What is your main tractor?

Hey guys just checking to see what your main farm tractors are?  We have alot of 7000 and 8000 series tractors.  Along with some CASE tractors.  We use the 190xts and 200's for alot of handywork also. 

ANdrew

We use 175 with 500 loader, 6080 MFD with Dual 205 loader, 7060PS with 470 loader, and Versatile 276 with loader! We use all for feeding in winter, and grinding feed! All used for haymaking also! 7000 series for field work! Also have 185, 190XT, 190XT series3, 6080 2wd, 3 7030's, 7050, and 7080!

In all honesty for the size of equipment we have on our small old fashioned operation I use my D15 for more things than anything.  It is just the handiest little rig, now we put an A-C two way hydraulic valve on it so it will probably get used more!  Of course all of the others find their place and we would be lost without the 170 and loader, the 185 is a very handy tractor as well.

We got a 1715 Ford that kind of took over the D17 work.

190XT is what I use most. Nimble, powerful, comfortable, super easy on fuel and super easy to drive. It's the only tractor my wife is willing to drive.

Edited by Lonn - 07 Dec 2010 at 5:51am

Our 45 with a kelly loader gets used way more than anything but for the hay operation it was the 45 with 262 gas motor. This year we borrowed my uncles 175 wich was much better and when I get the XT ready it will be the main field tractor. Like Lonn said real comfotable. Iam a little worried about the handclutch being jerky an knocking everybody down on the wagon though.

Good wrote: when I get the XT ready it will be the main field tractor. Like Lonn said real comfotable. Iam a little worried about the handclutch being jerky an knocking everybody down on the wagon though.

Andrew-sounds like you have a great lineup. I farm 100 acres corn/soybeans with a late model 7000.

Well the 170 for mowing 7-8 acres.  The F40, not sure yet.  Maybe keep the blade on it.

Since my farming has been downsized to hobby status with 250 acres of crop, the JD 4250 (cab and heat) is the plowing and snowblowing tractor, D-21 II with duals does 400 ac of cultivating each year pulling an A-C 1300 24.5'. A 220 is getting ready to pull the fall deep tillage tool. D-15 II brush cutting, D-12 III finishing mower, WD-45 80R all to keep up road ditches, D-17d IV wood splitter/ 30' roller. A-C 715B TLB stone picking etc. H-3 blade misc jobs. Too many A-C's and not enough jobs. 

what is the main trtactor? depends on the time of year. Spring time plowing, discing and cultivating the 4520, 190XT on the planter. summer 190XT Diesel, 190 gas, 200 and D17 for haying. Fall harvest WD on LPgas with mounted 33 picker for ear corn and K combine for grain. Winter 170 with loader for feeding round bales and getting wood out of the woods to burn and the WD45 for pushing snow.

D15 Series II for dragging stuff around and brush-hogging.  B (my son's) runs a finish mower and mows between 7-15 acres.  But hoestly its my Borg-warner rough-terrain forklift that get's used the most, and it's in the worst shape.

On our farm we use a 185 to plant the crop with.
The 200 and 7045 to pull the wagons into town with.
The C to move wagons around and sometimes for some fun pull loads into town with.

I only have one a 54 WD45. In the winter I use it to plow snow. In July I use it for baling straw with a 302 baler and cutting down the weeds later with an 80R mower on my son-in-laws land and his buddies land. Does a quick job disking the small garden too, 2 passes and done, lol.  John

One of my main tractors is a 80' 7080 for tillage and a 74' 200 for bailing and brush mowing. Plus 10 other AC's for small jobs.