First tractor

The boy bought his first tractor (his own
money he earned).

nice straight looking m! i am kind of partial to them. i have 3 m s and a super m..

That's the way it ought to be. He will surely be a better person because of it.

Great looking photos. I know he is so happy up there on that seat. Is that M a diesel? Thanks for posting. Wingnut

You cant beat those old Ms!!

pretty good looking old M, even hydraulic's and the belt pully and a battery in a box on the side, lol. he looks like the age i started driving them, over half a century ago. start them young and let them go to it.

Hey nice looking original M. If you do not mind what did it set the young man back? Quite an investment for the boy. Wingnuttx, I realize you probably just ask the question about it being a diesel to engage some dialect with the poster. You are maybe not much of a Farmall guy I do not see many of your post down on the IH & Farmall board. An MD has a very prominent difference from a gas model the exhaust comes through the hood on the right half. So the gas start carburetor shows above the distributor on the right and just below the hood line. Also due to the intake and exhaust manifold being on the right the generator mounts lower and is in view below the hood where on a gas it would be up high his under the hood. The pump and injectors are on the left side where the intake and exhaust manifold, the carburetor and the governor are on the left side. See the link for a couple of Farmall M diesel variants.
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Congratulations to you, young fella. Awesome deal to get started with, and spend some time learning with your family! Kudos to all. GG

$600 it's a win win he wanted the tractor. He doesn't like to read so I told him he had to read the op manual half way through before he could buy it and the other half before we get it running. Maybe I'm just mean.

Hopefully you can get him interested in reading tractor books at least

Did he ride it home sitting on the trailer like that??

Looks like a win to me. Easy and simple to work on. Big enough to have some horses to do something with. Sounds like you got it at a good price. Good starter tractor.

I was 14 when the new M was delivered DAD said theres your tractor go put it into the shed. WOW what a big tractor

I can't believe you would let him buy such a clunker! Green would have been a much better color.

Hope he has fun with it!

WOW, if that M runs as good as it looks your SON got a great deal. Sheet metal is in good shape, good tires, wide front, that's a lot of tractor. Dad had me stand in front of the seat on his '51 M with loader and drive him sitting in the seat around the hog pasture. By the time I was 5 and 6 yes old I was driving that M forward and backwards pulling forks of hay into the back barn. 8 bales at a time. Wasn't long before a 48 ft bale elevator replaced the forks.
Times must be different now days. I NEVER got paid for helping neighbors till I started doing fieldwork for the BTO when I was 14 yes old, I remember turning in 120 hours of work in 2 weeks one spring during spring break one year. I made enough money to trade up motorbikes to motorcycles a couple times, they got me to/from work.
Dad had a guy in town repaint two tractors in 1964, the Super M-TA in spring, the '39 H late in summer, just before school started. Cost $50 per tractor and He did great work.i kinda adopted the '39 H after it was painted. It was too little to do much other than mow/rake hay, do chores, haul hog feed and water to hog lots. We put it on the Kneodler Burr mill feed grinder ONE time to grind ear corn for cattle, first #14 scoop of corn dropped in hopper on grinder and in 3-4 seconds the load stalled the tractor. DAD told me it wouldn't pull it. That grinder was absolutely EVERYTHING the stage 2 Super H wanted to pull.