Darius, you should be proud of those two good men you raised. The fact they cared enough to restore that old tractor says a lot about all of you, and especially about the fine job you did raising them. God bless!

This is a beautiful tractor! My dad had a Farmall H in the mid 60's that I got to run for my first experience on a tractor. I first ran it baling hay. I too have fond memories of that old tractor. Thanks for sharing and helping me remember that wonderful time in my life!

I am glad he was able to find his M again and buy it back!

My great grandfather bought one of these in the late 60’ or early 70’s. He was the kind of guy that would buy something like this. It was always one the property and pulled many hay wagon trips with the family and all the cousins.

The M was the iconic tractor when I was growing up. This one is beautifully restored. Glad that family loves it so much.

Love these videos! Growing up in farming community, I had 22 uncles and aunts from both of my parents sides. Almost all were farmers, or married farmers. I'm 69 now, still dream of those days working the fields on Oliver 77s, super 88 diesel, Farmall H & M, John Deere R. I understand emotional attachment of these people reuniting with the old iron of their youth. It brings a tear to my eye, a lump in my throat, and joy to my heart when I watch these videos. Keep'em coming and thank you for joy they bring!

Absolutely the most iconic tractor ever built,reliable ,easy to start ,easy to operate ,economical and so versatile you could easily bolt implements onto the chassis rails .We owned three ,some were over sixty years old and they still earned their keep .The Farmalls were revolutionary and left all the other makes behind .

The special knob was a cool indication and a great addition. Rest in peace Mr.harms

My Dads Super M is still in our family! I had it for produce farming and now my son has it for his farm!

I just wanna thank classic tractor fever for bringing us all these great videos. Keep it up

I was around 13 years old when my father bought an old M Tractor back in 1974 we needed more power for his five acre truck patch growing veggies. We found it sitting in the woods just off a country road the owner let us have it for $100 because it had been sitting for years and he didn't think it would ever run again. I helped my dad take it all apart and in about six months together we restored it. I cut mt teeth on that tractor.. Dad sold it in 1983 and I'm still heart broken. Great video.

That’s awesome he was able to find his family’s tractor and get it back. It’s back where it belongs.

Eyes got a little cloudy watching this. I grew up on B, H, M and Super WD-9. Great video. Thanks.

That's great that you found your old tractor back. We have a W-4 that was in the family for 70 years. We also tracked down Grandpa's W-400 Diesel tractor and bought it back, and we got my other Grandpa's 656 he bought brand new.

I remember seeing him with Chas at tractor pulls and as a teen with American Ag Movement. Great man and great farmer. David Smith

I have a 46' H i inherited from my dad who inherited it from his dad and my brother inherited a 53' super M

I learned to drive on a 1953 super M at 8 years old. I might have to look for a Farmall to purchase just for fun.

Met him on July 4,20101 & hae has since passes away

Great story.I wish I could've met Mr. Harms.

This show rocks, very unique; just a feel-good show. Love the shots, edits and family-friendly atmosphere: Keep it coming, and thrilled to see it on KZfaq instead of just RFD TV.

i remember Darius working with Max Armstrong on RFDTV during some of the old tractor pulls and i like classic tractor fever on RFD also. its nice the videos are on here too.

Now that is one heart warning story,Thanks a bushel.!!!

I have a 48 M great ole tractor. When we get it out the neighborhood really go nuts.

My grandfather worked at the factory in Rock Island, Illinois.

Love classic tractor videos .I watch classic tractor fever every Saturday on rfdtv .

Glad to see you have your old tractor. Back. I get attached to my tractors. Mine has served me well. A 1989 IMT 539 39hp; a 1990 Massey Ferguson 3070 92hp; a 2004 John Deere 5320 64hp. Growing up my favorite tractors my dad had was all Massey Ferguson's a 35, 65, 135, 165, 175, 275 , 285.

I very much wish that I could get some of my dad's Massey Fergusons and a small John Deere back.

Truly heart warming. Good bless.

Awsum job on that tractor.Great story.

Thats a nice little farmall really like it

After watching this show, I wish I would have never sold my ole M Farmall 🚜, y'all did a great job restoring that one,

I would love to get my hands on a Super MD... lots of memories from the one we had here in Northern Ont.

i enjoyed the video . my father bought a farmall M after he came home from world war two the serial number said it was built in 1945

Good day Nice video. Does the extra M&W transmission give it more speed too. Here in Ont. never seen 1 that had that. Thanks

Learned to drive on a Farmall M, my dad bought new in 1946, great tractor. My older brother restored it like new again so it's still in the family. Sadly our dad passed away about a week before he finished so he didn't get to see it.

I have 2 m's and love em...hope to restore one day

I got a 1949 M. Lot of people dont know they put different engines and transmissions in them.. one is alot heavier than the other (physically and built) one has a ~3.5 inch piston and some has ~4 inch piston.. mine has the 4 inch.. how I found out is when I rebuilt the engine.. other difference is the transmission, if shifter lever is strait then it is the light version, if it has 2 or 3 bends in shifter, it is heavy one. Another way to tell difference is bearings in front wheels.. 2 different sizes.. tractor looks same at a distance but stand beside them is day and night difference.. mine still has serial plate on it stating it is a IH farmall M. And everything has matching serials so I know parts wasn't swaped. Friend of mine also has a m.. his is smaller everywhere. Which is weird. His has strait shifter which look at transmission is much smaller (about size of the h trans) then engine is same with but smaller from front to back.. one in video I got small glimpse of shifter and saw it is the strait one.. he is got the light M. Find a farmall h and compare them and u will see what I mean.. and to definitely confirm what I am saying, find a m with bent shifter and compare them.. huge difference!!

That’s awesome

As a kid on a NZ dairy farm I drove a Farmall A. It was designed to run on kerosene and had an extra small tank you filled with petrol to start. It's ignition was a magneto, and could be hard to start when it got warm. It had a mid mounted mower which was designed so the sickle bar would operate at any angle including vertically. A single furrow plow could be mounted underneath the tractor by revering the draw bare, and the furrow depth was adjusted by raising and lowering the draw bar leading edge by a bar with a series of holes off a pin bolted just after the clutch hosing . The lift ran off the exhaust to a pneumatic ram. It was great for ploughing. You could run full throttle to the faring end, pull back the exhaust operated lift that semi choked the engine , turn drop the plough in and you were off like a rocket. Unfortunately my father sold it and three speed six cylinder diesel Fordson with a right foot clutch when I was away at college. That Fordson sure built up my right leg and arm muscles I have never seen those tractors since. Ibelieve that the Fordson PerkinsHi motor was put in a boat. I doubt that was the fate of the Farmall. And I would love to see a similar model displayed some place

Greets from The Netherlands where your ancestors came from, nice vid and nice tractor!!!

Cool.

The Farmall tricycle style front end with one or two front tires close together, could go down between a pair of 40 inch rows of corn, soybeans or other row crops. Few tractors had three point hitches, but rather they used mounted equipment such as 2 or 4 row cultivators, which had shovels on frames that were close to the row and mounted on the side of the tractor, and then rear shovels that cleaned up the center between the rows. Herbicide was rarely used to control weeds, cultivators removed the weeds, until the crop was too tall to drive over. You will notice how much clearance this "M" had under the rear axles. 1 or 2 row corn pickers were also mounted on the tractor, and had a conveyor that went back to fill a wagon being towed, with ear corn. The operator could easily see the crop as it was being worked, and movement of the steering wheel would easily keep the equipment centered on the row.

Great story

Thats a great story 👍

I bought my 1950 M to hobby farm 30+ years ago. It has a cobbled together 3 point homemade hitch. This was my regular use tractor until I purchased an 806 diesel. I attended a funeral a few years ago and on the story board was a photo of my tractor and my deceased friend as the proud owner. No one in the family knew anything about the tractor, but I was really glad to know that my friend Chester had owned it at one time.

Spent a lot of hours plowing and disking with an M that was rebuilt into a Super M. Also a lot of hours shoveling grain into a mill powered by the M to feed several hundred hogs.

I have a 51’ m diesel. Wide front end with the M&W hand clutch.

got 2 of these beauties one with a l4 perkins diesel conversion. they must have been fair thinks back in there day.

I have my grandpa's 1946 H he bought new after the war, ordered in December of 45 and he didn't get it until August of 46, I'm guessing because of the transition .

I have 2 m's and a 100 and just love farmall tractors

RIP Darius

Big Red ❤

We have that exact model out by our house.

It’s beautiful 😍 way better than factory shine!

He was my grandpa

WE’VE GOT ONE!!!!! Ours is from 1940 and has the silver pipe, it’s also a wide front, also 9-speed? they were only five as far as I know.

My dad had a tractor just like it, he hated hand crank starting it, cant remember the model, (he died in 84) but this tractor could be its twin.

An M with a Magneto. Ours had coil/distributor. Our F20s had mags though

Grandpa has a 53 super M, and has the same hog nose holes in front

Growing up in the MO Bootheel; most Farmall M tractors were Super M's. None had the belt pulley.

City kid told me farming is easy. I wanted to hit the punk but didn't. Easy? I learned to drive on Farmall.

Is there any particular name for when the two front wheels are mounted closely together like that?

Part of my life too. Drove one of these from an early age. As well as the next generation Farmall 400. flic.kr/p/d3e5e

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❓ Is it worth (parts, maintenance, etc) having a Farmall today for actual work? Experience, not speculation, please. I have a small farm and need something to plow an acre or so, haul, tow, and similar. Found a Cub locally in pretty decent shape that might fit the bill.

I don't understand why they had to keep the M under lock & key when they first got it. Can anybody explain beyond the term " black market" and why was it delivered at 2AM?

why was it locked up for 3 months?

If it aint red leave it in the shed good luck to you

I grew up with an H and as an adult, I bought my own Farmall. (Super MD). The SMD is long gone, but my dad still has his 42 H. To be honest I am glad they're not being used any longer. Extremely dangerous tractors from the getgo. I can name 4 people crushed by Farmall Letter series tractors overturning.

Too bad a great company like IHC went by the way side. Their competitors like Oliver, Minneapolis Moline and Allis Chalmers were great names. They tell me there’s a re-emergence of Massey Ferguson and White. it’s apparent today that John Deere has become the industry leader and Case-IH, and. New Holland are also big names too.

Sorry but I say super mta over m and jd 4020 is king in iconic tractors

Weird a stolen tractor story

Americans... why are so many sooooo overweight? Just asking... 😐

Too bad they aren't worth much money, I've turned down many ,most could have been bought for 300 to 500 range. I'm into older tractors. I know people who still use these to farm with in 2023.