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Re: Why a wheatland tractor for wheat?
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Posted by Green Envy on April 22, 2001 at 14:12:35 from (216.220.8.51):
In Reply to: Why a wheatland tractor for wheat? posted by Poppinjohnny@aol.com on April 22, 2001 at 11:41:06:
We don't get as much moisture out here in Montana as opposed to the corn belt. As a result farms have to be bigger than they do where you live. Out here a farmer wouldn't take a JD 70 at all. Instead he would take the John Deere 80 which has more hp. A farmer out here would take a standard over a rowcrop for various reasons. We don't need adjustable tall rear wheels and the ground clearance for growing wheat and barly. Also, standard tread tractors are more stable in the hills than rowcrop tractors and are not as likely to tip over. I have never seen a standard tread 70 out here but there were alot of R/80/820/830 out here. During the 50s when you guys where farming with the John Deere 70/60/50 and similar size tractors, we were farming with International TD-14 and 18s, Catepillar D7 and D6 crawlers pulling 20ft to 40ft chisel plows. 200/300 hp 4-wheel Wagner tractors were also popular out here. However we did use rowcrop tractors out here. Most had loaders mounted on them like our Farmall M that has a Farmhand and they were used for putting up hay. Most tractor collectors out here view rowcrop tractors with tricycle front ends as more collectable than standard tread tractors. To sum it up, why buy a rowcrop tractor when all you will ever farm with it is wheat and other small grains instead of soybeans and corn.
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