These video compilations of you and senior need to shown in trade school mechanics courses to learn not only how to but also to learn work ethic and pride in work.
I have so much enjoyed watching you and your dad restore this tractor... Thanks for sharing and the the attention to detail you've shown. Just wonderful.
Your dad and mine sound just alike in their techniques and procedures. Matter of fact, my dad would have been just about old enough to have taught yours, his 100th birthdate coming in the spring. I miss getting to work with him. We built an H in 1985. Watching your M series brings it all back. In his later years he’d wrap up in a blanket and watch from his wheelchair as I worked on other things. Wish I had him back as I start on my SMTA this winter. Thanks for the thorough documentation of the project. Magnificent job.
I've followed this build from the beginning, and I must say that you and SR. do very beautiful work. This tractor is better now than when it was new. Hats off! Well done!!
You know Sr will come home and see the tracks and know you were out playing with his tractor right! Darn nice tractor, will look even better with the hood on. Keep smiling.
Hi Dad and Son. I know what a kick father and son get when an overhauled engine fires up for the first time, and this is a much larger rebuild than anything I was involved in with my Dad. Wonderful to see and very graceful of you both to have filmed this series. I've no doubt it has and will inspire others to active your very high and at times sensibly pragmatic standards. It has been a delight and a pleasure to follow from this side of the pond. Cheers. BobUK.
Backing into the shop reminded me of backing the Cockshut 30 and manure spreader into the barn to clean gutters. Had to fold like you did. It's a beaut!
Hi, I did not realise that this is a working tractor what a magnificent machine I am jealous what a Stirling job you have both done to the old girl you will get a life time of use out of it.
The M's looking sweet with the fresh paint and you can tell shes driving beautifully cant wait to see her with the full sheet metal and with the correct stickers and placards that they were so adorned with.
If you want to save the paint on the nuts and bolts use a piece of thick plastic like vapor barrier or similar. Place the plastic over the nut and slip the socket or wrench over the plastic. there is usually enough slop in tools to allow this. It really saves the paint. Tractor Looks great. I just finished restoring a Cub this August. Would love to do an M or H.
My uncle bought a new 1950 Farmall M. It was the first tractor I drove - when my left leg was long enough to depress the clutch pedal!! Thanks so much to Squatch and Senior for working so well together and for your shop skills, mechanical skills and your communication skills. Thanks again!
I will likely never work on a Farmall, but never have I so enjoyed being back in school :). I'm 75, and just retired as a Marine Electrician in Bermuda.
I wish you would reconsider adding a splash of silver to those front wheels. I suggested pin stripes if not the whole rim. In the light of day you can see it needs something.
You pointed out about the steering gear wallowing out a cavity to where it wouldnt get the grease it needed and on our old P model chevrolet Trucks at Ward Baking company We remedied that by Drilling a Hole in the cap on that steering box and Installing a Grease fitting So when we Changed oil and serviced the Truck that box Got greased also and when we brought the trucks to the shop for in shop service we pulled the cap off the box and cleaned as much old grease as possible out of the box and repacked new grease in the box and had very great success doing that
The M looks amazing. Watching it run was better than watching a beauty contest! Congratulations to you and your dad for letting us follow the restoration of this mechanical beauty, I really enjoyed every episode.
Job well done you guys. I lost my father in 2000 to cancer. I’m currently finishing my Hotrod 1954 F100 and I wish I still had him here to help. Seeing you guys work together to get this done warms my heart.
It has been a pleasure watching you rebuilt this tractor. I look forward to seeing the final instalment when she is dressed. You alluded to it feeling brand new: The degree of detail in your restoration means that it effectively is. Bravo.
Brilliant step by step detailed restoration of that M 💪 I had that problem of cavitation on the hydraulic pump after I'd split my international B250 to put a new clutch in it 🙄 lookin forward to seein it with the tinwork all on great team effort 👍👍
AMAZING! that M is possibly better than when brand new! You gentlemen have done and amazing job! Am so pleased to have seen this video since day one. worth every minute of my time. Thanks so much for sharing. :-) :-) :-)
Beautiful piece of machinery. Albeit that was a very chancy maneuver sitting in the seat and backing into the shop, would not have expected you to do that.
Mick Sepp I grew up just north of you, just north of Hibbing. I love watching your posts. I'm a big fan of old iron. Growing up we had a few Farmall A's and a few big crawlers plus several other pieces of equipment. When I was about 10 my dad had me and my brother driving the TD18. We had to drive it together we were too small to drive it alone. My dad has some old iron and parts that may interest you. For example RD6 complete engine and other tractor parts. He is still at the place in north of Hibbing. I hate to see the stuff just sitting. Let me know if you are at all interested. And keep the great videos coming.
Runs and looks just like a new tractor. You and your dad have done a very detailed restoration of which you should be very satisfied with, as I’m sure you are. Great job. Thanks, I enjoyed the journey immensely.
I just discovered you around Thanksgiving and have been binge watching to catch up. You guys have done a great job and I have really enjoyed the series. People like you are why I cancelled my satellite dish subscription .
9:50 watchin that garage door slip down as you were backing up, THAT got the heart going, sheezuz. 10:48 - Maybe it was a camera flare thing, but i coulda swore i saw something drip out from under the carb. I really hope Im wrong but might wanna look. All in all, enjoy it man! Fantastic job, well done! You earned it.
I’d say she runs good. That starter barely touched the flywheel and it was running. Very nice. Lookin good out in the light of day under its own power.
Beautiful tractor..... Thought I was the only one who built his own blend of cornhead grease.... Been doing that for years in the old stuff and have had zero gear failures..... Nice work SR and Jr.......
I thought you were going to have to de-flate the tires in order to get into the building. One thing I wonder about is in what year was the "M" made? If you said it before I'm sorry but could you repeat it please. I had an uncle who farmed and had 2 Farmall's. 1. Oliver. and an John Deere. All from the late 30's era. I think He told me 1937. I remember the John Deere had 2 opposing cylinders and a big wheel that was used to start it. You had to turn it by hand and be careful of the 'kick-back'. Thank you for another great video. Keep them coming and Stay Safe.
Makes me happy and also jealous to hear and see the Super M move! Makes me really really really want to get our Super M going but still need to get the head to a machine shop and I'm thinking a rear main seal on the MD will be before the SM. All just a part of the fun of farming as my dad would say!
Nice work, I enjoy your content. Seeing you drive it, with the different camera angles, I couldn't help but think of the Scooby Doo 'hallway full of doors' routine and I could just see a fella on a Super M popping in and out of random doors, maybe sometimes in reverse for some reason...
Willing to bet she wasn't as nice when new. You and S.R. paid a lot more attention when putting this back together than the assembly line guys did when she was new. Sounds as good as I hoped it would.✌✌
Congratulations! She is immaculate. Now, while you've got those front wheels turning, get someone to run alongside with a small paint brush with matching silver paint, and while the wheels turn, just hold the brush next to the outer rim, and just hold it there until you've turned one full revolution. Then gradually move the brush in toward the center of the wheel until the outer rim is silver, and the disc/spoke part of the wheel is still red. That's probably a good meeting point for the two colors. It will look a lot better if you do the insides of the wheels too, but it might be hard to get a volunteer to run along up under the tractor while it's moving.
Where i rebuilt the transmission in my 1926 Oldsmobile i used 5 tubes of caterpillar white grease and 1 tube of 600 weight oil which it looked like 90 weight gear oil with honey. It came out perfect. Just like the repair manual said the gears will grind until the transmission is warm. So you let it idle for about 5 to 10 minutes and no grinding of the gears. Kind of like the tractor your working on .the bolster.
Thanks for another update, you guys have worked hard on that tractor and it shows. I'd say unless somebody in India starts making new M's thats as closer feeling as you'll get to the first day a guy drove a new one way back when . It would be interesting to know a rundown of what this project cost and an average of hours work, to give guys an idea of the real world of this type of restoration. If they are sitting at home thinking hey I'll restore a tractor for fun. I know you owned the tractor, but maybe you could price an average of unrestored in your area like you started with and run through from there. I know you'll never cover your hours and get the money back but that's not the point in doing it. I've restored quite a few machines over the years but none in the last 15 or so, I just bought a few north 40 finds and got them running/driving as cheap as I could. I kinda lost interest in doing fancy paint, just saving them from scrap was my goal, as found seems to be gaining popularity with guys at shows to before this CV 19 cancelled many of them.. . Take care both of you.
steering grease reminds me of OO grease that comes in quart bottles, oil and grease mix , good stuff, tractor sounds as good as it looks Squatch, thanks for the video see ya on the next one.
You tell us thanks for watching, and we tell you thanks for filming!!!
Jimmy I agree 100%
These video compilations of you and senior need to shown in trade school mechanics courses to learn not only how to but also to learn work ethic and pride in work.
I have so much enjoyed watching you and your dad restore this tractor... Thanks for sharing and the the attention to detail you've shown. Just wonderful.
Squatch: this isn’t going to be a total restoration.
Also squatch, i need more silver in the front of this thing 😂 awesome job!!
Didn't even roll over one turn before it fired. Sounds good too
Now it's seniors turn to play with the tractor!!😊 Great video Squatch!
Can't wait for X231 to reach driving day Toby! :D
"It's tight, it drives like a new tractor" Well it is a new tractor. Great Job. That thing is sweet.
Your dad and mine sound just alike in their techniques and procedures. Matter of fact, my dad would have been just about old enough to have taught yours, his 100th birthdate coming in the spring. I miss getting to work with him. We built an H in 1985. Watching your M series brings it all back. In his later years he’d wrap up in a blanket and watch from his wheelchair as I worked on other things. Wish I had him back as I start on my SMTA this winter.
Thanks for the thorough documentation of the project. Magnificent job.
What a great sounding and looking tractor. It is a wonderful piece of art.
Very nice job Mr Squatch. I liked “Thing” explaining the grease 👍
Quality work and results earn no "Eye Twitching", Thanks for yet another good time, it's a pleasure to go along.
I've followed this build from the beginning, and I must say that you and SR. do very beautiful work. This tractor is better now than when it was new. Hats off! Well done!!
You know Sr will come home and see the tracks and know you were out playing with his tractor right! Darn nice tractor, will look even better with the hood on. Keep smiling.
I have never seen one of these that was not covered with rust or painted 3 or 4 different colors. Beautiful job. Thanks for posting.
New saying: "Happier than Squatch with a newly rebuilt tractor."
Showing off with your tractor limboing skills. Really enjoy watching .
Hi Dad and Son. I know what a kick father and son get when an overhauled engine fires up for the first time, and this is a much larger rebuild than anything I was involved in with my Dad. Wonderful to see and very graceful of you both to have filmed this series. I've no doubt it has and will inspire others to active your very high and at times sensibly pragmatic standards. It has been a delight and a pleasure to follow from this side of the pond. Cheers. BobUK.
I really think that you guys did a fantastic job, no even the factory accept the mistakes as you do, corrected, Learn and keep going , 💯❌💯👌
Backing into the shop reminded me of backing the Cockshut 30 and manure spreader into the barn to clean gutters. Had to fold like you did. It's a beaut!
That I H looks better than when it was brand new. As another one said good for another 100 years. Beautiful job.
I have thourghly enjoyed watching this restoration! Such skilled craftsmanship!! Looks easy. But I know toooo well it's NOT!!!!
I remember that this build started as a one day donation of time for anything Sr. might want done!
Hi, I did not realise that this is a working tractor what a magnificent machine I am jealous what a Stirling job you have both done to the old girl you will get a life time of use out of it.
Can’t wait to see the rest of the sheet metal on her ! On another note, that is one helluva collection of deer racks on the back wall !
Congrats guys. A fantastic job of rebuilding and documenting the process. I enjoyed the journey!!!!!
The M's looking sweet with the fresh paint and you can tell shes driving beautifully cant wait to see her with the full sheet metal and with the correct stickers and placards that they were so adorned with.
If you want to save the paint on the nuts and bolts use a piece of thick plastic like vapor barrier or similar. Place the plastic over the nut and slip the socket or wrench over the plastic. there is usually enough slop in tools to allow this. It really saves the paint.
Tractor Looks great. I just finished restoring a Cub this August. Would love to do an M or H.
My uncle bought a new 1950 Farmall M. It was the first tractor I drove - when my left leg was long enough to depress the clutch pedal!! Thanks so much to Squatch and Senior for working so well together and for your shop skills, mechanical skills and your communication skills. Thanks again!
Great job, love to hear you talk through projects.
You are living a dream! Beautiful property and beautiful machinery!
It runs and looks like a brand new one, you two should be damn proud of the job you done.
I will likely never work on a Farmall, but never have I so enjoyed being back in school :). I'm 75, and just retired as a Marine Electrician in Bermuda.
I wish you would reconsider adding a splash of silver to those front wheels. I suggested pin stripes if not the whole rim. In the light of day you can see it needs something.
Excellent.....thought for sure Sr would be outside for this.....
You pointed out about the steering gear wallowing out a cavity to where it wouldnt get the grease it needed and on our old P model chevrolet Trucks at Ward Baking company We remedied that by Drilling a Hole in the cap on that steering box and Installing a Grease fitting So when we Changed oil and serviced the Truck that box Got greased also and when we brought the trucks to the shop for in shop service we pulled the cap off the box and cleaned as much old grease as possible out of the box and repacked new grease in the box and had very great success doing that
The M looks amazing. Watching it run was better than watching a beauty contest! Congratulations to you and your dad for letting us follow the restoration of this mechanical beauty, I really enjoyed every episode.
Job well done you guys. I lost my father in 2000 to cancer. I’m currently finishing my Hotrod 1954 F100 and I wish I still had him here to help. Seeing you guys work together to get this done warms my heart.
That generator is perfect...I just got mine converted to 12 volts myself...
It has been a pleasure watching you rebuilt this tractor. I look forward to seeing the final instalment when she is dressed. You alluded to it feeling brand new: The degree of detail in your restoration means that it effectively is. Bravo.
She is a beauty and smooth as butter. I just don't know you can drive that shiny gal without sunglasses.
Polarized sunglasses!! Awesome job. I’m impressed at how you manage to keep track of where each fastener goes
Beautiful job restoring that tractor. It is very well done. To nice to get it dirty and muddy. Thanks for sharing the restoration with us
Brilliant step by step detailed restoration of that M 💪 I had that problem of cavitation on the hydraulic pump after I'd split my international B250 to put a new clutch in it 🙄 lookin forward to seein it with the tinwork all on great team effort 👍👍
Magnificent restoration and video series, thank you.
Very nice rebuild there guys. 👍🏻👍🏻🍻🍻 Looks & sounds good out rolling around the place. 👍🏻🍻🍻
AMAZING! that M is possibly better than when brand new! You gentlemen have done and amazing job! Am so pleased to have seen this video since day one. worth every minute of my time. Thanks so much for sharing. :-) :-) :-)
Two thumbs up!! Great job on the rebuild!!
Beautiful piece of machinery. Albeit that was a very chancy maneuver sitting in the seat and backing into the shop, would not have expected you to do that.
Only trouble with garaging tractors--------DON"T forget to duck! Thanks for the ride.
Beautiful job Squatch, turned out really nice. Only thing missing is the lights and combo trail light and work light.
Pretty old red machine is purring like a kitten. Good job guys.
Where's Senior? Are you the licensed test driver? Sneaking out with dads new tractor R ya?
Mick Sepp
I grew up just north of you, just north of Hibbing. I love watching your posts. I'm a big fan of old iron. Growing up we had a few Farmall A's and a few big crawlers plus several other pieces of equipment. When I was about 10 my dad had me and my brother driving the TD18. We had to drive it together we were too small to drive it alone. My dad has some old iron and parts that may interest you. For example RD6 complete engine and other tractor parts. He is still at the place in north of Hibbing. I hate to see the stuff just sitting. Let me know if you are at all interested. And keep the great videos coming.
She'll look sharp once all the tin is on...I like the stance..
Look great you and dad did a good job
Tractor should be good for another 100 years.
Or more. :-)
Excellent video keep up the good work 👍👍👍👍it's nice to see you driving it
She is pretty good looking old tractor ...good work bro..!!
Runs and looks just like a new tractor. You and your dad have done a very detailed restoration of which you should be very satisfied with, as I’m sure you are. Great job. Thanks, I enjoyed the journey immensely.
I just discovered you around Thanksgiving and have been binge watching to catch up. You guys have done a great job and I have really enjoyed the series. People like you are why I cancelled my satellite dish subscription .
Thanks for having us along!
9:50 watchin that garage door slip down as you were backing up, THAT got the heart going, sheezuz.
10:48 - Maybe it was a camera flare thing, but i coulda swore i saw something drip out from under the carb. I really hope Im wrong but might wanna look.
All in all, enjoy it man! Fantastic job, well done! You earned it.
I think what looked like a carb drip was a flying insect.
Great job, you and all of us were smiling! Thanks for including us.
It's so cool to see and hear her 1st. Drive. As much time and precision that you put into it, it should run like a new one. I think better. 👍👍
Beautiful machine
Hello from Tasmania. The red one is done two yellow ones to go. Stay safe. Kerry.
Very nice rebuild. Hats off to you.
Great father and son project.
Absolutely fantastik job and it has been a pleasure to follow your restauration here.
Great job, you and senior should be very proud of yourselves.👍
Great job, its looks amazing!
Bet that don't taste like raspberry jelly but it sure looks like it! Great to see her in action - thanks for the ride!
I’d say she runs good. That starter barely touched the flywheel and it was running. Very nice. Lookin good out in the light of day under its own power.
Cornhead grease works awesome for such applications. Got to love a tractor knee deep in new rubber. :-)
Absolutely incredible job
Very well done. Thanks for the update! I used to use a neighbor's M. There was this tree branch, and it was about as tall as that door....
Beautiful tractor..... Thought I was the only one who built his own blend of cornhead grease.... Been doing that for years in the old stuff and have had zero gear failures..... Nice work SR and Jr.......
What a great project this has been. Nice to see it running again. Well done!!
Front wheels need their silver lining...🤷♂️ ..Hell of a job on rebuilding, think the factory guys would be proud and impressed with your work..
Too pretty to get dirty ! Fine job !
Great series guys. Thank you for bringing us along
I love the way those letter series IHs sound, Fine job.
Show us the PTO side pulley working plz. Beautiful restoration.
Nice garage limbo.
DUDE, MY COMPLIMENTS
SOUNDS BEAUTIFUL
EPIC BUILD MY FRIEND
Beautiful job.
I thought you were going to have to de-flate the tires in order to get into the building. One thing I wonder about is in what year was the "M" made? If you said it before I'm sorry but could you repeat it please. I had an uncle who farmed and had 2 Farmall's. 1. Oliver. and an John Deere. All from the late 30's era. I think He told me 1937. I remember the John Deere had 2 opposing cylinders and a big wheel that was used to start it. You had to turn it by hand and be careful of the 'kick-back'. Thank you for another great video. Keep them coming and Stay Safe.
Congratulations!!!!! Soooooo sweeeeeet!!!
Makes me happy and also jealous to hear and see the Super M move! Makes me really really really want to get our Super M going but still need to get the head to a machine shop and I'm thinking a rear main seal on the MD will be before the SM. All just a part of the fun of farming as my dad would say!
That Super M is super happy! The tractor looks awesome! Will you show how you apply the decals? 🇺🇸🚜👍
Nice work, I enjoy your content. Seeing you drive it, with the different camera angles, I couldn't help but think of the Scooby Doo 'hallway full of doors' routine and I could just see a fella on a Super M popping in and out of random doors, maybe sometimes in reverse for some reason...
Picturing just that, musta made a wrong Toine at Albuquickey (in my finest Bugs Bunny accent)
you should be really tickled with that build, very, very, nice job
Willing to bet she wasn't as nice when new. You and S.R. paid a lot more attention when putting this back together than the assembly line guys did when she was new. Sounds as good as I hoped it would.✌✌
The transmission is extremely quiet. Amazing transition!!! Thanks.
Congratulations! She is immaculate. Now, while you've got those front wheels turning, get someone to run alongside with a small paint brush with matching silver paint, and while the wheels turn, just hold the brush next to the outer rim, and just hold it there until you've turned one full revolution. Then gradually move the brush in toward the center of the wheel until the outer rim is silver, and the disc/spoke part of the wheel is still red. That's probably a good meeting point for the two colors. It will look a lot better if you do the insides of the wheels too, but it might be hard to get a volunteer to run along up under the tractor while it's moving.
Where i rebuilt the transmission in my 1926 Oldsmobile i used 5 tubes of caterpillar white grease and 1 tube of 600 weight oil which it looked like 90 weight gear oil with honey. It came out perfect. Just like the repair manual said the gears will grind until the transmission is warm. So you let it idle for about 5 to 10 minutes and no grinding of the gears. Kind of like the tractor your working on .the bolster.
Looks grate you all did a good job.
Thanks for another update, you guys have worked hard on that tractor and it shows. I'd say unless somebody in India starts making new M's thats as closer feeling as you'll get to the first day a guy drove a new one way back when . It would be interesting to know a rundown of what this project cost and an average of hours work, to give guys an idea of the real world of this type of restoration. If they are sitting at home thinking hey I'll restore a tractor for fun.
I know you owned the tractor, but maybe you could price an average of unrestored in your area like you started with and run through from there. I know you'll never cover your hours and get the money back but that's not the point in doing it. I've restored quite a few machines over the years but none in the last 15 or so, I just bought a few north 40 finds and got them running/driving as cheap as I could. I kinda lost interest in doing fancy paint, just saving them from scrap was my goal, as found seems to be gaining popularity with guys at shows to before this CV 19 cancelled many of them.. . Take care both of you.
steering grease reminds me of OO grease that comes in quart bottles, oil and grease mix , good stuff, tractor sounds as good as it looks Squatch, thanks for the video see ya on the next one.
M Farmall = near the top of the list for best tractor ever made