Comparable tractor
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Topic: Comparable tractor
Posted By: Lance/SC
Subject: Comparable tractor
Date Posted: 15 Aug 2012 at 6:47am
| What AC is comparable to the Ford 4000? |
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Posted By: DrAllis
Date Posted: 15 Aug 2012 at 7:02am
| Kind of depends WHICH Ford 4000 you're talking about....the original 4-cylinder (just an old 900 series painted blue) or a newer 3-cylinder model. I'm thinking D17's and a One-Seventy would compare. |
Posted By: Lonn
Date Posted: 15 Aug 2012 at 7:04am
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I'd say more like a D15 or 160. 4000 is a nice tractor even the warmed over 900. ------------- -- --- .... .- -- -- .- -.. / .-- .- ... / .- / -- ..- .-. -.. . .-. .. -. --. / -.-. .... .. .-.. -.. / .-. .- .--. .. ... - Wink I am a Russian Bot |
Posted By: wood
Date Posted: 15 Aug 2012 at 7:38am
| Ford 4000 52 hp, mine is a 1974. Allis D17 have a little more hp, and will not spend as much, because it weigh more. I have a 5 foot off set disc that my WD45 will pull, but it is all that it want. The D17 does not no it is back there, and the 4000 pull it good, but it no that it is back there. The D17 want pull a six foot off set, it takes a D19 to pull it. |
Posted By: wood
Date Posted: 15 Aug 2012 at 7:40am
| The first 3cyl 4000 was 45 hp,and last 4000 3cyl are 52 hp. |
Posted By: Lance/SC
Date Posted: 16 Aug 2012 at 12:50pm
| Well, I wasn't off much. It is a 1971 ford, 3000, FWD, 3 cylinder diesel. That's what my brother uses to move around on the farm in western N. C. We are just completing a transaction for me to acquire the original 16 acre farm that my dad bought from my grandfather in 1948. Very little of it can be tractor farmed due to the steepness of the hills and I wouldn't feel comfortable moving around on it with my CA. |
Posted By: MikeinLcoMo
Date Posted: 16 Aug 2012 at 1:51pm
| Lance, that's why God made mules. |
Posted By: Thad in AR.
Date Posted: 16 Aug 2012 at 4:10pm
An early B. 
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Posted By: LouSWPA
Date Posted: 16 Aug 2012 at 4:14pm
------------- I am still confident of this; I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord. Ps 27 |
Thad in AR. wrote:Posted By: Lance/SC
Date Posted: 16 Aug 2012 at 5:10pm
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Hee Hee, Horse farming is why I left there in 1960 and never looked back. Hoeing corn, hoeing tobacco, hoeing the garden and then there was the hay crop. There were three of us boys The oldest one was allergic to tobacco, the middle one had asthma and guess who was the healthy one in the group and got to participate in all of them. I swore to myself if I got off that farm alive I would never pick up a hoe in anger as long as I lived. LOL I have a B that would probably do good going up the hill but don't you need brakes coming back down?
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Posted By: MikeinLcoMo
Date Posted: 16 Aug 2012 at 5:21pm
| A lot of kids spend 17 or 18 years trying to get off the farm and later, the rest of their lives trying to get back on. I was no exception. |
Posted By: Lance/SC
Date Posted: 16 Aug 2012 at 6:21pm
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I wasn't like that. I never had any thoughts of ever going back home other than to visit. And that wasn't much after my Dad and Mom passed away. Then my son and daughter and law expressed an interest in a place to put a cabin in the future and the wheels started turning. It worked out so that my brother got our grandfathers original farm that mom and dad lived on after the grands passed on and I got the original homeplace that we grew up on. The only thing on it is a tobacco barn that is getting close to falling down. I'm happy, my brother is happy and the kids are happy.
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Posted By: RMD
Date Posted: 17 Aug 2012 at 8:55am
| Lance/SC - We had plenty of hills back home and had two NF CAs - no problem, especially if you set the rear wheels wide. |
Posted By: Lance/SC
Date Posted: 17 Aug 2012 at 10:54am
| If I may ask, where is home? Maybe with a good set of brakes, making sure it doesn't jump out of gear.........HMMMMM? |