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Posted by Rick1956 on October 17, 2004 at 17:39:09 from (69.243.179.126):
Today I was helping my father in law get ready for a farm sale. Sadly the last one in my extended family associated with farming. I ran across a JD 3020 operator manual. I noticed the top road speed was listed at a little over 14 mph if I read it correctly. I spent a lot of time on 3020s in my youth and never had much use for looking at the speedometer. I have not had much time in the seat since the 70s. The farms I worked on had JD, Oliver, Case Cockshutt and AC fairly well represented with many of the wagon pulling tractors dating into the 40s. I never thought of any of them being slow versus the others. A few folks had MFs and they always seemed almost dangerously fast. Not many Farmalls in our area. Finally to my question. Was 12 to 15 mph a pretty common top speed until recently? I think most true farm tractors flirt with 20+ MPH these days, is that at recent change after ROPS cabs and the like?
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