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CMB
06-07-2004 05:57:09
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Re: G Deere and Late model A Deere? in reply to BB, 06-06-2004 19:54:11
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I guess I'll play the "devils advocate" here. I started farming with a styled "G". As someone else stated, the late "A"s were mostly gas burners from the factory, & their rated horsepower was about the same as an "all fuel" "G", which all were from the factory.(Yes I've heard the stories about a few "G"s with only one fuel tank, & high compression pistons& a "Cold" manifold straight from Waterloo, but have never talked to anyone who has actually SEEN one!)Anyway, rated HP has very little to do with field performance, torque is what accomplishes work, & even a "stock "G" wins this hands down over an "A". When you convert a "G" to a gas burner,(& yes they DO like thier fuel, but at 14 cents a gal, we didn't lose a lot of sleep over that) an "A" isn't even close, as a "G" is a bigger heavier machine ,& makes use of more power without adding a lot of additional weight. As far as the gearing is concerned, I've found that 1st. in a late "A" is virtually usless for anything except maybe pulling a baler or pull type combine. If you have to go this slow for power, all you will do is spin your wheels. On the other hand the "G"s gears are much more suitable for actual tillage operations(3rd is used most, but 4th also, & very occaisionally 2nd). I don't EVER remember actually using 1st in the field with a "G"(this is the same as 2nd in a late "A"),& actually 4th & 5th were VERY useful in the "G". Forth was almost always used when cultivating Corn the last time with a four row, front mount culitvator. Fifth was used to pull a "rotary hoe" or spike tooth harrows & of course 6th is "road gear". "Actually, I've rotary hoe'd in 6th a time or two on fairly level land, & longer(1/2 mile) rows. Forth in a late "A" is simply not fast enough to make these implements work properly. In my opinion when JD went to the "slow" gears they only repeated the same mistake that "IHC" made with the "H"s &"M"s twenty some years earlier.
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