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I ran one as a teenager that I had to take the plastic off the seat. It was a power house, but the thing that stood out to me was, the ride! This was in the rice fields and I was use to being beat to death. Driving in the old ruts was pleasure. Always wanted to run a 6030, but never got the chance.
 
(quoted from post at 08:06:07 12/19/20) I ran one as a teenager that I had to take the plastic off the seat. It was a power house, but the thing that stood out to me was, the ride!
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Its true, the bigger the tractor, the smoother the ride. Can't beat weight when it comes to soaking up the bumps. Little tractors bounce around like a cork on the ocean as my dad used to say.
 
There's another video about the 5020 that someone shared with me a couple weeks ago that pops on utube when you watch your link. That's a good one, too...
 
guy here had a 5020, we sold him our new demo CASE 6-16" on land hitch JRT plow, semi-mount,, it pulled it fine but it was not playing with it,, myself I would not have wanted the extra bottom in much of our ground here,, a friend here who was a dirt contractor here, built lots of dams for ponds and roads had the industrial version of them, with the paddle scraper on them,, he had two of them,, bought both new,, three months in he had to buy a third so he could have two running most of the time,, they must have been the 5010 ones as I know he bought three of the 5020 engines complete to drop in the other three when they came out,, one gave him transmission problems too but I cant remember him bringing the others to our shop for that but man did they have plenty of problems,, they would move a lot of dirt when running though, he ran them into the early 70's when he traded them in on a CAT paddle scraper,, used to know where two of them was about 15 years ago on a irrigated farm west of me,, have not seen them out working years before that though,, kinda liked that setup for certain jobs,, the man was a WWII Vet who had been shot down and was a POW for a number of years heck of a guy miss hearing his stories,,
 
The 5010/20 get knocked down for being over weight for their
hp and that is somewhat true. However, they went around
corners under load a lot better then smaller lighter tractors
and held to the hillsides better.
 
It would probably need 175 4wd , ground is heavy. Used to pull 4 bottoms with my IH966 and the front tires wouldn’t be on the ground much, and tractor could just loose all forward motion and rare up in the air. I can pull the 4 bottoms with my M6 141 Kubota with no problems, but it is 4wd and a loader. I have a friend with a JD articulated tractor. And he pulls a big plough6-8 bottoms, but that tractor is well over 200 hp
 
That’s my dream tractor right there either a 5010 or 5020I ran a 5020 with a cab for a lot of years pulled a five shank ripper up hills a mountain goat couldn’t climb
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I pull 3 bottoms with a 3029 ballasted to just under 10,000 pounds and a dual on the land wheel and it’s a 3rd gear operation sometimes second gear and spinning and not moving


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On the 10th of February, 1980, my dad took out a load of manure. Crossing the railroad tracks with the 5020, he was struck by a train. To this day, he doesn't know how he missed the train, but it was only 3 engines and a caboose travelling fast, so he guesses he looked past the train.

The tractor broke in two between the engine and cab... he went out either the front or side window. Two were broke, and he has no recollection of which. He landed in a snow bank, and suffered a separated shoulder. He walked home after the accident, and met the ambulance crew by the mailbox.

He was lucky... one rear tire broke loose from the cast center. His glasses were found under the tire.

The 5020 was a total loss. It had about 10,000 hours already at that point, and had been just overhauled by the Deere dealer. the engine had maybe 20 hours on at most. The tractor was sold for salvage; the spreader (a Deere 680) sat by the tracks or years as a reminder.

That 5020 ran an 8 bottom plow, 12 foot 100 chisel plow, a couple of Fox choppers, etc. Dad really missed it. A 4840 replaced it.

I was in first grade at the time.

Years later, we bought a nearly identical 5020 at a consignment sale in IL. We were looking for a cheap tractor, and nostalgia took over. It had originally been in Ontario. It wasn't nearly the same... it was here until about 5 years ago. I don't miss it- it was fun to run for a bit, but parts were expensive IF available, and it was loud and nobody's favorite. After a soundgard and a turbo, it's hard to go back!

But that 5020 video by Deere took me back to childhood and watching dad with the big plow. That thing was king of the neighborhood in it's day.
 
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That 5020 ran an 8 bottom plow, 12 foot 100 chisel plow, a couple of Fox choppers, etc. Dad really missed it. A 4840 replaced it.
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12 foot 100 series chisel plow? Here you would pull two of them behind a 5020 and still have excess pulling capacity. Most guys were pulling triplex 24 to 27 foot with that much tractor. The 730 Case I have now used to pull a 16 foot JD 100. It was a load at times. Think I"d have took a couple of shanks off if I'd been running it at the time. 14 foot is about right for a 60 hp tractor here.
 
That was with 3 inch twisted shovels... more of a load than straight shovels. The 5020 didn't work all that hard with it, and you couldn't run at speeds common with chisels today, as the 100 would tend to
"hop" at higher speeds.
 
What tends to be forgotten or not known is corn belt guys like using chisel plows as rippers and out west like were I am at and Rusty we tend to use them like cultivators. We pulled 26ft with our 5010 and later 5020. Used the standard 16" sweeps shallow cultivation just deep enough to undercut the weeds and leave the stubble on top. If I was to use spikes on that same plow and drop it down to 8" or more it would stop the 5020 dead in its tracks. 100 series plows were popular behind 820s and 830s.
 
(quoted from post at 21:54:13 12/19/20) A pull a 16 foot 100 with two rows of sweeps and a row of spikes with my 3020
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About the same as here. I remember one neighbour in the sixties had a 3020 power shift and pulled a triplex 18 foot 100 series. It was a good load for the 3020 but never seemed to hurt it.
 
I only work about 3 or 4 inches deep just enough to put the seed in the moisture. This field is anything but light this actually one of the hardest heaviest pieces of ground I’ve ever been on the same tractor at just under 10,000 pounds will hardly pull 3 14s with a dual on the land wheel . And it will run a baler with 90 horsepower required at the pto
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