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oldtanker

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Plowed about 2 acres of old pasture for a food plot for a friend. After running my BIL's CaseIH 5250 last week cutting hay, quite cab, air, fantastic hydraulics.....the 8N and open air is way over rated! Think I'll disk with the 1206 and big disk. Gotta give the old 8N credit, did a good job with the Dearborn 2 bottom. Going to have to think about replacing that one though. Getting to the point that it's going to need new shares and I can't find any. Sure running better too. Gotta do something about the hydraulics. Pump is knocking. Now may be the time to convert the TOH's stuff and get live. Gotta think about that too. May just watch for a 2000 to come up and upgrade one of the N's. One is definitely staying!

The wife, bless her heart, was out talking to me yesterday when I replaced the points. She's handed wrenches to be in the past. When she saw where the dizzy is on that front mount she ask if there was some way to convert it. I told her yea, it could be done but that IE would make it so I didn't have to do too much with it. She told me to go ahead and order the IE for it!! Gotta love a wife like that!

Rick
 
They are plowing fools, that's what they were made for!
I think they're the cat's meow for what you were doing there.
Obviously they have their limits were you need bigger equipment.
Creature comforts are awesome in the newer tractors, but they
lack something in the nostalgia area. Good or bad. LOL
 
(quoted from post at 16:36:03 07/12/14) They are plowing fools, that's what they were made for!
I think they're the cat's meow for what you were doing there.
Obviously they have their limits were you need bigger equipment.
Creature comforts are awesome in the newer tractors, but they
lack something in the nostalgia area. Good or bad. LOL
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It actually dose a better job than the JD 5-16 I have. Appearance of the field is much more pleasing to the eye. Just takes a lot, lot longer!

Nostalgia? Of sun stroke, dust, dirt, rain and cold? Those are the options on an open station tractor. With one that has a cab with heat and air you sit there while working thinking "man it sure looks ________ out there! But it is nice to be able to smell the freshly turned earth too.

Rick

Rick
 
Agree that open station does lack creature comforts.

On the other hand, I have my little mowing tractor
lowered down as much as I can get it with LCG
spindles and cheesy 14" car tires in the front.
No way a cab tractor is going to get under all the
limbs and branches I mow around.
Also, if you have a cab, you might as well wear the
seat belts in it - something I loathe having to do
in my pickup. I do like the rustic freedom of open
station - for the few hours a year I get to do it.
 
Farmer plowed a field 1/4 mile down the road this year.
That's a rare occurrence around here anymore with no till/min till.
Probably the same for most places in your area.
He used a JD 9300 (I think) and a plow I don't think I could turn
around in my yard! He managed to get it right up into the corners
and the field looked pretty good when he was done.
Even that seems "old school" for the "real" farmers here.
I'm just a weekend warrior type. Food plots and gardens in the
summer, snow plowing in the winter. Less fuel, less storage, etc.
I did buy one with a cab though, now to get it running! LOL
 
(quoted from post at 18:49:27 07/12/14) Farmer plowed a field 1/4 mile down the road this year.
That's a rare occurrence around here anymore with no till/min till.
Probably the same for most places in your area.
He used a JD 9300 (I think) and a plow I don't think I could turn
around in my yard! He managed to get it right up into the corners
and the field looked pretty good when he was done.
Even that seems "old school" for the "real" farmers here.
I'm just a weekend warrior type. Food plots and gardens in the
summer, snow plowing in the winter. Less fuel, less storage, etc.
I did buy one with a cab though, now to get it running! LOL
Click to expand...

To be honest that cab, without air, in the summer is an oven. But when it's -20F plus the wind is blowing it's a life saver! Even more so when my blowing rounds includes over 10 miles on the roads!

Rick
 
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