Picture Of New Farmall M...

Here is a picture of the beast!! I still haven't gotten it home, a friend is going to trailer it for me this next week, but, another friend wanted to see it pretty badly, and we were doing a job very close to it Friday, and he swung by and took a picture with his phone!!

What do you guys think???? I am excited!!!
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Looks good. Are the tires as good as they look in the photo?
Richard in NW SC

The one you see is the best, the other one has just as much tread, but someone has ripped little chunks of lugs off in the woods or something.. Still very usable, and quite nice!!

One is a 15.5 Coop (the one you can see) the other is a 15.5 Firestone.

Very nice find. Good luck, as you will find, the M is a Big tractor, and that loader looks very friendly. Jim

Looks pretty good, even pretty clean. with that heavy loader and wide front you might want to do some arm strengthing exercises

Looks nice. Is that Bigfoot in the background peeking out from behind the exhaust?

Darn right!! Thats all 6'6 of his big foot ness!

That is actually a rare North Idaho size 16 Big Foot!

Wait for him to pick up and throw the tractor, I love those adds.

Looks good Bryce I think you need to get a Oliver next

Hi Bryce
Nice looking tractor, I still kinda think you should come up 25 or more years newer. something red with CIH 695 and diesel or even a newer other color with some modern improvements on your yard would suit you. you would really like it and wonder why you used the older stuff hard for so long. I kinda lived in the past to and came up to a 2000 6400 valtra. Wish i had the first 7200 hours out of it when it was new. it's still way better than the first brand new tractors we ever had, a 1992 and replaced it with a 1996 Belarus we still have for the very few odd jobs anybody wants to drive it for. Before those we ran late 70's used stuff, that the Belarus was an improvement over, just L.O.L. my dad tells anybody that asks he don't like the Valtra, funny thing is if the Belarus sits in the yard with nothing attached, he will go to the 6400 and unhitch whatever is hooked on and take that one. Kinda tells a story really I think L.O.L.
Regards Robert

Ran when parked!!

ROI and hobby combined. I do not remember Royce having 500 acres, or a 80,000 US$ day job to subsidize new iron. He is a young man with energy. Jim

The loader seems to be in good shape. Finding an older letter series tractor with anything other than a pipe loader around here is tough. No one said you were going for pretty.

That is usually the case around here... MANY people like these nicer, more modern loaders on the M's, or others of that particular size. I think that it is probably a good match for the machine...

For what I paid for it, I pretty much stole it, the loader is just a huge bonus....

Right now, I have 5 pretty tractors, and I am afraid to drive them out of the shed just because they might get dirty. I love my tractors, and have had the realization that I don't NEED them to be pretty in order for them to be useful!

Hi Jim
I think you have taken what I said to far I know Bryce is not that old I know he hasn't got $80.000 to spend or 500 acres. Yes I spent $37.000 on my Valtra it earns that with what I do with it the worn out equivalant JD was 60-$70 000 here I simply could not carry on with a $5000 Belarus any more as a main tractor . For Bryce he wouldn't have to spend huge money to buy that 695 or even the older 574 version of that tractor, or even something else.
When he's 50 and bounced around on this old iron for fun and a bit of money, he might regret not having something a little better. I'm 41 and wish I had newer better stuff before the Valtra 3 years ago, my backs suffering already. It makes the working day much better and more productive to. Bryce also wants to do custom work, I tried that with older stuff, Guys want an image of confidence in this area and that you are not running old junk and going to let them down. I couldn't get any outside work running a Belarus and older round baler. That Valtra and the NH 688 got me custom baling this year that I didn't go begging for. The guy told me that old outfit wasn't ever coming on his land, even although I was a better operator than the guys he was using, with $250.000 equipment.
Just saying in some situations newer can be productive in more than one way, By all means use the older as well but you got to think future to. Nows the time to do it as guys are starting to want the good 80's/90/s tractors again for the simpler jobs as they don't like the newer computer emissions stuff, huge repair bills and unreliability built in from new . I see good older tractors going up in price quickly as guys want them and will pay for not having all the problems newer ones do, a guys got to make a decision and jump in sometime, its called evolution or progress.
Regards Robert