It ok till it’s about half full then the fun starts.
2wd Tractors
- Thread starter Fergieman
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ollie989898
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With rear discharge machines, you really do need 150hp or even 200hp to get on with the job. They take some serious dragging and powering and it's one of those jobs where you wonder why they heck anyone bothered with 100-120hp back in the day because bigger tractors make a mockery of the job.
nosmokenopoke
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Would prefer a 100hp tractor on a rear discharge than the same tractor on a barrel spreader!
- Location
- Hampshire
You needed a Massey with power control, gadget sat on the links with a chain around the drawbar. Used to pull a 1250 gallon tanker with a 165, front wheels off the ground a lot of the time!
ollie989898
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Throw in some Massey multipower gearfunkery for extra fun?
hintonroadhero
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- Location
- Waikato, NZ
Think you're referring to Massey's Pressure Control System?
J E Rees in South Wales had (possibly still have ) a rather smart 2wd Same Explorer 100, for sale
You get a 2wd claas atos 340 which is around the 100hp mark
Back in the day alot of folk only had 100hp, "not bothering" wasn't an option or an attitude to have and hopefully it isn't nowadays either.
- Location
- South wales
Proper tractors 
I’d love to find that 5610 super q that’s on the spinner absolute favourite tractor 
I’d love to find that 5610 super q that’s on the spinner absolute favourite tractor
- Location
- Hampshire
You're right, pressure control, still got a couple lying about.
Those Fords must have been light on the front, half a big bag and a full set of weights!Proper tractors
- Location
- South wales
Plenty of steep ground hereThose Fords must have been light on the front, half a big bag and a full set of weights!
Walking around the farm yard in Canada on my first day there was an eye opener for a 19 year old. A 160ish hp jd 4640 in 2wd was amazing to see.
it ran a bean cutter, bloody sharp blades in vee form on the front linkage. Flat out down the rows cutting them off at the roots.
I didn’t get that job :-( I was stuck on the cast 9170 pulling 30’ discs.
it ran a bean cutter, bloody sharp blades in vee form on the front linkage. Flat out down the rows cutting them off at the roots.
I didn’t get that job :-( I was stuck on the cast 9170 pulling 30’ discs.
- Location
- Black Isle
We had a 6120 JD my father in law bought new in 2005, 2wd. It was a great pulling little tractor, no power was wasted. V manoeuvrable. It ran mixer wagon an then hitched that off and onto scraper every day. By 2013 it only had something like 2000 hours but was rough as anything 
We traded it in for a 115R with a loader and demoted a 6230 to mixer wagon and now scrape out with loadall. The downside of the 6120 2wd for me back then was a slight bit of snow and we were having to hitch a 4wd onto the mixer, it was no use for road work. I do regret selling it now though
I don’t know if modern 2wd are as good as old tractors, would the weight distribution be all set up towards a 4wd model?
We traded it in for a 115R with a loader and demoted a 6230 to mixer wagon and now scrape out with loadall. The downside of the 6120 2wd for me back then was a slight bit of snow and we were having to hitch a 4wd onto the mixer, it was no use for road work. I do regret selling it now though I don’t know if modern 2wd are as good as old tractors, would the weight distribution be all set up towards a 4wd model?
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- Location
- Moreton-in-Marsh, Glos
I bought one at an Auction for £14 that had been put in by an MF dealer. Must have been one of the last made. It was absolutely brilliant when used in the pressure control part of the hydraulics quadrant.
We had a terrible amount of snow in one of the early 80’s Winter and the milk lorries couldn’t get to us. We had to use empty 300 gallon fruit juice containers on tractors and trailers to meet the lorries at a central point at the nearest town.
That MF pressure control kit got me there and back Using a 2WD 690 and a weeks 2 wheel trailer. There were places where I know I was driving along verges or even along the edges of fields, because I wasn’t exactly sure where the road should be. Without it, we would have had to let it all go.
Hygiene had completely gone out of the window at that meeting point, though.
The guy from MMB coordinating it all said he thought it best if they sent it all to make cheese!