Posted by showcrop on July 20, 2016 at 20:04:22 from (75.68.77.41):
In Reply to: Tractor Durability posted by Bill VA on July 20, 2016 at 15:39:09:
The Ford 100 models were more powerful, but were also higher revving, so they needed more frequent overhauls. The big horse on my uncles 80 milker farm for fifteen years was an 860. During silo filling time that 860 pulled a one row corn chopper, hour after hour, day after day, week after week, in first gear at full throttle. Not long before he died he told me that he had rebuilt it three times during those fifteen years. After the fifteenth year, while my aunt and uncle were on vacation in Florida, my cousin bought a five year old 5000 at auction. When my uncle came home he was pretty upset about the waste of money, but next fall when they finished filling the silos in just 2/3 of the time that it used to take, he was pretty happy.
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