what do you hate bout tractors

The JD 2 cylinders with the jerky hand clutch, and the brake pedals which are  right next to the seat and hard to get to.

I don't hate any tractor, as far as I am concerned it beats doing farm work by hand or using horses.  I have tractors I dislike but none that I hate.

Iam another one against the old JD two cylinder tractors, the steady thumping and shaking of the engine, jumpy clutch and those dumb brakes so far back if you have big feet you cant hit them fast enough. those engineers really shoulda done there research on that one lol.

What i hate on my B is the pto and lift run at the same time .Have a finish mower and blades run when picked up  or transporting from one place to another.

I never had a problem with JD Hand clutches. When moving tractors from the show to the storage shed for my friends they seem to be quite easy to drive...minus the break locations. I guess you have to have them adjusted just right, I'm sure its not hard to do. 

I hate that my bank acount is to small, so therefor I can't buy more tractors to put in the shed, because the shed is to small to put more tractors into. The shed is to small because my bank acount isn't large enough to afford to buy another. I hate this circle.

I didn't like the JD  B because the steering wheel was almost torn out of my little hands when I hit a bump.....but I loved the MF 135D with PS that my dad bought in the early 70's. He only bought it because he wanted the MF chopper and the owner would only sell them as a pair.  I remember starting it up in the Quanset the first winter we got it when my dad was gone....can still remember the smell of the cold diesel smoke that filled the barn.....and hoped it would clear by the time he got home! Later I loved running down the road with oversized rear tires...with the multi-power that tractor would do close to 30 mph with unloaded 14.9's on it!

 I hate not getting to spend more time working and playing with my tractors.

In defense of Deere yet again, I still don't understand all the complaints. All mine are narrow front, they steer great, you can slip them into the next gear while moving with no problems, I love the hand clutch, and the brakes on them will stop almost anything.

Again so everybody knows I have Allis Chalmers and John Deeres, and I love both, lol.

I don't really hate anything but I do wish I had the aftermarket hydraulic pump that runs of f the governor of the A so it would have live hydraulics.

Also wondered why didn't they ever change the WD45 to true "live" hydraulics instead of having to use the hand clutch.


Edited by 79fordblake - 10 Mar 2011 at 11:30pm

The steering on the A's is pretty good. Dad's 70 and the 50 we had weren't that good. Very hard to turn when sitting still. Despite that, if a two cyl runs good (better than most that you see at shows), I think they sound pretty purdy. 

Edited by Reeseholler - 10 Mar 2011 at 11:28pm

Eldon (WA) wrote: I'll have to admit my wife's 520 has a real smooth clutch, brakes work great and the power steering with roll-shift front end cured the old steering problems....

I wish I had a 520. One of my friends has one. 1958, his dad bought it new, farmed with it a couple seasons and he decided to stop farming for health reasons. Has sat in a barn its whole life, only been started a couple times after he stopped farming. I think those little 520s are like cadillacs. Kinda like a WD45, they are small but they will do so much.

I like my JD 720D. I like my D19D too. I think that old 720 would work right next to the D19 in the field

We were raised with all kinds of tractors.  The 36 Silver King is still a favorite even though I had to crank start at 11 years old.  Not many "starting Hills" in North Central Ohio, but we had a small one near the barn that worked if everything was tuned right.   We used the 2n Fords in the orchards.  Good little tractor for that.  You had to know not to pull a chain with the 3pt hitch and you had to keep the left brake adjusted so you could activate it with the clutch petal.   We farmed with WCs. My uncle still blames his bad hip on using the clutch with that off set seat.  I understand why some don't like the little fords, but if you worked and orchard where you had to get on and off a lot, you sure would cuss that little Allis B.

Hate is a strong word, but I'll say two things that I wish were different on my ACs:

1. Wish I didn't have to have the PTO running on my CA to use the hydraulics to lift the bellymower to get out of the barn. Too often there is a corner of a tarp or something else just out of my sight that is under the mower and gets chopped up when I go to lift it to pull out of the barn.
2. The hand clutch on the WD is exactly where my right knee needs to go.

I don't hate, but it hurts to fill them up with fuel. And it's going to get worse, Bill