tractor split already and I hate working on a creeper and shi#& falling on my face😉

Got that 454 fired yesterday. The fella that is buying it took a couple steps back when I banged it off the rev limiter at 7000 rpm 🤣. Found out there’s a tractor run today, checked the rack on the Detroitson last night and put the batteries in but one is shot (she’s 24v) so I’m going to see if parts store has a pair. If so I’ll trailer down to the clubhouse and go for a drive with the guys.

We have 4 86 series now. 1586, 2 red power 1486, a red power 1086. My goal is to get a 986 and 886 in the next few years. Maybe a 7,6 and 186 later on. Dad had a new early 1586 in 1976 or 77 that was a nice quiet tractor in its day.

Those films were done by the IH Photographic Center in 1976 and with the same spokesman on both of them. They are both restored on Farmingtonimplement DVD’s 9 and 10. The one introducing the Pro Ag Line was the first IH film I ever saw…. around 15 years ago so I was around the age of 10. Dad called me in his office and had found that film on YouTube and I remember watching it on the old 2003 Dell computer and thinking how neat that something like this is around. On Farmingtonimplement’s DVD 14 is a film from the 86 series introduction at Chicago’s McCormick Place on August 26th, 1976. Orion Samuelson was the spokesman on this film. It’s neat, especially when they’re have the 86’s driving down one of the roads at the Photographic Center. Does anyone have the advertisement that says “Coming September 11th” is it just a ad or is it a brochure? This is the one where the 86’s are covered up and on trucks going down the road.

I bought mine in 2019. We had the 1456 as our only "modern" tractor and I felt like the farm needed something with a cab. I had used a friends 4440 for several things and he offered it to me for sale. I was a little hesitant as it was known to pop out of the ABCD range. I saw the 1086 sitting at a friend's boat factory. Turns out, it was his step-dads and he had owned it since 1997. He gave me all the paperwork for what they had done to it and I bought it. Last year we bought our 2nd one. The 86 series is my favorite IH series overall.

Sometimes I need to hear something like this. Good song.

When I worked at the Grinnell store, the salesman told me that the 86 series tractors sold themselves. He won a top sales award during that time. 1086 were top sellers. Then 986, 1486 and 1586 respectively. His customers were ready for the modern cab after using their 66 series tractors for so long. Had a huge inventory of used 66 series tractors traded in. They put fire sale prices on them. Many smaller farmers traded 706, 806, 856 tractors in on 966 and 1066 machines. A time that was not riveled until the boxcar Magnums came out. The 88 series were a hard sale due to the tight financial situation in farming at that time. He said that the well- established farmers purchased the 88 series machines. Those with money will always purchase new equipment, he told me. I like my 1486. Enjoy the cab. My neighbor bought it new. Mostly ran chopper and mower conditioner. When he retired, had local mechanic go thru it from radiator to drawbar as a tax write off. Then he only used it a few seasons mowing hay until He sold it to me. Never sat outside.

I don’t know how any body thinks it’s a jd thread. Someone just asked how they sold against that model tractor. As for the 86 series it sold against two jd models the 30 and 40 series. If you take a truthful look at the tractor numbers for 3 models of IH and three models of JDthat overlapped each other they are almost the same sales numbers IH sold 47,420 1086 and 54947 1066. Compared to jd at 79,000 4430 and whatever 4440 sold. So about 100,000 125 hp IH sold to maybe 130000 jd models. But to analyze them you should take the 4 basic Deere models compared to the models that intersected in IH Line like 186, 1086 and split halve the 1486 to people who went up in power from a 1086 and combine that other 50 %. With a 1586 to compare against a 4630,40. There are 50 series IH in the pic also but they basically should be matched to the early Deere 50 series. If you take the 1086, 1066 and half the 1486 numbers IH almost sold 1 for 1 with jd in that popular range.

I sometimes wear red underwear but in the warm months I go commando. It's cooler. In the winter, I strongly prefer red Long Johns.

Break off the tap and you really have a mess! Every time I google something it comes up as AI, wish there was a way to delete it.

7/16 - 20 uses a 25/64 When in doubt get the Machinery Hand Book out

My favorite series of tractors. Neighbor dairy farmer had a 986 while I was growing up and I loved that tractor. Was so much nicer and bigger than anything we had. He had whites too a 2-105 and a 2-150 but it was the 986 that I thought was just awesome. His had a M&W turbo added and it was the tractor they chopped corn with using a pull behind NH chopper. That was in the late 80’s early 90’s so that 986 would have been a 10 year old tractor by then but it was I thought the nicest tractor in our part of the county.

The guy I help just picked up a 1977 1486 with 1770 original hours.

Dad bought a 1086 in 87, it was used on a 24’ 490 disk, down to a 13’ 315 cultimulcher. Then in 94 it was hooked to the 900 8-row planter. It still did most other jobs from mowing, cultivating, and even some chisel plowing.

At least some remember. Clearly a lot of people have forgotten or never actually cared. There was a short time when we were all united after this event. It sure didn’t last long. New York City today, what can you say?

I remember well when it happened. And the skys were clear of contrails for days

https://youtube.com/shorts/-45Od4Ec7Lo?si=TGlAc7yOJLA1_Ala I used to do a full sized version of this with my 2nd German Shepherd. I'd float on an inner tube, he would swim around until he wanted a rest, then come over to the tube and I'd wrap my arms around him, and he would stop swimming. Then when I turned him loose, he would swim off.

There is a McCormick 100 manure spreader on an auction this Saturday about 3 miles from me. It’s on Equipment Facts already at $466. Don’t know if I’ll get that bought. It’s had very little use and has new tires. I was hoping to get it for $400-500 but if it goes for less than $1000 I’ll be surprised at this point. I got into the BN I just purchased. Didn’t take too much to get it running, battery and clean out the fuel system. I have the parts for a buddy seat, got the floor pan cut and mounted today. Hope to have it painted in a couple weeks with a #16 mower on it. The guy I bought the BN from is cleaning up a property that he’s selling in Missoula. He used to run the New Holland dealership in Missoula. I filled the truck today digging through parts boxes and stripping a couple tractors. Two sets of rear weights, a set of splits, set of Cub front weights, two sets of Letter front weights, M draw bar, seat and suspension from 1066 hydro, muffler from that and hydro lines from its loader. Bunch of odds and ends too. If I think I might use it, threw it in. I’ll go back again to get the pto unit from the 1066 and hydro blocks from under the seat. All that should fit my 806 if I need them. That tractor has a ventilated block and is going to scrap.

Thanks everyone! Been home for a week now. Just built an engine run stand for BBC/SBC stuff, I’d post pictures but the site is still broken… sure hope they can recover everybody’s stuff…. I’ve got that 454 I sold to my friend all assembled and on the stand ready to fire up tomorrow. Just some cooling plumbing and wiring left. I’m going to try my water to water heat exchanger as cart cooling instead of a radiator and fan for now. Just hook up the hose and send it through the exchanger. I can use some fancy thermodynamics I just learned and take some temperatures to get an idea of how much heat this cooker can reject. I think it’s 50 or 60 plates, think it has ~16^2 feet of plate area. Hoping it can keep the 598 cool under load…

A friend refused to use my table saw after I Never Seezed the blade nut. He was certain the blade was going to come flying out, but he didn't understand the concept of left hand threads.

Get a newby to try one that isn’t quite ripe!! Priceless!!

Preston Services in the UK Looks like a steam engine salvage yard https://prestonservices.co.uk/

The sprag for sure is letting go. If it does it in DD also then you have another problem as well. A new TA and mcv overhaul should fix.

🇺🇸 .

Truth is on a non irrigated row crop farm, fuel is barely a spec on the budget. I use roughly 5 gallons of diesel per acre, start to finish with a crop. If diesel is $3, my cost is $15 per acre. If diesel is $5 my cost is $25 per acre. That's a $10 per acre difference, less than 1 bushel of beans or just over 2 bushels of corn will cover the cost. my time's better spent marketing grain than watching fuel prices.

Dad had a 1980 1586 he bought from an older neighbor that retired, and Grandpa had a 1976 1086 he bought used from the JD dealer in the mid 90's. I loved every hour I spent in either of them!

A friend of mine has his dad’s 1086, TA is out, no interior left in it, dent in the hood where the door hits it, etc. It had been sitting in the shed for 4-5 years after his dad died and he needed another tractor in a hurry, so we threw a set of batteries in it and fired it up. The AC was still R12 and it still worked! That’s been 7-8 years ago and he still uses it from time to time. Don’t know if the AC is still working though. He has since bought a 1486. They are some tough tractors!!

Our farm has had a 1086 on it since '93. It was the main tillage tractor until 2012 when it became a secondary tillage tractor. In 2018 it got put on the planter and that's its main job as well as blowing snow since it starts so well. It's been a very nice tractor to plant with. I've heard people say they ride rough but I disagree.

I was in NYC just a few months ago and was talking to a cab driver who had just had come up from the memorial. I asked about how many visitors came there, his response was between 5 and 10 thousand a day. It was nice to hear that , people do remember.

I will never forget!! We shouldn't let our guard down there is plenty waiting for their turn to take a crack at us. A plane flew over our place the next day it was the Civil Air Patrol flying blood to NYC.

Another factory video of the 86 series

uhm, we may need a tiny bit more info

Just pay the house off sooner!

It's coming together, slowly. Sheetmetal is on but needs aligned, low priority now. It will likely be in the shop for the winter so I can chip away at it.

If it has a brain and kicks, be careful is my motto