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ATIS yostsw at atis.net
Thu Dec 17 19:33:24 PST 2015


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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