IH Tractors on Montana Farm

[hardtail]

They still have their place a cable dragline is still probably your best choice of machine for cleaning out a pond than anything made since

[jeeper61]

On 8/1/2024 at 9:56 PM, hardtail said:

They still have their place a cable dragline is still probably your best choice of machine for cleaning out a pond than anything made since

Yes they still have a purpose for those dredging jobs 

[TroyDairy]

On 7/25/2024 at 8:10 AM, just Dave said:

Sounds like a good way to see the country.

Tell my nephew this all the time.  Get away for a season... change you or figure you out

[twostepn2001]

l remember a couple of places like this when l was growing up....lol

[IH766]

On a recent trip through Southern Sask, I was able to make a few stops at a few different museums. I don't have the knowledge or experience to know what I was looking at, but maybe some of the wiser members on here have some insight 

[jeeper61]

Here is one for the Ford Fans

[jeeper61]

This is interesting 

A little slow and thirsty

 

[Mike H]

Ya very thirsty 

[jeeper61]

Been a while since Gary has been here I hope all is well with him.

Anyway saw this thought it was interesting so here it is 

 

 

[Tubacase47]

I talked  with Gary week before last.  He was  planning to celebrate (?) his birthday last Wednesday by having hemmeroid surgery.

[jeeper61]

1 hour ago, Tubacase47 said:

I talked  with Gary week before last.  He was  planning to celebrate (?) his birthday last Wednesday by having hemmeroid surgery.

Thanks for the update I hope he recovers quickly 

[jeeper61]

Another custom cutting crew with Red combines 

[Kenneth russell]

On 8/18/2024 at 4:54 PM, jeeper61 said:

Another custom cutting crew with Red combines 

Looks like someone’s axle fell off 🤣

[Tubacase47]

I had a call from Gary last evening.  He's still having issues with his "Roids" so he sees the doctor again today.

[iowaboy1965]

Poor fellow. Hope it gets taken care of soon.

[MacAR]

Get well soon, Gary! There are still a few melons on the vine down here if you can ever get Roger to send his Autowagon after them.

Mac

[jeeper61]

Sounds like a pain in the arse!!

I hope you are back to 100% soon 

Here is some therapeutic steam for your well being 

Lombard log haulers under construction in Waterville, Maine c.1910

[hardtail]

Tracks and steam, Gary will love this one

[Mike H]

was always fascinated in the drive line set ups for power equipment  

wood working and metal working

get well soon Gary

[jeeper61]

Load of Farmall Cs leaving the plant and headed north being hauled by KAT Kenosha auto transport

[jeeper61]

200,000th 10-20

[jeeper61]

Did a little digging on that photo above that I found on FB

Low and behold the info on face book was not really correct  

It said "An employee drives the 200,000th 10-20 off the line"

Looking it up on the Wisconsin Historical Society site finds this   

 

 

June 4th 1930 and published in the July 1930 Harvester World magazine 

Cyrus McCormick III drives the 200,000th McCormick-Deering 10-20 tractor off of the assembly line at International Harvester's Tractor Works. Gathered for the occasion are company executives (left to right) P.F. Shryer, general superintendent, tractor production; C.H. Haney, director of foreign sales; C.R. Morrison,, assistant domestic sales manager; P.Y. Timmons, in charge of tractor and thresher sales; J.H. Waring, superintendent of Tractor Works; (rear row) J.F. Jones, director of domestic and Canadian sales; M.F. Holahan, domestic sales manager; and E.F. Bolte, Canadian sales manager.   And some perspective the Farmall Works started production in 1924 and in April 1930, the 100,000th Farmall had been produced at the Farmall Works plant in Rock Island, Illinois,

[U-C]

On 8/18/2024 at 3:44 PM, jeeper61 said:

Been a while since Gary has been here I hope all is well with him.

Anyway saw this thought it was interesting so here it is 

 

 

been a few days that I said hi to him on Facebook, and he is doing alright. 

[Old Binder Guy]

You guys can't get rid of me this easy. I took a nasty fall before my "roid" surgery on my birthday. My rib that got knocked loose is just now healing enough to be bearable. That hurt so darn much. Especially at bedtime. I've bled so much from my "roids" that I shouldn't have any more in me. But they told me that 4 weeks from surgery, it should be all stopped. I have a checkup scheduled in September for that. It's sure tiresome using laxative every day and eating soft foos.

Mike and Randy have planned on threshing (barley and wheat) this coming Sunday, September 1st, Labor Day weekend. It got postponed from the usual mid August around my birthday. I gimpingly worked on getting things ready for Sunday the past two days. (Thank God for Ibuprofen). Filling water tanks, filling fireboxes with wood, filling Indian Fire fighters ("unine" pumps in the military) greasing, oiling, charging batteries on tractors, picking up junk. The day they got the threshing machine out of the shed, they had to fire up the Reeves and play a little too. I know they are both anxious to have the Reeves on the belt of the threshing machine to try out the governor they spent big bucks on for a rebuild last winter.

The 15 hp Case usually did the threshing. But they have a monstrous woodpile to saw up, so it will be busy too.

Everything back in the shed after moving the thresher. I did get to drive the Model TT truck that day. That's always a blast from the past. Mike did have a tire on his 1944 IH Farmall M, Toot give out. The tire stores wouldn't boot it, so he spent a pile of money on a new tire. He'll replace the opposite side in the spring, to space out the pain a little. MT Matt likes to buy used tractors with good tires. Now I see why. It's not nearly so painful when they are on the tractor and you think you're getting a good deal on the tractor, with the tires.

I did recently have to buy a new 6 volt battery for the Model T Coupe. I also bought a battery maintainer charger and mounted it under the trunk so it's not visible when opening the trunk lid. Randy put a maintainer on his Farmall A and that battery is 6 years old. My batteries only lasted 2 years in the shop. He says this maintainer will protect the battery all winter and make it last. We'll see. Notice the plug to the charger is hanging down from the battery, so it gets plugged in through the wooden spokes.

In spite of the weight lifting it I have still been playing and recording songs at the shop on my accordion. That is my pacifier. Music has kept my mind upright my whole life. When life was in a hole, that was my consolation for my mind. 

 

I'll be trying a little harder to get back to this old site. It's been a hard summer, but I don't give up easily. After all it's about IH Tractors on a Montana Farm! Gary

[Absent Minded Farmer]

1 hour ago, Old Binder Guy said:

You guys can't get rid of me this easy. I took a nasty fall before my "roid" surgery on my birthday. My rib that got knocked loose is just now healing enough to be bearable. That hurt so darn much. Especially at bedtime. I've bled so much from my "roids" that I shouldn't have any more in me. But they told me that 4 weeks from surgery, it should be all stopped. I have a checkup scheduled in September for that. It's sure tiresome using laxative every day and eating soft foos.

Mike and Randy have planned on threshing (barley and wheat) this coming Sunday, September 1st, Labor Day weekend. It got postponed from the usual mid August around my birthday. I gimpingly worked on getting things ready for Sunday the past two days. (Thank God for Ibuprofen). Filling water tanks, filling fireboxes with wood, filling Indian Fire fighters ("unine" pumps in the military) greasing, oiling, charging batteries on tractors, picking up junk. The day they got the threshing machine out of the shed, they had to fire up the Reeves and play a little too. I know they are both anxious to have the Reeves on the belt of the threshing machine to try out the governor they spent big bucks on for a rebuild last winter.

The 15 hp Case usually did the threshing. But they have a monstrous woodpile to saw up, so it will be busy too.

Everything back in the shed after moving the thresher. I did get to drive the Model TT truck that day. That's always a blast from the past. Mike did have a tire on his 1944 IH Farmall M, Toot give out. The tire stores wouldn't boot it, so he spent a pile of money on a new tire. He'll replace the opposite side in the spring, to space out the pain a little. MT Matt likes to buy used tractors with good tires. Now I see why. It's not nearly so painful when they are on the tractor and you think you're getting a good deal on the tractor, with the tires.

I did recently have to buy a new 6 volt battery for the Model T Coupe. I also bought a battery maintainer charger and mounted it under the trunk so it's not visible when opening the trunk lid. Randy put a maintainer on his Farmall A and that battery is 6 years old. My batteries only lasted 2 years in the shop. He says this maintainer will protect the battery all winter and make it last. We'll see. Notice the plug to the charger is hanging down from the battery, so it gets plugged in through the wooden spokes.

In spite of the weight lifting it I have still been playing and recording songs at the shop on my accordion. That is my pacifier. Music has kept my mind upright my whole life. When life was in a hole, that was my consolation for my mind. 

 

I'll be trying a little harder to get back to this old site. It's been a hard summer, but I don't give up easily. After all it's about IH Tractors on a Montana Farm! Gary

Glad to see you out & about & posting again! Not sitting around is good medicine too.... as long as you don't rupture something. Hope your issues heal up soon & thanks for posting!!

Mike