Getting the '49 MT ready to get restored by a friend

hoffmtim · Mar 30, 2014

The MT is home. A video I posted on YouTube showing it running....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2OJTZq8rxE&feature=youtu.be

grnspot110 · Mar 30, 2014

hoffmtim said:
The MT is home. A video I posted on YouTube showing it running....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2OJTZq8rxE&feature=youtu.be

Thanks for the video, brings back old memories! Nice job!!!:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

I put a lot of hours (& miles) on one back in the mid 60's, Dad bought one for a saddle horse. My folks had a farm 10 miles from home where we kept heifers & was our hay farm. Dad had a cart made to run the front wheels of the MT into to tow it to the other farm. I used it to haul two loads of hay home each day we baled. Plus, it was my get around vehicle before I was 16.

I did get to drive one a bit a couple years ago. A local farmer came to me looking for one, I located one for him in IA. We took my trailer after it the next day, he had me drive it around before he bought it & load & unload it for him, don't think he's driven it himself, he "just wanted one"! ~~ Lowell

hoffmtim · Mar 30, 2014

When we were loading it on the trailer a car stopped by and asked what an MT was, they'd never heard of one. Was fun to explain them to him. I love seeing everyone else's pictures, so a few more to look at...

grnspot110 · Mar 30, 2014

This is the one we brought back from IA:

A little paint popping on the hood, but overall pretty good condition. ~~ Lowell

fieldman12 · Apr 1, 2014

Very nice job. I love to see people restoring these old tractors that helped build this country and feed our families. Maybe it's me but I just have a hard time buying a tractor of any brand knowing I may never visit the place it was built. Don't have to worry about that with these old tractors. All our small tractors left on the farm are all built outside the USA.