Unusual Farmall M

TMonton · Sep 18, 2011

This has definitely caught my attention and have only seen this done once before.

You would need a tractor trailer to even haul it.... it has to weigh a bunch.

http://indianapolis.craigslist.org/grd/2596976112.html

rich4 · Sep 18, 2011

One long machine. I have seen other pictures of graders using an 'M', they should be nice working outfits.

DeltaRed · Sep 18, 2011

There is one 10 miles from here.Fellow uses it to maintain a private airstrip.Steve

Anonymous-0 · Sep 18, 2011

Wonder what the turning radius on that thing is?

gene bender · Sep 18, 2011

Three companies mad versions of those graders there are many still around it was not unusual to see them after the war in road construction they are not rare.

sflem849 · Sep 18, 2011

(quoted from post at 17:45:41 09/18/11) Three companies mad versions of those graders there are many still around it was not unusual to see them after the war in road construction they are not rare.

Well if they are not rare they sure aren't common. You don't see them for sale very often.

Ken Ind · Sep 18, 2011

Hey Monton where abouts are you ? are you in Ind.
I am in West Lafayette. Kenny

Bob M · Sep 23, 2011

Graders like that were fairly common in rural towns' highway department fleets in the years immdediately following WWII. Builders included Austin, Trojan and Adams; I think also Foote Mfg.

The Farmall M was the most commonly used base tractor for these machines. However Minnie Mo and Allis-Chalmers tractors were also used.

Before WWII the IHC W20 & W30 were used as the base tractor. I watched an Adams(?)/IHC W20 - complete with cab - operating at the Pageant of Steam (Canandaigua, NY) this past August.

Fascinating old machines!

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