Posted by MeanGene1 on July 11, 2010 at 22:16:58 from (209.148.104.102):
In Reply to: 806 Tires posted by Bill47 Perry on July 11, 2010 at 18:38:26:
My gramps had an IH dealership in NY "back when", and when the 706/806's came out, there was an annual field day with a plowing demo with several makes, JD's, Allis, Ford, etc, and a 504 pulling 4, 706D pulling 5, 806D pulling 6, and a 4100 4WD pulling 8, just creamed those JD's LOL, like tractor "Shock & Awe". We kept the 706D demo and our potato-farming neighbor bought the 806D- both had 7.50-16/ 18.4-34 shoes on them when new, 706 had liquid and 4 sets of weights, 806 had liquid & 6 sets BTW, both the 706 & 806 were turned up a bit (as were all the other tractors at the demo day LOL) and the 706D would pull 5 in L4 direct and the 806 was in the same gear with 6 behind, all 4 tractors came across the field in formation plowing down clover so fast that the dirt layed out flat enough that you couldn't see the individual furrows, just flat dirt. Gramps turned our 706 back down after the first season and swapped for a 4-bottom so he could plow at 3/4 throttle, which it would do, again, in L4 direct, just didn't like working it that hard, but that old 806 was still pulling that same 6-bottom the last time I saw it in 1977, and the engine had never been touched other than regular maintenance
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