Another thing you guys are missing is you have to compare it on the same number of acres. So a guy farming say 4500 acres today would have had about 8 of those 560s and 7 hired men. Gotta add in the cost of hiring people too. Minimum wage was a buck an hour.
Neighbor with a CaseIH 9390 425HP 4X4 clims that he can chisel plow about 25 acres an hour. Or in that 30 acre 10 hour day he can do 250 acres. What would take 8.33 days with that old 560 he tills in one day. He claims about 32 acres an hour disking.
So add in the modern cost of hired help X7, plus the cost of tractors with ROPS (gotta consider OSHA) and yea, great way to create more jobs but where are you going to find young people today willing to spend 10 hours a day 7 days a week to get crops in?
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