will john deere m pull 2 furrow trailed plough

I am thinking of buying a JD M tractor which is ideal size for moving around on trailer I have seen photos of tractor with 2 furrow mounted plough but is tractor strong and heavy enough to pull a 2 furrow trailed plough which is what I prefer for competition ploughing
 
With a strong engine and in good conditions you can go in 3rd gear with 2-14 mounted plow ! Fluid in the tires is a must have ! A trailer type plow should not matter if it is hitched up right. A 1 bottom would work better for all conditions.
 
It depends upon your ground.

It wouldn't touch a 2X14 (or even a 2X12) trailer plow in my ground.

Dean
 
I think the original factory mounted plow was 2 12's, but my JD book is at the cabin. I built a 5 foot mounted s-tine cultivator for the one we had and it handled that real well with no ballast. It depends a lot on what kind of soil you have, we have pretty heavy black and sticky! and when it gets dry it's like concrete, a cultivator will just slide along on top!
 
My family bought a the John Deere M brand new and have been pulling a the mounted 2 bottom plow behind it ever since then. Ground conditions, hills, and how the tractor is weighed will determine if your M can handle the 2 bottom plow.

The M2 plow can be set up for either a 12" or a 14" bottom, all you have to do is change the standards around to move the bottoms accordingly.
 
All you have to do is swap parts #24 and #28 and you can have either a 12" or 14" cut
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Our M would pull 2-12s in our heaviest clay in 2nd gear, and 3rd in the higher spots. We never could get the mounted plows to work properly, but I don't think we had all the parts. The right brake was shot from using it to steer while plowing. The pull type plows did a great job, and with 44" tread width, you didn't even have to steer. I remember plowing into the night with the muffler glowing red half way up.
 
thanks to all replies but I should have said I am in uk.. I think it will be mounted plough for
JD M.. I would like to know is the JD M prone to any problems.. thanks
 
This picture was taken many years ago at our local show. This is my M pulling a #44 2x14 plow in very hard gumbo ground. What you can't tell in the picture is that the plow was only in the ground 3 to 4 inches and the M was totally wrung out in first gear. (Don't let the furrow depth at the tires fool you - that was made by the big tractor in front of me!) Made one round and parked it. I had just bought the plow and was curious to see what the little M would do but the two haven't been hooked together since.
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The only real problem we had with ours was an upper final drive shaft failure. It broke in the brake splines. Not a great design. Hard brake usage tends to twist and eventually break the spline between the differential cage and the brake disc. Ours broke while Deere was on strike, so we couldnt fix it for several months. Other than that, it was one of the toughest tractors we ever owned, and it survived plenty of overloading and outright abuse, and did it on less than a gallon of gas an hour.
 
I have a mounted 2-12 on my MT. It has new tires and a set of wheel weights. It gets good traction, but in hard ground I will be in 1st gear. An M will have smaller tires, so less traction. A pull type plow will probably be harder to pull than the mounted plow. If you hang all sorts of weights on the M and put it in 1st gear it will probably do ok.
 
I have a mounted 2-12 on my MT. It has new tires and a set of wheel weights. It gets good traction, but in hard ground I will be in 1st gear. An M will have smaller tires, so less traction. A pull type plow will probably be harder to pull than the mounted plow. If you hang all sorts of weights on the M and put it in 1st gear it will probably do ok.
 
I gotta dig through some old slides to find a picture- we used the MI to plow with 2X16 mounted plow in our heaviest clay ground.





We mounted the plow on the 1010 and chained the MI in front of it! Still had to be in first gear. (actually, the 1010 probably just made it worse, but it had the three point)
 

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