Farmall M, Tires and Hauling

Thank you!!

Scott,

If you find all the right pieces to make your tractor roll, you still will need a way to get it up on the trailer, and in the correct position. It is possible to attach a pully to the front of the trailer and pull it on by backing a pulling rig with cable attached to the tractor and through the pully and back to the pulling rig. You can also jacknife your Pickup and pull the tractor straight on from the front of the trailer.

There are other ways to load a tractor on a tailer besides rolling it on. If you can get access to a strong loader, the operator can set the tractor in the exact location on your trailer for the best ride home. I am attaching a picture of the loading of my Farmall C that was stuck and missing a rear tire.

Find the right trailer and tow vehicle. 300 miles is a great distance to travel with the wrong rig. Trouble will find you. Attach the front and rear with two chains at each end. Use binders on all four chains. Check them for tension after 30 miles or so. Hauling tractors the first few times out can give you some grief.

Good luck and let us know how it went.

First off, the tractor is almost certainly way too wide. The wheels are almost certainly dished out, and even if they're slid all the way in, the tractor is pushing 8 feet wide. Those car haulers only handle a maximum of 82". Good luck getting the wheels loosened up, flipped around, and slid in.

Second, those trailers are open down the middle. If the tractor has a narrow front, where's it going to sit? If it's a wide front, good luck getting the front end slid in.

Third, an M weighs something on the order of over 6000 pounds. Add 2000 pounds more for the trailer, and you're not going to want to haul that with the family minivan, or even a 1/2 ton

You're also not going to pull it with your family SUV either, or your 1/2 ton pickup.

I going to haul this thing with a dodge 1/2 ton with 5.7 (not in overdrive) with a damm good tilt trailer to south of Lincoln. The tractor doesn"t have wheel weights or tires on it for that matter, but it will in time. This was my grandpas first tractor that he was able to buy new, and he was proud of it. FYI- it was lost in the family because a distant member of the family borrowed it and broke an axle, and didn"t fix it. Out of subborness nobody ever did fix it and the tractor just kinda went away for a while but I"m gonna go get it and give a shot fixing up over time. So bottom line if you borrow something and break it...fix it.

Thank you everybody for the input it"s been helpful to me.

There are two narrow rails that you drive the car on. The rest of the trailer bottom is wide open, so it's no good for a narrow front tractor. Plus, the weight limit is 5000 pounds. An M is guaranteed to weigh 6000 pounds or more. I wouldn't risk it, especially when you see how badly beat up these trailers usually are. Some of them I wouldn't trust to safely haul a bicycle, let alone a 6000lb tractor.

Don't know about you, but my "heavy half" 2wd pickup is rated for 6300lbs towing. That's the weight of an M without the trailer. A trailer will add at least 2000lbs to the package. I might consider it for a short haul of < 50 miles, but not 300. Considering how they build trucks these days, I wouldn't expect to have much left after a 300 mile haul 2000+lbs over the rated GCWR.

That truck was not as it came from factory. You can change the rating of trucks for trailering. 3/4 tons are easy, probably not so easy with a 1/2 ton. Having said all of that, I was never satisfied my unit had enough braking capacity, even though it did satisfy DOT. In the late 1970s I bought a single axle highway tractor and 40' drop deck trailer. Really not a lot more power train than the 3/4 ton. It had two things load capacity and air brakes. Now if you want my real opinion nothing should be allowed on highway in excess of 10,000 GVW without air brakes. The volume of traffic has become too great for any less. Might be fine if you wish to stick to county roads, and drive under 50 mph.

Day came for our first move, I said to the kid, " Think you can handle that old Chevy." "Sure", he said, " My dad has one just like it." After driving mt truck, he said, "Not much like my dad's 1/2 ton, kind of more like a highway tractor." I've found most of the pickup trucks built since 1990, don't have much ability to haul anymore. It would take a lot more than we did to those oldies to make a trailer hauler out of the new ones.

We aren't disagreeing here. You just have to wake up and realize that not everyone is running a HEAVILY MODIFIED 1/2 ton pickup, and people will take your advice LITERALLY. You said "uhaul" probably meaning any old rental place. Most people will take you literally and go straight to the place with the orange and white trucks, U-HAUL, where all they can get is an open-center car hauler.

Yes, there are rental shops that have true flatbed EQUIPMENT trailers, but not U-HAUL. Okay?

Fine, you go ahead and haul your M with the family minivan and a U-HAUL car hauler. Just let me know so I can be as far away from the road as possible while you're doing it, cuz with my luck I'd be the one you ran over and killed.