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,...and doing a good job of it.

Disc it up

Dad always said the 400 had the best sounding engine IH ever made.

It looks like he's just running a straight pipe off of that one,...unless there's a muffler tucked up under there somewhere.

It does sound good, though.

This one is right down the road,...but it's way more tractor than I need, for sure.

https://lexington.craigslist.org/grd/d/farmall-400/6397490670.html

Neighbor has one he inherited when his grandfather passed. He would compete in local tractor pulls and had trimmed weight everywhere, bolts included. Kicked the chit outta everything in its class.

My azz spent MANY an hour in the steel seat of one just like this but not as pretty.

The 400 is my all-time favorite tractor. Did anyone ever see one with the Electrall option?

uh-uh,....what is it?

How much difference was there in the 400 and the Super M? I was just getting started driving in the field when my Granddad was finishing up. He ran a Super M and an H

The H I learned to drive on is still in service

Love to hear those old tractors purr.
Spent a few hours on a 300 and 400,
Also an Allis WD-45 and D-17.

Modern tractors don't sound like that,
but quiet isn't a bad thing.

We had two M's and an H as working tractors when I was growing up. My people were IH people all the way. The M's especially were very popular around here. You seldom saw a Super M. The 400's were even less popular and supposedly were prone to the rear ends going out.

I don't like any of the old tractors with seats hanging out over the implement. Very dangerous IMO. The 330 or whatever it was that Bristoe posted had a much better seat and the utility type configuration setting lower certainly made it seem safer.

farmers call that configuration the wrist breaker. maybe that was for models that didn't have power steering.

That 400 in Harrodsburg has the wide spaced front wheels. But like I said, that big Farmall is way more tractor than I need.

Still,...I recently paid as much for a lawnmower as I could pay for a tractor with a 6000+ lb drawbar pull. I don't know what that would do for me, but I'd never have to sweat running my car off in the ditch again.

All of this tractor stuff is new to me. I spent my youth around them,..but they were just "tractors",...didn't mean anything.

But reading up on them over the past month or two has given me a new appreciation for those old tractors that were made back about the time I was born.

The Ford 8n is pretty much the classic tractor from that period. But if you look into it a bit, those big Farmall row crop tractors of the mid 50's were the "hogs" of their era.

A man would get on one o'them long, tall Farmalls from that period, hook a big ass 3 or 4 bottom plow to it, pull the throttle down and turn soil to the horizon.

I don't know why I think so all of a sudden, but it's satisfying to watch one of those big, archaic tractors work.

I don't really appreciate modern tractors. I just like them old "raw dogs" from yesteryear.

like guns

True,....