[AT] Update on the MF 1155
Cecil Bearden
crbearden at copper.net
Sun Feb 24 18:59:59 PST 2019
The Deere 4010 & 4010 w/ synchro range is a good tractor for loader
work. The reverse in every range makes it easy to load hay and unload
trailers. I need to go get my Dad's old 4010 at another farm setting
i a fence row. I also picked up a 4020 w/cab last week, I think it has
a bad or broke crank...
Cecil
On 2/24/2019 8:53 PM, Indiana Robinson wrote:
> Cecil: I'm sure you are right... This 1155 probably came from about 3
> or 4 states west of here. My dealer friend made his fortune buying
> tractors and combines and other equipment farther west and bringing
> them back here to sell. He also deals in some local stuff but most of
> the stuff comes from his trips west because so much good stuff here
> sells too high for a good level of profit. When Scott bought this
> tractor he was not around because he was busy getting ready to hit the
> road the next morning for a trip west for a couple of large auctions.
> He has been hauling stuff back here to sell for as long as I have
> known him and that has been a long time.
> When Diana and I travelled west then to the north-east last summer I
> was reminded of just how different farming is at different locations
> around the country. We had been travelling south and east for a number
> of years before that. Farmers do have a lot in common no matter where
> they are (especially old tractors) but local differences can be pretty
> wide (and very interesting) like different soil types, levels of
> rainfall and when, erosion concerns etc. I suspect that you would be
> very surprised (because I have long been surprised) at how much
> moldboard plowing is still done here in Central Indiana and especially
> in Rush County, the next county east of me.
> I used to do some no-till but I don't see a lot of no-till around me.
> Here they started switching to no-till but then moved to mulch-till
> and the use of speciality finishing tools that are kind of a mix of
> tools all in one.
> Field tile drainage is really bigger than ever here in recent years
> and I can't really recall the last time I got stuck doing field work.
> A seed corn and food grade corn operation about 2 miles from me just
> tiled a farm nearby and they ran tile (plastic) lines about 60 feet
> apart all over several fields they recently acquired. They have their
> own tile plow and the tile is reasonable in cost.
> I did get stuck with a golf cart this week but I should have been in a
> boat. :-)
>
> Spencer: Son Scott is our youngest, our baby...He hates when we say
> that. :-) He is 46.
> Before I bought my Deere 4020 years ago I almost bought a 806. It was
> quite nice and the price was right but it was just so dang loud
> running. Not exhaust noise, compression hammering... I finally walked
> away from it. Everybody kept telling me that it was normal for them
> but I just didn't like the sound of it.
> I never regretted the 4020.
>
> On Sun, Feb 24, 2019 at 7:39 PM Tyler Juranek <tylerpolkaman at gmail.com
> <mailto:tylerpolkaman at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Hey Spencer and all,
> Believe it or not, dad bought a 966 here recently. Acording to the
> serial number, it was one that came out of the factory with a narrow
> front.
> He bought it with a wide front, but found a good narrow front to
> put back on it.
> He wants to have it all painted up and all that crap that his son
> doesn't care much about. :) Lol.
> The mechanical work has all been done I think. That is what matters
> most to me. I care more about mechanicals and tires, not about the
> paint jobs.
> And Spencer, when it comes to my father, everything is for sale...
> Tyler Juranek
> IA
>
> On 2/24/19, Spencer Yost <spencer at rdfarms.com
> <mailto:spencer at rdfarms.com>> wrote:
> > I am not sure of the age of your son Scott, it sounds like we
> must be pretty
> > close in age. When I think big tractors I think of those
> Massey’s too. More
> > so, I think of the “six” series Farmall and IH tractors. Like
> the 706 and
> > 966. I still keep an eye out for them. It’s a pipe dream, I
> never will own
> > one. Recently I saw this on craigslist:
> >
> >
> https://greensboro.craigslist.org/grd/d/coats-ih-706-tractor-plow-and-disk/6818930052.html
> >
> > If I was stupid rich or just plain stupid I would buy it. On
> my puny 15
> > acres I don’t even have enough room to turn it...
> >
> > Spencer Yost
> >
> >> On Feb 24, 2019, at 10:33 AM, Indiana Robinson
> <robinson46176 at gmail.com <mailto:robinson46176 at gmail.com>>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> Son Scott did buy the MF 1155. I figured that he would. He has
> wanted one
> >> for too long and this one was in too good of general condition
> for him to
> >> pass it up. He had asked me to go with him when he first looked
> at it when
> >> there was no one around. It was sitting on the lot of a dealer
> I have
> >> bought stuff from for a very long time. Not constant purchases
> and not big
> >> stuff. I never farmed very big, couple of hundred acres most of
> the time.
> >> The farm is a lifestyle thing, I made most of my income from other
> >> enterprises. Still it takes a lot of equipment to do the job.
> Over the
> >> years I bought a couple of combines from him, a 20 something
> foot wide
> >> harrogator, a wider set of wings for my big disk, field sprayer
> etc.
> >> Several years ago we bought a Vermeer round baler from him. He
> always
> >> treated me well. When I started dealing with him he was a small
> >> independent dealership and a farmer like a lot of other small
> dealers
> >> were. Today he and his sons have a huge operation with one huge
> building
> >> that is absolutely full of classic tractors that are not for
> sale. Over
> >> the years he has bought most of the farms that surround him and
> he now has
> >> his own system of private roads from one to another. We became
> business
> >> friends over those years and I was always impressed that when I
> walked in
> >> he always treated me the same as if I was one of the biggest
> farmers in
> >> the state. That is the way you should do business.
> >> Anywho... Scott had his mind mostly made up but wanted me to go
> along to
> >> help check it over carefully with it running and him driving it
> to check
> >> each function. We studied it pretty carefully for maybe 2 hours
> or more
> >> and if anything had popped up he would have backed away but he was
> >> confident enough that we went in a semi with a low-boy. I had
> to meet him
> >> at a local shopping center because it is pretty tough to get
> even a 40'
> >> trailer in to this farm and this was a 52' trailer.
> >> Everything seemed OK and they were willing to drop the price
> $500. He
> >> asked them to pop the duals off and load them on the truck.
> >> Kind of a funny bit of irony here... They have large industrial
> battery
> >> electric impact wrenches so they don't have to drag air hoses
> around.
> >> Worked really great but to get the duals off they had to jack
> the tractor
> >> up a little. Yep, pneumatic jack and an air hose dragged out to
> the apron
> >> where the tractor was sitting. :-)
> >> It all went well, of course Scott loads and hauls big stuff
> almost daily,
> >> sometimes several times a day. He spends more time behind a
> desk these
> >> days but he is still on job sites most days.
> >> The 1155 is quite wide. It has power adjust (spin out) rear
> wheels but
> >> also wide slide out axles. He is considering cutting down the
> axles some
> >> so the don't stick past the wheels. Thinks it might save some
> doorways.
> >> The duals are clamp on and don't use the axles. I doubt he will
> ever use
> >> the duals.
> >> I have a little Case VAC that has the wide axle option and I'm
> still
> >> considering chopping those... (shrug)
> >> We have 3 ways to get to the farm here, none of them semi
> friendly. :-)
> >> Coming in from the north requires going through an oddball 20'
> tall
> >> rail-road underpass that was built long long ago as a bridge
> over a fair
> >> sized creek and then back in about the 1920's people started
> driving
> >> around one side of it in dry weather on a gravel bar. It wasn't
> even a
> >> road then. Later a heavy one lane "U" shaped concrete "shelf"
> was poured
> >> around there for traffic. Scott comes through there fairly
> often with a
> >> tri-axle dump truck towing a tri-axle trailer with a
> backhoe/loader or
> >> maybe a good sized excavator but it is not suited for a semi at
> all. The
> >> other two directions are only slightly better due to utility
> poles in too
> >> close to the corners and narrow culverts. Scott considered
> parking on the
> >> wider road and unloading the tractor and me driving it home but
> then we
> >> would still have had to deal with the duals and it was a cold
> day. :-)
> >> He managed to get the longer trailer "buttoned" past the
> corners with only
> >> minimal damage to the road ditches which were about like quicksand.
> >> He has already been working on the 1155 for several days now
> off and on. I
> >> can about guarantee you that the first thing he did was rework
> all of the
> >> wiring. I noticed yesterday that he has the hood off and I
> think the
> >> whole exhaust system. It had some minor exhaust leakage where
> the manifold
> >> mounts to the heads and I know that he ordered a batch of
> gaskets for it.
> >> I know that he was planning on putting some money in it trying
> to get
> >> everything just right.
> >> It is important to understand here that while this tractor will
> not be an
> >> actual "trailer queen" this pretty much falls under the heading
> of "a toy
> >> he always wanted" like his Harley or his 4 wheeler and not a
> tractor to
> >> farm with productively. He works very hard and makes very good
> money and
> >> he plans his fun stuff too. I am not sure of the value of this
> tractor,
> >> the big tractors (this is 140 HP and about 20,000 pounds
> ballasted) have
> >> never been on my wish list so I have not followed them. The 10
> to 60 HP
> >> tractors are my choice and I like the smaller ones more all of
> the time
> >> like my Cub, Pony, VAC, Allis C etc.
> >> I don't guess he would mind me saying that he paid $7,000 for
> it. It's a
> >> nice tractor and when he asked me I told him that if he didn't
> like it
> >> after he bought it or something failed badly he could probably
> at least
> >> part it out for more than that...
> >> I'll have to see if I can convince him to take it to Portland.
> Then if he
> >> uses the semi he can haul a couple more for me. :-) :-) :-)
> >>
> >>
> >> .
> >>
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> >>
> >> Francis Robinson
> >> aka "farmer"
> >> Central Indiana USA
> >> robinson46176 at gmail.com <mailto:robinson46176 at gmail.com>
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