Aftermarket Cab on Farmall M

[John B.]

I ran across this in one of my many books. It is a Farmall "M" but image is a little difficult to make out. Looks like to me it may be a mirror image. The reason I say that is it looks like it has a belt pulley on the side facing us which would be the tractor's left side so that's why I say it appears to be a mirror image possibly.

 

[John B.]

I've come to the conclusion it is a mirror image, the hydraulic control rod is on the side facing us and the muffler & air cleaner intake appears to be on the far side.
 

[60 acre hillside]

Can you imagine a hot day facing the sun?
 

[JerseyJoe]

John,Hope you don"t get bored posting pictures,I know that I"m enjoying them.Was Tokheim the ones that where manufacturing the gas pumps of that time period? Joe
 

[rustred]

that is one of the most useless things that could ever be put on those tractors. no room for anything. i have one on a w6.
 

[JW]

My grandfather had one of those for his H. He bought it new in the late 40's and used it only a handful of times. It was kind of neat but pretty cramped
 

[John B.]

JerseyJoe,
I'm not getting bored posting pics at all, thank goodness. I have so many books I want to scan pictures out of but that takes time. I limit myself to about 20-25 scans at one setting every few days. That holds me over for a while. I'm glad you enjoy them.
 

[John B.]

I don't know about the gas pumps Joe..
 

[Mark-Ia]

The negative was reversed.
 

[Big Fat Herb]

keep scanning and posting pics realy enjoy them
 

[rrlund]

I've seen Raby's on Oliver 70s,and the Moline cabs,but never saw one of those.
 

[flying belgian]

No problem. It's got that sun visor on it.
 

[The Red]

That picture is backwards. Look where the air intake and muffler are along with the belt pulley.
 

[Buzzman72]

Negative was flipped...a common practice in advertising. When doing page layouts in journalism class back 40 years ago, we were told that you don't want the image to "run off the page"...so this was apparently done for a right-hand page, or for placement at the right margin of a left-hand page.
 

[Mike (WA)]

Didn't know Tokheim made anything except gas pumps.

I can see where that might be nice for winter work, but you'd have to have a "Rites of Spring" ceremony every year to take it off and hang it in the barn- that thing would be murder in the summer.

Dad would always announce the passing of winter in late January, by saying "January's nearly over, February's a short month, and in March the grass comes."