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My uncle dairy farmed for over 40 years, first with horses and a Fordson on steel, then bought the H new in '46, eventually had two Ms, one of which is still around and working well. He had a 460 briefly in the early 70s (I think), pronounced it the most useless tractor in existence, bought a minty 560 at a farm sale a short time later, sold the 460. Can still recall the time a guy got his Ford 4x4 pickup stuck in a bog about a hundred feet from the road and my cousin pulled the guy out with the 560. When he yanked the TA in the axle-deep mud, the front end came off the ground most of the way out onto the road. Packed the entire engine compartment on the Ford full of mud. Guy was a bit upset with that outcome, cousin said Well, I coulda left you on down there in the bog. ;o) My uncle is almost 90 now, still claims the 560 is the best gas tractor ever built. Most of his neighbors farmed with assorted JD two-lungers. Anytime anyone got something stuck, they usually came to get unc to pull 'em out with his 560. The old boy always enjoyed that, since he had little use for JD tractors.
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