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  • From: Marie Kamphefner <kampy AT netins.net>
  • To: "market farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: tractor
  • Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 10:43:21 -0600


We have an old AC D-14 that I just loved to drive before it threw a rod.
Brother-in-law says he can patch a hole from a thrown rod if it's not big
enough to throw a cat through, but so far, he hasn't started fixing it. We
have an even older Farmall Cub that I LOVE to cultivate with because you
can see exactly where you're going and what you're doing. My dad bought it
new in 1949 and it runs very good. You can see a picture of it at
http://www.netins.net/showcase/slf.

When the AC shot craps, we went tractor shopping and ended up buying a used
Agco Allis 5680. It had about 450 hours on it and has about 75 horsepower.
The guy who traded it in said it wasn't big enough for his operation. It
was a little more than we wanted to pay, but seemed like so much more
tractor than the compacts that we at first thought we wanted and were just
sky-high (we thought). The Agco Allis is a dream to drive - nice, comfy,
adjustable seat, seat belts, power steering and has an foot feed much like
driving a car if you wish to use it - also has a lever control. It will
pull a 3 bottom plow. It has a canopy which is a God-send on a hot sunny
day and I'm sure the roll bars are worthwhile. It is very stable and we
can drive up and down the ditch banks with no problems. We do have
front-end weights for plowing the gumbo on the bottom. Hubby has
installed extra driving lights, fog lights and a cup holder. I have used
it for disking (took some getting used to after the Cub), pulling my
daughter's car out of the ditch and hauling feed to the sheep in the
pasture. Hubby grades the road, scrapes the snow off, plows, disks,
cultivates, rotary hoes, pulls out fence posts, plants, seeds, picks corn,
moves the chicken house, drives to the neighbor's and gets big bales of
hay, and drives around looking for coyotes and lambs with it among other
things. It runs on diesel and goes forever on a tank. It's probably
smaller than any of the neighbors' tractors, but it works for us. Most of
the implements we have are mistmatched things from auctions and the
neighbors' junk piles. We're not sure how getting parts will be because we
haven't had trouble yet, but we've been assured that parts are readily
available. If we hadn't gotten this one, a Massey Ferguson was close to
the top of the list. Seems like anything green is extremely expensive. We
were concerned about getting parts for the ones made in China and Eastern
Europe but never really checked them out.

Good luck on your quest for a tractor.

Marie in Missouri





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