H cache 2.0 Traditional Geocache
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FARMALL H
The Magnificent Farmall H Tractor was built by International
Harvester Corporation as part of the “letter series”
for 14 years from 1939 until 1953 encompassing the end of the
Depression, Great dust Bowl and the trials of World War Two.
Representing a dramatic evolution in farming it was truly an
all-purpose farm tractor. It made the essential food production for
a nation at war highly efficient. Indeed much of the food produced
that sustained the war effort from the great breadbasket of America
was sown, tended and reaped by the iconic farmer atop a Farmall H.
Originally the Farmall H Tractor had all-steel wheels both because
it was customary, but also because the war effort in 1941 consumed
all available rubber. But that actually helped the farmer immensely
since the price for steel wheels was $765 as opposed to the $962
for rubber. Over 390,000 Farmall H Tractors sold in North America
making the H model of the series the top selling individual tractor
in the history of the United States. In 1952 the H was replaced by
the “Super H” which was available in several versions
tricycle adjustable wide-front fixed wide-front high-crop But it
came standard with disc brakes as an innovation. The Farmall H was
tailor made for farms up to 160 acres and supremely well designed
for tall row crops like corn, sugar beets and potatoes. A well
maintained Farmall H Model could cultivate up to 35 acres of row
crops a day. And as Farmall H’s were general farm tractors (
in addition to being specifically suited for farmers raising row
crops) they were excellent all around: plowing, seeding, towing,
disking, planting, cultivating, and harvesting, mowing, baling hay.
If it needed muscle, the Farmall was at hand where the horse had
been a decade or more earlier.
The cache is a different kind of H
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