Posted by JD Seller on January 25, 2015 at 17:49:21 from (208.126.198.123):
In the earlier discussion about IH "H" tractors many talked about how they farmed with one. That would have been most common in the early to mid 1950s. Around here the size race was going on in the mid 1960s already. The JD 4020 and the IH 806 where spreading fast.
So jump ahead to now. In my mind a JD 4450 is still a pretty good tractor. I was at a sale last fall. I bought a JD 4450. I also bought a 4 year old JD 1770 16x30 corn planter. So Rather than making another trip I thought I would just drive the tractor pulling the planter home. Well WRONG!!! LOL The JD 4450 would not even pickup the hitch on the JD 1770 planter. Front end with a full rack of weight was too light/small.
We had a farm " business" meeting this afternoon. My sons have picked up more ground for this year. So we have been trading around some jobs for the different tractors. We even have traded two off on two better ones. Not new just equipped better for what they need. Tires and transmissions.
Now the thing that kind of shocked me. The only tractor under 200 HP that will be used this year in their crops is one of my JD 4455s on the sprayer. There will be a JD 8410 and JD 4960 doing the heavy tillage work. They will have two JD 8210s on the planters this year. They are chipped too. The 16 row planters pull HARD on slopes in worked ground.
You need to look at the work they will be getting out of those four tractors. They will cover just under 7500 acres when you include their custom planting/farming work.
So for a tractor 7-10 times the size of the IH "H" they are doing 35-40 times the work. This is figuring a 100 acres for the IH "H" and 3750 acres for each modern tractor. (Assuming that each modern tractor tills and plants half the total acres)
To me they are getting pretty "new" equipment. My boys got a laugh out of me saying that since the "newest" tractor is 13 years old. They reminded me that when they where smaller and I was farming more seriously I was using equipment that was not any older than that.
Times are changing!!! I don't even try to keep up any more. I will use my JD 4440 on my JD 7000 8 row 36 inch planter. I will not even try to run their GPS auto this and that systems. LOL
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