Articulating 4wd

DavidT1

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For those of you that use them how many acres did you get to before you switched from 2wd to an articulating 4wd? If it wasnt acres that had you switch what caused you to change? What make and model do you use? Thanks
 
1985- extremely wet fall, couldn"t get two 2wd tractors hooked together in the field to pull a field chopper. Got a 2470 Case. Single tires on the right, duals on the left, could clear the row for chopping. Breaking thru, flattened 4 rows. One field, went a short round with the Case, wagon about half full, and 4430 could not pull it out of the field...switched wagons on the road each time. Many farmers in the next county did not fill silo that Fall. We started Oct 25th- over a month late. Years later I replaced the 504 engine with a Cummins 855...fantastic torque!
 
Not a lot of acres, but- heavier ground, just a mile down the road from where I grew up. Waiting for it to get dry enough in the spring to work drove me nuts. I tried fall plowing. Too much erosion. Then I tried a chisel plow, then fall chisel plowing. It turned out that the best thing I ever did with this ground was rip it up before spring. I didn't have a cab tractor at the time. So I got it all at once! I got a big old Steiger. Cheap power. It was my primary tillage tractor for 10 years. It had a three point hitch, so with a heavy blade a neighbor had, it was also my "poor man's dozer" . Then I got a nice tractor- CaseIH 7240 Magnum.
 
It was not so much an acre thing but rather an implement change try that caused the tractor changed. Our fall tillage went from a chisel plow to a disk ripper. The ripper needed more traction.
 
It was just growing pains. The 8430 came here new as a pair. There was lots of ground to cover and it was time to get something done and not work all night. As time went on one got traded for an 8630. That one is on down the road.

It has done it all (they are a great put silo packer) and now just pulls the field cultivator and the disk. As someone said - they are good cheap power. When something finally goes wrong in that transmission she will go to the scrapper. They just aren't worth fixing. When you can buy a used big monster in nice shape for under $10,000 why would I fix this one? As it is, every time it needs a seal of some kind the thing has to be split. It only has 10,000 hours and only about 1500 on a new engine so she should be good to go for many years to come. I will say, Soundguard cab or not, that is one of the filthiest machines I use. I nearly plug up the shower drain after a day's work.
 
farming goes in fads, hot back in seventies, then mfwd were the rage now its back to the articulated high horse stuff. i personally had white 4- 150 first then 4-175 white then steiger couger 250 hp then 4850mfwd tractor along with 4450. today do not own anything except 15ft batwing and new L228 new holland skidloader. the steiger was definately the best of the bunch. wish i could get it back. i was simply size and the current fads. when had steiger i pulled 45foot tillage tool. 21ft chisels and rippers. it s stricly fad or what neighbor has.
 

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