DonWorrell
Gold Member
Today many beleive 4WD is needed for everything. I have never owned any motorized vehicle or piece of equipment that was 4WD. So my tghought may be tainted.
I do know my father operated a 170 acre dairy farm in the 1950-60s' we milked 50 cows daily and raised much of our own feed and many of our replacement cows. We did all of this with a Allis Chalmber CA (1950 model), a Allis Chalmbers WD-45 (1957 model) and a John Deere A (1954 ?? model? We had a frontend loader on the WD-45, which was a 2WD and a trycyle front end. We got everything we needed to do done. Back them we thought we had very good equipment. Some folks on here talk about heavy tractors for a FEL, well the WD-45 wasn't known to be the heavest tractor made at the time.
I guess it all depends on a few things.
1. How much money can you spend?
2. How quickly do you want the job done?
3. Do you want something else on thje tractor that could break?
4. How hard do you want the steering to be?
Personally I see no reason for a 4WD tractor. Look at many of the construction grade tractors with a FEL and Backhoe do all of them have 4WD?
Just my thoughts.
Don
I do know my father operated a 170 acre dairy farm in the 1950-60s' we milked 50 cows daily and raised much of our own feed and many of our replacement cows. We did all of this with a Allis Chalmber CA (1950 model), a Allis Chalmbers WD-45 (1957 model) and a John Deere A (1954 ?? model? We had a frontend loader on the WD-45, which was a 2WD and a trycyle front end. We got everything we needed to do done. Back them we thought we had very good equipment. Some folks on here talk about heavy tractors for a FEL, well the WD-45 wasn't known to be the heavest tractor made at the time.
I guess it all depends on a few things.
1. How much money can you spend?
2. How quickly do you want the job done?
3. Do you want something else on thje tractor that could break?
4. How hard do you want the steering to be?
Personally I see no reason for a 4WD tractor. Look at many of the construction grade tractors with a FEL and Backhoe do all of them have 4WD?
Just my thoughts.
Don