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Lots of different type tractor from big to little bitty. From green to red blue orange and other I have no clue what they are. I’ve learned one thing from having a bunch of old equipment. The more crap you have the more crap you gotta work on.

I guess farming runs in the family. My grandpa who was my hero passed in October of 2013. He had farmed all his life and I grew up with him and eventually took over. So when he passed I took the 1586 and a 11’ tandem strapped his casket to it and delivered him to his final resting spot in the cemetery. It was great and only fitting for him.

CT, IMHO the 10 series JD's are about as good as they get. Of course the older versions are true work horses as well but they don't start as good in the cold and the cabs aren't as tight.

We had a 4250 and still have a 4450 and those things are reliable as hell but they just aren't as 'nice'.


One of my friends has a 7430 and they've had good luck with it. In fact I tried to buy it before I found the 7610 but they didn't want to sell. That model is another one that commands a premium in price.


What were they asking for the 7610's you looked at?
(how many hours?)


The baler tractors, a 7510 and the 4450.
(not mine but I encouraged management to purchase.....grin)

Sam how do you like the New Holland balers? 90% of the round balers here are John Deere. The guy that round bales for me just bought a 436m? I think that’s the number after he burnt his 467. The 467 made better and tighter bales than the new one. When I get my cutter paid off I’m going to start looking a buying a round baler to go with my 347 square baler.

Wylie, those are 10 year old 7090's.

5x6' bale. 1500-1800lbers is the goal.


Like most machinery they were bought used.

Low bale count though, 4k on one, 7k on the other.



They are good balers but get fussy about net wrap spool tension and the cutting of the wrap.
(I have to make adjustments when changing from a new roll to one that is almost out)


I know JD makes a good baler but all we've had are NH's.

Sam, We found a really good deal on the 7430 Premium. Just shy of 2000 hours. Paid $55 for it. Great shape. No doubt it will hold value. 7610's with twice the hours were nearly as much, high 40's low 50's.

Whats the market like up there? From what I understand if a guy could round up 10 of the 7430's at that price and pedal them from the Midwest to Montana he could call it a good year.

CT, you stole that 7430!


The 7610 was $51 and it had 5600 hours, 740sl loader.
(pins are a little loose on the loader)

One owner machine, total luck.

I could sell it for $55-60 but plan on keeping it until I die.




There is a very strong market for good used loader tractors. That and good used swathers.

They sell FAST.

The 7430 was a row crop tractor, nothing ever attached to the front except a tank.

The 7610 is definitely a "retirement tractor" as a good friend who runs a big farm calls it. When the next generation takes over, the 7610 is his.

Nothing overgrazes a pasture like a horse does........and you're right, most people don't realize how much they eat.

As far as the weather goes, we have been blessed with plenty of rain here. A lot of the hayfields have been cut twice, and that's grass, not alfalfa. My cattle pasture has held up great, and I've been rotating them every few weeks. It is starting to get a little dry now, and we could use some rain, and a break from this heat and humidity.

One of mine. 1967 Case 930

2003 New Holland TL-90

LOL, that's funny RBB, I have the trail wheel on her cutter adjusted all the way down, plus put a block in the raceway on her hydraulic lift/lower handle, she could damn near drag that thing over a mineral block and not hit it, she once ask me why hers didn't cut grass as low as mine, I lied and said 'all them models are that way sweetheart' 'oh okay' lmao! I just don't want her hurting herself.

NICE! I like those old Cases EE.

The canopy would be handy!



Gunner, what transmission do you have in your 6430? Is it a premium?


My dad has one with an IVT trans and while it works fine I would rather have a PowerQuad. It takes the IVT quite awhile to warm up when it's really cold.

Not an issue this morning.


Yuppie lawn tractor...

LOL, nice Y ride cutter Samo, I don't know what trans is in my cab tractor, it's an '06 non premium bought new with cutter and loader through some kind of JD program if that helps, has been a hell of a good dependable tractor around here, has less than a thousand hrs on it, mainly because I run my open cab tractors as much as I can, that Cadillac was/is making me a bigger vagina quicker than I already would have been, damn they're nice, little cactus, or little snowflake, what ever you need, of yeah, don't forget to turn on the radio or rear window wiper.

Gunner, it must be a PowerQuad, you have actual levers for the hydraulic controls, no stupid little screen in the cab?

Reason I ask is that I'm not totally sold on the electronic controlled valves that we have on the premium, that and every so often the screen throws janky error codes.

Little cactus or snowflake are nice options to have though!

Damn right Sir, orange handled levers, I don't want any more of bill gates' ass in the cab of my tractor than I have to have, and hell no, zero computer screen/s, yessir, You NEED the hell out of the cactus up where you ranch.

Got my big tractor at the shop today for a very rare mid-season checkup.

Was coming by the ranch with it, and decided to unload and mess with hay yesterday, and put it in the shade this morning for a pressure wash, hand wax, checked all the lug nuts, fluids etc.

Back on the road to engage the ranch circuit tomorrow, once I hook back up to the 15' Batwing.

Usually this waits until fall or spring. But it needed it. Take care of your tractor, and it'll take care of you... If the 100* heat don't kill me...

Damn good looking rig RBB, and truer words were never spoken, filters oil and a tube of mystic hi-temp are a hell of a lot cheaper than parts, downtime, do overs etc, etc.

I have one of those Lincoln electric grease guns...

Use the living hell out of it!