I picked up a football-sized frozen clod of dirt on the bottom of the low side the other day and that worked as a pretty good skid. That got me thinking of rigging some kind of skids for this year. Since I don't have any down pressure it already tends to ride over drifts instead of scooping them up, but skids might be the ticket for this year.
I was trying to use the same holes on the spreaders (? the flat bars that come back from the axles?) and was afraid to jack the left side any higher when I first did it.
Armand- I can certainly take some pictures. I'm a terrible welder but I got a friend to to it for me. If I recall correctly I took 3-4 L-shaped pieces, about a foot long and put one inside and one outside on one leg of the U, then one outside on the other (no room in the channel for another one, so we didn't weld on the fourth one. That covered the holes.
Gordo -- I'm up by Brookings, so Mitchell isn't too terribly far away. I'm not sure what my long-term plans are for this M anyway. I got a "new" Ford ('62 4-cylinder 4000) this year, and if I can rig a loader for that I might let the M go. At least, that's what I promised my wife when I was scraping to buy the Ford. I love the 3-point and power steering but the M has more character (and I can't get the ford started right now...) I may end up keeping both, as I tend to not let things go. A dedicated loader tractor and another for mowing and such would be pretty swell, providing I can find a place to keep them both. I guess let's hold off till spring, and if I'm looking then I'll drop you a line.
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