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swindave

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are their any john deere 6030 tractors in your area?
or maybe you have one? or used one?
they look built solid and heavy,
i cant believe many were sold, i only seen a few

i had done some traveling the last couple of days and saw one out in a field ,
they just look big! and in there day was proabably huge!
any stories on them?
thanks
 
My dad bought and sold tractors in the 80's and 90's. We were in western MD and bought a good many tractors from north and south carolina. We sold one 6030 to a neighbor that used it to pull a liquid manure tanker. I spent some time hauling manure with it and as a teenager that thought a 4020 was a big tractor it was impressive to run. It had axle duals and a factory cab. There were never any new ones sold in my area. Tom
 
Guy who farmed in the 1970s 15 miles east of Owatonna had one. First time he plowed some tough ground was looking back at plow and turned to look ahead and all he saw was hood. He had to add another 1200 lbs of weight up front.
 
There are 3 of them around here. My cousins own two of them. They bought one new in the early 70s. It was a demo 6030 and was juiced up with different injectors then what came from the factory. It dynoed 235 hp and would pull the front wheels off the ground with a rack of weights and fluid in the front tires when dropping the clutch. Pulled a 35ft chisel plow with sweeps. That size of plow is normally pulled by 250 hp 4 wheel drive tractors like Versatile or Steiger. That tractor has close to 10,000 hrs and the engine has never been opened up. They have split it a few times from breaking the pto on the forage choppers and did take out the final drives once. Truth is they overworked the tractor but they still use it today just raking hay now so its retired.
 
Vermeer Twin V rake. Its overkill but they did take the duels off, drained the chloride, took the rest of the weight off and got the AC working again. Its retired which is good because Ive heard parts are hard to come by now. They also have a IH 1066 hydro and they just leave that thing set in favor of the 6030.
 
Does this one count??---Tee
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Beauty and the beast!
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A neighbor lady took this of her Grandson on it.
 
They used one at the tractor pull last week to pull the packer around. Had duals and looked like it packed more than the packer did. Nice looking one's Tee. Staying cool? Corn sure is taking a beating here yesterday and this morning already.
 
None locally a just a few in the vegetable areas south of Rochester, NY from what I understand.
 
My cousin bought an open station row crop out of western NY perhaps 20 years ago... it came from between Buffalo and Rochester. Had a ROPS and canopy, but no differential lock. I think it had been shipped to that area originally.
 
Staying cool Mel--How about you? Corn getting beat by hail or the heat?-It' hot here but we got a in. of rain a week ago. Did you see that G on the Big Iron sale this week-in Neb. by N. Platt? $675--stay safe---Tee
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It has MEL writen all over it!
 
I'd be curious if you can remember the details of where and possibly selling dealer. The one I remember was on the river flats SW of Geneseo, NY. Never thought to stop and look up close. I remember one waiting outside a JD dealer shop most likely over to Oakfield, NY. Its been a while since I have really run the roads in that part of the state. Been a while since I have seen a 6030 in the flesh and I think that one was brought in from out of state.
 
Thanks. The river flat tractor I had seen probably a dozen times while the dealer shop one was a one time sighting I had forgotten about until now.
 
Tee missed that one.. Heat is really doing us in. We had 1/2 inch last Sat. but it was pretty scattered. Corn across the road from me looked really good Wed. yet but today it is white and leaves are turning brown. Looks like it was hailed on.
 
Word is 30 minutes from Rochester. And he doesn't know if it was original to NY, but I think it had been there awhile. Having spent time there, I was probably as interested in its history as he was. If memory serves, it was between there and Buffalo.
 
Leicester (SW Geneseo) would be 30 minutes from the southern edge of Rochester (Strong Memorial Hospital area. Just take 390 south to Geneseo then take Rte 39 west. It would be quite the coincidence if we were talking about the same tractor. Probably will never know all the details about it. Not that most dealers would refuse such a sale new but I could see Halpin's or Ag Equipment order one in then worry about selling it later. The dealer in Oakfield (Ag Equipment) was quite the character. He was big into Western culture and wore a 10 gallon hat. I interviewed for a salesman's job not too long after Cornell with that dealer. He was fairly adamant about getting an older person to work for him and that is the direction he ultimately went. He evidently just fired a salesman as he kept going on about how catching a combine auger with a tree was NOT covered under warranty. I did buy a 7000 planter from him just a few years later.
 
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