I was trying to plow under some rye last night to plant the first patch of sweetcorn soon. I have to say I am impressed with the new to me ford 4000. It plowed for several hours on a five gallon can of gas, and the draft system really worked good. Was pulling a 2 bottom in 3rd gear and it was not even working hard. Granted it is sand,, but there are some wet, dark, sticky areas and it went right through without slipping. That is really the first farming I have ever done with a Ford tractor, but now I guess I see why they sold so many of them. Pretty powerful and efficient for a small package. I am in the process of restoring a JD f125 3 bottom to go behind my newly repowered 2510 diesel. I am looking forward to seeing what it can do, but it will be hard to beat the Ford.
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Adirondack case guy
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Around here if a 4000 couldn't pull a 3x14 plow in our heavy clay/loam soils, it would be parked inlue of something that would. I plowed many+ acers with a Case 530 with a Case MT34 plow. Alfalfa sod to corn stubble on hilly tarrain in upstate NY.
That Ford 400 should work circles around that 2510 green thing.
Loren
That Ford 400 should work circles around that 2510 green thing.
Loren
larry@stinescorner
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Those Fords are tough to beat!!!(I agree!)
larry@stinescorner
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yea,,but a Case cant beat a Ford! lol
Sounds like ideal conditions for it. Some of the heavier clay soils here will bog an 800/801 or later 4 cylinder 4000 series down with a 2-16 plow, but other areas it glides along nicely. I really liked my single bottom in sod/root bound conditions where no tillage had been done in 20-30 years or more. Takes longer but it pulls easily in the worst conditions, with a few instances of plugging or wet ground. The results were very good with this plow, meaning the sod was turned over correctly. With either plow you did not need to keep the throttle way up. Properly adjusted, good shares, and with reasonable conditions, I think these do a pretty decent job with a good degree of efficiency for a 4 cylinder gasoline engine.
I grew up with a Case 800 for disking, chopping hay, etc. Never had a plow on it though. That and the old DC for pulling an offset disk or powering the hay blower with the belt. Those Case tractors were good lugging machines. Also drove uncle's 1370, now that was a monster of a machine. It always had more power than needed for what we hooked it to. But the case-o-matic 800 took a little getting used to, especially pulling out on the road up an incline with load.
larry@stinescorner
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but,,you do have the prettiest tractor I have ever seen Loren
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Plowed many and acre with an 851 gas when I was a young boy. It would handle two 14's easily and would pull three 14's in fescue sod but you had to have a fuel truck close by. With two 14's you could plow all day on the 15 gal tank but with three 14's in 20 year old fescue sod it burned 5 gal an hour.
Yes, they did, back when 12 or14" was the normal plow. Billy NY mentioned something about actually plowing with a 2-16.
Back in 1971 my BIL and his dad had been plowing with 2 560D Farmalls and a 4-14 plow behind each one. In 72 they had a new 826 IH and a new 4-16" plow.
I currently have a 1206 Farmall that "should" handle a 5 bottom plow. I have tried it on a 5-18 and it will plow with it but now with enough ground speed to do a proper job. Handles a 5-16 fine.
Rick
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