Re: Stieger Tractor Vs John Deere

Posted by Hugh MacKay on January 05, 2007 at 15:51:07 from (209.226.247.48):

In Reply to: Re: Stieger Tractor Vs John Deere posted by massey333 on January 05, 2007 at 14:29:42:

My experience with articulateds goes back 30 years. I bought a new Farmall 1066, and my heavy use was pto forage harvester. Over the years it was dynoed 3 time and always turned out 150+. My tillage tools were not excessive load for 1066, 25'cultivator, 20' disk and 5 bottom plow. after 10 months of wheel tracks I didn't particularly like, I dumped the chloride and added duals. That cured the wheel tracks, but the duals sure beat the hell out of that mickey mouse front end.

I had a 500 acre woodlot, (softwood spruce) had always used 300 and 560 in woodlot over the years, but workplace safety folks were pushing hard on ending that. Since I no longer had time to personally operate tractors in the bush, I purchased a Deere 540A forestry skidder, roughly 100 hp, 8 speed power shift and articulated. In winter I used it in forest, and in summer it became my favourite horse for tillage. Also used it to push and pack silage. I always marveled at how much easier that machine handled disk and cultivator and with a lot less fuel than 1066. If I had it to do again it would have been self propelled forage harvester and no 1066. Bear in mind I already had a 560D and 656D, quite capable of all other work I needed done, and I might add the most efficient tractors I ever owned. Looking back, of roughly 20 tractors, skidder, etc. i own over the years, my most economical hp was 560D, 656D and that Deere. I don't even put that 1066 in the top 10.

In the past three years I've had the opportunity to operate some quite heavy and new iron. Big hp conventional front drive tractors as well as articulated CaseIH, New Holland and Deere. While I don't have any cost comparison, I can readily see these big articulateds are doing the work for a fraction of the cost of conventional tractors.

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