[AT] Update on the MF 1155
Cecil Bearden
crbearden at copper.net
Sun Feb 24 21:24:48 PST 2019
Dean there is a reverse in the highest range. When the shifter gets
worn enough it will go into high reverse. There is some sort of lockout
in that range but I can get into it on my 4010. It really moves in
that reverse...
Cecil
On 2/24/2019 10:30 PM, deanvp at att.net wrote:
>
> Cecil,
>
> Correct me if I am wrong but there is no reverse in the highest range,
> but all other range in the 4010??? I’m thinking 3010 but I would
> think the 4010 would be the same. A 4020 is considered by most JD
> people to be close to the best if not the best tractor JD ever made. I
> suspect there were quite a few engine changes made between the 4010
> and 4020. Don’t know about the crank.
>
> Dean VP
>
> Apache junction, AZ
>
> *From:*AT <at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com> *On Behalf Of *Cecil
> Bearden
> *Sent:* Sunday, February 24, 2019 8:00 PM
> *To:* at at lists.antique-tractor.com
> *Subject:* Re: [AT] Update on the MF 1155
>
> 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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