Thanks for the many replies. It was not my intention to start any kind of color war, but just to gain some insight on the relative merits of each tractor.
Many of your comments I am in full agreement with. With this UB and other Molines I have operated, they do seem to be a bit less agile and a bit more sloppy at the controls. But both the Ms and the UBs are 50+ years old and have a lot of wear, so my experiences now are not a good reflection of the handling characteristics they may have had when much newer.
We have had various models of Farmalls (currently have 5) for a lot of years, and I have great respect for the engines particularly. They had incredible reliability, but were not necessarily as fuel efficient as some competitors. I picked up this Moline UB as a bit of a curiosity, a learning experience in Ag Engineering. I think they were much less of a competitor to the M and SM because of the long standing MM "old design" with the hand clutch and the very uncomfortable and dangerous operator ergonomics of the earlier U, Z, and R Molines. The UB was a vast improvement for the operator, but they had already given up a lot of market share by not making these improvements sooner.
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