[AT] My M Farmall

[Tyler Juranek]

Hi al,

 I know nothing about m farmalls, but if I were you, I would fix that
steering. I learned my lesson when the bearings in the Oliver's
steering sector failed, and in 6th, you'd bounce all over the road. Of
course I suppose that's the worst that could happen, but just a
thought.
 Also on dad's 560 cockshutt, the pin that connected the power
steering and the mechanism came loose once when he was putting
ferdilizer on the pasture. To add to the problem, it was on a
hillside, and could've rolled over.
 He got very lucky. It has since been fixed, but that could've been a
bad accident.
 Looking forward to your updates!
 Tyler Juranek
 IA

On 11/25/17, Al Jones <farmallsupera1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dean Vinson emailed me about a message I had posted a long time ago
> about my desire to own a Farmall M.  I bought an IH 2MH corn picker
> some time back and needed a M for it.  I kept Craigslist, Facebook,
> and several other classified sites watched, and one in Rock Falls, IL
> showed up that I liked.  It was 17 hours away, but it was a later M,
> which I preferred, had original BFG rear ties in nice shape, was
> fairly straight, and as a bonus had a M&W 9 speed transmission in it.
> The price was also significantly less than anything I had found in my
> area of eastern NC--even after fuel and paying  my friend for his
> trouble I had significantly less in it than I would have if I had
> bought the same quality of tractor locally. A good tractor collector
> friend of mine has a Chevy 2500 and a gooseneck, so we made plans to
> go get it.  Between our schedules, it ended up being in early January.
> So, we left his house near Raleigh, NC and drove all night and all
> day, (his wife came along to help with the driving) and arrived in
> Rock Falls late in the afternoon.  We loaded the tractor, chatted a
> bit, and then drove all night, getting back to Raleigh at about 12:00
> in the afternoon---a roughly 32 hour round trip!  We joked that we
> were Smokey and the Bandit reenactors, except without the Coors beer
> and Jackie Gleason chasing us!  I think we also might be a little bit
> insane.....  I should  mention that I came down with a mild stomach
> bug somewhere between Winston Salem NC and Wytheville, VA.  The
> symptoms were controllable with lots of Pepto chewables, but it made
> for a pretty miserable trip until late Saturday night when I started
> feeling better.....oh the things we do for old iron!
>
> The tractor appears to be a good buy.  The steering is a little loose,
> but everything else seems rock-solid. It's been converted to 12 volt,
> but the conversion is well-done and you really can't tell unless you
> look under the hood or in the battery box. The carb is set pretty rich
> and I need to do some tuning but it starts right up with no blue
> smoke. I've started getting it ready for the picker, I got the wheels
> spread all the way out and started mounting brackets.  Plans are to
> get it pretty close to mounted over the Christmas holiday when I have
> plenty of downtime.
>
> I'll try to be a little more conscientious about updates in the
> future.....I need to tell you all about my early 1947 Super A I got
> this summer.......it was only 13 hours away!
>
> Al
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