Re: Re: What can a 300 Farmall do??

Posted by Hugh MacKay on March 30, 2004 at 11:46:43 from (216.208.58.185):

In Reply to: Re: What can a 300 Farmall do?? posted by 42FarmallH on March 29, 2004 at 19:48:34:

Steven: Really lets not get riduclous, a 50 hp skid steer will get behind the pile and push at least twice what your H will.

In 1972 I had a Farmall 560D with a IH 2000 loader and a 55 gal drum full of concrete I could add for a counter weight any time. I bought a new Case 1737 Uniloader as I needed a loader that could work in close quarters. As time went on we found we used the 560D less and less for loader work. In 1975 I needed a second loader for use in close quarters, so a second Case 1737 was purchased. At that time one could purchase two Case 1737's for the price of a new 666 with a loader similar to the 2000 loader. And each one of the case 1737 would do about twice the work per hour as the tractor. Within 6 months the 2000 loader was taken off the 560 forever. Mind you we did have muddy and sloppy conditions. I once moved 72 dump truck loads of fill from edge of a cemetary into the rows of head stones for leveling so as to accomodate larger mowers. I did that in 6 hours, and probably the average move was 150'. You cant do that with a 1066 even if you were just moving the fill from one pile to another.

I was down to Windsor the other day, on the 401 the 4 lane highway running from Montreal to Detroit. That highway is all fenced on both sides. There was a crew replacing broken posts in that fence. Equipment about a dozen trucks. From the looks of the crew I think they must have gone to work that morning driving two trucks per person. They had two skidloaders with rubber tracks over the tires. One had a post hole auger, the other a dirt bucket. The 100 hp 4x4 tractor with the posts on the trailer down in the mud to the top of front wheels and half way up the rears. When I came back about 3 hours later the fence crew and loaders were down the road 2 miles and a big tow truck was hitched to the tractor. Sometimes the bigger they are the harder they fall. I expect you can still buy two 50 hp skid loaders with tracks included for the price of that tractor in the mud.

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