Hi All and Happy New Year - This is the first post of many in this same thread for the Restoration of my late fathers 1930 Farmall Regular. This tractor was purchased new by my Uncle in circa 1929. It was originally on steel wheels but converted to rubber sometime in the 1950's. We have the original rubber wheel rims that the local IH dealer converted. They had been lost because Dad gave them away when he got steel wheels back. But we got the originals back from the neighbor that dad had given them to.
We used this tractor exclusively to replace the horses in 1930 and beyond. We plowed, baled hay and pulled wagons, along with my CUB Rex'48 throughout the 1960's and beyond. When the H's, M's and other more modern tractors came to the farm it was relegated to running the saw mill. It saw little or no use after 1976. As a teen, I asked Dad if we could rebuild it with him. I started disassembling, but fell in love and was married in 1977, ending the rebuild in a partially open engine status. Sadly, harm was done to the engine and it sat idle for 25 years until a neighbor rebuilt it and got it running again after a full engine job. Dad put the steel wheels on it but he was aging and it ran a few more times and sadly sat again.
Dad in his older years collected things he felt were valuable, that he stored in our farm buildings leaving the Regular and other operational machinery outdoors. The rest his history - the brakes seized, the engine seized, the magneto seized and ......My son now owns our 7th generation farm and he's moved ALL the junk out and the equipment in, including the Regular. He's leading the effort to FULLY restore to showroom condition his grandfathers Farmall Regular. We'll be using this thread to document the entire process, which I'm sure will include many questions along the way.
Below is a video from 2011 when Dad was 93. That's about the last time ol' T111250 did an honest days work.
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Best regards, Ken
We used this tractor exclusively to replace the horses in 1930 and beyond. We plowed, baled hay and pulled wagons, along with my CUB Rex'48 throughout the 1960's and beyond. When the H's, M's and other more modern tractors came to the farm it was relegated to running the saw mill. It saw little or no use after 1976. As a teen, I asked Dad if we could rebuild it with him. I started disassembling, but fell in love and was married in 1977, ending the rebuild in a partially open engine status. Sadly, harm was done to the engine and it sat idle for 25 years until a neighbor rebuilt it and got it running again after a full engine job. Dad put the steel wheels on it but he was aging and it ran a few more times and sadly sat again.
Dad in his older years collected things he felt were valuable, that he stored in our farm buildings leaving the Regular and other operational machinery outdoors. The rest his history - the brakes seized, the engine seized, the magneto seized and ......My son now owns our 7th generation farm and he's moved ALL the junk out and the equipment in, including the Regular. He's leading the effort to FULLY restore to showroom condition his grandfathers Farmall Regular. We'll be using this thread to document the entire process, which I'm sure will include many questions along the way.
Below is a video from 2011 when Dad was 93. That's about the last time ol' T111250 did an honest days work.
[youtube]f2_smfIfreE[/youtube]
Best regards, Ken