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DeltaRed

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I posted a question on the JD page.I'd appreaciate
if you JD 'experts' would check it out and give your
input .Thanks,Steve
 
I'm been told they were popular in Argentina.
John Deere kept building the twice cylinder tractor in Argentina aboot 10 years after they ceased production in the USA.
Thar wuz a yoke going around that the farmers said they wood give their right arm to have a tractor. The dealers took them up on their offer, and that is why there were a few without a right arm, and had to have a foot clutch installed.
 
That was the thing that always stumped me about the one I had. The PTO used a foot clutch,but they couldn't come up with one for the main drive.
 
The foot clutch for the PTO is entirely different from a foot clutch for the transmission. The PTO clutch is a "latch-over-center" clutch, they had to re-arrange the location of the the Hand lever when they added the 3pt hitch, so it was put forward, the pedal acted the same as lifting the handle to latch over center.The foot clutch for the transmission is much like the clutch for a truck,it is on till the pedal releases it, no latch over center configuration.
 
They built those JD 730s in Argentina until 1971. The moved all the tooling form the Waterloo plant down there. I think that the second production run from 1961 to 1971 had a foot clutch as an factory option. I also think the belt pulley was an option as well.

IF you look at the controls they where different for the hydraulics and some others things. I would like to have one of the late ones from down there. I also would like one of the JD 3530s from down there too. They where basically a JD 4020 rear end with a JD 329 motor. I know of several JD 3020s that had the JD 329 installed in them. They are nice chore tractors with a smoother running engine.
 
And the belt pulley was deleted in the foot clutch version. You need to keep in mind that before the 720's were in production Deere was testing the "heck" out of proto type 3010's and 4010's,,so with the New Generations near ready to hit the market no effort to change the hand clutch design was on the table.
 
It would have been quite a tap dance to use the foot clutch for the tractor drive and the PTO at the same time. I think I would have wanted a hand clutch lever for the PTO somewhere if it had the foot clutch for the main drive.
 
They made 730 in Argentina at the same time as they were making them in the US. They did not "move" the tooling to Argentina.
Not trying to be rude. But if you think JD made those foot clutch, I sure would like a parts book that shows me that. I have an Argentina 730 parts books and it is not in there, but the foot throttle is. I also have a foot clutch and it clearly has who made it aftermarket written right on it and they are still in business today. JD never made them. The PTO is turned on by a extended piece of flat iron.
 
As for the tooling I am just stating what the factory workers that saw the tooling packed up and shipped to Argentina.

As for the foot clutch I have never seen one in person but I did see an old JD sales manual from Argentina that showed the foot clutch in it.

Maybe it was an allied equipment type of thing. I could not read the manual as it was in Spanish. So maybe it just told you where to order one.
 
Both of you guys are right in a way. JD did make the 730 into 1961. But every 730 made after June 15th 1960 was imported. JD was already making 730s in Argentina by this point but they were assembled from components made in Waterloo with some parts made locally. After the 730 ceased production in 1961, the tooling was shipped down to Argentina so the 730s could be made 100% "in house". All this info comes from JR Hobbs.
 
Yes that is what I was saying. They were already making them there. They did not just stop making them in 1961 in the US and move the tooling and start making them down there. There are many different casting that you will see on the Argentina tractor--From US casting (early on)to large As with circles around them to "Industrial Argentina" cast right into the casting.
 
Don't know much about them. But seen one at New Harmony In. Show. Had a foot clutch on left side and both brakes on right. Had a cover over clutch. Also no yellow on hood. There was a narrow front 435 (2-53 Detroit) No yellow on hood also. Think it had 445 on hood.
 
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