[AT] Ang.: Probably not the best choice for me

[Cecil Bearden]

This is the reason I have 5 tractors with cabs.  the 2 belarus have 
loaders with skid steer quick attach.  The New Holland just got hedre 
and it is another 650 for the quick attach Skidsteer style so everything 
will interchange.  It has a bale s;pike and loader, so it probably will 
not get changed...  I just hate changing from mower to baler when I am 
baling because sometimes the necessity will change during the day if the 
weather changes..  The Belarus tractors are great, but just do not have 
the production with a 9 ft mower.  If they are to be run on mowing, then 
  I have to find a wide swather, I am looking for a mo-co with disks. 
preferably 14 or 15 ft wide.  Then traveling at 4.2mph will still result 
in a lot of acreage.  The New Holland with the clutchless shuttle is 
just too easy on my knee/back to not put the baler on it.

I put swindshield washer fluid in the tires on the NH yesteday to weight 
it.  It took almost 4 barrels for both tires.  They were bigger than I 
thought...

Cecil inOKla

Indiana Robinson wrote:
> In my case I just don't really need a tractor much for working any
> more. :-) (shhhhh)
> I do need more three point hitches. I want one more for using, like I
> said maybe a 9N like my father bought new and started actively
> farming with the year I was born and the first tractor I drove. It
> kind of became my tractor as far as using until it was traded for a
> new Jubilee when I was 12. As far as using goes I would really rather
> have an 8N which is slightly easier to mount / dismount since they
> don't have a brake pedal on the left side. We had two neighbors with
> 8N's and I often used both of those. I bought one of my own back about
> 1967 and used it happily for about 8 years and stupidly sold it. On
> the up side I did sell it for more than twice what I paid for it. It
> is a little hard to realize today that old tractor collectors were
> fairly scarce before about 1970. There were a few collectors but
> probably less than a tenth of the number today. Also even those
> collectors all only wanted "special" stuff.
> My vision is to have one such little tractor with my lift forks on it
> all of the time. Another with my 5' finish mower mounted all grass
> season. I want to add a three point hitch to my S-MTA like the Spee-Co
> on my Super M. I also want to swap the wide front from my old 400-LP
> onto the S-MTA and it will become the semi-permanent home for my 6'
> bush-hog. It of course already has a independent PTO and very good
> hydraulics.
> I find my S-MTA very comfortable to operate and not a problem to mount
> / dismount. One thing that helps a lot is that I have the fenders
> moved out on extensions about 8 inches on each side and up on spacers
> about 5 inches higher than factory. Makes for lots of operator room.
> I think I want to keep my little Case VAC "free" to use for light
> drawbar errand jobs like using wagons, trailers, a pasture drag and
> maybe a small manure spreader.
> The Super M has been my loader tractor about "forever" and will likely
> stay like that. I have a bale spike and a very heavy set of bale forks
> for it that will handle 1200# bales easily.
> I am going to mount the mid-mount sickle mower back on the Allis C and
> probably leave it there. It will be used to clip pastures and mow a
> few ditch banks where I need to reach out over the ditch. It is a good
> bit tougher to mount / dismount than the TO-20, an N Ford or the
> little VAC but it is something I can live with for now especially if I
> am not using it for jobs where I have to get on and off a lot.
> Of course most of those jobs can be done by several different tractors
> and I really
> -like the flexibility. I just don't like having to switch things back
> and forth all of the time. That is the same reason that there are 10
> Shopsmith's in my woodshop. :-)
> None of the other tractors actually have "jobs" other than shows and I
> don't really need them at all... Shhhhhhh!!!
> -
> Yes, a lot of people do think I am nuts... But retirement is supposed
> to be fun dammit. ;-)
>