I have bought four new tractors in my life. Only one of them was a JD 6400 mfwd. I did buy two different Duetz tractors (DX 3.5 and 6275) and a Allis Chalmers 8010 mfwd.
The Duetz where great tractors but when the Agco merger came about the parts price just sky rocketed on the Duetz line. Then the two dealers that had been long time Duetz dealers where forced out so the AC dealers could stay Agco. That made the Duetz just about worthless in this area.
The Allis Chalmers 8010 was just a fair tractor at the best. It was underpowered for a 110 horsepower tractor. The 301 cu engine just did not have the guts that the 404 JDs or the 414 IH motors did. The 12 speed power shift was not very handy. You had 6 speeds in two ranges. It left too big of a space in speeds in the field work ranges. The cab was real nice with good big doors. I often thought that Duetz messed up by not putting a Duetz motor on that Allis cab and making the transmission a 12 speed PS without a range shifter.
The JD 6400 is a 1992 model with mfwd and a JD 640 loader. It has 14750 hours on it right now. I only have replaced a head gasket on the motor at 13500 hours. The clutch is the original. I have had to replace the transmission drive shaft and input shaft. The splines just wore out from all of the reversing this tractor does on the loader. This tractor really has been a better investment than the older JD 4020s could ever have been.
I almost forgot. I did buy a IH 1486 new in 1983. It had been on a dealers lot for two plus years. I only owned it four weeks. I had traded in a real nice IH 1466 that my uncle had bought new. I absolutely hated that tractor. The back wards doors and the terrible shifter location where real turn offs. Then the fact that the short wheel base road rough. It was just terrible. I traded it into IH dealer in MN that had a JD 4440 that only had 600 hours. I paid some boot but was real glad to see the back of that tractor. The real funny thing about that deal is that in 1984 I bought that IH 1466 back at the IH dealers close out sale. I gave six thousand dollars less than he had allowed me on trade. It was a black stripe with 20.8 x 38 tires. That tractor would do 28 mph at top speed. My older sons where just getting old enough to run tractors and I was afraid of them on that IH 1466. Plus I wanted a cab to protect them too. So the second time I owned it it stayed at my brothers for him to use as he was just starting out and had four kids under five year old. My brother still has that IH 1466. It runs like a top.
So what have you guys boughten?? how did you like them??
The Duetz where great tractors but when the Agco merger came about the parts price just sky rocketed on the Duetz line. Then the two dealers that had been long time Duetz dealers where forced out so the AC dealers could stay Agco. That made the Duetz just about worthless in this area.
The Allis Chalmers 8010 was just a fair tractor at the best. It was underpowered for a 110 horsepower tractor. The 301 cu engine just did not have the guts that the 404 JDs or the 414 IH motors did. The 12 speed power shift was not very handy. You had 6 speeds in two ranges. It left too big of a space in speeds in the field work ranges. The cab was real nice with good big doors. I often thought that Duetz messed up by not putting a Duetz motor on that Allis cab and making the transmission a 12 speed PS without a range shifter.
The JD 6400 is a 1992 model with mfwd and a JD 640 loader. It has 14750 hours on it right now. I only have replaced a head gasket on the motor at 13500 hours. The clutch is the original. I have had to replace the transmission drive shaft and input shaft. The splines just wore out from all of the reversing this tractor does on the loader. This tractor really has been a better investment than the older JD 4020s could ever have been.
I almost forgot. I did buy a IH 1486 new in 1983. It had been on a dealers lot for two plus years. I only owned it four weeks. I had traded in a real nice IH 1466 that my uncle had bought new. I absolutely hated that tractor. The back wards doors and the terrible shifter location where real turn offs. Then the fact that the short wheel base road rough. It was just terrible. I traded it into IH dealer in MN that had a JD 4440 that only had 600 hours. I paid some boot but was real glad to see the back of that tractor. The real funny thing about that deal is that in 1984 I bought that IH 1466 back at the IH dealers close out sale. I gave six thousand dollars less than he had allowed me on trade. It was a black stripe with 20.8 x 38 tires. That tractor would do 28 mph at top speed. My older sons where just getting old enough to run tractors and I was afraid of them on that IH 1466. Plus I wanted a cab to protect them too. So the second time I owned it it stayed at my brothers for him to use as he was just starting out and had four kids under five year old. My brother still has that IH 1466. It runs like a top.
So what have you guys boughten?? how did you like them??
