I was some 4 years old, maybe 5 when the dealer demo'ed a new 4010 on our farm.
My Dad and my Uncle Bill ran our Massey 55 Diesels.
As young as I was, I still remember them not being very impressed. (Probably because they couldn't afford to trade!)
One Massey got traded for a new GVI MM a couple of years later. (LOTS of axle and bull gear problems and POOR dealer support.)
The other Massey got traded for a DEERE 830ES (A BEAST!) I sold it in the early 80's to finance the purchase of an old 4020 for row crop planting and cultivating (sunflowers). GOSH, I wish I still had it. The 4020 performed well.
The GVI got traded (IIRC) in the fall of 1967 one a new XT190 Alice Chompers.
Thank GOD that thing got traded off on a new Versatile 145 before springswork, without ever going to the field on our farm. In this area, with HEAVY soil/heavy tillage those Allises simply didn't hold up.
The Versatile was a reasonably good tractor, 'cept for the little V8 screaming Cummins not being the best engine ever made, and weak hydraulics.
About 1979, I supplemented it with a 1975 DEERE 8630 through 1997, when I rented out the farm. I still have it, and just recently fired it up and changed fluids, gonna play with it a bit, after all these years.
Sorry about the rambling, but lots of GOOD memories here!
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