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Rick1956

10-17-2004 17:39:09

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Today I was helping my father in law get ready for a farm sale. Sadly the last one in my extended family associated with farming.

I ran across a JD 3020 operator manual. I noticed the top road speed was listed at a little over 14 mph if I read it correctly.

I spent a lot of time on 3020s in my youth and never had much use for looking at the speedometer. I have not had much time in the seat since the 70s. The farms I worked on had JD, Oliver, Case Cockshutt and AC fairly well represented with many of the wagon pulling tractors dating into the 40s. I never thought of any of them being slow versus the others. A few folks had MFs and they always seemed almost dangerously fast. Not many Farmalls in our area.

Finally to my question. Was 12 to 15 mph a pretty common top speed until recently? I think most true farm tractors flirt with 20+ MPH these days, is that at recent change after ROPS cabs and the like?

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Rod F.

10-17-2004 18:42:54

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Re: Road Speed Comparison in reply to Rick1956, 10-17-2004 17:39:09

10-15 mph was a fairly common speed up until the early sixties (at least with Ford). Most after that time topped out around 18 or 20 mph. Now days, 25 is the standard on most models in NA, with European tractors travelling somewhat faster still. FWD and the increased braking ability seems to be the major link with higher speeds, as many 2 wheel drives will have the top gear blocked out. HTH.

Rod

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Steve from TN

10-17-2004 18:09:11

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Re: Road Speed Comparison in reply to Rick1956, 10-17-2004 17:39:09

Rick, I believe that you are about right with those speeds. We had a Case 530 back in the early 60's that would reach about 40 mph with the gov. pulled back. My brother passed a gravel truck one day. Made the man pretty mad to have a tractor pass him.

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earlschieb

10-18-2004 05:18:57

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Re: Road Speed Comparison in reply to Steve from TN, 10-17-2004 18:09:11

I really don't think governor strings count! L.O.L. !!!!! !!!!! ! That would make a lot of WD Allis-Chalmers a `fast' tractor!!!!

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