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Okay guys if you could purchase one tractor right now which would it be? This is solely dependent on your own preferences, but I'm very curious.
 
If money were no object????????? How could ANYONE possibly say ANYTHING other than a first-generation ETD???????
 
WANTED: John Deere Model 70 diesel standard with pony motor. Live PTO, Complete 801 3pt. Big motor and pony motor runs good - no smoke. Good snap on clutch. Tires round, black, and hold air. Hydraulics, Tach, gauges, lights all work. New seat cushion. Cosmeticly challenged in working clothes. Running when it was parked in barn.

There's got to be one out there somewhere just waiting for us.
 
For use...

A Ferguson TO-35 with power steering, a perking 3-cylendar diesel, and live hydraulics.
 
For me, a good utility size tractor 50-60 hp like this 545C Ford I've been pondering, fwd, loader, industrial, but 3 pt hitch, pto etc. I believe a hoe would fit on one of these, and as well as all the other implements, would do everything I need to do and then some, though I like fords, any tractor of similar size and equipment would be ideal, + the lower center of gravity sure tames those hills around here.
 
A brand new John Deere 9630 four wheel drive. Then I would sell it and have $225,000 dollars and no tractors.
 
Since I have been downsized for so long from 130 acre farm to an acre and a half I want this , {In process building one now. from a Cub Cadet 108.} This was a 149. Belongs to a friend of mine.
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Been waiting on one of these to show up with an affordable price. Neighbor has one that is kinda dilapidated. If he hangs onto it til I have nothing better to do, maybe I can get it and play a little. The box dumps and there is a frontloader frame that mounts up. They come in I think 4 different sizes starting at 19HP.

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Depends on how you mean. Some day,if I live long enough,I want to just retire and have enough to do to keep me busy with an Oliver 550. Late model,checkerboard grille. Right now,to keep farming,probably a Massey Ferguson or New Holland,around 120 horse,cab,front wheel assist. Only other new one I ever bought was a John Deere 4040,but that was back when we had a local Deere dealer. Only way I'd buy another Deere would be to move to another state where there was a good locally owned dealer. There's no such thing in Michigan anymore.
 
Ford 861 Powermaster, totally restored, with loaded 14.9x28 rear tires, pie weights, power steering, and front bumper.
 
well if i was only allowed 1 tractor for all the work, even though i have fords and was raised on red tractors, i would have to pick a john deere 4020, they are quite posibly the best all around tractor ever,
 
Unlike all the others that seem to assume you could only have one tractor, when your question was if you could purchase one tractor what would it be, I would say a Minneapolis Moline Super 670. That assumes I don't have to give up the Versitle, White, Case, John Deere, and Internationals I have. As for the Masseys the 1100 can stay but the 165 can hit the road, it has always been a pain. I want to replace that one with a Super 670.
 
Kubota L4150. Bullet proof. When I was going through my divorce her lawyer asked me what was my most important possesion and I immediately said "my Kubota tractor".
 
Red, it was that goofy way IHC had of making diesels back then, the 2 fuel tanks, drain the crancase ect. along with some other problems, That let JD win the sales wars. The gas M's and Super M's are great tractors. No one that used the diesel version misses them.
 
Funny how you seek out all my posts. You seem almost obsessed. Kinda weird, considering your locale.

And you don't know jack about this topic. Diesel Farmalls had nothing to do with why IH went down. If you'd like to be informed and enlightened, read "Fall of an Empire, The Agony of International Harvestor". Or go on thinking whatever you want. At one time IHC was the 3rd largest corporation in the country, a few diesel models couldn't have, and didn't, change that. It was a complex series of events that I won't waste my time going into here. Suffice it to say, it was mismanagement, not a motor that warms up on gasoline and swithces to diesel.

Interesting though how so many, (most) early models of H's and M's were all fuels, where you had to do that very thing, warm up on gas and switch to tractor fuel. They became the largest tractor company in the world with that technology, and you claim that's what caused their demise. Pretty funny.

The Model H still holds the record for the single model of tractor that has provided the most horsepower to the world. You can have your green 2 lungers.

Now, off to Snopes with you for your fact checking.
 
Diesel if possible, 12V electric with alternator.ROPS. Wet brakes. High pressure,high flow hydraulics. Live hydraulics. Live pto.3point hitch. M4WD if at all possible. Diff lock.Local dealer support.Radial tires. Factory built attachment points for matching mower, loader, backhoe etc.
That rules out just about everything prior to 1957 or so and is really the 1980's and later.
Depends if you want a useful tractor or just a direct replacement for a horse.
 
It is because you are so stupid you are entertaining. You are the one that said the great depression lasted through WW2. You also claimed that on the eve of the last election McCain was going to win. You even called Indiana wrong. You said that a Senator was not in congress. Anouther claim of yours is that Missouri will produce more grapes than California and you are going to do this with a H and a plow on land you do not own. Don't take this wrong but I throughly enjoy your posts. I actually make (or lose)money farming.
 
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