An old saying of maybe 50-60 years ago was: "A diesel will really get down and lug". This was a quite accurate statement. And it was considered an important quality. Back then, tractors only had 4, 5 or 6 rather widely spaced speeds forward. No 16 speed powershifts or CVTs. Around here, it is common to find nice level loamy fields with frquent red clay knolls. Moldboard plowing was the standard back then and plowing along in, say third gear, you encounter one of those clay knolls 50-100 or so feet in length. If your tractor doesn't have good "lugging ability" you will find yourself stopping, shifting down, and then starting, only to find yourself stopping a few feet down the furrow, shifting back up and starting up again. Across a 40 acre field, that could happen 4 or 5 times. So, what better than to have a tractor that can lug through that little tough spot and then continue on. Look at Nebraska Tractor Test Lab test # 594 and 605. You will see the comparison between the John Deere 720 gas powered tractor and the 720 Diesel. At 54% of rated rpm, the lowest rpm tested, the diesel was producing a whopping 12% more torque than its gasoline counterpart. In fact, all the way down the scale, the diesel was making more torque than the gasser. Same was true of the Oliver Super 88 until the very last end when the diesel lagged a little behind the gasser. But, in the working rpm range, the diesel beat the gasser in torque. That was important and sold a lot of diesels, to the point that gassers simply disappeared
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Today's Featured Article - Uncle Cecil's Super A Lives Again - by Mike Purcell. A week or so out of most of my childhood summers was often spent with my Uncle Cecil and Aunt Sissie in the small East Texas town of Maydelle on their 80 acre farm. Some of my fondest memories of these visits are those of learning to drive a tractor at the helm of Uncle Cecil�s 1948 Farmall Super A. Uncle Cecil was the second owner of this wonderful little tractor, but it was almost as though he had adopted an infant. The original owner was a man from Minnesota who bought her from a local dea
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