How many of you use MMs as your main tractors for farming

G1355

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Wondering how many of you still use your MMs as your main tractors, or if you just use them for fun as a hobby tractor, on our farm we don't use any old ones for main tractors, but we still use them on augers, bailing, and some plowing for fun. If you have any pictures of them out working I'd love to see them.
 
I use mine occasionally at my cousins, some at home chopping stalks and put up a little hay at home. Here is a few pictures of my M670 Super and one of an M5. Have a bigger stalk chopper coming to use on my 950...hopefully.
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Those are some good pictures, like to see them out at work, around here there isn't ever an MM out in the field, you occasionally see them at farm places but very seldom. There's a lot of whites still at work. Your m670 looks to be a pretty nice and strait one in the pictures, the m5 don't look to bad either.
 
Your g1000 diesel a vista? If you have or take any pictures please share, like too see them out at work
 
I remember a few years back I saw a guy out cultivating with an M670 Super and a 6 row cultivator. Mine are about the only ones in my area that go out in the field. I cut and bale with the M5, rake and pick up the hay with a ZAU. My cousins use their 2-135 White to do all the sileage chopping, among other things. Can you post some more pictures of your G1355?
 
Used all MM tractors until 2007 when my brother bought a 2-155 fwa to pull the no-till drill. Both the G1355 and Vista needed expensive repairs at that time. Use a M670 Super and 2 regular M670 for spraying, raking and baling, etc. and a UTS for moving irrigation guns. Hope to have the G1355 back together this winter. Put the heads and oil pan back on this week. Who needs a new tractor when you have GPS and a beacon on your U?
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Nice pics. So on your u does it steer itself, or does the screen just show you where you need to be. What kind of system are you running, we run John Deere autotrac, but didn't know you could put it on something that old. That's pretty neat.
 
Yeah I can, I will have to take some more, haven't used it yet, had to start it last night just to hear it run. I will try and get a few pictures in the next few days, I will have some in a month or so of it plowing, but I will see what I can do.
 
Nice looking rigs. How many bottoms do you pull with the 705? I sure like the 4 Star. Wish I had one.
 
Nice looking tractors. I thought that was a monitor atop the gas tank on the U. I have "GPS" on one of my M5s....(good power steering)...lol
 
My 705 needs a little help. I pull 4 16's with it, it should pull more. Then again, it takes a bit more traction to pull that 5th plow and around here in the spring, traction can be tough to come by. I have a 4 Star gas and a 4 Star LP. I like them, too.
 

Since the banker told me to get out of farming and stick to my office job a few years ago, I don't get out to the "patch" much now or have much cause to really run any of my tractors.

But when I was farming - I ran several 605, 800, and HD 800 MM engines 24x7 pumping irrigation water, so I really relied on the Prairie Gold paint day in and day out...


Howard
 
We still farm wtih all Moline's. We now have a g900 that is going to be a big help on the farm. 4 670 supers have farmed 200 acres for the last 20 years here.
 
I have a 20 acre hobby farm with a few old MM tractors. Nothing rare or fancy. Just a 670 super on a loader and snowblower. U-302 Super to pull a hay wagon around for the kids. And a few old letter series in the barn.

When my brother and I sold our 300 acre farm in the late 1980s- it was very very common to see MM or Oliver tractors running a whole farm. Heck, in 1989 our G1355 was only about 15 years old. That seemed pretty new for us at the time! My brother's mint condition G708 didnt even sell at our farm auction because nobody would bid the $2000 reserve! I guess nobody found them to be rare or desirable back then.

Seems like times are changing fast and not many MM are still in working roles on the farm. My hats off to those still running their Molines!
 
Heres a few pictures alan. I took it out to move wagons today. And parked it by the 2-155 in the shed.
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We use 2 1050's and this 950 during the month of September every year hauling potato wagons. Not the luxury comforts of newer tractors, but a fraction of the cost. Not my main tractors, but neat to see them still being used.
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Use almost all MM's on 400+ acres of row crops. Tractors include: G-1000 Vista LP (w/3-speed),G-955 LP, U-302 Super LP, WFE 2-105 (red stripe). Just ready to start harvest with a White 8700 combine. Also have a ZBU, ZAU and a 1937 Universal Z that all need a little work. I am the second owner of all of the tractors except the Vista.
 
Oh then its not to far away. Here in iowa its just corn and soybeans. And a little alfalfa and oats.
 
We had about 210 acres this year and just finished today. We also do 275 of wheat, 375 of green beans, and about 100ish of corn. Will increase beans, wheat, and corn next year as we bought an additional 120 acres this year. We have 2 504's and a 425 power unit we use for irrigation as well that run MANY hours in the summer.
 
Is your 950 a 1971 model? I have a 71 950 diesel. What size tires do you have on the front of yours? I have 11.00-16 on mine. You have a very nice looking 950. Any pictures of the 1050s?
 
Here is my 602 I do about 50 acres of hay with it during the summer. At one point in time our farm had 2-G1000s, 670, 602, 2- 5stars, 2- 4 stars, M5, and U, all were restored, shame we sold them all but the 602. Personally the G1000s and 670 were my favorite, don't think you can beat them
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While they are not the main tractors anymore, the G950 and G1355 still get some jobs around the farm.
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I have a small hobby farm and still put the old tractors to work. This is some plowing this spring in an old hay field. The tractor is a 1926 27-44 Twin City pulling six fourteen inch bottom rope trip moline plows. At least the tractor was build in the same plant.
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We're running Farmer GPS on a windows tablet. No auto steer. My brother bought it to use with his 2-155 and no-till drill. We were planting teff and he had all the gps stuff in his pickup so we hooked it up to the U just for fun and so I could post it on New Ag talk.
 
Wow I think I about drooled, that's one of the coolest pictures I've seen. Thank you for sharing, those are some nice Rigs.
 
Alan, it is a 71 model. It us either number180 or 181 out of 186 lp's. I will have to check on front tire size. It is a very nice clean original tractor. I will try to get pictures of the 1050's tonight.
 
Well the hay crop was pretty thick this year in central indiana and got really tall with all the rain we couldnt get into the fields. I was usually in 2nd gear, sometimes had to drop it into 1st.
 
Now for the bad news: We planned to use a G1000 diesel to turn a grain auger and drive-over hydraulic pit this summer at our landlord's bin. But the hydraulics were not sufficient, so a White 125 got the job. I was looking forward to driving that tractor about 5 miles down the road. I even put an umbrella on it. Maybe next year. Our M670 has been upgraded to a dual pto, along with 18.4-38 tires. We have about 30 MM's. The diesel tractors get used often for auger work.
 
We use Dad's UTU on the corn planter and used to cultivate with it. We don't cultivate as much anymore so haven't put the cultivator on for a few years now. My M5 we use on the fertilizer wagon and also pull the bulk fertilizer spreader with it. Pull loads of hay and corn with it too. CR3 rake gets used some as a backup or on a big day when we rake with 2 rakes. Sorry I don't have any pics. Computer and camera aren't speaking to each other lately.
 
Ive got a 1971 diesel. I really like the flat grilles on them. Im planning on putting the cab back on it. It gets cool in the fall chopping stalks at night.
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I agree, the flat nose are better looking in my opinion. Sorry I didn't get to check front tire size tonight or get pictures of the 1050's. Will try tomorrow.
 
Hi Joe
Here are some more pictures for you. My name is Jim, Tony is a good friend of mine and also has a 27-44 Twin City. I'll have the tractor and plows at the summer Praire Gold Rush show at Rice Lake, Wisconsin in 2014.
Jim
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Whats that suppose ro mean. I personally dont think mm made a ugly tractor. Like them all
 
What number is your baler? Does it make good square bales? I have a Ford 530 that usually comes up short on one side. Ive done adjusting on the feeding fingers but still have occasional bales that way.
 
A pic of our GVI working some land to break-in the newly rebuilt motor...
This tractor does all of our fertilizer spreading as well as local tractor pulls..
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Wonderful post! Im an A-C guy but grew up next to the Monroe MM collection in Iowa. I have a lot of memories of the Monroes still out shelling and doing field work with their MM equipment.

Thanks
Jim
 
Yeah me and dad redid that one two years ago, all new tires, cab interior everything it needed it got, was our neighbors ever since it was new then we bought it because it was very strait and never beat.
 

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