The ultimate classic tractor.

[Henery]

4255 JD, awesome machine, still capable of a days work, the future 4020 , had mine from new, 11k hours now, lovely old girl!

 

[Philip Watkins]

JD 5020

 

[jonnydenver]

got to be a 3650, and coming up as a classic as a 6610 or 6910

 

[Ivor Cornfield]

Add a turbo and call it a 3650 and you do have the ultimate classic ttractor

Not exactly a 36 just fitting a turbo, but i see what you are saying. Not really possible to find a 36 now that has'nt been to the moon and back, and for what such a rarity would cost I would be looking at a 6000 series, getting hard to find also.

i used to drive a 3050, was nice enough but that single door didnt really do it for me, was better than the 6400 what replaced it though, i had to wait until i got my hands on the 6600 before i was truly happy

Would you still use the left hand door only? i always do whatever the machine. I would of said a replacement for a 30/33/36 would of been the 6600.

 

[Rimjob]

DB 770... power to spare

 

[John 1594]

Not exactly a 36 just fitting a turbo, but i see what you are saying. Not really possible to find a 36 now that has'nt been to the moon and back, and for what such a rarity would cost I would be looking at a 6000 series, getting hard to find also.


Would you still use the left hand door only? i always do whatever the machine. I would of said a replacement for a 30/33/36 would of been the 6600.

depends what implement im using as to which door i use, when your mowing right next to a river it makes sense to get out the right hand door and walk round, as the left hand door it literally straight out and down the riverbank.

Salesman at the time was adament the 6400 was as good as the 3050, having more gears and a turbo, etc etc. wasnt though, it rode rough on the road unless it was ballasted to hell, and once the engine died out past a certain point it was time to drop a gear, where the 3050 would have clung on till the last. I was gratefull to get the 6600, felt so much more "planted" when you was driving it, and was silky smooth and quiet compared to the vibrating, revving like anything 4 potter

I just couldnt be doing with the visibility of the SG2, too many things in your eye line when you was trying to drill to the centre of the bonnet, and no space inside for anything except yourself

 

[John 1594]

DB 770... power to spare

got one for sale if you fancy it.........

 

[Rimjob]

i couldnt find the pee takery smiley........

 

[John 1594]

i couldnt find the pee takery smiley........

need to add that to the list of suggestions then

 

[MF565]

JD 5020

Nice tractor them, the older John Deere's have always had a bit of presence with them. I can barely remember my dads old John Deere R before he sold it, wish he never did now.

 

[Philip Watkins]

There's also a B, D, 730, 3040 and a 6810 in that stable.

 

[MF565]

There's also a B, D, 730, 3040 and a 6810 in that stable.

Your a bit a head of me then, i've just got 2 old deere's, 1928 D and 1947 A V twin hope to have them both out at shows this year for the first time in nearly 20 years.

 

[Ivor Cornfield]

depends what implement im using as to which door i use, when your mowing right next to a river it makes sense to get out the right hand door and walk round, as the left hand door it literally straight out and down the riverbank.

Salesman at the time was adament the 6400 was as good as the 3050, having more gears and a turbo, etc etc. wasnt though, it rode rough on the road unless it was ballasted to hell, and once the engine died out past a certain point it was time to drop a gear, where the 3050 would have clung on till the last. I was gratefull to get the 6600, felt so much more "planted" when you was driving it, and was silky smooth and quiet compared to the vibrating, revving like anything 4 potter

I just couldnt be doing with the visibility of the SG2, too many things in your eye line when you was trying to drill to the centre of the bonnet, and no space inside for anything except yourself

I rekon my left door habit thing started because of the sg2 cab, also quite a few hours in a 595, and 2680.
i suppose a factory 3050 would be close to a 6400. not many 3050 didnt get tweaked though, and you can hang a fair bit on the back of a high lift.
I see what you are saying regading the vis, but if you take the door pillar out of the equasion there is still the chimney and air pipe.
cracking old buses though.

 

[Philip Watkins]

 

[John 1594]

i suppose a factory 3050 would be close to a 6400. not many 3050 didnt get tweaked though, and you can hang a fair bit on the back of a high lift.
I see what you are saying regading the vis, but if you take the door pillar out of the equasion there is still the chimney and air pipe.
cracking old buses though.

Ours was a 40k HL version i think, she couldnt half shift on the road, was suffering usual problems towards end of her life, dash went haywire and hyd pressure kept vanishing, she was close on 11,000 hrs though, and never ever needed a headgasket either, but thats an argument for another day

 

[jonnydenver]

beauty

 

[dazza b]

Case 1056 xl oh and boy did they sound sweet hard at work

 

[Easystart ED40]

I had the pleasure of driving a 9600 like the one in my avartar .The gear leavers stuck out of the dash and crashing through the gears was a job on its own .If you roughed it enough trying to get 1h or 1L it would sheer a roll pin on the linkage and it was spanner time .Lucky it had multi-power so puling out of junctions etc was easy as Mr tortoise and Mr hare save wrestling with the cogs .I can not remember the size of the vacy tank but the tiger 6 just about pulled it but the 9600 would not break into a sweat with it .
I had it on the 307 one sat and cut 75 acres of second cut and some was first cut for hay on two farms.Good going i thought for the early 90's.When she went off chopping i had a new same laser 110 for mowing and on the RP12 and what a traveling menagerie that was .A gutless wonder .Anyway a few yrs later i heard the 9600 got snapped in half when a car t boned it .I had a Fiat 110 90 ( i think ) for a week and actually liked it .
Sorry to ramble on but it was a interesting tine of my life

 

[jd6820]

Definitely got to be a John Deere 2850 for me a cracking tractor, still capable of a days work.

 

[MF565]

Definitely got to be a John Deere 2850 for me a cracking tractor, still capable of a days work.

Well some are JD but yours is far from workable state. That reminds me must get you a magnet at some time to stick it back together.