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Re: Plows for Farmall M
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Posted by john d on April 07, 2000 at 14:06:58 from (206.141.74.34):
In Reply to: Plows for Farmall M posted by Pat on April 06, 2000 at 06:12:26:
If the M is healthy, it will easily handle a 3-14 trailing plow. If the M has been overhauled at some point in its life and given some oversize sleeves/pistons, improved governor, etc, it will do even more. We've pulled a 3-16 mounted JD plow with the 3pt hitch on ours, and it goes anywhere in 2nd, most places in 3rd. Used to occasionally hitch a Moline 4-14 trailing plow on it, and it would handle it quite well, most places in 3rd. Traction may limit you more than HP unless you have some good tires and weights. A lot of people assume these old M tractors put out the HP that the factory specs on them say....and in many cases, that's way UNDER what they now produce.
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