The Utility is usually the Best Tractor!

Posted by Ibby on May 13, 2005 at 04:00:45 from (63.146.104.151):

In Reply to: Re: If it can go wrong it will. posted by Hugh MacKay on May 12, 2005 at 13:04:02:

I look at it the other way. Glad IH made so many row crops to provide parts for my 350 Utility! Try Steering a narrow front Farmall through knee deep mud, under low hanging branches, skidding 2 cords of cull trees behind you. When the front tires drop into a beaver channel as you come up out of the swamp, you'll wish you had a wide front with swept back axle. With the 350 utility, Raise the load with the hydraulic drawbar as the front tires hit the channel and they'll float right across. Drop the load as the rears hit it, and just keep on trucking. The clutch doesn't even get touched.

My point is - Different tractors for different jobs. My Utility mows, rakes and bales hay, plows 3 bottoms and runs all my equipment nicely, and I don't need a ladder to climb onto it. It's superior for woods work to most every other tractor. (For small jobs, of course. It ain't a skidder.) With double ring chains and loaded tires, I NEVER run out of traction in anything but deep soupy clay mud. Sure, the clutch is stiff, but so what? I don;t sit there holding in in all day.

Yes, I have a loader for it, and used it several years. My clutch leg noticed it, but not any worse than any other part of my body after loading manure for 7 hours.

IH wasn't trying to compete with Ford. They wanted and produced something an order of magnitude better! I had 4 Fords (at various times). Underpowered, poorly designed transmissions, weak hydraulics and no guts at all. THe only use I have for a N series is to part them out to buy IH parts.

I had 3 different Farmall Row Crops. Best use for them is to fix them up, give them a nice paint job and sell them to someone that doesn't know enough to buy a Utility. My last Farmall will be ready for sale in a few Months. 450 with ALL the bells and whistles. It'll sell for enough to finish the restoration on my 544 utility.

Interesting discussion! I had fun, anyway.

Follow Ups:

• Re: The Utility is usually the Best Tractor! JImmy King 13:28:22 05/14/05 (0)
• Re: The Utility is usually the Best Tractor! Hugh MacKay 14:47:21 05/13/05 (1)
  • Re: The Utility is usually the Best Tractor! Van in AR 21:16:14 05/13/05 (0)

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