Books about Farmall from Amazon.com

Finally! A restoration guide with the kind of detail needed for a first-class job. "How To Restore Classic Farmall Tractors" is packed with hundreds of helpful full-color photographs, proven tips and techniques, and money-saving advice from restorers who know what works . . . and what doesn’t.   This guide will walk you step-by-step through the complete restoration of your International Harvester Farmall from disassembly to engine rebuild, from electrical repairs to painting and final detailing. There’s even a handy section on parts sources. With Gaines’s guidance you’re well on your way to showing off your shiny “new” classic tractor! Say, you wouldn’t mind giving me a hand with this starter, would ya?

Farmall 2009 features 16 months of the greatest tractors from International Harvester's Farmall line—from classics like the famous letter series to the newer behemoth crawlers used on today’s farms. Each month also includes a smaller photograph focusing on an interesting detail of the tractor model featured. The accompanying captions give horsepower information, model features, and historical background.

From the first tractor built in 1924 to the last Farmall model to roll off the line, this richly illustrated history tells the full story of Farmall tractors and fills in a key chapter of American agricultural  history.

The engaging text by Kenneth Updike, a historian on International Harvester, is accompanied by modern and vintage color photography, as well as black and white images from Farmall’s early days.  Farmer, mechanic, tractor enthusiast:  whatever your interest in this American icon, you will find a captivating account of its manufacture under the beloved Farmall brand.

The first book to feature every Farmall model. It chronicles the background of McCormick-Deering and International Harvester and outlines the beginnings of IH's production of the treasured Farmall tractor from its inception in 1923 (the lightweight, general purpose row-crop tractor that could literally "farm all") until the last model rolled off the assembly line in the mid 1970s. Highlights include stories of the innovative spirit of the "McCormick Men," the battle with John Deere to produce the best-selling, most popular tractor, and the challenges IH faced when the 560 and 460 models failed in the field. This comprehensive volume also includes descriptions and hundreds of color photographs of all models, complete with performance comparisons (based on the University of Nebraska tests); chronicles the exciting beginnings of International Harvester; and places IH events in a larger historical context.

Author Kenneth Updike presents the most complete and authoritative text available for those wishing to restore their Farmall Cub, Cub Lo-Boy, and Cub Cadet, from their inception in the 1940s through the end of production. The detailed text includes hard-to-find information on the development and design of each model, with all the relevant information on implements, improvements, serial numbers, dates, codes, engines and carburetors.

Restoration is one thing. Correct restoration is quite another! This extensively researched, beautifully illustrated book describes in detail the correct paint and decals for your Letter Series or McCormick-Deering tractor. Filled with factory drawings indicating decal placement, instructions for factory paint and finish of individual parts, and more for the Farmall A, B, C, H, M, and Cub; the McCormick-Deering -4, -6, and -9; and the Super Series and -TA tractors.

The authors chronicle changes and improvements and provide hard-to-find information on design and development of the models, serial numbers, codes, production numbers, and anything else an F series enthusiast could want to know. Indispensable to anyone restoring a Farmall F series tractor, the book also provides a clear and fascinating picture of an icon of agricultural history and the machinery of Americana.

The stock market crashed and the countrys fields turned to dust, and the tractor, that workhorse of American agriculture, was one more casualty. But in the face of disaster, International Harvester kept improving on its successful Farmall tractor and finally arrived at the F series, which includes some of the finest and best-loved tractors of all time.

These are the tractors that pulled American farmers out of the Great Depression. Archival and modern color photographs and detailed text follow the series from the F-12, F-14, and the vastly popular F-20 that replaced the Farmall Regular to huge machines like the F-30, which was better-suited to breaking the Great Plains.