Nominate the best and the worst 4wd!!

[wd9]

My dog, and, my dog.

[HFL]

We had a John Deere 8440. It was fairly reliable, a bit hard to start. Performance was where it was lacking. No tourqe at all. Rated RMP was 2100, it would lug down to 2000 RMP, any lower than 2000 and you were at 0. After that we had a JD 8570. The clutch went out of it at 1948 hours. Cost us 6000 dollars to get it fixed and 2000 to rent a tractor to seed with. It was off of warrenty but we asked John Deere to help cover a bit of the repair cost seeing as it only had 1948 hours on it. They said we should be happy with 2000 trouble free hours and didn't pay 5 cents toward the cost of the repairs. Then we bought a 9660STS combine and the motor went out of it at 347 hours. I realized Deere was right when they said I should be happy with 2000 trouble free hours! We used to bleed John Deere green but after all of this we have been changing to CaseIH. We now have a 435 quad trac. It pulls like a locomotive and seems to be a reliable tractor.

[groundspeed]

I started out with versatile, now i have caseih. Never had a major problem with any of them. Just rebearinged the 9280 and did the injectors on it 400 hours ago just because i thaught it was time. Best tracter i ever had. Watch western producer in feb, i might sell it for i baught a newer one.

[cottonpicken]

Does anyone have an opinion on a used 9750 vs
9760 deere combines?

[groundspeed]

We run a 9750, 9760 ,and a 9770 all have treated us well. Cost around 25000 anually to green light all 3. Very little trouble and if there is jd has good service in my opinion.

[ALLFARMER]

Some times I think the hour meter is a bit
overused for judging life span of a machine. Take
for example a Cat 988 loader I looked at. It had
47000 hours on it.....hustling gravel! And that was
before it ran all this summer. Kind of changes
your perspective.

[TOM4CWB]

Best 4wd's on our frm,

JD05 9220 PS with Mich radials 710/38's...is light... has never been stuck yet. Pulls 56' with TB380bu and then 3000nh3 tanks... NO chip. 325hp with great fuel eco. Keeps pulling and pulling... like 500hp... just does not slip with PS... just gear back. Great Snow plow that does not sink on BIG piles 20'deep over banks.

97 F150 5.4 4x4 1/2m KM

Happy New Year!

[highwayman]

First 4wd we ran 1978 8430 which had poor
tourqe rise and hard on fuel. Fw60 ford/Steiger
with 903 cummin good solid tractor. 9682
newholland had very poor shifting transmission.
9400 John Deere descent tractor but not great
power or tourqe rise. Currently run caseih Steiger
535 on 850 trellborg tires and very impressed with
over all tractor performance. Added 600
quadtrack for 2013 so it will be a very interesting
comparison of wheels to tracks. Flotation of
trellborgs very good but slippage can be improved
upon. Suspended cab on new Steiger greatly
improves ride. New DEF engines do seem to
have better fuel efficiencies.
Three icons we've run and still have on the farm
IMO are a 67 4020 power shift, 82 4440 and
7830 mfwd power quad. All very solid tractors.

[hedgehog]

got my first 4wd last year, a fw60 ford steiger tuned to 420hp.great for discing and subsoiling. should have had one years ago.

[ALLFARMER]

Good info highwayman. I think your going to like
the quadtrac. My neighbor got a 500 and nearly
no problems. They are using more Def then they
had figured thou. They do seem to get stuck more
than they had hoped thou. There pulling a 68'
bourgault so that may be part of the problem in
wet ground lol. I assume your getting Def by the
tote and electric pump? I think he has around
2500 hours on it already.

My 4440 has 10600 hours on it and is still going
strong. I required the cables and put in to 12 volt
batteries replacing the 2 / 6 volts. Now she starts
great. Going to see if she can pull my new 12'
Kello bilt breaking disk this spring maybe going to
have to buy a 150hp front wheel assist. We need
a second tractor anyway. The older used 4wd's
are just so cheap now because the modern grain
farmer has little use for a 200 to 250 hp 4wd.