What was the sexiest tractor ever built?

[airbiscuit]

 

[K5lwq]

I'm kinda surprised this thread has went this far without this tractor being mentioned. The John Deere 4020 brought farming into it's current state. Arguably the most dependable, productive, diesel tractor made in it's day. All of these traits make it a very "sexy" tractor for any farmer type 60 years old or older. What a classic. Still brings top dollar. Very common to find them with 15,000 hours on the original powertrain.



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My vote as well! I am very fond of the Red machines like the Super M and IH 1586 mainly because I grew up running these machines. However, the JD 4020 was the tractor that I loved the most! It was the tractor that I jumped at every opportunity to drive! It was like driving Cadillac compared to the Red machines I drove everyday.

My best friends Dad loved me because he knew he could always count on free help if he offered to let me run the 4020. Plus there was always a great meal involved at the end of each work day! That 4020 is still working on the farm today!:thumbsup:

 

[airbiscuit]

We had a 1963 John Deere 3010. It was bulletproof. How did John Deere pull off such a product transformation/advancement going from the 2 cylinder X30 series to the 4 and 6 cylinder XX10 series with their more refined design, engines, hydraulics, etc.?

 

[TerryR]

Well, Id have a different opinion of cabs being silly.
Cabs provide safety and cabs even save lives. Cabs give the ability to work longer hours so we can be more profitable. Cabs prevent skin cancer, bee stings (very important to the allergic to stings) and keep lungs from filling with harmful dust, diesel exhaust and allergens. Cabs reduce exposure to chemical spray on fields.
Most farmers couldnt do their jobs without cabs. Less food would be grown. Fewer could farm. Food would be more costly.

So next time you call cabs silly, try making a living with tractors and no cabs. Id doubt youd last a year puttin food on the table without them. Cabs silly is a statement truly borne of ignorance.
And thats just farm tractors. Cabs just as important on consteuction equipment.

Well, that's your opinion, but that doesn't make it fact.

 

[goeduck]

Talk about a sexy one. Did anyone mention the farmall cub?

 

[MossRoad]

I had to rewind the part where he said it works 1.38 acres per minute a couple times to make sure I heard that right. :confused2:

 

[MossRoad]

Deere 2080...

 

[MossRoad]

Hear it roar!

 

[goeduck]

Posting boy tractors in a thread about sexy tractors?

 

[fatjay]

There's the age old debate about what's better, large breasts or small breasts, perky or hanging. But at the end of the day, the answer best answer is your wife's. Because those are the ones you get to play with.

So the sexiest tractor for me is MY tractor, because it's the tractor I get to play with.