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[Indiana Robinson]

Yes the one with a loader and 3 point hitch was the first Super M.
The Super MTA I had at Portland one year but I can't remember if you were
there that year. I'm surprised that I remember that I was there.
:-)

On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 10:33 PM, ATIS <yostsw at atis.net> wrote:

> When I was at your place, you had an M I really liked.   Seemed like it
> had power steering.  Was the one I saw one of the ones you mentioned below?
>
>
> Spencer Yost
>
> > On Dec 17, 2015, at 9:51 PM, Indiana Robinson <robinson46176 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > I've been enjoying this flurry of tractor related list activity...
> > Enjoyed Dean's Deere / IH discussion.
> > Many years ago my father bought a very good used New Idea 2 row mounted
> > picker from an old friend. He had used it on a Farmall M but he was
> keeping
> > the M. Since it had the M brackets we started looking for a Farmall M to
> > mount it on. Since we had been almost all Ford and Ferguson's / MF's, a
> > couple of Deere crawlers and a IHC 300 Utility we had not had any other
> > experience with IH since the McCormick 10-20 in the late 1940's.
> > We did some research and decided that we wanted a Super M instead for
> > several reasons. We figured the cost would be similar. The Super M was a
> > good bit more HP than a common M, had a bigger clutch, had an inch
> thicker
> > radiator and it also had the live hydraulics and the improved gear range
> > (mostly a faster 4th gear). We found a pretty nice one at an auction and
> > bought it and a New Idea loader to fit it. We took it to the field to
> check
> > it out doing some spring tillage. It ran well but I found it a bit
> > disappointing. Hard to steer and seemed kind of sluggish. It would lug
> like
> > crazy but I was used to tractors that had sensitive governors and ran at
> > about 2,100 RPM at full throttle and were snappy performers with a well
> > matched load. We had a good mechanic friend that we used to use for some
> > work if we were too busy. We had him rebuild the engine (and clutch just
> > because) with over-sized pistons and sleeves and an "improved" governor.
> > Then we rebuilt the steering before fall and added power steering. Made a
> > huge difference... Very snappy. We used it like that for a year or two
> then
> > decided that it would be nice to have a Super MTA for picking for the TA
> > and the independent PTO. I was watching for one and found a decent one
> for
> > a good price and we took it down the same path. Full over-bore rebuild,
> > governor. It already had good power steering but we rebuilt the gearbox
> and
> > front bolster.
> > Our original intent was to mount the picker and just leave it on but we
> > really liked those beefed up Super M's for field work too so the picker
> was
> > mounted, used and removed each fall. Either of those tractors would pull
> > 4x14's fine.
> >
> > Been a lot of years ago now.
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> > Francis Robinson
> > aka "farmer"
> > Central Indiana USA
> > robinson46176 at gmail.com
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Francis Robinson
aka "farmer"
Central Indiana USA
robinson46176 at gmail.com