[AT] My M Farmall

[Al Jones]

John,  not sure on the corn situation yet.  We're on narrow rows now,
so I may have to pick some a row at a time.

Matt and I are pros at finding cool stuff a long way from home, then
making it into a drive-until-you're-almost-dead road trip to get
it.....

I'd like to find 8-10 acres close by that I could hobby farm on.  I've
just about accumulated enough "classic" equipment to make it
happen.....

Al

On Sat, Nov 25, 2017 at 8:12 AM, John Hall <jtchall at nc.rr.com> wrote:
> 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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