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We had a 2-MH cornpicker on our M, that we mounted every year until we got a combine in 1980. They are very well-built and do a good job. An excellent husking bed and blower fan on the elevator means they pick a very clean load. You need at least one other person to mount it, particularly to help with the gear box and the elevator. If you only want to get it back to your farm from the auction, you might just want to mount the front part and load the gear box and elevator on a seperate trailer. There are some heavy duty brackets that need to go on the tractor first to mount the front attachment. There is a bracket that goes under the center of the tractor for the hydraulic cylinder. There are also some lift rods that go from this back to the rear axle, where they attach to some pivot brackets. These pivot brackets on the rear axle require the hitch to be removed to get them on. A 2 MH is rather heavy for a smaller tractor, when we overhauled our M transmission some of the bearings were cracked. They used to say that an M was too small and that a 460 or 560 were better for these pickers. However, I think they are ok for an M as long as you don"t bounce through holes or ditches excessively.
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