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Don McCullough

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I am especially attracted to the BIG old tractors. Not the steam type but the old gas and diesel tractors.

Here's some of'em:

Massy Harris 55
Case 500
McCormick Super W9
John Deere 830
John Deere 5020, although not real old

Can anyone add to this list?

Any of the old ones--as defined here--more powerful than the John Deere 830? (The 5020 excepted here.) Believe the 830 had about 81 hp. Mighty powerful for it's time.

Never knew much about the John Deere model D until recently. What a classic tractor, and very good power for it's time.

Don
 
the massey 95 and 97 is the M.M.GVI AND 705 just painted red with a different grill. the massey 98 is the oliver 99.
 
What about a Case 731? My friend has one. Dont know if its bigger than a 500 thought. He also has a 630 amd case 400.
 
My taste is the same as yours. I have a Case 900, '60 930, '64 930 western, IH 560W, and a MM G705. I like wheatlands. The JD 830, Case 930, MM Gvi, Massey 95 super, and IH 660 all had about the same horsepower and were all made about the same time.
 
I knew I didn't have a complete list. Then too, how far back do you go? Or, how close to the present?

Just in fun. I did forget one of my favorites that one of you mention and that's the Allis-Chalmers D-21. Learned recently that the 2nd version had a little more hp. Great looking tractor! White seat, white steering wheel. Holy cow!

Don
 
If big and old is the criteria, then the JD 8010 offered in 1958 should qualify. Not that successful, just a bit ahead of its time.
 
The only tractors mentioned from the time frame of all except your 5020 were newer except the Deere R Case LA Moline G series were from the 60's-70's and not from the 40's-50's like the Massey 55, the IHC W9 and Deere 830 from the earlier time.
 
I sold my 1030 western , That was a bunch of tractor for it s day . Sure wish I still had it .
 
The John Deere model D. What a long run it had. 21 years, was it?

Was it the most powerful--typical--farm tractor of it's day? At least for the first 10 years or so? Think they upped it's hp significantly over it's period of production.

Model R was the next to beat it.

I read the D had over a 500 cid engine. Really? Also read it weighed 8100 lb. This, I don't believe at all. Don't believe the R even weighed that much without weights.

For a long time I thought the R was the biggest of the "put-puts." Found the 830, especially, beat it for horse power by quite a bit. 50 vs. 81--something like that.

Not "heavyweights" but I see the John Deere D, the Farmall M and the John Deere 4020 (newer I know) as being the 3 most classic of classic tractors.

Must add, many other great old tractors. The Case DC3-4 for one. Getting off the original subject but definitely within the spirit of this group.

Don
 
don, u were talking about the j.d. D. the jd D, mccormick W6, massey 44, and case D were all in the same H.P.range. the j.d. was slow geared and the W6 would do more work at the end of the day.
 
Dad hired a guy in the neighborhood to plow his pasture for the first time in about 1953 or so- he had a huge Moline (to a 5 year old)- a G or some variant, I think. Had a homemade cab big enough to live in, and pulled a 4 bottom plow- pretty impressive stuff. The guy's name was Hobert Tanner (I found out years later), but everyone called him Fatty. Weighed well over 300, and his appetite was the stuff of legends. Mom made a huge lunch, and I remember him systematically going through a whole bowl of boiled potatoes. Saw the tractor probably 40 years later in the local scrap yard- there was no forgetting that cab!
 
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