A lot have made these new tractors sound like they are #1. Ya they are nice and easy to drive that anyone can, but here is the major problem. Look at your household computer, how long did it last before you got a new one because the old one decided its time was done. Electronics fail, get malfuntions, loose data, short out, get out dated, etc. Which tractor would last longer? the one with out the computer electronics of course.
In college I was able to demo a CIH 180 PUMA. Nice tractor, not my color preference but still nice to use. It only had 89 hours on it. My job was to manually set powershift. All I had to do was hook the labtop up, sit in the seat, put some director control in the back pannel, make sure parking break was set, turn the tractor on and set rpm to 1100, and here is the manual part of the process: press the button and select manual set which the mechanic just has to press a button between gears when the computer says to. automatic does it on its own. The problem is when it got to second reverse the tractor jumped back twice when it was not to have any movement of the wheels at all. It had a malfuntion.
The newest tractor I own is a 65 M670 Moline, the oldest is a 46 UT Moline. The newest one I will own later this month is a G1050 Moline. Great tractors I think with high torque engines compared to most other brands durring thier time. They are not the best of fuel these days but witht he right modifications they can be burning about the same or less than the ones these days. Every "new" one I get I go through it to make sure it runs like new.
Overall I trust the older ones with the power and long lasting parts rather than these new ones with parts made from all over the world and will be gone in 50-100 years.
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