[AT] 620 day

[deanvp at att.net]

Dean,

That tractor looks great. Here is the trick if looking back over your right shoulder. Run your left arm though the steering wheel to operate the clutch.  Small steering corrections can be made with the arm and the hand handles the clutch. Piece of cake!. 😊   As far as getting on and off I use the hitch itself quite often but I also have a step facing forward from the left rear axle so that you can get on between the left tire and the flywheel cover.  The step consists of a simple steel flat L shaped bar that bolts to the axle and a corrugated plate for the step. Around $50 or so.  Kind of handy and easier on and off since all the levers don't get in the way.  Got to keep the Red one in the shed do it doesn't hurt anyone!  😊 


Dean VP
Apache junction, AZ

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Subject: [AT] 620 day

Five inches of new snow overnight last night meant I needed the 620 and rear blade today, and as is always the case when I get the old girl out I think
"This is one heck of a fine machine."   It's been below freezing pretty
continuously here for weeks, sometimes way below, so the ground is frozen good and hard and I could plow snow with the blade cutting forward, rather
than back-blading, without digging up the gravel much.   That made for
faster work, but I still found plenty to do to keep the 620 busy for the
better part of a couple hours.   Sounded good, felt good, power steering
smooth as can be, brakes wonderfully effective when I needed them,
three-point nicely responsive and consistent.   Just a darn good solid and
capable old tractor.

More often than not, though, the Super M remains my go-to tractor since it's more likely that I just need to haul a wagon somewhere than to use a three-point implement, and my beat-up old single-axle trailer stays hitched
to the Super M most of the time.   That tractor is easier to get on and off,
and easier for me to back up (foot clutch vs hand clutch, especially since I tend to look back over my right shoulder when I'm backing up), and by the way it's just a darn good solid and capable old tractor.

When I get to thinking about comparing those two fine old row-crops, I usually end up at "Now if I just had an Oliver 77..."

Dean Vinson
Saint Paris, Ohio