This is my 1949 Farmall M, my Granddad bought it 3 years ago and he had me restore it. Grandma bought the parts and I did all the work. Although it ran pretty well, It was a mechanical wreck on the inside and 3 parts tractors were needed to bring it back to new condition.
During the restoration I made sure to include as many factory options as possible. It is fit with the IH wide front axle, fenders, dual front wheel weights, quadruple rear wheel weights, dual rear wheels, disk breaks, side hill hitch which allows the drawbar to be swung side to side from the tractor seat, selective hydrallic valve (gives the tractor two, one way hydrallic outlets), steel belt pulley, and an extremely rare intake and exhaust extension kit. Those are so rare that you only ever see them in parts manual diagrams, so I scaled the diagram and recreated it. The breather sticks up so high that It is only fitted for special tractor shows as it would get messed up in operation when I drive around under trees at the edge of the field.
It took me 2 1/2 years to complete the restoration and I have removed every single nut and bolt, and restored it to 100% new mechanical condition as well as cosmetic as it is still a working tractor. Many, many parts from Steiner were used on this tractor!
Gus Crawford
Pocasset, Oklahoma
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