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Dad bought a 1939 or'40 B John Deere, only 4 speeds, fastest gear was a bit under 5 mph, but reverse was about 6 mph. Who's absolutely STUPID IDEA WAS THAT? No hydraulics, no battery start or lights. I had a 1939 FARMALL H that had a 16 m ph road gear, only had one-way hydraulics but it raised both our hyd hoist equipped wagons just fine, had headlights, no taillite but electric start, the FARMALL was much MUCH easier to drive, and it had an AM/FM tractor radio that the B could never have. And keep in mind the FARMALL was a 1939, the Deere was a 1940. I tried raking 20 acres of hay to bale with the B but got bored, parked it and used the H with my tractor radio. I REALLY don't understand how Deere ever survived into the 1950's in the tractor husiness. Listening to that ear splitting POP. POP. POP, POP made my ears ring for hours and hours, well into the night trying to fall asleep. The R diesel Dad had for a few week in spring of 1964 was ungodly loud if I spent more than a few minutes on it. The deere dealer salesman said the R would pull a 4 bottom plow that he sold Dad too, the R didn't have enough low gears to pull the 4 bottom plow, I pulled our IH #8 3-14 plow most of the time. The township road commissioneer bought the R to drag and smooth dirt roads and run a pto driven heavy-duty rototiller, they tore the pto drivetrain out of that R FOUR TIMES that spring. Someone on another forum told me the stock R pto could only handle 15 hp pto loads, I think that might be optimistic. The pto had to run to have hydraulics to raise & lower plows & disks. That was the ONLY thing we used the pto for. Dad bought a 1961 4010 diesel in about 1967, still had the factory original tires, supposedly had been overhauled with the Deere 4020 rebuild kit. And it still burned a QUART OF OIL EVERY HOUR OF HEAVY FIELDWORK. DAD would bring me out a Pepsi or two and two quarts of 10W-40 series 3 diesel oil that we'd add with the engine idling then go back to work. A complete major overhaul with the M&W 4020 kit stopped the oil burning. The BIG TIME farmer 1-1/2 miles away hired me to do fieldwork and chop haylage, had two 4020 diesels, bunch of old 2 cylinders, an A, 60, a 520 only He ran, one Friday afternoon after school I go over to his farm, a new 4020 NFE and a 4320 with wfe, cab & air conditioning hitched to the plow, Deere 5-14's. I plowed till a little after midnight. That was the ONLY night the AC worked, the 4320 was ordered with AC to chop haylage and corn silage with all the doors & windows CLOSED to keep dust out. And that first night of plowing was THE ONLY NIGHT the AC worked. That 4320 was quite a bit more tractor than the 4020's. I chisel plowed with the 4320 one afternoon a couple years later, the chisel plow was about 4-5 shanks too big, I'm struggling in 4th gear, shifted into 3rd and even with the diff locked I'm spinning. The following year I'm pulling the same chisel plow with a slightly used CASE 2870 AWD with four almost new FIRESTONE 30.5X32 TIRES and I'm just flying with that chisel plow. It rode like a Cadillac with those BIG tires.
@dennisfrisk wow is all I got. Glad we could spark those beloved memories for you even though some you may have wanted to forget! This is one of the reasons we do this, connecting people to the past, providing education to those who don't know and hopefully helping to keep in-person auctions a thing. Thanks for sharing!
I would love to have that john deere B. But I'm up here in Vermont
@franklackie2469 it sold back in August, we try and make videos for the auctioneers from their auctionzip pictures. So please subscribe and opt for notifications. Equipment auctions will kick off in March/April.
Dad bought a 1939 or'40 B John Deere, only 4 speeds, fastest gear was a bit under 5 mph, but reverse was about 6 mph. Who's absolutely STUPID IDEA WAS THAT? No hydraulics, no battery start or lights. I had a 1939 FARMALL H that had a 16 m ph road gear, only had one-way hydraulics but it raised both our hyd hoist equipped wagons just fine, had headlights, no taillite but electric start, the FARMALL was much MUCH easier to drive, and it had an AM/FM tractor radio that the B could never have. And keep in mind the FARMALL was a 1939, the Deere was a 1940. I tried raking 20 acres of hay to bale with the B but got bored, parked it and used the H with my tractor radio.
I REALLY don't understand how Deere ever survived into the 1950's in the tractor husiness. Listening to that ear splitting POP. POP. POP, POP made my ears ring for hours and hours, well into the night trying to fall asleep. The R diesel Dad had for a few week in spring of 1964 was ungodly loud if I spent more than a few minutes on it. The deere dealer salesman said the R would pull a 4 bottom plow that he sold Dad too, the R didn't have enough low gears to pull the 4 bottom plow, I pulled our IH #8 3-14 plow most of the time. The township road commissioneer bought the R to drag and smooth dirt roads and run a pto driven heavy-duty rototiller, they tore the pto drivetrain out of that R FOUR TIMES that spring. Someone on another forum told me the stock R pto could only handle 15 hp pto loads, I think that might be optimistic. The pto had to run to have hydraulics to raise & lower plows & disks. That was the ONLY thing we used the pto for.
Dad bought a 1961 4010 diesel in about 1967, still had the factory original tires, supposedly had been overhauled with the Deere 4020 rebuild kit. And it still burned a QUART OF OIL EVERY HOUR OF HEAVY FIELDWORK. DAD would bring me out a Pepsi or two and two quarts of 10W-40 series 3 diesel oil that we'd add with the engine idling then go back to work. A complete major overhaul with the M&W 4020 kit stopped the oil burning.
The BIG TIME farmer 1-1/2 miles away hired me to do fieldwork and chop haylage, had two 4020 diesels, bunch of old 2 cylinders, an A, 60, a 520 only He ran, one Friday afternoon after school I go over to his farm, a new 4020 NFE and a 4320 with wfe, cab & air conditioning hitched to the plow, Deere 5-14's. I plowed till a little after midnight. That was the ONLY night the AC worked, the 4320 was ordered with AC to chop haylage and corn silage with all the doors & windows CLOSED to keep dust out. And that first night of plowing was THE ONLY NIGHT the AC worked. That 4320 was quite a bit more tractor than the 4020's. I chisel plowed with the 4320 one afternoon a couple years later, the chisel plow was about 4-5 shanks too big, I'm struggling in 4th gear, shifted into 3rd and even with the diff locked I'm spinning. The following year I'm pulling the same chisel plow with a slightly used CASE 2870 AWD with four almost new FIRESTONE 30.5X32 TIRES and I'm just flying with that chisel plow. It rode like a Cadillac with those BIG tires.
@dennisfrisk wow is all I got. Glad we could spark those beloved memories for you even though some you may have wanted to forget! This is one of the reasons we do this, connecting people to the past, providing education to those who don't know and hopefully helping to keep in-person auctions a thing. Thanks for sharing!
That didn’t even buy the loader on the 2630.
Some people just need the money. I'm pretty sure it's a $75 no sale fee.
What happened to my thumbnail?