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Allan: I wouldn't get too awfully concerned about the 3 point being down with lever in up position. My 1066 did that from the day it was new, never got any worse and it saw a lot of hours, 10,000 in the first 8 years. Two complaints I've heard about 86 series are rough from operator being moved forward and a lot of folks had problems with shift linkage. A couple of 86 series tractors I have operated needed transmission brake adjusted. I always suspected that had more to do with hard shifting than the linkage. Then there are those folks that have to be shifting all the time, they didn't realize the Farmall had enough torque to run in the same gear all day using TA ocasionally. I had a farmer friend, had an 886 and one of the first CaseIH, actually a Case painted red. Forget the model number but it had 360 Cummins and supposedly rated about same as 886. I operated both on an 18' disk and he asked me to compare. I said' "it's good that the Case has 3 power shifts, as it has no torque. The Farmall would hike that disk along at 4 to 5 mph and never look at TA unless you wanted to slow down. In the same field with Case you hardly dared take hand off the power shift lever. On the roughness, I've never operated an 86 series long enough to experience this. I sometimes wonder if those folks may have had 60 lbs. air in front tires. and maybe excess in rear as well. If you going to be farming half of Western Nebraska, why not go out and buy yourself a real tractor, go articulated. Having had the experience of 1066, I'd never buy another two wheel drive tractor over 100 hp, or even conventional 4x4. These articulateds are smooth, they are very manuverable and traction plus with no added weight other than enough to balance load on both rear ends. Very important that each axle has about 50% of load with that kind of hp
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