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Big tires on an M - not for Farmall purists.

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T.S. Eliot

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Wanted to give some of you a glimpse of my 1941 Farmall M big tire modifications. Thanks much to Alan from Nebraska and Rusty Farmall (among others) for their tips. The Schwartz front is brand new, the front tires are GENSCO/Bridgestone 12.5x16 aircraft (approximately 36 inch diameter), and the rears are 18.4 x 38's on double bevels of a salvaged John Deere 4430, with 560 castings. The tractor sits 4 inches higher.
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Very nice. Flotation is a popular option in the rain drenched south. Purists sink into self made skinny tire tracks, (been there!) Jim
 
So what is the point? I am in favor of tall tires and wider ones, but in this case the tires are more than you have horse to pull with. Of course if it has had engine work then the tires might match the engine.
 
Sure looks like the Little Big Horn Mountains in the back ground.

I don't see anything wrong with the tires!!! You own the tractor, therefore you can do what you so see fit.

Keith & Shawn(Gold Medal Winner)
 
That's a pretty good guess - pictured is Sheep Mountain of the Medicine Bow Range, about 25 miles southwest of Laramie.
 
Mike -

Glad you like it. This one will primarily be used for moving hay bales around my barnyard. I have a 325 Du-Al with a grapple fork. Winter is already upon us in Wyoming, but I hope to have it repainted by spring.
 
The tires are so big it amkes the seat look so small !!!!

looks awsome!

those fronts should last a long time, how do they handle on lose soil?

Overall looks very awsome!
 
Very Cool! I have 15.5 x 38's on 14" rims on the back of my '53 DC CASE, but 18.4's would be even cooler. There's plenty of stock M's and DC's around. Gotta do something different.

How fast is low gear....High gear? I bet that thing goes 25mph.


Glenn F.
 
Always nice to see a tractor with some big meat on it.Are duals next?

Vito
 
Please accept my apologies.

Farmall Cub? No.

Piper Cub? Yes.

Panda bear cubs also get crushed but their mothers seem quite adept at doing that.

And how did the Farmall Cub get its name? Didn't the McCormicks live on the South side of Chicago. Why wasn't the tractor named the Farmall White Sox.
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That sure is an eye grabber of an M.. Without tire ballast, it could be used for a Farmall Snowmobile.... Ballast in those 18.4 grippers should give you sure-footed loader machine, and those airplane fronts ought to keep the front end from sinking,,, Awsome tractor
 
I totally agree. I would rather slide and need to use the wheel brakes than sink and need to use a long chain and a different tractor. Jim
 
Looking Good. i have 14.9 38's on one of my M's and a old guy in town really gave me his opinion of it and it wasn't a very favorable one....grumpy old f@rt. I just laughed it off...
 
wow, i like it!!! that will be a dandy loader tractor in soft ground. i have a heavy loader on one of my m's with a narrow front, running 6.50's on the front, but still bury the nose on occasion. pia to get em unstuck when they do that. are you using the i-h rear wheel clamps on the jd rims?
 
Sinking in isn"t the issue. I feed hay in a long narrow paddock that slopes away from the gate. In the greasy mud on top of frozen ground we get in March the 560 with its flotation fronts tends to slide along crabwise making no progress up the hill. The ribbed tires on the fronts of the 544 bite in enough to guide it in the desired direction (which is why they are ribbed).
 
Dave -

"Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future,
And time future contained in time past…"
 
Fortunately they were universal rims, so I don't have any "yellow" to strip off before I repaint them...I'm using IH 560 wheel clamps, since the drop center M clamps won't work with the 560 castings.
 
I'm hoping I can get by without adding it, but I do eat my Wheaties on a regular basis. It really doesn't steer much harder than when it had the factory wide front and triple ribs.
 
NICE! I think the big meats look good on the M. If all you are doing is hay work with it, you are set. I'm sure the M has plenty of power for loader work in the MUD. I'd like to see pics of it with the loader on.

CT
 
(quoted from post at 11:47:39 11/03/09) I'm hoping I can get by without adding it, but I do eat my Wheaties on a regular basis. It really doesn't steer much harder than when it had the factory wide front and triple ribs.
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Yeah, but pick up a big bale with the grapple hooks and see how it steers... A nice seat, PS and some squared fenders and it could be a really cool modern tractor. I think a Char-Lynn unit would fit under the hood. I would imagine to get the presssure to lift a bale, you have an auxillary pump and valves... tap off that with a priority flow valve and you would be all set.
 
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