I'm "almost" afraid to ask, but I will- If your 2 arms are busy with levers, HOW or WHAT are you using to turn the steering wheel  ??

Lonn wrote: I always liked my D19 but the hydraulics were slow. It is a comfortable quiet tractor for me.

The D19 we had came fixed for a loader with a front engine driven hydraulic pump a great improvement over a D19 with the regular hydraulics.

The green pop pops had power trol on the left to match the hand clutch on the right. But may be bad example as it is older. But for a kid that turned his first dirt with AC K crawler and a left handed hand clutch and then a Cat D6 and a AC HD 5 all left hand clutches. That JD popper was backwards.

I'm "almost" afraid to ask, but I will- If your 2 arms are busy with levers, HOW or WHAT are you using to turn the steering wheel  ??

  Well if that has you confused lets put you on a AC HD 5G. You have six levers or maybe more, but only 2 hands. Just remember which is the clutch and which way to move it to stop.( the brakes are foot operated) All the rest of the wholes and speed bumps can be fixed if you don't go over the cliff with the tractor.

Open you mind to things that are new to you. Say to yourself "some other fool ran this thing so I CAN TOO".

It would take a long time list all the tractors I have driven,most having tracks and hand clutches. But some like the AC 7580 it was just 3 or 4 hours max does it even count. But the jumpiest jerkiest was New Holland  TS 45 ???(2013? 45 hp ) with a shift on the go and no clutch. NH called it a inching pedal (every time you let it up you jump a inch). Used in close quarters with people to get run over in the vineyard. I read the book trying to figure it out. I was just to old to try jamming it into gear without pushing the pedal. But somebody must like the things,just not me.

 Yes I ran your story off the tracks,but then again I don't think I did. You have a job to do 99.9 % of the time tractor mussel will save your mussels. Don't over think it just get people and things out of the way and "play with it"you can do it. Well hopefully you have "common sense" and can see a 7580 will never work to pull bin trailers in a vineyard with "normal" 6 to 10 foot row spacing. 

Dr Allis I have run a lot of primitive things but thankfully never a popper and a loader. But a dozer blade on a crawler and rear mounted pump is the same difference. I would say what I like about a pop pop  but that would be off topic...............an could get me kicked off for saying nice things about green.

The pump was behind the grill screen and the steel lines ran down the side of the motor to

a block to tap into the regular hydraulic system.Was much faster than the regular hydraulics on a D19 plus it then had live hydraulics that worked with the foot clutch in.