Worst Tractors ???

There have been a lot of posts on here about the worst tractors , but what about the worst tractor owners ??? The ones that never read an owners manual ,never change oil ,never check the coolant level or clean the air filter and blame the manufacturer when something goes wrong .

I didnt get time to read the list but a 1085 MF was a money pit for us

Worst owner? Prior boss. Bought place in the country with tractor. One day he gets is stuck in mud. Comes to work and asks the mechanics how to get it out. Somebody suggests chaining a length of timber to both rear wheels so as the tires spin the timbe will provide traction. He goes home and sets it up. Fortunately a neighbor intervened and saved his life. Now the tractor got stuck because he was out puttering around and had a serious need for a haircut. He dismounted leaving the tractor idling and ran inside. The tractor got to rolling and ended up in the mud hole. Classic kinda nitwit.

I don't know about slandering anybody. You never know who's reading these posts. You'd be surprised.

Thats 99 percent of the problem 90 percent of the time . Or overloaded tractors and then people cry about them being underpowered

The worst owners are the ones who think that a given tractor puts out 50 more HP than what the tractor is rated for or dyno's out at. Yes, there is a legion of farmers who have non-existent maintenance programs for their equipment. Then there are the guys who fall out of bed in the morning angry at the world and take it out on their tractors.

I guess they should discover internet forums and take out their anger on people they don't know instead shouldn't they? LOL

Thank goodness these are tractors, owners like this literally killed horses with the same train of thought.

Sounds like my dad.

I don't think he ever changed a full set of spark plugs in his life. If an engine misfired because of a bad spark plug, he'd figure out which one it was and change just that one. Then several months later go through the same thing with another plug.

I walked past their car once and saw about an inch of a 3/16 stove bolt sticking out of the top. I checked it out. One of the screws holding the sun visors had apparently stripped out. Instead of just putting in the next size larger sheet metal screw, he drilled through the top and put a stove bold clear through. And then never bothered to cut off the excess.

I don't think the brakes ever worked on any of his tractors. I went down a creek bank backwards with one of his tractors once because I expected the brakes to work and they didn't. Lights, either.

His favorite saying was, Let good enough alone.

I'd better shut up, now.

the coolant can't be bad, it is what IH put in at the factory said by a neighbor as we explained the sleeves were perferated on a 25 year old tractor. Also, some farmers need their torches and welders taken away. Most, around here, treat their tractors pretty good.

(quoted from post at 15:42:11 08/04/21) I don't know about slandering anybody. You never know who's reading these posts. You'd be surprised.

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Yeah, thought the majority of you guys were "judge not lest ye be judged" types...

Big difference in worst tractor when talking mechanical or operator comfort. Some we don't even have to set on to tell about poor operator comfort and then our boddies are different. Some think the WC, WD, WD45 are comfortable tractors to ride, others like me see without ever setting on one our boddies cannot take the operater position.If AC had designed them with the type of operator seat the UC had I think AC could have sold a lot more tractors because they were good mechanial but were not designed for a person that had to stretch into different positions while using them. I drove an AC CA and the seat position was too far back of clutch and too low. For me I would have had added a floor plate for feet, raised seat and moved it forward and raised steering wheel and moved forward. Good tractors if your body could stand the position. They should have hadded a 5 and possibly a 6th forward gear in transmission tho. The WC hand breaks you need 3 or 4 hands to properaly operate them. The Moline Z and U like I had needed the seat raised like the ZB & UB tractors so you did not strattle the PTO. I have seen conversion on Z to raise seat and controls but never saw that for a U. Silver King had seat hanging way to far back and you could just tell by looking that every bounce on rough ground the position of the seat would amplify the bounce a lot and would have been easy to fall off the tractor backward. Some liked the hand clutch like me and others could not get into the operation of it, to me in some conditions hand was better and other foot was better depending on what you were doing with the tractor. The John Deere the worst thing I found was the gear shift and throttle were to close to steering wheel and you would hit your hand every time on the wheel, this was the roe crop utility, the row crop that problem was remidide with a higher seat, platform for feet and a higher steering wheel. Operator comfort to people is different but what would be comfortable for me is what I would first take into consideration. Mechanical same make and model one can be good while the next one off line be bad. You cannot see that like you can see a seating position and to me that is first thing in deciding if a tractor is going to be good or bad. Most are complaining about the mechanicals and not saying anything about what they think of operator comfort. And that operator comfort will be different if you are 5' tall or 6.5' tall and a hundred pounds or 300 pounds. So lets rate good and bad with those thoughts in mine and not by if previous owne babied and took care of it or like my Uncle that could break an anvil with a rubber hammer.