Posted by IH fan on December 11, 2012 at 15:50:33 from (108.236.93.166):
In Reply to: Farmall M H upgrades posted by Stevie J. Mote on December 11, 2012 at 11:57:47:
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Having run several different brands of tractors over the years, with Dad's, neighbors, uncles, etc., I can tell you the JD hydraulics starting in '47 beat IH even thru at least the 460/560 series. The two cylinder JDs we had were much more efficient on gas than the IHs for the same work... Nebr. tests do not always agree, but I know what ours used... example, our 2 JD 60s both used about the same gas/hour as our Super C when working them hard and did 50% more work. JD had the M/MT that were comparable in size to the C and 40/420/430 compared to the SC/200/230/240, but the JDs were not nearly as handy to use... they were downright clumsy. I liked running the 300 thru 560 tractors except for the hydraulics as they had good power and I really liked having the TA, which JD did not have for some time.
Basically, it kind of depended what features you needed and what meant the most to you for how you used them. They both had things I liked and didn't like about them after you ran enough different models. As for the tractor I enjoyed the most that I put a lot of time on I have to say was a JD 4640. Wasn't one fault I found with that tractor. A friend bought it new in about '78/79 and although he has been through several other JD/Case/NH tractors since he got it, he still has that 4640 with many thousands of hours on it.
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