Crop hustlers and land handelers

jhncp · Sep 27, 2020

Are all 185's crop hustlers or just certain
ones? I like that Nick name. Also same for
190 and land handler?

wolfman · Sep 27, 2020

I think just the later ones. They reved them a couple hundred more rpms and they had more HP.

DrAllis · Sep 28, 2020

When the 175 and 185 first came out in late 1970, they were the "Crop Hustler" models. The idea was 200 more RPM and a little more fuel delivery over the 170 and 180 for a modest HP increase. You could pull your same equipment just a little faster. That went on for about 2 years. The "Landhandler" was mainly on the 220 and went on down to the 190XT at the time. This was before the Crop Hustler models. Both were marketing ploys to make you want to buy a tractor.

Traditional Farmer · Sep 28, 2020

I've seen 185 tractors labeled Tobacco Special in NC.Any difference in them?

DrAllis · Sep 29, 2020

I'd have to look in Norm Swinford's book. It might tell about that.

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