Re: Farmall 706 Opinions?

Posted by The tractor vet on April 02, 2017 at 08:51:23 from (104.179.81.68):

In Reply to: Farmall 706 Opinions? posted by Bryce Frazier on April 02, 2017 at 07:29:20:

Well lets see here ya got two Negatives on a 706 . Myself i like them and i have worked on owned , bought and sold i do not remember how many i have bought and sold over the years . Now as to power output there in the 70-75 Hp. class but ya can squeak out a few more pony's . Yep everybody complains about the T/A's BUT if that T/A was kept in adjustment ( that's something few do ) they work well and last a long time . Depending on the year this tractor was made it could have the D282 engine and yep they can be hard starting due to the fact that they use GLOW PLUGS to preheat the percombustion chambers and yep ya need to glow plug them on a 100 degree day , but IF and again i said IF the engine is in good condition ALL the glow plugs are working and the injection system is working like it should they will start and run fine . If it is a later one then it will have a D310 German diesel and that one is a direct injection engine and IF it is in good condition then they start easier with no glow plugs , but they have to be started a certain way . People complain about hard shifting , yea they can be IF the clutch linkage the trans brake and the dump valve is out of adjustment . BUT when everything is set correctly they will shift with two fingers with no jerking or tugging on the shifters. Myself i have taken some pretty rough rags out of the dead rows and with a little time and some money put them back in the fields . They will pull a 4 bottom 16 inch plow all day long , will handle a 13-14 foot disc with ease pull a six row planter handle a haybine square baler pulling a wagon does a fine job on a smaller round baler it will handle a one row forage harvester and wagon it will handle a two row pull type corn picker with wagon and if it has a narrow ft does a super job with a two row mounted . The one job that i never liked it on was loading manure out of the barn . second gear low was to slow and second rev was to fast in tight places . Fuel usage , depend on what your doing will determen how much your going to use ,it is a working tractor it is not a Purse ya want something that sips fuel buy a David Brown or a Kabota . Myself and my two close friends run 706 gassers and WORK them , no we don't plow with them any more but they do the planting the hay work and dragging wagons . On the one hay field that we do each year it is 28 acres and it is not flat on first cutting of good hay with a 9 foot haybine going east up that long steep hill it takes every bit of power the 706 can put out so the carb is literately wide open fighting to hold close to PTO speed in third low , i can mow and rake twice and pull 11 4x4 round bales back to the main farm eight miles away on one tank of gas , so that is eight miles drive to that field mow it rake it twice and drag a load home on around 30-35 gallon of GAS , so i do not think that is to bad . Do the same field with my 806 D and it will use about the same amount . what ya need to do is find someone from your area that knows I H tractors inside and out and take them with you and buy him lunch and give him fifty or hundred bucks to check it out because some people do not really tell you the truth and having someone who knows them can save you way more then what it is going to cost to fix what they neglected to tell you .

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