[AT] My M Farmall

John Hall jtchall at nc.rr.com
Sat Nov 25 05:12:32 PST 2017


Al, you are starting to like those road trips a little too much! Glad 
you got some new toys. So how many acres of wide row corn are you 
planting this spring?

John Hall


On 11/25/2017 1:11 AM, Al Jones 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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