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Your Favorite Shifter or Shift Pattern

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in-too-deep

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The double H on Oliver tractors is really swell. I would like to have one of those someday. Maybe an S77 or S88. Neighbor has a 1550 and an 1800 that I really enjoy.

The 4020D at work has a nice shifter too. Just the regular 8 speed. The lever almost falls into the gear you want like it already knows.

What are some of your favorite shifters? Car, truck, tractor, other?
 
Farmall 200, H, and M shift pretty good. For starting loads the 830 Case and 6070 Allis chalmers go through the gears pretty good. The one I dislike the most is the 886 IH for shifting. I like everything else about it, but hate the shifting! Only tractor I've had that was worse was a 1490 Case. Had to be half monkey to shift that thing.
 
I thought that the 5-speed on our 1934 Dodge truck was a really neat shift pattern. I started driving it in the field so it was years before I ever got to use the 5th gear.
 
Favorite by far---Deere 6615, 4 gears-4 speeds in each gear with no clutch. Worst--Stgeiger Cougar 1000--It would almost throw you out the back window when you shifted from 6th to 7th----Tee
 
Well, for ease of operation it would have to be a Ford Select O Speed.
I can't say I like all the characteristics of that transmission but the shifting is nice and easy.
 
Well, I have always been kind of partial to the 4 speed pattern on the Hurst shifted Muncie in my '66 GTO. Fast as an automatic.
 
I really like the older Farmall shift patterns. They are always R, 1 /2, 3 / 4. or like the H / M, R / 1, 2 / 3, 4 / 5. Always operator friendly, and easy to figure out. Many of the tractors of the 40's and 50's had gears all over the place, and I don't like having to look down and hunt for the gear when I need it!
 
I don't mind the pattern on my 886. What I hate is that it always seems to be just "off" enough to keep it from falling into range. You either have to run the range selector back and forth to get something to move and line up or start letting the clutch out to get it to rotate into alignment. Mine seems to be kind of hard to pull back into reverse which sucks as a loader tractor. Love the machine, though.
 
Although it's retired now, the power shift is the reason I own a 4020. Many find fault with it now, but it's over 50 years old!

Where I think about shifting is in a truck. I had an old Ford with a Clark 5 speed, and it was the transmission I liked the best. Shifted easy. Just the right amount of throw. Good spacing of speeds, etc.

I haven't liked any of the New Process truck transmissions I've driven.

The seven speed Spicer on my IH 8100 is OK, but doesn't give me enough gears on either end.
 
I like the 'old' IH 'H' pattern and the '56/'66 Hh pattern the best. But as said,the Oliver pattern is pretty good too.The old JohnDeere 8 speed powershift was nice,too. But the Syncro range is a pia.But as long As it shifts good and smooth,most are fine.Ecept the Case 70 series 3 sp powershift. I really hate that it shifts back to low/1st every time you step on the clutch pedal.
 
Then you'll like this.You'll have to copy and paste.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vMnf7EugAo
 
I see no one said anything about the one that I learned to drive a truck on and that was the old twin stick 4X4 or 5X4. That was one that if you messed up you pulled over and tried again till you got it right.
 
Aside from the Ford S-O-S or (LOL) a hydrostat, I most like the six speed synchronized transmission on my Kubota M9960. I just wish that the range shifter was synchronized and/or that it had the dual speed (power shift) offered on the cab models.

Dean
 
No one has yet mentioned the "three on the tree" column shift.

It was revolutionary when introduced by Pontiac in the mid/late 1930s.

Dean
 
Guess Id have to say since I grew up on Minneapolis Moline that would be my favorite shift pattern. They were all the same on the lettered models. With out driving a MM for over 10 years, I jumped on an old ZA the with out thinking I put it in reverse and backed it out of the garage. Then again without hesitation I shifted it in 3rd and away we went.
 
The one that is the most fun for me is the old Hurst in-line shifter in my 62 Impala with a Super T-10 4 speed. It is just forward and back to shift, no cross over of nuetrel when going for 3rd . It has a separate stub shifter for reverse . It is a ball to bang gears with !
 
RTLO20918B Eaton Roadranger. It's all instinct now, I don't even have to think about it when I shift.

I have to say I really liked the D65 Komatsu dozer I ran. 3 Speed powershift in a horseshoe pattern. Very user friendly.

Same with the Case Magnums. All your speeds in one straight line, no range shifter.
 
I own and use a lot of vehicles and tractors. I like the old style stick shift on my Ford model "A" cars but I am also pretty old so I learned to drive on those cars. For tractors nothing beats the power shift on my New Holland 8830 tractor. No clutching necessary, just nudge the shift lever ne way to increase speed or the other to slow down or increase power. My wife loves to drive that tractor so maybe that influenced my choice! Happy farming.
 
JD Power Shift- 8 speed was nice on the older tractors, but the 15 speed on the 4450 MFWD is much nicer. More speed selections, smoother transition from one to another. Mine is rated 145hp, but cranks 190...nice cuz you can always pop up a gear or two to get through the tough wet spots. Just don"t run it steady with as much as it can pull, cuz it will run warm.
 
. When I was young and started driving truck I thought the duplex 5&2 were a fun thing on an old LJ Mack then things got better, The RT910 Fuller Road Ranger was real nice to shift and by the time I retired the Mack Vision with the Auto Shift 10 speed with the clutch was the greatest.
 
Like Old . Driving a truck with 4x4 and 5x4 . You could pick many combo's including upshifting in reverse.Came in handy in tandem dump when you had to hit it hard to go through a soft spot in reverse. Worst 13 speed on Mack when backing.Too slow or too fast and no power.
 
I remember that Clark Trans , The one I drove was only synchro in 4&5 .It was in a '60 F600...
 
Double H pattern on the E-4. 1,2,4 and 3,5,6. Can get a load moving in 5th and go to 6th on the move and very smooth detents. Same with the Ford 2000, 6-speed. The 1550 is grouped 1,2,5 and 3,4,6 and shifts real hard.
 
The double H on the Supper 77 is once, lot of gears to pick.

The standard 5 speed on the IHC 300 is nice, just simple, and the high/lo TA lets a person shift on the fly a bit with a baler and such, that is just handy in an old machine.

I have to say I like tge vertical H pattern of the Ford 960, simpely because it so the first thing I drove with a clutch, and I learned how to use it. It baffles people who have not used one. Just a simple H pattern, but they stacked it vertically on a shaft that you push down or up into three notches, and move forward or back into each of the H pattern gears.

Paul
 

6-speed in Ford Super Duty

R 1 3 OD
L 2 4

Drive it as a 5-speed empty, use low hole loaded.

R and L inline for easy shuttling when moving trailers around.

For tractor I like those with main shift as a 4-speed synchro with the hi/lo on the shift lever, 8 gears and can split shifts hauling. Add LH shuttle and separate range lever and plenty of gears.
 

'51 FORD Pumper Fire truck..had a 5 speed NON synchronized with an ODD shift pattern...What a Challenge to shift that one...!!!!

I always wondered WHY that truck had ( an original) Overhead Valve engine ( like a 292 or 312....???

Ford didn't come out with an Over-head valve engine until '52..

Ran GOOD and would pump 517 Gal/minute as specked..
 
I agree - I like the 5 speed trans. in my Ford 960. Around here they were called "pump shifters". I also like the 10 spd roadranger shift pattern in my old Brockway truck- or any RR for that matter. Also the old 2 stick Mack trans. with the 5 spped on one stick and high and low on the other.
 
Interesting. I put a Hurst Syncrolock 3 speed shifter in my 62 Mercury Monterey on a Ford 10 bolt top loader 4 speed. I used a shift ball and rod to the reverse lever on the trans. A really nice setup. Jim
 
Neighbour had one of those old International Cabover trucks with 10 speeds on the column shifter.....he was pretty good at splitting and shifting them. Ben
 
my observation on the oliver shift is that its great, but i have a lots of olivers and whites, seem every model has the gears switched around, have to look at each one to find the gears
 
For farm tractor the the 4 speed of the AC WD45 and the 5 speed that the IH tractors have. For trucks the last tractor before I retired was A IH with a DT466 and a 7 speed transmission. That 7 speed was as big or bigger than a 13 speed road ranger and easy to shift.
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tractor...Ford up and down 5-speed
truck.....any ol pattern at all...if they would put a manual in a new full size 4x4 gas pickup....
 
I agree with Bryce, that I like them in order. Don't want to have to think about where next gear is.
 
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