1949 International Harvester Farmall “M” Restoration! Timelapse of a Classic Vintage Tractor Rebuild

I came for the M but stayed to watch your kids grow up! You didn’t just restore a tractor - your restored my faith in kids that will always remember working with their family & will grow up to be real men!!!

Man that was worth every second of time to watch, I just finished my tractor on a full restore and it takes a lot of time but the end result is well worth the time, well done my friend..

RESPECT!! for the hard Work!

Beautiful tractor. Well done!

An Amazing young man. Good to see young folks working hard and putting heart in what they do. God Bless him.

It looks good! My uncle, Reed Benedict, started farming in the Columbia Basin Project (Soap Lake, WA) in 1957. The place had a house and machine shed and that was about it. He bought the place from the estate of the previous owner who died in an accident on the farm. It came with two Farmall Ms and a few assorted implements but that was about it. He had a feed lot and grew corn and hay for the cows and wheat to sell. He was into breeding also and had a small Black Angus herd. Along with my aunt, Beverly, and two cousins, Rich and Dean, they worked the farm through the 60s and 70s. Rich and Dean went off to college and worked the farm with their Mom and Dad in the summer. Rich was more suited to be a chemical engineer but Dean earned a degree in Mechanical Agriculture and gradually took over the farm in the 80s and did it all by the 90s. Dean married Joyce and they had four children, one of whom, Peter, seems to have what it takes to make a go of it and is looking to take over the operation. What does this have to do with Formal Ms? Those two original Ms are still on the farm and were in regular use through the 90s. They still work great and start right up. They are semi-retired but see use for things like towing trailers and water tanks. It gets hot in the Columbia Basin and the cab with a/c and more power to do more work with a modern machine is welcome but the Ms were good, honest workhorses which could do what needed to be done. Great this M is back together and still working.

Remember always,An American Patriot Farmer will never let us down without food on the table.That tractor is,I cant find the words at the moment.Celestial.

beautiful machine

Great job. Awesome seeing the younger generation working on these tractors

I’m in absolute awe. I love red power and this was phenomenal…thanks for sharing!!!

This brought back some memories. We started out with a Model H then traded up to a Model M. Dad bought the M as a project tractor and it was the second project that I was involved with as a kid. The first one was a little 9N ford tractor. Dad did a beautiful job of cleaning up the M. We farmed with it for about 2 years then Dad made the mistake of trading the M for a B414 diesel. That tractor was never what Dad hoped that it would be.. I learned a lot of mechanical stuff helping Dad with the tractors that he would bring in and rebuild. Good memories.

What an amazing build. Young man, you have the sincere admiration of myself and hundreds of others, watching. What patience! Our compliments to your pop, for letting you take the lead, on this great project. Not all dads TRUST their kids enough to let them be so ‘HANDS-ON’, with such a large project. Our compliments, again! Ted in NJ

Great job! Not only a show piece, but a work horse. That's the best part of restoring a tractor is putting it back to use. Love it, way to go. Be proud of yourself you did a great job.👍

amazing , she is fantastic you should be so proud of yourself , not many can do what you have done , so impressed

Love it! Just beautiful. We had a Super M in the early 60’s and I’d be on it all day at 11,12,13 years old

This is the Coolest Video I’ve ever seen restoring it is the best thing ever , 😊, I come from a farming family , we had 4020,4440 ,7520 , I went to work for a friend he had the 1066 , to it was the best , cool video, and great job.

Great job on restoring that beautiful old Farmall and of course the best part was watching it being put to work once finished. Also excellent video production and music! Well done!!! (ps, loved the tiny John Deere inside the dust collector....)

As a teacher who also has a skillset, this video was great. It is good to see young people who actually want to do something and make something and be productive. Keep up the great work.

A very talented young man

This looked like the family is involved in the rebuilds. Good to see the kids involved.