Harold: If your M was a gasser, this 560 diesel will use about half the fuel on the same work. It will burn a bit more if you load it up to rated hp. I ran a 560 and 656 diesels for years and haying was the easy work at my place. I've never seen either one of them hit 2 Imperial gallons per hour, even pulling 13' vibra shank or 5 bottom plow.
The hitch will be a pain, kind of like pulling the baler on a 3' chain. I found the fast hitch very hard on pto drive lines. A drawbar from an H or M will bolt up, however the swinging drawbar is different length on H. I cut my fast hitch up for scrap back in the mid 60s. What I installed was a new drawbar out of IH parts, I suspect that was ordered from 560 parts book, I know both U drawbar and swinging drawbar were both much thicker than anything I'd seen on an H, M, 300 or 400.
I saved the hitch lift cylinder and rear rockshaft in case I'd want to someday install a 3 point kit. Never did, within a few years I had factory 3 point tractors around.
The only time that pto lever needs to lock is when disengaged, locked out applies the pto brake. Engaged once the lever goes over center, it needs nothing to hold it.
In my books the 282 diesels were the most efficient horse power IH ever built. Sure my 1066 burnt 5 times the fuel, but it wasn't 5 times the hp of a 560 or 656. During the years my 560 and 656 were the main source of power with 130 and 300 as backup, I made more money per year than ever before or since, and I have the financial statements to back it up. That is precisely why there are so many M, SM, etc gassers around in good shape, they never got used much once the 282 came along.
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