Posted by Hugh MacKay on March 04, 2009 at 07:55:57 from (209.226.247.172):
In Reply to: Re: 560 Opinions posted by bc on March 04, 2009 at 07:19:56:
bc: Interesting, in 1972 my only loader tractor, was a 560D with 2000 IH loader. Before that I had a Cockshutt 540 with a Wagner loader, and my dad before that had H and 300 with IH loaders of the era.
In 1972 I bought a Case 1737 skid loader for feeding cows, cleaning and loading manure. In 1975 I bought a second Case 1737 skid loader as I now had cattle at two farms. Three months later the 2000 loader was removed from 560, loader was packed away in a drive shed until I sold it in 1978. WHY, because those skid steers ran circles around the 560 on loader work, even on soft ground. In fact I had a young lad spreading manure in the spring of 1975. On 3 sides of pile 560 had ruts so deep, he could no longer get a bucket full of manure. Problem, 4th side of pile was too close to barn for 560 to operate, I got him started with skid steer, and every time he was gone to field with a load, the first day, I spent time with skid steer filling his 560 ruts, as we were going to encounter them anyhow. In the end 560 had loaded 1/4 of pile in 4 days, skid loader loaded the other 3/4 of pile in 4 days.
Farmalls were in those days, the very best drawbar tractor known to man, but they were not great loader tractors. In fact in my opinion those yahoo's wanting a loader on everything, destroyed the best drawbar tractor ever known.
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