Dad had a 4010-D WFE from December 1968 till August 1972. We put it on the Kneodler PTO burr mill feed grinder for 4-5 minutes once. Exhaust fumes gassed us out of the corn crib. Because the 4010 was the only tractor we had with LPTO it ran the #30 combine over 30-40 acres of oats every summer. Otherwise we never used the PTO. I normally shoved the PTO lever forward into engagement just to get it out of my way.
Dad had grade 8 bolts, special lock washers, and red LockTight on the stub shaft bolts. He checked them every load when running the combine. Summer of '72 he was using the 4010 on the Billion 6 ft bush hog to mow waterways, fence lines, etc. One day he was sailing down a slough in 3 ft tall grass and twisted the output shaft off flush with the oil seal on the bush hog. That was expensive! Couple days later he knocked the PTO clutch out in the 4010. The speed change gears were fine. He ran the tractor over to the independent shop 20 miles away that had been working on the big repairs on the tractor the last 2 years. Dad let the shop owner know he didn't want/need the tractor back. The owners were selling the farm in a couple days at auction. The shop owner sold the tractor right out of his shop. The tractor had got new M&W sleeves & pistons 6 months earlier to replace the 4020 kit that was in the 5 year old tractor when we bought it, rebuilt head, injection pump tune up. The kid that bought it put an M&W turbo on it before it left the shop. About May/June the following spring the kid stopped in on a Sunday afternoon unannounced and wanted Dad to pickup the cost of the failed transmission/rear end on a ten year old tractor he bought used, as is, where is.
I hope that tractor was scrapped and sent to China to be made into something useful like staple removers. It sure was worthless as a tractor!
FWIW, I pulled that bush hog over thousands of acres with a FARMALL Super H. Never a problem except for the cheap shear pins Dad bought. Part of the reason he sheared the shaft on the hog was because he was using grade #5 or #8 bolts as shear pins. I got some cheap grade 1 or 2 bolts to use. They would deform to the point of failing just clipping pasture for 3-4 hours.
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