What is your favorite tractor and why?

[K5lwq]

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Why should be self explanatory!

I would love to see Big Bud in person!! Maybe one day.

 

[Creamer]

IH 1466 - Because I spent a lot of hours on it growing up. The best feature was the torque - I could have a good load on it pulling at 5 mph and idle it down and it would not kill. Rated RPM was 2150 and I would take it all the way down to 850 and it would keep pulling. That 436 was a beast of an engine.

After I got out of high school Dad traded it for a 1586 which was a lot better tractor but I was standing by a 436 engine that was idling a year ago and suddenly felt my eyes tearing. the sound of that engine brought back a lot of memories.

 

[RaydaKub]

I would love to see Big Bud in person!! Maybe one day.

I haven't seen the daddy, but their baby was a 525 hp brute. A local contractor has one parked out in front of his shop with a huge spade on the 3pt to bury farm field drain tile. It gets a bunch of hours on it every year.

 

[K5lwq]

I haven't seen the daddy, but their baby was a 525 hp brute. A local contractor has one parked out in front of his shop with a huge spade on the 3pt to bury farm field drain tile. It gets a bunch of hours on it every year.

I did not realize they made smaller versions of Big Bud. After a little research I see there is some model toys/banks of their builds. On of which is a airplane. Have you seen or know if they built a airplane? I would like to see pictures of that.

 

[Gale Hawkins]

Clearly growing up on a 1962 801 (last of red/gray Fords) colored my buying of the 1966 3000 diesel last year and the 1980 3600 diesel this year. Other than being diesels all three have a lot in common. Thankfully these blue ones came with power steering and hydraulic remotes.

Now at 67 I just like this small size tractors. This weekend I am working to get the 711 Ford one arm loader cleaned and painted one part at at a time so when it goes on the 3000 any day now it will be ready to go paint wise. The shop has figured out the front mounting bracket that came cut into pieces since it had been modified to first a 3000 gasser.

Never thought I would be into reliving the past. Hoping to be in our first tractor show the first weekend in May at the Mayfield KY fairgrounds.

They are not cheap to rebuild to new like condition but still a good value in my view for the 40-50 HP class of tractors. I like the weight on our hills of the old iron.

 

[joeu235]

One that doesn't break down and is payed off.

 

[joeu235]

I worked on a 1500 acre ranch summer of my high school junior year. The old timer's biggest tractor was a Ford 4000. I would shred huge fields for 50 hours a week with that tractor and an 8 food bush hog. Hours and hours in 3 Low with weeds/grass above the wheels. Someday I'm going to get me one just like it.

 

[def38]

My current tractor, M-F 231S, made in Turkey, just the right weight and size, 2 WD, Perkins diesel engine, tough and it is the first and last tractor I'll ever own or need...Oh and the M-F is paid for.

 

[def38]

I haven't seen the daddy, but their baby was a 525 hp brute. A local contractor has one parked out in front of his shop with a huge spade on the 3pt to bury farm field drain tile. It gets a bunch of hours on it every year.

I couldn't afford the fuel bill....

 

[Creamer]

I remember growing up in SD in the late 70s the Big Bud corporation bought a bunch of prairie in NW South Dakota to break up and put into wheat. They were out tilling the ground all winter because ti was so dry it really did not freeze. Get land to farm right? Well of course they were really farming the government farm program and when Reagan administration instituted the PIK (Payment In Kind) program the whole scheme went bust and so did Big Bud. They should have stuck with building tractors.

BTW - While doing this they did not shut the tractors off except to change oil because they knew they would not start again and they were a long ways from electricity. Think of the fuel bill!