And we're off, folks! Here's to another successful refurb!

I just found your channel yesterday. Tonight I have searched for and found the first episode for the Preparation H tractor. Watching them all great videos

Nice to see something come apart well without Kroil soaking, Torch Heat & bad words. Thanks for editing well and compiling a day into 15 minutes of morning coffee ☕️ educating video enjoyment 🇺🇸🤠

The more i see Preparation H the more I love it

I was never a vintage tractor guy until I found your channel, now once I have acreage I want to get a vintage tractor to restore.

@Titan604

Жыл бұрын

You don't have to wait until you have acreage, all you need is a garage to work on it, and a trailer to take it to plough days!

Outstanding. I spent a lot of hours on an M and a few on an H in my youth. Really looking forward to this series.

Squatch, Thanks for doing such a good job. Your explanations are great - you use correct and understandable terms and words describing parts and procedures are greatly appreciated. Your use of flattened cardboard to cover your work area and to protect your shop set a great exam please for all of us.

Ya know, were it ME I would leave grandpa's carriage bolt in place, maybe I'd drill it and put a cotter pin in it. Just as a memory! But it's yours to do with what you wish. Carry on.

Well, I thought I was going to see a cycle-mower bar rebuild in this video. I'm fascinated by them.

I see another painting episode down the road despite what you said last time! Anyway, when you take these machines apart like this the amount of space they take up must at least triple.

I'm looking forward to the preparation H project! You won't know how to act without all the fabricating, machining and engineering that was involved with X231!

Thanks for bringing us along. You can tell in you voice and body language that you truly were having fun working on this one.

And yet another fun project!!

Great video Squatch. It's nice to see the H getting some well deserved love. And like the rest of your machines it will be better than new when you're done. Cheers

Great work! I love how prepared and organized you are for each video.

The grandfather I am named after passed before I was born, my mother's father was my only grandfather, a great grandfather, a great man, but the most farmer of the sort, all his tools were the cheapest and worst, like his repairs, but few worked harder! Everyone needs a random cheap bolt story from grandpa!

Toby, you need to keep the carriage bolt in for the shift lever just for Grandpa. Just put a lock nut on the other side. It's your tractor to do whatever you want, it's just a suggestion.

Cool the H acts like she's wanting her works getting in tune and she has come apart rather easily and nicely too😊

Even if you replace the carriage bolt you will still have the habit!!! Good story!!!

Always a pleasure watching you work and the history behind the machine

Nice to see the old H getting some needed love. That was a great tractor to run for Plow day 2021. It never skipped a beat.

You moved through that so quickly, I thought you were were about to wrap up the video when it was only halfway done. It sure looks easy after x231

Stumbled across you parking the snow cat in the storage container video...SUBSCRIBED....and now this video. Binge watching here I come!

These early tractors and my 50s IH are a joy to work on really quite simple from front to back 👍 looking forward to this restoration 👌

enjoying this thanks. stay safe.

What a difference it will be working on a tractor that is still popular vs. a one of a kind. It will be fun to hear the stories that go with this tractor too.

Excellent thank you

Well, it's really nice to finally catch the very begining of a Squatch253 project as a recently subscribed fan. So what it ain't a Cat Toby's rebuilding. It's mechanical and needs so tendar loving care. That's all I care about. Especially knowing it's gonna be fascinating watching him find and fix whatever the problem is the reassemble everything to perfectly working condition. In the process getting rid of some things no longer needed and explaining to us why.

Thanks Toby! Nice to see the H coming apart for the project your looking to do. Hopefully I’m getting mine out this weekend to drive a little. Can’t wait to see what comes next!

@jamessawford4672

Жыл бұрын

Tee

My vacuum sounds the same. Hehe. I would say that thru all your years of fixing things, you have found better ways to repair stuff. Like the gaskets and wiring and other things. Neat how we learn things. Have a great day.

Leave the carriage bolt! Thank you for taking care of this old steel.

I made a belly pump coupler shaft for my uncle one time. A friend of his needed one. So my uncle gave me his for a patern to make one. Done a lot of projects like that for him when I worked in a machine shop.

Nice video can't wait in tell the next one

Good for you making some progress. I agree that JD seat has to go.

Sure nice to see simple quality engineering at it's best I would just love to think engineer's designer's ect. Would learn from past mistakes quality designs 👍

Good start on a worthwhile project. I am sure the removal of the gear whine will help avoid deafness down the road.. And she will look very spiffy when done

Good timing for a new project, Just plowed my way through the last of the early X231 episodes, so I`m pretty much all up to date on the yellow machines in the fleet.

Toby, it sounds like your shop vacuum needs some bearings replaced

Looks like a very fun and mostly straight forward project. Fun fact where on the Farmall H,M and MD mounts the belt bully drive, on a Belarus 500 the hydraulic reservoir and pump with the corresponding drive gear are mounted.

I hope you keep the backwards stickers as a holdover from your grandfather.

Thanks for the video.

Thing’s sure were simpler back then! Only 15 minutes to get it torn down to the transmission! Nowadays they struggle to put a headlight in a vehicle in that time! Lol 😂

Things go better with Coke!

IH paint sure gives you a better attitude than Case paint.

Good Video

You train a few more of your tools to operate themselves like that engine hoist and you can set back with a cup of coffee and enjoy show

I am going to enjoy watching this series also. Thanks Squatch253 !

Preparation H 😂😂 Thanks for the video and laugh Leave the carriage bolt You may have already said How did you come across the two prototype tractors If you have what video is it in

Habits have to be kicked off slow at first. Best advice, put a lock-nut on the carriage-bolt for the first few months. Then, put the real lock-pin. 👍😆

That was quick! No nonsense to strip that down to the basic access.

That light bar! Ours was just like that, when I mounted my "new" toolbox last year, I found that our H's light bar had been backwards for decades, and none of us ever knew it! 80+ years of farming, going to shows, and being around machinery, and not once did any of us ever notice that our light bar was backwards. As of now, the stickers my grandfather put on are behind the toolbox, and the box itself is full of IH tools (and various other things) that he collected. I wonder how many other light bars are on backwards, I'm going to start checking them now.

@gusthefarmer5608

Жыл бұрын

Must be pretty common I have 3 hs at my house and all 3 have the light bars backwards.

@rawbsworld6604

Жыл бұрын

@@gusthefarmer5608 🤔 might need to put on a history detective hat , to be so common wonder if there was obviously a not so obviously reason it’s so prevalent 🤷‍♂️ ✌️

@gusthefarmer5608

Жыл бұрын

well one H has a custon tool box mounted in front of the light bar, and with the light bar flipped around they used the nuts on the u bolts that hold the light bar on to hold the custom tool box on.

@rawbsworld6604

Жыл бұрын

@@gusthefarmer5608 👍 it surely wasn’t a deterrent for anything can’t imagine a farmer continuing to use that way if it did🤷‍♂️ , ✌️

@rawbsworld6604

Жыл бұрын

Ha forgot to add I’m sure when Squatch gets it back together he’ll mention if there a difference of some sort 🤪

I know the frustration that comes from dealing with a one of a kind machine that doesn't have replacement parts available. The H will be a break from the stress of figuring out how to make your own parts. I know you mentioned that you didn't have it figured out how to do the repair on the flywheel insert for the live PTO system. I have an idea that I would like to share with you. Basically it would involve making sure that the flywheel is true so that the new insert can be sized for a press fit. The Dutchman style of connecting the insert to the flywheel is a good idea but it is obvious that it was never a press fit and that allowed movement between the flywheel and the insert. If you size the insert for about a. 003 to. 005 press fit and use the same arrangement for locking it in place, you will have a stable setup that doesn't put excessive stress on the flywheel. If you think this might work try it. I'm guessing that the flywheel is probably cast iron so I wouldn't want to expose it to thermal shock or an excessively tight press fit. I hope this helps.

Stories not to be forgotten! Thanks!!

Looking forward to the entire series!

What timing! My father and I are painting a 41’ H next weekend (hopefully if the weather is good). We are 3 years into a summer project

Gonna be an awesome series!💪🏻

"Preparation H" - love it. ❤️

I don't know, but I think I tune in for the magic you do.

I have a Farmall 140 with a noisy trans also so this is good for me watching this H come apart give me the confidence I need to split my 140

Looks like you’re shop crane might need an exorcist 😂😀🇨🇦

I could watch a whole 3 hours of work like this

Tool box Supeer M. Crestet wrench, hammer, and hammer

Great video as usual. Love hearing the stories of your Grandpa. Was he a good grandpa?

My dad bought an H in 1948, we used a 3 bottom 12 inch little genius plow with it so didn’t need to turn the hubs inward to center the plow

Eggcellent Batman! 🤗 btw you got a new viewer and she’s happy to be starting at the first episode 👍 Not going into details but the missus now watches the squatch253 channel 🤦‍♂️ 😳 I feel she managed to get a membership to an a men only club ! Hahaha .. naw it’s all good 😝😎 … ✌️ 🤙

I would leave the carriage bolt in nice to think of your grandfather when you use the H

Squatch, you have got to make sure the broken wrench makes it back in the tool box, post restoration. Way to much sentimental value not to. RIP grandpa, I’m sure he had a smile on his face when you got down to the wrench.

noticed a familiar sound when you switched off your shop vac. brass bushing on top of motor can be replaced sealed ball bearing , there is even a youtub on it maybe in your spare time lol

love preparation h open surgery starting!

"Preparation H Episode #1 - Gaining Access to the Rear End" 🤣🤣

@dougjones9493

Жыл бұрын

I guess he's itching to get started😢😢😢

Vacuum bearing: "Kill me nooooowww". :)) Jokes aside, Nice first episode progress! Also, cool thumbnail, one doesn't get that view often.

It looks like you have done this before. Awesome video .Denis from Santa Rosa CA

Story of Granddad and the carriage bolt is too cool!!! You should leave the carriage bolt if nothing else to carry the story!!! We have enough cancelation in our world today. Go history!!!

😛😛😛❤❤👍👍👍

I’m still planning to take my Farmall 460 chassis and putting letter series tin, gas tank, steering, steering tree, light bar and the front wishbone. It probably will be from a M and the hood will have to be extended. I was looking at the mounting bolts on your tractor’s transmission cover and wonder if they’re the same as the 460’s. It will be a Super 6 TA.

@DrRust

Жыл бұрын

I’m currently working on swapping a 560 top plate to a m and it looks like a bolt on swap idk about a h to a 460 but I bet it’s the same also

When my dad died I found all kinds of “ broken” wrenches and wrenches welded on wrenches and wrenches bent to shapes of other wrenches….and I’m sure every one had a purpose

Going to enjoy this one as well

Thank you 😊 💓 seemed like only seconds 😊😊😊😊😊 instead of years 😂😅😊

Good content. 👍

My Shop-Vac makes that exact same sound when you turn it off!

Thank You

Problematic tractors that seem to never want leave the shop has become such a norm for me, I sometimes don't know how to act when one stays fixed after making the one repair it came in for!

PTO shield tells me it's a late model. Looks just like home. Thank you.

@brycewiborg8095

Жыл бұрын

The tall narrow oil filter says late model. It's rare to find a good distillate manifold. Most guys including me upgraded to the gasoline head. I'm enjoying this more than I expected. 3 inches of snow this morning insuring LeSueur will be about right.

Those tools that don’t have a lifetime warranty I keep them if they brake just for special purpose jobs. Even a gear shift from an auto on the tree is now a brake soppy before I found one narrow enough for the old Toyotas or Datsuns of long ago

Finally someone with a worse sounding shop vac than mine. 🤔

Thanks for the video! At around the 9min mark you were pointing out the oil leaks near the seal. To me it looks like the casting is cracked near the seal. Unless it’s just a weird oil marking? Just my .02. Looking forward for the next!

@Nick-ox9cj

Жыл бұрын

I think it's just a rough casting mark, not a crack.

su trabajo es excelente,pero,ahora,intentelo hacer en dos metros cuadrados

Time for preparation vac next il be waiting for that episode

i always use a chassis ground and a direct ground...99% of electrical issues can be traced to faulty ground

o)❤

I stripped a diff late last week. It’s my first work in anger in a car I’m rebuild. Because of you, I’m chasing threads, cutting my own gaskets and scrubbing parts with diesel and a toothbrush. I’m not sure how I feel about this.

@junior1138

Жыл бұрын

@@squatch253 🤣🤣🤣 Thanks tho: I’m good with it. The did was seized, but the failure is in the pinion shaft bearing. Struggling to pull the bearing from the aluminium body. (I want to avoid introducing heat if possible.) There’s also a shim on one of the Sun gears is gone, but that’s a cheap part. So yeah, thanks for the teaching moments!

Replacing the bolt in the shifter I would understand, but changing the hood I think you would lose a link to the past and your Grandpa.

What do you use for the dedicated ground?.... The battery? or one spot on the frame?

I have to change the front half of the pto shaft on my 41 h. Can you show how to access it? -Kevin

Yes, to the contradictions. 12V.

You need to build yourself a gantry with a chain fall for all that lifting.

This is a needed break from doing freeze plugs and engine mounts on my 83 Ramcharger

My H has a bolt in the shifter as well, but mine falls out of the shift fork so it makes it easier to put it back in the right spot

This project looks like a real pain in the Preparation H.

Tony - certainly enjoy your videos. I have a trivia question that I can’t get an answer to. When I was growing up watching my uncle put the cultivating attachments on his Super M I saw that all the cultivating attachments were painted blue rather than the Farmall Red. I have seen other various IH accessories or replacement parts painted the same blue on other videos so I know this was a fairly common practice. Do you have any idea of why same Farmall parts and accessories were painted blue? One personal question - do you have any siblings that do the same type of exacting work you do?