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Could not resist had to go opposite of "the one that got away" What is the one tractor, truck, baler etc that you sold and was glad to see gone? The one that never worked and caused all kinds of issues!!! Lets leave the ex wife out of this as that is too obvious!! For me I was gone and late to the one that got away post. Never owned to much that I was glad to get rid of but sure worked around a lot of stuff that fit in to the if I never see another would be to soon.
 
MT JD just as bad or worse than the 2-9-8n fords I had to run for the neighbor in the early 1960's
 
We had a JD B for awhile that dad bought at an auction, he gave it the nickname Zero! He said it was the closest thing to nothing he ever had, right next to a Farmall F 12 he had many years before. I got the job of driving it home from the auction, about 40 miles, and when I put it in high range it had a terrible howl in the transmission. Then one time a rear wheel fell off, and one fan blade broke off. We used it a little for raking hay and such but when he got a chance to sell it he did.
 
John Deere 4020 side console powershift, from that noisy hot Hiniker cab to the silver paste through the hydraulics, transmission and power steering. Bought it to re sell out of North Dakota and lost my a$$, and I still have green equipment.
 
Farmall 460. Bought it with a Dupont overhaul, it didn't get more than 50 hours a year, in the 5 years I had it, without TA or other major repairs. Lost money on it when I sent to a consignment auction, and still left smiling!
 
Anything powered by a Tecumseh engine. I replace the engine with a Briggs and throw the Tecumseh away.
 
International 806D. Eight hundred and six things that can, would and do break/go wrong. My grandpa got it used around 2000, so much of the problem was pre-existing ware and problems, but was glad when dad took it to the auction.
 
JD 4010 gas. Loved the tractor, but didn't have internet then so couldn't get info from you AWESOME folks on how to work the many kinks out. If I had known we could get internet out here some day, I might have help on to the thing. Seemed like a nice tractor - besides using lots of gas!
 
(quoted from post at 11:05:30 05/17/17) Could not resist had to go opposite of "the one that got away" What is the one tractor, truck, baler etc that you sold and was glad to see gone? The one that never worked and caused all kinds of issues!!! Lets leave the ex wife out of this as that is too obvious!! For me I was gone and late to the one that got away post. Never owned to much that I was glad to get rid of but sure worked around a lot of stuff that fit in to the if I never see another would be to soon.
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The John Deere 5525 that I bought last year...made me nervous having a $42,000 tractor sitting here with no insurance on it.
 
Case 1530 skidloader.....had more downtime than uptime.....30hp Wisconsin engine and gearbox problems.
 
JD 4020 Diesel. Couldnt keep the danged thing running cool, unless you left the sheet metal off of it.
JD 45 Combine. Only thing that ever worked right was the brake pedal, but you didnt need it because the thing was always tore up.
One AC, dont remember the model, but it was a diesel. Wouldnt run in the winter time for nothing. We even heatwed the building one night, and it fired right up. We let it run until it got good and warm, drove it out the door and after 15 minutes it began belching black smoke. Dad just backed it back in the building, cut it off, and sold it a week later.
 
Gleaner "M" combine, they're known as silver pheasant feeders for a reason. Plus it was a pain to keep it running. Bought a JD 4420 combine to replace and hated to see it go away after running it for 17 years it was bullet proof. Just got too small for the big yields.
 
An old Case baler with a Wisconsin engine. The baler wasn't much, but the engine was worse- never could get it to start when warm, so we'd get it going and then not shut it off, even for lunch. Caught fire a couple of times, had to use the water jug to put it out, then was dry for the rest of the day. With part of one windrow to go in the last field of the season, the sucker blew up. Pulled the hitch pin and let the tongue fall on the ground, never even looked back as I drove the tractor home. Called a scrapper to go out where it sat and cut it up- I assume he did, because the landowner never called me. Broke me of motorized balers forever.
 
'84 Ford F-150 and '86 Ford F-150. They were probably good trucks when they were new, but those two were both worn and rusted enough that it was too expensive to continue fixing them all the time. When it was time to put new tires on the '84 I finally said "I hate that truck" and replaced it.
 
Both of my Massey Fergusons.

The Massey Ferguson experiment was a disaster that I will not repeat.

Dean
 
1988 Ford F250 4x4 with 7.3 diesel. Would not pull the hat off your head, 11 MPG, get above 55 and you would think the engine was gonna come thru the hood, get off pavement and you were stuck, if you talked to someone in the cab with you, you were yelling back and forth. I have never lost so much on a vehicle, I have never been so happy to see one go.
 
Not a tractor but the wife had a 2003 Ford escape. Had trans rebuilt, wheel bearings numerous times, starter, alternator and many other issues when it had less than 100,000 miles. Finally traded it in when the rear diff . started making noise at 110,000 miles. Got 2500 for it. Boy were we lucky !
 
A Case 430. Of the four Case Tractors that were on our farm,the 430 was the only one purchased new. Spent more time being repaired than it did being used. Most useless (tractor) I've ever seen. The other three Case tractors were excellent machines.
 
John Deere 1010 Special, nothing before or after could be as bad as that tractor. The people who designed it should have been made to operate it for a while.
 
It didn't go down the road yet, but would like to stick a stick of Dynamite in it....JD 2440 w/145 loader. thing can't lift anything(Farmall 504 lifted more), burns some oil, leaks hydraulic oil who knows where(dump a gallon in every other week just so you can turn), seems to get stuck on its own shadow, PTO won't stop turning(internal problem, to much effort required to fix)....could go on I just plain out hate that green thing.
 
John Deere 105 combine. I always said I made two mistakes with that combine. The first was when I bought it and the second was when it got on fire I put the fire out. I'd have been ahead if I'd let it burn and collected the insurance.
 
1986? I think Cadillac. Bought it used with 70,000 miles. Taking the inlaws out to supper one eve. Father-inlaw climbs in front seat and when he leaned back to pull his coat tails in, the stupid seat broke off and he fell back in Mother-inlaw lap. Anything that can go wrong with an auto, went wrong twice on that thing. Last straw was when plastic radiator split and I pulled in station to get some water. After pouring water in I go to close hood and the hood falls off. I lost my azz on that thing.
 
Two things come to mind right off, the pile of parts 1049 NH bale wagon that got dumped on me by a slick dealer and the 1586 IH my Dad bought with 700 hrs,,
cnt
 
Best item I ever got rid of was the woman on the tractor (my first wife). Note I still have the tractor.
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Sitrex 8 wheel hay rake. Maybe worst wheel hay rake ever. Hay would ball up on the back if you narrowed the back closer than 5 feet, then when you did that it wouldn't a decent windrow. Left hay on the ground everywhere. Hay would ball up when you turned a corner regardless of how fast or slow you drove. Traded it for a Kuhn 10 wheel and thought I had gone to heaven it works so well.
 
If my dad was still around he'd say the JD 3020 gas he bought. Traded in a JD 730 diesel he loved almost as much as his 4010 for a new 3020. Wouldn't pull at all, didn't start very good in the summer forget winter. If it started he said he'd pull the throttle wide open and go back in the house for a cup of coffee. Maybe by the time he was finished it was revved up. Try to pull anything and it fell flat on its face. At the time 4 others in the area bought one. They all ended up as junk. The others stopped payment and let JD repossess them. My dad was unlucky enough his was paid for so he was stuck with it for a couple years.
 
New Holland silo unloaders in particular, and all silo unloaders in general. 1984 Nissan truck with that stupid 8 spark plug 4 cyl engine. Hesston model 500 self-propelled windrower. Hinman milking machines. Was incredibly happy to see any and all of them leave the farm.
 
If my dad was still around, he would nominate an old Allis Chalmers sicle mower. I don't remember the model, but it bolted onto the back of his WD-45. (if you had 3 men to hold it up and a small boy to put the bolts in.) It had a single tail wheel that swiveled. He couldn't get it to cut, so put me in charge of figuring it out. I sharpened everything, adjusted everything the book suggested, and couldn't mow 30 feet without it plugging.

He traded it in to the same Allis dealer 3 times in 3 years (told him it was the same mower we traded in the previous year,and the guy never picked it up. Bad Karma! I finally cut it up for scrap for an FFA scrap drive.

Many years later, I wished it was still around so I could try one more repair. Every thing was orange and looked stock, but I wonder whether a previous owner had broken the pitman arm, and replaced it with any old piece of wood (longer or shorter) making it permanently "out of time" sometime before we owned it.
 
Just one? Nah, too close to call. But I'm going to have to go with the IH 45 square "baler" The only thing that was useful was riding on the twine can so I could catch and tie the knots that missed. Next would be the 2N or 9N Ford.
 
Come on George, I've had a 1966 Wheel Horse with a 6 hsp. Tecumseh since 1980 and I finally got it running good. Now you're telling me it's junk. Bought another engine like it at an auction for 5 bucks that ran good and swapped parts until the other ran. Turned out to be the fly wheel.
 
Bought a 9n once. It broke down driving it home so had to get it hauled. Clutch would stick to the flywheel. Ring gear was missing a few teeth and it would not start if it had rained and was overly damp air. Sold it at auction. Bought a ferguson TO-20. Best small tractor made. Use that one almost daily and it runs like a top.
 
1999 Ford Explorer. Constantly in the shop when it was under warranty for one electrical thing after another, oil leaks, timing chains made it all the way to 40K and needed replaced, trans gave up at about 75K, engine lost oil pressure at 100K and ate itself, timing chains started to rattle in new engine with about 30K on it, replacement trans lost everything but 1st gear a couple years later. I blew it up driving it home with only 1st working that day. It managed to crawl into the dive that evening rattling and banging and I didn't stop till it was parked on the back fence row. Got out and said that's it. Other than that it was a great car. I think the gas cap was still ok though. Guy stopped by one day wanting to buy it. I told him it was no good as a driver, but the interior was perfect and tires were still half there. He said he had 100 bucks in his pocket and I said sold. Biggest turd I ever owned. Glad it's gone.

Greg
 
Let me count the ways:

IH 27 Baler
IH 440 Baler
NH 77 Baler w/ a Wisconsin VE4
JD 3020 Gasser with a loader- POS from the word go-

And a few dozen other things over the years!
 
It toss up between an 1155 Massey and a 231 Massey. Never will be another Massey on the farm.
 
Belly mounted Allis sickle mower Dad bought with a new Model B in 1948. He spent more at the local welder than the mower cost just keeping it going. Then I learned to weld and it became my job. Good training exercise, nothing to lose if I messed up. I still have the tractor and mower, but I'm never putting it on.
 
okie dokie,

I had a 1997 F250.... Needed something with a plow cuz winter was coming. This had a generation 1 minute mount plow with it. I traded the owner a nice professional gravely zero turn mower for it. Solid mower that needed nothing... I'd been better off welding a piece a metal to the front of it and using that to plow the snow instead of the truck I got for it.

The blessed thing broke down and needed repairs every single snow storm. Leaked everything. Had no power. Was rusted to hell. Something would break and you would brake off three more things trying to fix the first thing that broke. The first gen minute mount took a hour to mount if it was not left on perfectly level ground. I liked the old conventional mount plow better.... The one where the head gear stays on the truck and you just remove the blade only.

Wife beat me silly when I brought it home... I beat myself that I did not get rid of it sooner.

I could not sell it to another person and be able to sleep at night... To this day it's the only machine I ever sent to the scrap yard!!!


Oh and BTW .... For all you Massey Ferguson haters I keep reading about.... Got a MF-135 about 6 years ago.... It's the most dependable machine I own... Fires up every time no matter what and always runs great!!! Love that thing.... Send your massey's to me !!
 
That would be our 33 Massey Harris, an under powered, gutless wonder. Dad put up with because he said it was easy on gas.
 
Good Lord where to start! Let's see, #1 was probably the cub Farmall I had. Smoked more than any diesel ever did and had zero power to do anything with. Stupid me bought it twice! Twice! Wound up in pieces and I swapped it for 2 years hay baling. The next would have to be a #100 IH mower. I never could make it cut right. Would break knives every​ single cutting and rattled so bad you couldn't hear the tractor. The next would have to be the old JD 14 baler. I hated it with a burning passion. It might tie two before it missed the next twelve. It caught fire at the edge of the field after second cutting and I dang sure let it burn! Finally, I do not, do Not DO NOT miss the 9N Ford I had. It was fine to run a small disk or a cultivator, but nothing else. No power and something was always breaking. Radiator mount broke driving through the field. Not going fast and on a smooth road. Rebuilt distributor twice. Carburator got rebuilt nearly every year. Clutch would stick. I can go on and on... It was a fun tractor to play with, like the Cub was. But for work, give me the ol 300 any day. Heck, my B John Deere is more tractor!

Mac
 
Had to laugh at your comment about the 45 baler- knew an old guy who had one, and he had actually installed a seat back by the knotters, and his wife would ride on it and wave when a knot missed- he would stop, she'd tie it up, and off they go again. He sold about a million bucks worth of timber, and first thing he did was go buy a brand new baler. Salesman asked if he wanted them to install a seat by the knotters before they brought it out- he said Muriel threatened to hit him with her purse.
 
John Deere 4020 power shift It was hard to start and when you got it started you better not get far from the fuel tank. I traded it for a 1030 Case to a guy that bled green. It was the best trade I ever made.
Next would be a 825 Belarus, it was almost as bad as the 4020 but it would start and was easy on fuel.
 
Zebra 3520 a Zetor knockoff made in India.It actually gave me good service and I put about 1500 hrs on it.I had bought it cheap to start with and figured I'd run it til it died and it'd
be junk.But a fellow in PA had a wanted ad in Lancaster Farming looking for a Zetor 3520,who'd of thunk it? Sold it to him for about what I paid for it both of us were real happy.
 
I bought a 955k cat tracloader to do some work around my farm,with the idea of reselling it for about what I paid for it.Well after a couple of years I was about done using it-probably used it around 100 hrs,and it started having problems.I advertised it for a while,never even got a call.Waited a few years,tried to sell again,only got 1 call.Ended up selling it for 1/3 of what I paid,but boy was I glad see it leave.Lost my butt on that one.Mark
 
Interesting to note, that for every model someone was glad to get rid of......and this may include ex-spouses as well.....that model was some one else's favourite.....except for the International 45 baler. Lol. Ben
 
I hate it for you, brother. What do you use them for? Do you have a lot of ground to cover? I hope not for your sake. Sorry, but the only thing my 9N was good for
was piddling in the garden. To me, he!! on earth is a 9N Ford and a 5' brush cutter, facing 5 acres of knee high grass on the side of a hill. With that outfit it's
an all day job in 1st gear, WOT and I promise you about an hour into it something will go wrong. Maybe I'm just soured on the little guys, I don't know.

Mac
 
still have one on my Troy Built tiller it is on its second set of times about a 1/4 worn now still has the original spark plug in it and runs great, the reason they shut down was not that they were bad engine it was they did not meet emissions and did not want to tool up a new design, most all snow blowers at one time ran them I would say I have had at least 6 of them over the years always had great luck with them and far better life most briggs I had at the same time but then I really never had issues with them either as I keep up with service, but I understand your words as some brands and some folks just do not work, I can't hardly stand Champion plugs but some only run them and have great luck, like vehicle brands, its a love/hate thing lol
cnt
 
I don't have as much history with any of the tractors to make a good effort. However, I'm now working on my JD 2010, and due mostly to lack of regular maint it's become tiresome to keep running.

As soon as I got it home, noticed a worsening leak from the front PS gear. The ignition was let go, and needed points, condenser, cap, rotor, wires, plugs, but that's just reg maint. The exhaust cracked, and stayed cracked. I tried to weld, but the crack led to a void from corrosion so there's nothing to weld.

Once in a while, when I have it in 3R, it'll shift-block into 3R AND 3F which stops the tractor instantly, and I have to fiddle with the shifter to get it back in gear. This again, is slop in the lousy gear selector, and if the levers had hiem joints on them, they wouldn't slop around. Once I get the side panel off the shifter, I'm going to prolly cut the shift rod angles off, thread the rod and put hiem joints in to get the slop out. On the upside, it has great brakes, engine runs strong and hyd are outstanding.
 
Mine was a 1948 Farmall M. Worst tractor I ever owned for 9 years. Happy day when it went down the driveway on a trailer.
Kow Farmer Kurt
 
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