[AT] 4020's coming back?

[Ralph Goff]

I've never run a 4020 for any length of time but know people that have 
owned them and they all spoke very highly of the tractor. Never heard of 
any such problem with the clutch or brakes and that 8 speed power shift 
was pretty well indestructible as was the standard synchro shift. Good 
used 4020s are still in demand here as front end loader tractors but 
they are getting pretty old now considering the last ones were built in 
1972.
  A friend of mine has an early 3020 diesel synchro that he started 
farming with nearly 40 years ago. Its worth more now than he paid for it 
in 1970 but he won't sell it.

Ralph in Sask.

John Hall wrote:
> Anybody that has ever run a 4020 much knows you don't sit with the 
> clutch depressed for very long or you'll lose the brakes. We got rid of 
> the wide front 4020. It's front end seemed heavier than most others I 
> have seen but it still got broken once.
> 
> Really, I can't see why anyone would want a new tractor of this size. 
> They are too small for fieldwork on a large scale and too big for use as 
> a utility tractor. Maybe hay farmers could use something like this.
> 
> John>