Posted by Hugh MacKay on September 02, 2007 at 13:54:05 from (209.226.106.188):
In Reply to: Weight of an MD posted by Doug N on September 01, 2007 at 15:53:35:
Doug: I owe you an appology, I never intended to sound as though you shouldn't post on YT. By all means you should and you should post a whole lot more.
My point was, you should compare apples to apples and oranges to oranges. If the rear wheel weight and tires are the same, you'll not see much difference between the MD and 77.
If I go back to my youth and as young as 12 years of age we used to compete in quite a lot of tractor activities, some of it plowing and some of it pulling and our pulling was starting away with and pulling the full load. I can tell you, coming from a Farmall family we had a lot of respect for those 6 cylinder Olivers and Cockshutts. Man, if those boys had the right weight and tire equipment they could make us look rather stupid. No question in my mind, those 6 cylinder engines of the 40s and 50s were king as long as owner and operator had them equiped right. Have you noticed something? I never mentioned Deere, we never feared those two bangers. What does Deere use today in big tractors? It's not two cylinder any more. Two bangers have sharp torque rise and fall between firing, they were notorious for jumping belts while threshing, and the same will happen where the tires meet the ground.
What opinion I did get is you maybe were hinting the Farmall had more drawbar wallop than the Oliver. I am a dyed in the wool Farmall man, however when it comes to 40s and 50s tractors, I have a lot of respect for those 6 cylinder row crops. In my opinion the real edge the Farmall had was manuverability. I did notice you liked the Oliver comfort and smoothness. Cockshutt was smooth, just not as comfortable.
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