Posted by cessnapilot3 on June 13, 2010 at 16:49:40 from (75.207.111.154):
Gents, Would like your opinion/input. I have a '48 Farmall M. I have sunk about 3000 into a engine rebuild (yes, I know, that is ridiculous...but thats another story). I really like tractor, which is good, because for what I have invested, I can never sell it. It is far from finished. Needs tires, paint new brakes and a few other odds and ends. I have a small farm. Use a JD 4320 for most of my work. Have a 4 row JD 7000 planter.
I find myself between a rock and a hard place. Due to what I have invested in the farmall, I really need to use it as a farm tractor. To plant with, to run augers and to do other things. My dilema is this....
The tractor has no live hydraulics, no three point hitch, no loader, no power steering...etc etc. I am starting to think it is just a bridge to far to make this tractor useful in modern farm environment. By the time I add a 3 point hitch, live hydro, strip and paint it and add new tires, i'm guessing I'll have 6-7000 invested. WAY TOO MUCH FOR AN M. (I think) Sooo, should I just give it up and park it in the corner, cut my losses? Finish it and sell it...and take my losses? Or does it makes sense, at all, to anyone to turn this old girl back into a modern farming machine?
I do happen to have an old forkift in the shop, with a great mast, that doesnt work any more. U think the belly bump would run a fork truck mast??? I could put her on forklift duty?
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