Farmall H with duals

I'm am restoreing my 52 h for an FFA project and was wondering if they ever came out of the factory with duals thank you

I dought it.   I have a original operators manual for a H and it shows various wheel mounting positions but no picture of duals 

Ok thanks I just wasn't forsure if h's,came with duals and yes I am learning that horse power wise it was an upgrade for horses but that was it

I have two H's and not sure if the people who had them on here had tuning issues but they have good power for their size. My wife's H just has the lower compression dual fuel engine and when we have had it in fun pulls even at 4100 lbs with a set of weights it has never even come anywhere close to powering out; dug holes in a dirt track in third gear and in clay in second gear. I'm sure you could power them out with duals or more weight but in my experience anyway they weren't under-powered for their size. Much better power to weight than the JD B I owned kinda in the same class.

An Allis Chalmers CA will run circles around a Farmall H as it left the factory. Even with an overbore kit they were nothing to get excited about, unless you had very low expectations and nothing of a small tractor for comparison. Even a Farmall C could do the same work as a H.   The shuttering that one of the above posters mentioned was due to the inner axle bearings going bad, that was very common with those early letter series Farmalls. When I was doing repairs replacing those bearings was always the cure for that complaint. It was difficult, but could be done through the PTO hole.

Edited by PaulB - 05 Nov 2018 at 4:48pm

The 44" duals were available on early H's but they didn't have much to do with traction like we think of duals today.  They were used in areas of the country where crops were listed or bedded instead of planted on flat ground.  The duals were used to straddle the ridges when either planting (listing) or cultivating.

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I can remember back in the '70s as a kid riding the school bus, an H with duals in the field. I also remember in the early '90s, working at the dealership, that era of IH's had lots of trouble breaking axles. Now this was in the early '90s when those tractors no longer saw much action and I worked at an Allis dealer besides and we hauled in one summer, a Super H and a Super C both with broken rear axles. The Super C IIRC was pulled out of a muddy cow yard. It had been pulling an old manure spreader. The Super H......... I can't remember what that was doing but I believe it had a loader on it. I also remember the local IH dealer parts guy tell me that 1066 etc tractors had a problem breaking rear axles. I know they (1066 thru 1586) had rear end problems because I saw that when I worked parts at a CaseIH dealership.

naylorbros wrote: A  friend of mine has  duals on  his M.  He took a second set of cast centers and worked things out with spacing so that each wheel on the rear has its own cast center clamped to the main axle. Ken

That is how the duals were on my Farmall C. The long axles has helped me bend up some gates and push over some wood fence posts.

Thanks Danial, one- for being a young man interested in the past and two- for belonging to FFA and being active.if you get into your restoration and need help feel free to ask here. Although most on here are Allis kin, they may have friends and neighbors that have some red parts you need. If you have the resources to add duels to your tractor go for it.it will make for a good discussion anywhere you show it. I do wish it was Orange . Good luck, Scott

ecclap wrote: Must be a bunch of wise guys that don't like to answer the original question or learn about how wheel equipment was used in other parts of the country.

explain why you think that