I've stayed out of this thread as best I could but with all the educated advice you have been provided you seem to be bent on pulling your M on a trailer with a truck which at best is half the weight of your M. Where do you live and where do you intend to haul this tractor? I had a Mazda pickup like you are describing which I pulled behind my motorhome because it was light in weight. It worked find for that but the truck was overloaded when it was half full of dry firewood and very light on the front end for steering. Check you truck owners manual and see what it says about towing. As I recall it was suggested no trailer pulling of any sort. The weight for which the truck is built to carry is for a load in the bed and not everything placed behind the rear wheels on a bumper which probably won't hold up to half of the bed weight. Your clutch and the rest of the drivetrain is far too small for what you are suggesting. I doubt the bumper hitch will even survive the tractor loading so that is probably to your benefit to live another day. Take a look at your truck frame if you really want to see how flimsy those small pickups are built. Just because you have a hitch doesn't mean very much except as a place to stand to hop up in the bed. You got the opinions of dozens of very knowledgeable folks who transport these tractors several times a year. Take a look at the next tractor show to see how many M's are hauled in with what you are proposing. For your information, I live in Missouri and I have seen the highway patrol and a truck enforcement officer working together on numerous ocassions with rigs off the road being weighed in the middle of nowhere. So it does happen, I'm certain with the number of cell phones on the road you will not get far before someone reports your rig weaving all over the road and you'll have lights on your tail. Since you posted this thread on the forum, the responses should be taken as "been there done that" and shouldn't be brushed off with they're just pulling my leg. No one who has taken the time to response to your thread wants to see a nicely restored tractor totally demolished along with a tractor friend laying under a tarp waiting for the coroner. Good luck and fine a way which doesn't involve what you are proposing for your safety and that of everyone else on the road. Hal.
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