756 t/a

Don't think so. That one just ain't a gonna wash, ol' Buddy. :>)

Every farmer who has ever owned a Farmall with a T/A uses 'em to slow at the endrow and I can tell you they will last forever used in this fashion. Doesn't hurt 'em one little bit.

Now, if you're talking about whizzin' down a hill in road gear with a heavy load pushin' on the back, that's another story. :>)

Allan

Let's see. Over here on the left we have the T/A lever; forward is the high side and back is the low side. But, be darned sure ya never, ever pull the lever back 'cause it will ruin the T/A.

Sorry, I ain't buyin' it, Doc. Too many acres, too many Farmalls and too darned many years under my belt to listen to that tale.

Aside from the practice of using the T/A as a "brake", what you're saying doesn't even make sense. Farmers everywhere use the thing to slow at the end of the field. Comparatively, very, very few of them ever have T/A problems.

Going to the low side at the end row is not using it as a brake; it is just dropping the tractor down into reduction. Use the darned thing; that's what it is there for.

I guess maybe we'll have to agree to disagree on this one. :>)

Allan

I am not dusputing what you say; you absolutely know your stuff that is for sure. Heck, that's not hard to figure out; anyone can tell that fact.

What I'm saying is that you are looking at this and giving advice from the business end of a wrench. That's like me telling you never to turn your thermostat down 'cause someday it won't work anymore.

You only see the bad T/As, the broken ones. You don't see the good ones. Why should you? They work okay.

But, there are a thousand times more good T/As out there than there are bad ones. Bad T/As aren't the big "boogey-man" everyone makes them out to be. Broken T/As are the exception, not the rule.

I, on the other hand and from an operator's point of view, am telling you that yankin' that stick back at the end of the field does not hurt that T/A one little bit. If it did, I'm the joker who would have experienced it, that's for sure. Irrigated rowcrop is not easy on a tractor.

It is what the system was designed to do; drop the darned tractor into reduction.

For what it is worth, I'm 60 years old and just cannot believe I've experienced just pure, plain "luck" in all the millions of times I've pulled that stick back over the years ever since the days of the 400D.

Could be wrong tho, it is still fairly early in the day. :>)

Allan