Easy to operate AC tractor

Currently have a WD Allis.  Owned it for 22 years now and it does a lot of work for me.  Is there any newer AC of that horsepower that is easier to drive?  Just doing some thinking.

Plowing and disking garden.  Keeping over 6 acres brush cut and plowing snow in the winter.  Cutting wood and skidding trees.

I had a WD as well.  I traded it in for a D-15.  Here is what I gained:

I have a WD that was my Dad's. I upgraded to a WD-45 and then up to a D-17 (Ser. II). I'm "gettin' up there" in age and that P.S. sure makes my life easier. I always thought a D15 would be a perfect replacement for my WD but have never come across one in my price range.

The WD & WD45 were (are) great tractors, but they were 40's & 50's design. Almost any newer tractor would be designed with improved features.

Something in the 6000 series

Totally agree with getting a D15 seriesII. Great all purpose tractor that will handle a 3 bottom plow with ease. Bought new in 1968.

Yup so right there!

A D-15 2 would be a great tractor. I use to ponder buying one myself. The problem, in this part of the world anyway, is the price! They bring about three times as much as a 45. I would think a 170 could be had just as cheap.

I currently run a Buhler Farm King 84 inch back blade.  Used for plowing snow and grading gravel.  We are on a half mile long private road that 12 residence split the cost of maintenance.  The snow plowing is contracted our for over 3 inch snow falls.  Anything less is not plowed.  A neighbor on the south half of the horseshoe shaped road does both gravel 'cleanup' in the summer and snowplowing in the winter with a 26 hp compact tractor that has a five foot front blade.  I  'cleanup' the gravel in the summer and snowplow the north half of the road.  If we don't plow the less than 3 inch snows it gets rutted.  Running the WD in 4th gear does get the snow to roll.  A neighboring farmer has said my WD has the most guts of any WD he has seen.  I also have a 72 inch King Kutter box blade, 72 inch King Kutter brush cutter, 30 inch King Kutter dirt scoop, 8 foot snap coupler disk and a two bottom snap coupler plow.  I have heard that a D14 will not handle what I have?  I do not have a loader on my current tractor.  D15's are hard to find.

Edited by 1951WDNWWI - 24 Jan 2021 at 8:59pm

AC720Man wrote: A D14 is more powerful than a WD, so I’m not sure why they told you that it wouldn’t handle the equipment that you have.

We had a D14 and I would take it over my WD any day. I wish we still had it. They may be close to the same horsepower but a D14 is a much improved tractor vs a WD. Power director giving 8 forward gears versus 4 is the huge difference making it far more able to handle different loads.

Shorter.