What is the best compact ever built and why?

[Scott_in_WVA]

No problem Rich.....just don't let others shake you up so much....your buttons are pushed pretty easy.......I enjoy reading your insight on things..you offer a lot of valuable advice/input on things.It is nice for a farmboy from back east to be able to talk with a rancher from out west....you have to know me ,I am all in fun and I like to 1st and foremost get along with everyone,I just have a little ornery streak in me.

 

[ddl]

the answer is easy, the tractor that each of us own. The hard part is for everyone else to accept that choice.

Dan L

 

[Scott_in_WVA]

I guess that is one way to answer the question...My next JD will be at least a JD 4710 or move up in the 5000 series.

 

[BigDave]

My answer is the next tractor that I'll buy, or at least that's what I plan to tell my wife. /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

 

[knucklehead]

You had to start this thread, didn't ya? Just after I began reviewing posts from the past, and reviewing my literature (does anyone else have a file cabinet suffed with brochures?), and getting re-revved about this subject.

I guess I'd have to say the older utility-class. I'm not a tractor scholar, but the Fergies, Fords, MF's, and such that built utility tractors, IMHO, are the forerunners of modern CUT's. They were smaller, handier, and cheaper, and therefore led the expansion of tractor use to far greater places than the big field tractors would have gotten. They are the best utility tractors ever built.

Best modern value? The older number series Ford models - everyone wants the orange and green ones, and that keeps the price high. An' that's not just because I got one..../w3tcompact/icons/grin.gif

 

[Alan L.]

I think the Kubota B2710 is the best one, because if its not I musta made mistake.

 

[kevincook]

This is easy! The best tractor every built is MY L3010. /w3tcompact/icons/grin.gif The reason being is it is the only one that ever helps me move piles of dirt or mow the lawn. All those other CUTs out there haven't mowed my lawn for me.

I'm sure just about everybody on this board feels the same way about their tractors too. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

 

[tractorlet]

The best ever built is the tractor I built because for one of numerous reasons it is custom and another is it is serial number 1 out of 1. The next best was the one built in Japan that was never marketed because it was so loaded no one could afford it.

The seriousness of the question indicates it calls for something or other in an answer.

 

[RobertN]

Farmall Cub is the best compact ever built

I'll bite. It is a tractor I want, but do not have now.

I would say the Farmall Cub. IH found a great niche for a small tractor that could do lots of jobs. They built tons of them, from the 40's till the late 70's. IH made all kinds of accessories for them, as did the aftermarket companies. You can still get brand new Woods belly mowers for them

The Cub still sees use. They seem to be very popular as mowing machines in the mid-west and east coast. Many are collected and restored now, but they still seem to have lots in the fields and gardens.

I do not see the small farm/garden attachments for my Kubota that were made for Cub's. Ya, I have a mower, loader, and PHD. But, you can get those for a Cub. For mowere they even had small flail's, sickles, belly mowers. You could get a belly grader, or a front plow. You could get disc's, one bottom plows, seeders, cultivators, ect.

My B8200, or the newer Kubota CUT's could do many of these things, except the attachments are not available. Also, our ground clearance is limited, limitng what cultivation we could do.

Also, since having my '41 Farmall "A" in addition to my '87 B8200, I personally don't foresee as many modern CUT's being as proliferated when they are 50 and 60 years old. They are too hard to work on, and too complicated. I don't think 45 years from now someone will really want to restore my B8200, even though it is a wonderful tractor.

So there you have it, the Farmall Cub.

 

[Thomas]

Re: Farmall Cub is the best compact ever built

Farmall Cub..AC sure had couple of good ones also. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif