Yeah that M use to make the tractor pull circut all over about 10 yrs ago and is still known around here as the "green M" That was my uncle driving it though, it was actually painted as a joke by some pulling buddies who put the crank in for him about 18yrs ago, so the paint ain't what it use to be, but people still get the point. 6000 and 6500 we use our farmall 460 diesel, that is one good pulling tractor although it's all stock, it's weighted well, light rear-end, so you can weight down the back w/ wheel weights and once the front gets in the air there is a ton of weight on the back since it's such a long tractor cause of the TA, plus it has a TA which always helps. That tractors has racked up a lot of tropheys, agianst some G's and 620's, 630's, 720's.

 

I'm not worried about a 460 diesel.

The 560d makes more competition, dont seem many of those. Its basically all farmall M's and a couple johnny poppers, and one of those MM that is unstoppable.

The good thing about our smaller "old" tractors is that you can pull the heck out of them and they dont break down. Their affordable to have fun with.

Getting my "A" field ready here pretty soon, hook up the little 15 foot tandom disk and go.




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90' F150 xlt 4x4 302 4-speed w/ 4.10 rear
Headers/true duals 2.25" w/ 28" glasspacks coming out at 45's

 

We grind corn every week if not more for our cattle w/ our green M, then pull the grinder through the mud with chains on and still barely make it, that grinder is chunk of dead weight w/out a lotta ground clearence, so it never gets a break (other then it's current starter prob. I think the bendix went to heck). We really should use our 966 or 1086, but they always seem to be occupied w/ our tubgrinder, until we get to haying season, then they are permantly on the round balers and swather, w/ the 706 on the wheelrake and the 460 on the square baler (we are heavy into custom hay work). So the other tractors like the H and M have to stay home and try and handle the reg. work like grinding, pulling random wagons, using the harrow and drill to seed alfalfa, keeping the weeds down w/ the shredder, then I show up and take them off to a tractor pull and the farm is useless for 2 days. All this talk about tractor pulling got me going and although this site leans a little towards farmall, www.dennyscarbshop.com I'd really like to put in that 6" stroker crank and pistons in my personal M (not the green one, this is a 41 w/ spoked rims w/ no electrical what so ever, "gotta hand crank it," the belly pump is out and it's pretty well stripped down, but I need a new clutch.) The kit is a little pricey at about $2000, but it makes 350 cubic inches and a 120hp, I could make 4th gear w/ that kind of HP, that's more horsey's then our 706, and that's a big tractor. I could stick in a cam to and have the head done and who would ever know, unless I out pull everyone by 60 ft. then I better get out of town quick.