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My brother is still using daily a 1950 Montgomery Wards, which he 
rebuilt once; I remember he had the whole thing spread out all over the 
floor of the implement shed....   It has always had very heavy usage, 
although not abuse, and to my knowledge it has never given trouble.  Of 
course, now it wouldn't dare!  He recently 'gave' it to his daughter but 
always seems to still need it 'a coupla weeks' yet, so she has yet to 
move it to her place 50 miles distant.  He has other tractors (restores 
and makes parts for old tractors) but somehow I think Amy's gonna have 
trouble getting this one moved. 

He and I both learned to drive on that tractor, together (took two, 
neither one of us long enough to reach both wheel and brakes....be 
illegal in this day and age to send that combo to the field.  But we 
could do anything my uncle could do with it, including cultivate without 
ripping out rows....

Susan Jane, in Maine


Marie McHarry wrote:
>  On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 8:02 PM, Roy Morgan <k1lky AT earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>   
> > Does anyone know much about a 1950 International Harvester H-4
> > tractor?  (That's what the owner has used for 30 years, and we may
> > explore whether or not he would like to sell it.)
> >     
>
> My father always had Allis-Chalmers tractors, but the new tractor,
> when he finally more or less retired, was at least 25 years old. It's
> still in use. He retired in the early 1980s. At least one of the old
> tractors runs fine too. Tractors that old are relatively easy to
> maintain and don't really wear out.
>