The Magnum tractor are dead dependable but the shift is not the best. I think in the later CIH 7000 series they changed the shifter to where if you pushed the clutch in it dumped the pressure on the shifter lever so it moved easier. I used a neighbors CIH 7120 for one day on a round baler baling stalks. It was terrible to run the baler with. When you went to dump the bale it was a job to get the shifter back and into reverse. It pulled hard even with the cultch in. If you just shifted a gear or two it was fine but when you need to come out of like 12th forward into 2 reverse it was not fun.
As for the JD 4960 tractor. It is a dead dependable tractor too. The 15 sp. works easier than the CIH 18sp. Mine has been turning over 275 PTO HP since I got it 22 years ago now. It was the BIG DOG for 17 of those years. It has done thousands of hours of HARD tillage work. Now it is kind of a tweener tractor. It will not handle the larger tillage stuff really well and it is too big for most smaller jobs. Not enough hydraulics to run the corn planters. This year is the first fall it was on the grain cart all fall. Maybe deep ripped 300 acres with it late. The JD 8330s just are so much easier on the operator. My Mother and oldest Grand daughter did 100% of thee fall tillage this year. My Mother ran the JD 4960 one day early in the fall and she DEMANDED "her" JD 8330 to be put on the ripper. LOL She ran the JD 8330 most of the spring on one of the soil finishers.
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