[AT] red belly/ fergy

[Al Jones]

True, they are a few years newer.  But you can buy the IH or JD for about
the same price as a ferguson or a ford--that was the point, you can spend
the same money on something that is the same physical size as a Nseries or
a Ferguson, is a little newer, will use about the same sized implements
(don't think a redbelly will pull three plows--but the IH or the JD will)
yet will work rings and rings around them.  Plus, the IH or the JD are not
nearly as crude.   

I don't have anything against them per se, but they're pretty over-valued
in today's market for what they are capable of. 

PS The 200 series Masseys were very popular here but they are just an
updated MF 35. Pull off the sheetmetal, and they're the same tractor
underneath.  My dad looked at buying a new 285 in the early '80s. Thank
goodness he went with a 2940 JD instead.  The 2940 was sort of a "budget"
tractor for JD, but it was head and shoulders above the 285. 

Al


> [Original Message]
> From: <Edchainsaw at aol.com>
> To: <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Date: 6/28/2009 8:30:46 PM
> Subject: Re: [AT] red belly/ fergy
>
> if your mentioning   a  404/ 424     and  a 1020     they are   a few  
> years   newer and  higher on the  tecknolevel...       they should be 
better... 
>  should run circles around  them...    put  them up against  the proper 
> competion.    what say   the  thousand series ford..      or the  200 
series 
> Massey...        
>  
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