Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: I CAN'T STAND THE SOUND!!
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Posted by Green Gene on June 11, 1998 at 21:28:36:
In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: I CAN'T STAND THE SOUND!! posted by Bart Simpson on June 11, 1998 at 07:08:57:
: : : : : : : : I went to my club's anual picknick and tractor meet last weekend . While watching the tractor pulling I couldn't help but wonder why it is , and what kind of person likes the sound of those two cylinder John Deere tractors. I just don't understand how anyone can think that a JD two cylinder idling at 100 RPM ( putt-putt ) sounds good. Compared to the smooth throaty roar of a Farmall for instance, the sound of a two cylinder tractor is like the sound of a flushing toilet. And what's the deal with the horizontal pistons ? Why, its unAmerican . It must be like owning a Subaru only louder. : : : : : : : Flushing toilet eh? Maybe so, but any idiot can see which brand of tractor always wins the pulls, and believe me, where I come from it aint the red ones. After the pulls are over, the red tractors paint jobs and their owners faces match rather nicely. : : : : : : Every pull that I go to the green ones are not that great. : : : : : Flushing toilet!!!!!!!!!! I love it! The best green I saw at the last tractor pull was a BIG RED winning some GREENBACKS! GO IH! : : : : Did this proverbial big red have a TA in it? Or more properly said, out of it!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have never seen a TA yet in the 300,350,400,450,460,560 "big reds" that would still work, and even if you spent all those greenbacks fixing one of them, they would not stay fixed. What a fine piece of American machinery. Green Gene Ok, Ok guys I will try being nice for a change. About 15 years ago I had a 560 and maybe it was just a lemon, but you had to change the hyd filter about once a week if you wanted the hydraulics to work. It would get full of steel shavings. The TA never did work right in one of the ranges, I can't remember if it was high or low, but it would not pull in one of them. And no offense, but I didn't have any 2 pt equipment, and my 3 pt equipment wouldn't fit, so I couldn't use it for anything but pulling a baler or cutter. It just kind of left me with a bad feeling for IH, and the 1650 Oliver which I bought and replaced the 560 with was a lot better tractor. Today I use modern John Deere tractors, and having not used anything else which is modern, I can't compare them to anything, but I sure do like them with their SG cabs and air conditioning in this Texas heat. Have a good day. GG
: : : I have three 300, a 350 and a Super MTA each with torque amplifier. All of the TA units are strong and the tractors work on the farm every day!!
: : : I know here in Maryland that there are more old IH tractors working in the feilds than JD. I guess that the poppers are "washed up". An IH with the torque out of it still is a superior tractor to that pop pop pop crap!!!!! : : Whatever, and don't you just love that excellently misengineered thing called the 2 pt. or fast hitch?
: fast hitches are great! a big red minus the TA, missing on 3 cylinders, 2 flat tires, and an operator that carries a flask of old grandad in his toolbox is infinately better than your so called green machine. maybe you just green with envy.
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