We kept the first "demonstrator" 706D that came through my grandfather's dealership, it worked the shows and plowing demonstrations with 5-16's, the "steerable" plow, and we added another 706D the next year. We had that 5-16 for one year, and Gramps swapped it for a 4-16 that the 706 would pull full depth in L4 at 1800 and just sniff at the fuel tank, and did a beautiful job, furrows would lay out flat. Our neighbor bought the demonstrator 806D and 6-16 plow, was still using it that way the last time I saw it in the late 70's when he passed away. He had an old 560D that came behind it with the 16' spring-tooth drag, and then the 806 went on the big 4-row potato planter- everybody had told him that binder would never pull that big planter, and they were all pulling theirs slowly with weighted D4 Cats- the old 806 pulled it in L3 at 3/4 throttle, cruising- the poor guy riding and watching over the planter feed was the speed control, not the power of the tractor. Then came the skinny tires and 4-row cultivator with hillers- he didn't like to run any other tractor. Ran two diggers, one on the 806, one on the 560, until he got a potato harvester- 806 again. Potato harvester required a stone picker- 806. Only time that thing didn't work every day was when it was snowing- and it was never in the dealership for a repair, not once, and he never had to go through the engine
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Today's Featured Article - An Old-Time Tractor Demonstration - by Kim Pratt. Sam was born in rural Kansas in 1926. His dad was a hard-working farmer and the children worked hard everyday to help ends meet. In the rural area he grew up in, the highlight of the week was Saturday when many people took a break from their work to go to town. It was on one such Saturday in the early 1940's when Sam was 16 years old that he ended up in Dennison, Kansas to watch a demonstration of a new tractor being put on by a local dealer. It was an Allis-Chalmers tractor dealership,
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