Tractor Shop Magazine Article

The article is about the "revolutionary" IHC 560. There is a statement about the 560 being able to "plow over 30 acres a day with a 5 bottom plow". Having spent quite a few hours on both a 560 and 3020 JD, I believe them to be about equal, and our 3020(with M&W turbo kit) always had it's hands full with 4 -14's. Most 4020s don't want much more than 5-14's and they are a good 25 - 30 more hp.

This is not the first time that I have seen tractors "over-rated". Were these ratings just some good old fashioned sales hoopla? Anybody else have any thoughts on this?

I guess maybe this advanced technology that IHC had was the reason they had to give up and merge like the rest of the inferior tractor companies.
LONG LIVE THE DEERE!!!

My dad and myself pull our 720's at a few antique tractor pulls and weighted down to 10500 lbs, neither of us have been beaten by a 3010/3020 or 560 in the last few years. There is however a guy with a IH 400 diesel that is tough to beat. It puts out black smoke like a train and has 18.4 x 38 cut tires. I don't really consider this to be a "stock" tractor.

To make a long story short, I guess the 560 should be compared more to the 3010 as the 3020 was more during the 706 era, but I didn't mean to slight our two-cylinder friends.

I agree with you about pulling loaded wagons on the road. Back in '59 the farm I was working for had a couple of brand new 460s. There was nothing more fun than pulling out onto the road with a load of silage in 5th low range, winding up the engine to max, then easing the T/A forward to go to high range. Felt just like an automatic transmission to me - maybe a PowerGlide. The key word here is "easing the T/A forward". I never did like to abuse a transmission or an engine.

Up 'til then the biggest tractor I had run on a regular basis was Dad's '49 JD 'A' - I never told him how much fun that 460 was.

Stan