Got a project DONE!!!!! Its Green so Red guys beware!! LOL

JD Seller · Jan 3, 2017

I have been reworking a JD 4440 I have had for several years. I found a JD 4450 15 P.S. this fall and bought it. So the JD 4440 I ran on the baler was replaced with the JD 4450. This tractor is a late 1982 model JD 4440. It really did not need much but I like them to be SHARP when I sell them. So I went over it with a fine tooth comb. IF anything looked the least little bit off it was repair/replaced. I did repaint it as the fenders had rust on the insides.

I may regret selling this tractor as I have known it its entire life. I am the 3 owner. The first two lived about 2 miles apart. The biggest thing this tractor ever pulled was an 18 foot disk. I have the 9 bolt duals that were sold with the tractor when the second owner bought it. They have the tires that came on the tractor from the factory. So you can tell it was never on the road much.

jeffcat · Jan 3, 2017

What a very nice looking cutie!

kevinecwi · Jan 3, 2017

I'm not a John deere fan, but that one looks good JD Seller!

Adirondack case guy · Jan 3, 2017

What is that Red Beast setting in the shop behind it????
Loren

Larry EC-OH · Jan 3, 2017

That's a keeper in my book!

Looks great!

Larry

FLOLDFORD · Jan 3, 2017

JD the hay growers here in Florida would pay good money for that tractor! Looks nice

tim s · Jan 3, 2017

That 4440 will be worth it's keep "For-ever"...You will miss it when it's gone,, and some one will be a very lucky new owner...

RandyB(MI) · Jan 3, 2017

This is why I will never understand people buying from dealers when they , with a little patience and effort, can find tractors like this from honest people like this. This is going to make someone very happy. Good job JD.

K Effective · Jan 3, 2017

IF you're looking for some tax relief, gifting that old wreck tractor to me would definitely be a charitable act, and I'll even provide a receipt and come pick it up!!! :wink:

JD Seller · Jan 3, 2017

Loren that is a Case IH 4520 Flex Air fertilizer spreader. Pneumatically applies the fertilizer. You use it more like a sprayer than a fertilizer spreader. Supposedly it spreads the various weight fertilizer evenly. Example: Urea weights 50 LBS per cubic foot while Potash weight 72 lbs. per cubic foot. So you want to apply 200 lobs of each per acre and have it mixed together. When a spinner spreader throws the fertilizer the potash goes further than the urea. So you have a banding of the nutrients. It will show up as streaks in the crop. They are also good at interseeding cover crops with your fall fertilizer.

They are not a simple machine and are working is a very corrosive environment. They need the hydraulic hoses totally replace every few eyars as the fertilizer will eat through the hoses. The wires will be rusted inside a good looking hose. We just put on $10,000 worth of hoses on this machine.

Here is a video of one working.

Case IH 4520 flex air machine working:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BXclEw8a3w

Case IH 4520 flex air machine working

JD Seller · Jan 3, 2017

Loren they can apply fertilizer at 20 MPH using GPS maps and apply four different products at different rate using grid sampling. The machine has auto steer and field cruse. As you can tell from the video they can FLY once things are set. The drive just goes along for the ride. ( When it is working LOL)

Bruce from Can. · Jan 3, 2017

That looks like a sharp tractor, and would be a perfect fit on many farms that make a lot of hay. Those tractors have a great reputation , and I think that you have done a real nice job on making this tractor look like new again.

Adirondack case guy · Jan 3, 2017

Wow, I understand the problems of spreading with spinner type spreaders, but didn't realize that CNH had also developed a granular spreader like that. I thaught they had just developed the liquid spray aplicators. Cool.
Loren

Philip d · Jan 3, 2017

Now that is nice and I don't usually like Deere's lol

JD Seller · Jan 3, 2017

Tim S: I currently have six JD 4440 tractors and this one was the roughest other than the one I bought when it was a year old. (First good tractor I ever owned) I now have five JD 4450s so I am about 44ed out. LOL

The sad thing is they are getting to be a chore tractor now. They can't even pull the corn planters anymore. I can remember when a 150 hp tractor was BIG!!!

Heck if the Grand Daughter would not shoot my sons they would get rid of the JD 4960 as it has its hands full with the tillage equipment anymore. A 27 foot Sunflower finisher will work the snot out of it on 6% slope. The JD 8330R will just about lap it pulling a 32 ft. finisher in the hill ground.

tomstractorsandtoys · Jan 3, 2017

So what are you asking for it? Sure looks good. Maybe I should sell my 4230 and my 4520 and buy something like that. Tom

shaun wallace · Jan 3, 2017

Ill take it! Don't have use for it other than yard art. I ll make the rusty ones look better.

greg oliver · Jan 3, 2017

Nice job JD and I drive one of those green one's once in a while too! The first tractor I was on was a 1010 my dad stuck me on while he went to town for parts. That was almost 50 years ago and I still remember it.

JD Seller · Jan 3, 2017

Tom I am think of $25ish with the duals. 8800 hours total and about 2200 on a full overhaul. Wristpin snap ring cut a sleeve.

larry@stinescorner · Jan 3, 2017

Really nice!

tomstractorsandtoys · Jan 3, 2017

That is top money but that is a top tractor as well. A tractor like yours where the history is known and you can see the care it has had is always worth a premium. I usually buy something with problems and fix it up. It sometimes cost as much as a good one but is usually spread out over a few years. Maybe someday my operation can justify a tractor as nice as yours. Tom

jeremy in NE · Jan 3, 2017

Is that a quad or powershift

01gentdc · Jan 3, 2017

jd seller, that is a nice lookin
deere ./// you know I like the Case built before the shotgun wedding with IHC ,.. BUT ,,. I don't mind a late Christmas gift ,,. not at all, just sayin,,.. and its ok if ya want to wait til next oct for my birthday ,.if you want to think about it and put a little run in shake out time on it ,.. lol ..imho ,. internet auction will fetch you top dollar ,. ya don't deal with personaly with tire kikers , and good ol boy tactics that try towhittle your price back and pullat your heartstrings

Tech 7 · Jan 3, 2017

Model D, 4020, 4440. Best ones Deere built. Wonder what total sales $ would be for those 3 models?. My nephew is sending his my way this winter for some attention, his Dad bought it new in the spring of 1980. Its on light duty (Planter) now but it deserves a break.
You have done a nice job with that one.

shelbym71 · Jan 4, 2017

Shes a beauty!!

rockyridgefarm · Jan 4, 2017

I'll be driving past your place at 7 am this morning (gotta go to hogslat), will it be sitting along the highway with a for sale sign on it?

Bill VA · Jan 4, 2017

I wouldn't do this for anyone, but me and the boys will drive up over the weekend and take that rust bucket off your hands - no charge.....

. ;-)

Texasmark1 · Jan 5, 2017

Price isn't all that bad considering what went into it. When I bought my 4230, 1979 model in 2005 there was a 4430 sitting adjacent to it....don't remember the year. Both had professional quality new paint, new rubber, new 134A ac system and cab interiors. I drove and checked out both. Details:

4230-4430:
100 PTO-125.....ok as 100 fit my implements and didn't want/need the turbo that made the 25 extra ponies.
3900 hrs pulling batwing one owner-10,000+ working as popular 125s are around here, owners and origin unknown, no wrenches on the engine
Everything was tight-lots of loose parts shifting and steering.
Had gear to gear synchro in range, but not full including range to range-don't remember
17k-19k.....

Comparing this 4430 to the 4440: So Here's an earlier tractor, more hours, no overhaul, unknown history, slightly less hp, 9 years ago for $6k more. Sounds like it's priced right.

Got a project DONE!!!!! Its Green so Red guys beware!! LOL

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