All these threads of what tractor should I buy has me wondering what tractors you already have. I have 3 I use and 1 yard art. IH 1586 was my grandpas Case 2290 bought it setting in a field for 15 years $750. Put batteries on it drove it home. John Deere 4020. Water in oil $3000 and an overhaul best tractor I have. 1950 John Deere A. Grandpa bought it new. Still runs Tractor I would love to have one day is a John Deere 7810
Oh my, We sold the running tractors to our son. 2 IH Super M's, 1 straight M, NAA Ford, IH, H, *806 gas, Allis XT 190, Cat 944A loader, a 1955 Tractormotive loader, IH 706, those are some.
All these threads of what tractor should I buy has me wondering what tractors you already have. I have 3 I use and 1 yard art. IH 1586 was my grandpas Case 2290 bought it setting in a field for 15 years $750. Put batteries on it drove it home. John Deere 4020. Water in oil $3000 and an overhaul best tractor I have. 1950 John Deere A. Grandpa bought it new. Still runs Tractor I would love to have one day is a John Deere 7810
A low houred 7810 with a 740 SL loader.
Power quad with a left hand reverser......oh mama!
All these threads of what tractor should I buy has me wondering what tractors you already have. I have 3 I use and 1 yard art. IH 1586 was my grandpas Case 2290 bought it setting in a field for 15 years $750. Put batteries on it drove it home. John Deere 4020. Water in oil $3000 and an overhaul best tractor I have. 1950 John Deere A. Grandpa bought it new. Still runs Tractor I would love to have one day is a John Deere 7810
A low houred 7810 with a 740 SL loader.
Power quad with a left hand reverser......oh mama!
The guy that round bales for me till I can afford a baler has a powerquad 7810. Has 10000 hours on it but runs like brand new. I love it. He just bought a new 6115 and it takes 10 acres to turn it around. I’d give my left testicle for one. I don’t need them anyway. Wouldn’t mind having a 4440 either. Our case dealership has a lot to be desired or I’d like to have a 150 horse older Case IH.
I am glad I don't know how to post pics. I have a 1984 ford 1500 made in japan 19 hp at the crank 17 hp at the pto .price was rite free to good home 973hr .sheet metal work / some paint been a good tractor 150hrs I put on it with only a water pump
Case Maximum 110 with loader Kubota 75hp with loader Kubota BX 2350 with loader and 52" belly mower Massey 274 with loader Massey 135 Ford 5000 Ford 3000
I am glad I don't know how to post pics. I have a 1984 ford 1500 made in japan 19 hp at the crank 17 hp at the pto .price was rite free to good home 973hr .sheet metal work / some paint been a good tractor 150hrs I put on it with only a water pump
pics R easy........register at Imgur......down load em........
Farmall H, Farmall 656 gas, Case IH JX90U, The first two have been in the family for a long time and sit waiting for me to have time to "restore"
Grew up on dads 8N Fords, uncles Johnny Popper B, later I bought a Ford 600 and Dad got a Ford 3000.
Had a WD 45 for a while. Had a darn nice 1066 for 19 years that I just sold back to the family I bought it from as I don't have time to give it the jobs it deserves.
John Deere 4105, 4wd, front end loader, hst. Have with it a post hole auger, mower, and bale spears that I handle 3x3 bales with. Great for cleaning the corrals and anything else needs done around our little place.
Kubota MX5800 With Front Loader Front Forks Front Boom (that I Built) Backhoe With Hydro. Thumb (with welded on sockets that accept (2)Ripper teeth (1) each side and (3) removable Bucket teeth) This makes for a much deeper thumb like a small Grapple on the Backhoe Box blade
My brother on our farm tractor in KY. Truly a POS that replaced the 8N my uncle rolled down the hillside. It was formerly a KY DOT mowing tractor and was rebuilt, sorta. It's biggest problem is it just doesn't get used enough.
All these threads of what tractor should I buy has me wondering what tractors you already have. I have 3 I use and 1 yard art. IH 1586 was my grandpas Case 2290 bought it setting in a field for 15 years $750. Put batteries on it drove it home. John Deere 4020. Water in oil $3000 and an overhaul best tractor I have. 1950 John Deere A. Grandpa bought it new. Still runs Tractor I would love to have one day is a John Deere 7810
When I was 'truck-farming' back in the early '70s, I had two "H"s, one "M", a 560D, an 806 and last, my dad's Cub..
Today, my son has the Cub (now fully restored) and I only have one tractor - a JD 3039R... It does everything I need done and more..
40 year old Ford 5600 with Bush Hog brand front end loader
The only new tractor I ever bought was a Ford 5600. Kept it 20 years and put 8000 hours on it, till it was burned up. I ran that thing day and night trying to get a crop in the ground. Used it just about everything, as it was the most modern one I had for a long time.
What has become of New Holland. They took over Ford which was a much respected brand and now the only 2 people I know that have big New Hollands wish they had bought something else. The dealers we had nearby quit selling them. One went to Mahindra and LS.
Ones I still own: '52 Cub w/5' sickle bar; IH 184, all the bells'n whistles available w/5' belly mower; Most of them only have a 3 spd/one brake pedal. Mine has split brakes, creeper,6' front blade and three point. Ford Jubilee and 6' Dearborn flail mower, since 1972, .
Ones I've run since grade school: Ford 9N, Farmall H and M. Uncle bought the H new, same year/month I was born (1946) and worked a 220 acre/40 cow dairy farm with it for years, until he got the first M back in the mid 1950s. The H still runs. Oliver 88; Oliver crawler;; IH Super C and some I've forgotten.
Ones I run now: Kubota L3130 FWD/FEL w/almost 1,800 hours; JD 1023E; Coupla JD 455 diesel mower tractors. BTW, Kubota has had a 90 or 100HP FWD tractor for years. A relative takes one up to his snowmobile "farm" near Redfield, NY every winter, to open the place up and clear nearby roads with the front mount 6' snow blower. They gave him a key to the town's diesel pump years ago, so he can help keep their roads open.
What has become of New Holland. They took over Ford which was a much respected brand and now the only 2 people I know that have big New Hollands wish they had bought something else. The dealers we had nearby quit selling them. One went to Mahindra and LS.
Some of the smaller LS tractors are not much more than a rebadged New Holland at a lower price point.
The big New Holland tractor sell well in Western Iowa. I'm told they are a lot cheaper than the Deeres.
Yep - and there's a reason for that...
To be real honest... JD is capitalizing on their old reputation.
It's a well earned one.
But today's JD's are no better, or no worse than any other tractor built on the international platform worldwide. They aren't the good ol' trouble free made in the USA tractors they were.
When I bought my 100hp Case I dug deep into the similar 100hp JD.
On the bottom line, I bought the Case with a good loader for $10K less than the JD model without a loader.
Not planning on leaving a tractor legacy to my kids, it didn't take long to compute which I would buy.
Family farm we have 4 Massey Ferguson's... MF 3650 4x4 with cab over 7,500 hrs we bought used last year, MF 1080 with over 8,000 hrs, MF 699 4x4 7,200hrs, MF 4610 4x4 with Cab and FEL, 2,200 hrs that I bought brand new and already been in shop for transmission and maybe ready to go in again.... 3 Fords TW 10 4x4 with cab and 6,500 hrs or so, Ford 7700 with 11,000 hrs and climbing, Ford 5000 6,900 hrs and an Allis Chalmers 7000 with 4,900 hrs on the reading but hasn't registered an hour in over 20 years...
I had bought a Ford/NH 75.4 brand new with 4x4,cab and FEL and was the biggest POS we ever had!! In the first 2 years (warranty) it was down with transmission, clutch, computer issues, PTO and something else I can't remember at the moment. As soon as warranty was done I traded it on the MF 4610 and that's becoming the 2nd biggest POS we've had. All of our older tractors have no issues to speak of, but the new ones are made with cheap plastic and aren't going to hold up
JD 3025. Used for driveway maintenance, snow shoving, and cutting my 4.5 acres of weeds. It got a little better workout this year, kochia was up to 8' tall and so thick a mouse would have difficulty getting through it.
For the most part, a tractor is really only as good as the dealer that sold it to begin with. Here where I am is one of Kentucky's best farming areas. It is said that there is more new equipment sold here than just about anywhere else in the country. Part of that has to be because many grain farmers also grow tobacco, a very profitable crop. I have traveled to other parts of the country, and will agree that this area has more than it's fair share of new equipment.
Anyway, for years it was pretty much dominated by JD, and the biggest reason for that was that the local Deere dealer was known throughout this part of Kentucky, Tennessee, Illinois, Indiana, and Missouri as being one of the best around. For years, they were consistently one of Deere's top selling dealers. The Case-IH dealership, though owning stores in 5 states, always came in behind the Deere dealer. Several years ago, Deere put pressure on the local dealer to either acquire more stores, or sell out to a dealer that already owned about 10 stores. They were eventually forced to sell, and the new JD dealership was nowhere as accommodating as the old had been, and as a consequence, Case-IH has made some serious inroads on Deere, and according to some folks, have surpassed them here locally.
Things like that can have a bearing over the popularity of brands. Without a doubt, JD has always been the best selling new tractor, and the best selling used tractor. Locally, Fords were very popular, and New Hollands have been as well. NH makes a good tractor, and many farmers say they are as good as Deere or Case-IH. The larger NH's seem to be a better tractor than do the smaller ones, and that many be because of who makes them, as the new ones today are not made by NH, just painted and labeled as NH.
James, those NH's and Case are the same tractor today. Just a different color.
The parent company is CNH. (Case/New Holland)
Part numbers on the same model between the two brands are the exact same... (I buy my parts at the New Holland dealer here, rather than the POS Case dealer I bought my tractor from. )
James, those NH's and Case are the same tractor today. Just a different color.
The parent company is CNH. (Case/New Holland)
Part numbers on the same model between the two brands are the exact same... (I buy my parts at the New Holland dealer here, rather than the POS Case dealer I bought my tractor from. )
The NH and the Case-IH dealer here is the same. Actually, a pretty good one. Yea, the bigger NH's and Case-IH are made by the same people, their smaller tractors made by Koreans, I think.
James, those NH's and Case are the same tractor today. Just a different color.
The parent company is CNH. (Case/New Holland)
Part numbers on the same model between the two brands are the exact same... (I buy my parts at the New Holland dealer here, rather than the POS Case dealer I bought my tractor from. )
The NH and the Case-IH dealer here is the same. Actually, a pretty good one. Yea, the bigger NH's and Case-IH are made by the same people, their smaller tractors made by Koreans, I think.
I believe you are right about the smaller ones.
The Case New Holland "Workmaster" tractors are made in Mexico.
Some John Deere E series are Mexican as well.
My tractor mechanic said he'd slap me if I bought either.
Only tractor in the family now is dads IH-574. It gets little work anymore, just skidding firewood, whatever needs lifted, and plowing deep snows. We rigged a township truck plow on it, it can move some snow.
Handy though, with the loader you never need a wheelbarrow, And working out of a bucket beats ladders any day.
The inlaws have an old, tired Kubota M7500DT and an M8950DT. Also a farmall/IH 4-banger hydro...844? Anyhow, some questions for some of you folks who might be knowledgeable on the topic:
The M7500DT has a bit of blowby, and is pretty cold blooded. LOTS of hours; don't know how many. I'm assuming it's a wet sleeve motor - anyone ever done an engine rebuild on one?
The M8950DT has a crack in the block just above the oil pan. It was purchased that way for low cost. Nice rig otherwise. Is it feasible to find a used replacement engine and swap?
Have a 4x4 Mahindra 6530 with a FEL. VERY disappointed in it. Alternator started acting up at just past warranty coverage and now it won’t start at all, even with a fully charged battery. Pretty danged sorry for a tractor with just over 300 hours....
Have a 4x4 Mahindra 6530 with a FEL. VERY disappointed in it. Alternator started acting up at just past warranty coverage and now it won’t start at all, even with a fully charged battery. Pretty danged sorry for a tractor with just over 300 hours....
John
Not to make light of your issue, but it doesn't sound like much of a problem to get fixed?
Oh my, We sold the running tractors to our son. 2 IH Super M's, 1 straight M, NAA Ford, IH, H, *806 gas, Allis XT 190, Cat 944A loader, a 1955 Tractormotive loader, IH 706, those are some.
I have one Super M and an Oliver 1850 Diesel in the barn.
Have a 4x4 Mahindra 6530 with a FEL. VERY disappointed in it. Alternator started acting up at just past warranty coverage and now it won’t start at all, even with a fully charged battery. Pretty danged sorry for a tractor with just over 300 hours....
John
My bet is your battery has a dead short in it. You can't even jump start them until you get a new battery.
1952 Clark tug tractor. Originally used to move aircraft. A previous owner added a blade and forklift to this one. I'll hopefully sell it before we move to Idaho next month. I used it mostly to move stacks of lumber and load logs on the sawmill.
1952 Clark tug tractor. Originally used to move aircraft. A previous owner added a blade and forklift to this one. I'll hopefully sell it before we move to Idaho next month.
Idaho. I see some pics of a local house. Congrats.
We just have 20 acres here in pasture and hay. Really it could all be done with one 30 to 40 hp tractor. But it would take longer, and I still work at the factory.
We have the 1950 8N for tight spaces and garden work an AC WD tricycle with the seat and steering reversed and a loader hung on the end with the big tires. an IH Hydro 70 with a big FEL A 1967 JD 4020
And I recently sold an AC D17 with a spare parts tractor
Ours right now is a Century, 4x4, Yanmar diesel. Bought it used, with a good front end loader. Had a Rhino "bush hog" left from my previous tractor that got ruined by a hurricane flood. Cleaned the mower up good, and it works great with the Century. We have 10 acres of woods property. What mowing we do in in the woods and thick brush. Use the load for having and butchering hogs and deer, among other tasks.
Could not see enjoying this priory as much without a good tractor!
Oh my, We sold the running tractors to our son. 2 IH Super M's, 1 straight M, NAA Ford, IH, H, *806 gas, Allis XT 190, Cat 944A loader, a 1955 Tractormotive loader, IH 706, those are some.
2nd or 3rd generation farmer,?? grampie or dad passes the farm on to you, you probably live in the house you were born in...?? Yet you make your son "buy" the tractors on the place to keep farming it?
Sounds like some jewburger jive to me. To each his own.
By all means correct me if I'm wrong, I'm all ears.
I don't plan to make my children buy anything to continue living and working on our two farms. Neither would I "charge" them to carve off 5 acres if/when they decide to build their own custom home here someday.
Oh my, We sold the running tractors to our son. 2 IH Super M's, 1 straight M, NAA Ford, IH, H, *806 gas, Allis XT 190, Cat 944A loader, a 1955 Tractormotive loader, IH 706, those are some.
2nd or 3rd generation farmer,?? grampie or dad passes the farm on to you, you probably live in the house you were born in...?? Yet you make your son "buy" the tractors on the place to keep farming it?
Sounds like some jewburger jive to me. To each his own.
By all means correct me if I'm wrong, I'm all ears.
I don't plan to make my children buy anything to continue living and working on our two farms. Neither would I "charge" them to carve off 5 acres if/when they decide to build their own custom home here someday.
There's a lot you don't know.
On an ag operation that's big enough for a family to live off of, and families that have multiple kids, it doesn't take many generations to whittle something down to a hobby farm that nobody makes a dime on.
I've seen families discount the ag operation and what it takes to run it to the one most interested in it, and has proven to have the guts & brains to run it. And give the other kids their portion of the proceeds in the estate when the time comes.
There's no easy answers, but I know it ain't as simple or as douchey as you say it is.
Have a 4x4 Mahindra 6530 with a FEL. VERY disappointed in it. Alternator started acting up at just past warranty coverage and now it won’t start at all, even with a fully charged battery. Pretty danged sorry for a tractor with just over 300 hours....
John
My bet is your battery has a dead short in it. You can't even jump start them until you get a new battery.
kwg
Battery shows good voltage all the way to the starter, but when I turn the key, nothing happens. All dash lights are as they should be except the battery light which doesn’t illuminate when I turn the key on. Tried shorting out solenoid with a screwdriver. It spins but doesn’t engage the starter.
As far as the alternator, tachometer won’t register any RPM until it gets good and warm. Dealer maintenance dept tells me that it is usually a bad alternator that causes that.
I still maintain that none of this should be happening on a 300 hour tractor.
Have a 4x4 Mahindra 6530 with a FEL. VERY disappointed in it. Alternator started acting up at just past warranty coverage and now it won’t start at all, even with a fully charged battery. Pretty danged sorry for a tractor with just over 300 hours....
John
My bet is your battery has a dead short in it. You can't even jump start them until you get a new battery.
kwg
Battery shows good voltage all the way to the starter, but when I turn the key, nothing happens. All dash lights are as they should be except the battery light which doesn’t illuminate when I turn the key on. Tried shorting out solenoid with a screwdriver. It spins but doesn’t engage the starter.
As far as the alternator, tachometer won’t register any RPM until it gets good and warm. Dealer maintenance dept tells me that it is usually a bad alternator that causes that.
I still maintain that none of this should be happening on a 300 hour tractor.
John
John, I share your frustration at times.
In fact, my new tractor is in the shop for a new injector right now. It seems the more modern injectors have one injector per cylinder now, and that injector has a coil. When the electronic coil goes, the injector goes.
Electronic failures can happen when it's 5 minutes old, or 50 years old. Or any time in between.
This injector went out at 50 hours.
But if I didn't accept the fact that tractors are gonna break, and I was gonna have to fix them when they do, I just wouldn't have one.
Or maybe I'd just rent one when I needed it, and if it breaks, call the rental outfit to come get it.
John Deere 6430 4X4 cab tractor with loader and JD 20' batwing cutter 1968 John Deere 5020 with 300 horse JD 619 cu in Turbo Diesel with a double 16 paddle brass pulling clutch with 18.4/46 Firestone radial quads out back for fun. 1956 Ford 960 50 horse gas burner wide front with little 6 ft cutter..................so Wife can help!
John Deere 6430 4X4 cab tractor with loader and JD 20' batwing cutter 1968 John Deere 5020 with 300 horse JD 619 cu in Turbo Diesel with a double 16 paddle brass pulling clutch with 18.4/46 Firestone radial quads out back for fun. 1956 Ford 960 50 horse gas burner wide front with little 6 ft cutter..................so Wife can help!
When I had a compact tractor and 6' shredder, mine would get on there and cut some.
Now that all I have are bigger tractors and batwing cutters, she won't.
Good thing, that is, because I don't want her backing those rigs up and getting into the CV joints when she jack knife's it... And she would. She cannot back anything hooked up to the rear of anything.
John, I share your frustration at times...………..but if I didn't accept the fact that tractors are gonna break, and I was gonna have to fix them when they do, I just wouldn't have one.
John, you know how much equipment we have. It breaks. Old equipment, newer equipment, brand new equipment, it all breaks, no matter the brand. Don't be too hard on your Mahindra over one failure.
2002 JD 7610 that I snagged two years ago. Sweet loader tractor.
I wish JD would go back to making machines like that.
They just flat work and don't depreciate.
This fancy, computerized chit is lame.
Sam, the 7610 is a nice tractor. I think its the last model JD made without electronics. We recently bought a 7430 with all the computerized crap after looking at several 7610's. I wanted the 7610, my partner wanted the 7430. He won. I've gotten use to the computerized crap and starting to really like it. As for value, the 7610 and 7430 are both in high demand around here. I suspect both could be sold in 10 years for nearly what you paid for it.
Steiger ST280III 9030 Bi-Di with loader and lots of fixins WD-9 McCormick that needs some work 990 David Brown that I use daily for yard chores C Allis with a mower that is going to hit the road soon Four crawler tractors that are used for construction. There might be more around here that I forgot about.
I would love to own a 71 or 7240/50 MFWD Magnum. Best looking and one of the most reliable tractors ever built.
My new neighbor has two big donkeys and 2 horses on his 7 acre piece of land. Only about 4 acres can be grazed. I don't think he realized how much they eat.
It's been dry here and the donkeys and horses have eaten everything down to the dirt. I was talking to him yesterday and he was saying that he was going to have to start buying hay. I think he's going to be out some money to get them through the winter.
My new neighbor has two big donkeys and 2 horses on his 7 acre piece of land. Only about 4 acres can be grazed. I don't think he realized how much they eat.
It's been dry here and the donkeys and horses have eaten everything down to the dirt. I was talking to him yesterday and he was saying that he was going to have to start buying hay. I think he's going to be out some money to get them through the winter.
My new neighbor has two big donkeys and 2 horses on his 7 acre piece of land. Only about 4 acres can be grazed. I don't think he realized how much they eat.
It's been dry here and the donkeys and horses have eaten everything down to the dirt. I was talking to him yesterday and he was saying that he was going to have to start buying hay. I think he's going to be out some money to get them through the winter.
He oughta sell 'em.
Or even give 'em away.
He'd be money ahead. Immediately.
Yeah,...but they're family pets. I'd guess that he'll pay what it takes. They've got dogs, cats, potbellied pigs, horses, donkeys,....
Read the first few pages, will have to go back and read them all.
All I've got is a Case 530, with a homemade snowplow mount for a western plow of similar vintage. Grew up spending many hours bush hogging and working arenas on a Ferguson TO 30. Have driven many others over the years inbetween, from M's to 8n's, to Kubotas, etc. but none of them were mine.
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.
Sam, the 7610 is a nice tractor. I think its the last model JD made without electronics. We recently bought a 7430 with all the computerized crap after looking at several 7610's. I wanted the 7610, my partner wanted the 7430. He won. I've gotten use to the computerized crap and starting to really like it. As for value, the 7610 and 7430 are both in high demand around here. I suspect both could be sold in 10 years for nearly what you paid for it.
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.
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.
My new neighbor has two big donkeys and 2 horses on his 7 acre piece of land. Only about 4 acres can be grazed. I don't think he realized how much they eat.
It's been dry here and the donkeys and horses have eaten everything down to the dirt. I was talking to him yesterday and he was saying that he was going to have to start buying hay. I think he's going to be out some money to get them through the winter.
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.
John Deere 6430 4X4 cab tractor with loader and JD 20' batwing cutter 1968 John Deere 5020 with 300 horse JD 619 cu in Turbo Diesel with a double 16 paddle brass pulling clutch with 18.4/46 Firestone radial quads out back for fun. 1956 Ford 960 50 horse gas burner wide front with little 6 ft cutter..................so Wife can help!
When I had a compact tractor and 6' shredder, mine would get on there and cut some.
Now that all I have are bigger tractors and batwing cutters, she won't.
Good thing, that is, because I don't want her backing those rigs up and getting into the CV joints when she jack knife's it... And she would. She cannot back anything hooked up to the rear of anything.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
Yep, wish we would have found/bought a used standard 6430. Looking to trade off the one we have on either a large articulated FWD tractor or possibly a 6110M.
Anyone want to buy a 6430 Premium with a basically unused 673SL loader? It's a fine tractor for 0F or above temps.......
Barry, that thing looks new!
I will admit to washing off the mud after every spring but that's the extent of my detailing. Am pretty good about oil changes and air filters though, that and keeping the loaders greased up.
Those battery powered grease guns are handy for lubing up the balers.
Ghost, 35 years ago I remember a couple little old JD's my dad had around the farm. Can't remember the model but they had the '3-wheeler design'.
All you guys with tractors, I'm looking for a tractor that can run a 6 or 7' tiller for food plots. What do you all recommend? I guess I need something 40 or 50hp.
Our biggest issue is cleaning irrigation ditches. Tree branches are hard on lights and mirrors so we use the ol' 4450 for that task.
But today after the bin site mowing we cleaned a little treeless section of ditch with the 7610. The one really nice thing about multiple tractors is that you aren't constantly unhooking and changing out implements.
That and we can have the balers at one 'farm' and be loading bales at another. Or running a grain auger, etc...
A guy kinda wonders how we ever got along without MFWD tractors, truly spoiled compared to the old timers!
Friend of the family works for the largest farmer in the area. They do alot of their own mechanic work. He said the new John Deere equipment is programmed to only allow the dealer do repair work and clear the codes. Something about having to unlock the computer software which only certified dealer can do.They've loaded bootleg foreign software to get around it, says there are several others doing the same thing. I'm seeing more red equipment locally which he says is in response to JDs software.
All you guys with tractors, I'm looking for a tractor that can run a 6 or 7' tiller for food plots. What do you all recommend? I guess I need something 40 or 50hp.
Put in lots of food plots for clients with a 45hp and gear driven rotary tiller...
Currently here green paint ,2440 ,6400 ,6420, 4230, 4430. 4440, 7700. Sold all the red paint after dad died about 3 years ago had 504 ,784, 1086, 1566( super clean 1242hrs on it when sold) Still have a little 184 with belly mower. Need to clean it up and sell it. I so struggle with putting pics on here
That canopy was red when new. It crapped out not long after that. A storm ripped it when it was setting outside-which isn't often. I put a new one on just the other day. I'm still waiting on my baler to get welded. It keeps raining though.
To be honest I'd like a Ford 9N like Bristoe has. They go cheap around here and look cool as hell.
Not sure what I'd do with it though, take photos mostly.
Mine is an 8N. It's hard to find one that hasn't been ran in the ground, however. The last one made is 66 years old.
But there's still a lot of old tractors that's been rebuilt that can be had for reasonable money. If you keep your eyes open you can sneak up on one every now and then.
If a nice Farmall 400 or an Allis WD-45 showed up in decent condition, my retirement account would probably take a hit.
To be honest I'd like a Ford 9N like Bristoe has. They go cheap around here and look cool as hell.
Not sure what I'd do with it though, take photos mostly.
IMO the Allis is cooler. I assume your C has a tricycle front end.
Yep, it's got the two front wheels right next to each other. It's a 1949 and in nice shape. The Ford is cooler though, no contest baby.
IIRC the first tractor my family owned was an Allis C. They were hardcore farmers and this was during the transition from horses and mules to tractors. My family was one of the holdouts. They said the Allis "wouldn't pull the hat off your head" and went to a Farmall F20. The F20 was around when I was growing up, but not used much. It had a huge, wide drawbar on it that they'd laid rough sawn lumber across to stand on, making it a lot nicer for kids to ride on when we went after firewood. No four wheel drive trucks in our family back then, so it was used to trek up the dirt road to the "timber pasture" to get wood when it was wet. The work tractors in those days were both my Uncles' M's and my Grandpa's H. The Uncles also had a 460 and 560, the 560 being the first diesel they owned. I remember them getting the 856 which was the first really modern one they had and the first one I really remember being bought. That was probably the early '70s.
Seems like lately I've been sitting around pondering all the implement dealers that have went out of business.
Friend of the family works for the largest farmer in the area. They do alot of their own mechanic work. He said the new John Deere equipment is programmed to only allow the dealer do repair work and clear the codes. Something about having to unlock the computer software which only certified dealer can do.They've loaded bootleg foreign software to get around it, says there are several others doing the same thing. I'm seeing more red equipment locally which he says is in response to JDs software.
They must be going to Carl's since about every other place has went out of business. That or driving clear up to Iola.
If you treat your vehicles like you do that tractor, I bet you have people lined up to buy your used pickups when you're ready for something different!
If you treat your vehicles like you do that tractor, I bet you have people lined up to buy your used pickups when you're ready for something different!
I do. Everything that runs, really. I guess it's just ingrained into me.
I will say that the 7 year old tractor I traded in recently brought top money. Had 2 dealers say it looked like new...
I edited my post above while you were posting it has a 3 point. So you already know about the implement obsession then. lol
Yeah,.....my favorite is a simple boom pole that cost a couple hundred dollars at TSC. Just being able to hook a chain onto something heavy and move it around makes my little 8N worth what I paid for it. It comes in very handy for lifting large chunks of trees off the ground to be sawed into log length pieces without having to wrestle them around to a position that will prevent my saw bar from getting pinched.
I am note to all you guys at like some of the old tractors and even steam engines coming up in September there's a hell of a antique tractor and steam engine show in Republic Missouri
Oliver Super 55 it does basically everything I need it to, food plots, plowing snow, skidding wood. Tire chains make a big difference in the winter... I’d still like to have something 40ish hp fwd with a loader though. I’m kinda fortunate that my in-laws live right down the road and I can go borrow whatever implements I need.
I am note to all you guys at like some of the old tractors and even steam engines coming up in September there's a hell of a antique tractor and steam engine show in Republic Missouri
Damn right, Ft. Scott Pioneer Days Festival? hope I remembered the name right, have been to four of those shows, always a good, fun time, very interesting and educational on what it took to get us to where we are.
I am note to all you guys at like some of the old tractors and even steam engines coming up in September there's a hell of a antique tractor and steam engine show in Republic Missouri
Damn right, Ft. Scott Pioneer Days Festival? hope I remembered the name right, have been to four of those shows, always a good, fun time, very interesting and educational on what it took to get us to where we are.
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