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How many have a tractor dedicated to an implement?I have a '45 M with a cultivator;a 400 with saddle tanks that is my spraying,side dressing,planting tractor;An md/400 that is under a Farmhand loader. Been thinking about buying a cheap H to mount the mower too.I've seen where guys mount a corn picker to the old F-20,M,560,etc.A dedicated tractor seems to fit my program.EEasier than swaping mounted implements all the time.
 
I have a dedicated tractor that is only used to move snow. WD Allis Chalmers. Only 1 problem, the motor locked up the other day moving snow.
 
I built a tractor that is dedicated to one job and that is for mowing hay. I took a broken Farmall A and a locked up B and made my BA. When I say broken it was in piece when I got it due to rolling down a hill and hitting a tree.
 
We have three JD 4 wheel drive tractors that the only time they come unhooked from the air drills is to put them inside for the winter. Also have a Steiger dedicated to a heavy harrow and right now I am working on getting my Big Bud going and dedicating it to the land roller.
 

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Farmall M with NI mounted picker
 
Oliver 1550 diesel on one NH round baler
David Brown 780 stays hooked to a NH 256 rake
Yanmar YM 330 stays hooked to a NH 456 mower
Oliver 1365 4WD rear blade in the Winter,3pt ripper during growing season.
David Brown 885 hooked to the 6ft brush hog
Long/Landini R9500 hooked to the 10ft brush hog
Oliver 1650 hooked to the 2nd NH round baler during hay season
David Brown 990 has a ball on the draw bar use it to pull hay trailer or dump trailer
Oliver 66 usually hooked to the tool carts
Oliver 1365 2WD dedicated hay mover, bale spear on the 3pt,bale spear mounted on the loader.
AC 185 bale spear mounted on loader used to move bales and backup baling tractor
 
I have a tractor hooked to the haybine, another one on the baler and another one on the rake during hay time. One or two more available for wagon hauling, tedding hay and any other miscellaneous stuff. As I worked full time till this fall and put the hay up alone I need to really “ make hay while the sun shines “ and not constantly hooking/ unhooking can really make a difference in getting it done. Also it means that I have backup in case of trouble with a tractor .
 
AC D15II with 82S side mounted sickle bar mower. AC 175D with 6' bush hog. NH TT60A with 7' rear mount finish mower.[Replaced antique AC B and C with belly mount mowers as they got too difficult for my old body]. JD 2520D with 6 row corn planter.
 
An uncle had 4 different '56 series IH's that were never unhooked from their respective implements.
 
BACK WHEN HAYING A LOT HAD TRACTORS DEDICATED TO EACH IMPLEMENT AND HAD A FEW LOCATED IN OTHER COUNTIES WITH EQUIPTMENT THERE TOO BUT THOSE DAYS HAVE PAST
 
In the summer we do alfalfa, oat, and grass hay - about 75 acres in total for ourselves and neighbors. Everything stays connected and only gets unhooked if something goes wrong. For the Hay business making bales is always time sensitive in our area (especially when it's other people's hay), so any tractor could be substituted for any other just in case we a have a problem.

MF1155 NH216 rake
MF4710 NH575 baler
White 2-70 Kuhn Hay-bob
Kubota B7100 50 gallon 3point sprayer with booms

I work pretty diligently at making sure everything is ready to go, but it's always good to have a backup plan.
 
John Deere:
46A with #5 sickle mower.
48A with 6ft finishing mower.
51M with M12A cultivator.
51 MT with 25 gal. sprayer.
52A with 5ft finishing mower.
53 70 with 7ft. rotary cutter.
54 40S with 5ft finishing mower.
54 40T 60 gal. sprayer.
 
I didnt plan it this way, but my Ford 6000 Commander hasnt been unhooked from the Kuhn 3pt rotary rake in 3 years. It gets backed into a open bay in the tool shed when not being used. I just grease it and go. Every other year an oil change. Al
 
8N with belly mower
IH Cub with belly mower
8N with brush cutter
Two 8Ns for back blade, boom pole, pond scoop, trailer towing, etc,
 
During hay season-
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White on the inline baler
Triple six alternate between Deere baler and NH bale wagon
886 on discbine
686 alternate between rake and tedder.

Paul
 
(quoted from post at 16:24:34 01/01/21) Neighbor used to have 17 tractors,
all dedicated to a specific task.
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That would have been me back when we had the dairy cows, except we only had 14 tractors.

Jim
 
uncle had allis wds and wd 45s planter on one for soybeans planter on one for cultivator on for beans another for corn massey 44 diesel on feed mill oliver 88 on grain o vater to fill cattle feeders.
grandpa thought it was silly thing he ever saw.
 
My neighbor has a 9400 Deere 4-wheeler that, as far as I can tell, never gets unhitched from his air seeder. His MFWD tractor does the planting, spraying, and grain cart duties and since he no-tills the drilling of wheat and beans is the only job he has for his big tractor. For storage he parks the whole rig as a unit in his drive-though machine shed.
 
Our M was the dedicated loader tractor to scrape the free stall barn everyday when the dairy cows were here. It also had two 55 gallon drums full of concrete as ballast to in part plow the driveway in winter. Every now and then when the dairy cows were here it would wind up on the forage blower.

I was told many years ago by a fertilizer salesman who originated in the Midwest that having a dedicated corn picker tractor was a sign of prestige out there. If you really were high and mighty you also had a a dedicated cultivator tractor plus dedicated loader tractor. A few farms but far from many had enough tractors during any given season that once the hitch pin was in place that tractor stayed on that implement until the season changed.
 
A dairy farm not far from me buys equipment in pairs always. A neighbor got his 1066 a few years back with something like 800 hours that had never been unhooked from the chisel plow. Was the talk of the neighborhood when they bought a new manure spreader but kept the M to pull it. They have another M on the feed mixer and I think a 560 that has only been with a mounted corn picker. Everything on the farm is like that.
 
Stieger on disc
Stieger on chisel plow or mulch finisher
7140 on planter in spring and grain cart in fall.
1466 on field cultivator or seldom on mulch finisher.
806 on round baler all summer drill in fall or spring.
856 on mower.
574 has only had the loader off for service work maybe 3 times since new in 1972.
H,674,Md switch around on putter jobs like wood cutting,augers,hauling hay, and such jobs as needed.
2940 full time loader and on drill or such in spring or fall. depending on just what is where and available.
Usually these things stay hitched for the season once the pin is dropped in the hole. Also depends on whether or not the implement and tractor seem to be in the same place. With sheds and equipment at 3 different places that sometimes dictates what is hitched when or where.
The loaders are full time on those tractors though.
 
Back in the 60s and 70s one tractor (poor old 460) did about everything. I was constantly hitching and unhitching. Now 826 on discbine, 664 is self-propelled teddar, 574 rakes, 3010 on the square baler, 4030 stays on the round baler, 585 with the 7 ft trim mower, 2640 has the 8 ft rotary, 5065 the rotary disc cutter, 684 under the loader moves the round bales, and the 400 sits around looking pretty and goes to the fair to win the dead weight pull.
 
These two big blocks just get hooked to the skid--they have a easy life---Tee
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6030 and 5010
 
Mine get dedicated to different implements sometimes two or three times a day I would need 20 tractors for each implement to have its own tractor
 
We have one 3020 that is just a loader tractor and another one that stays hooked to the tmr mixer to feed cows every day. I sometimes will grind feed with it just to give it a workout. The little 2040 spends all summer with a finish mower mowing around the buildings and roadsides. Tom
 
I used the Farmall 560D four years. Started the Ford 6000 SOS/4000 rear end project in January 2020. It's lighter and faster, and best driving one I've ever had, and gets better mileage than my diesel pickup..
 
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