Dad never had large tractors, A John Deere, WD Alice and B Farmall with a single front wheel. That B could take corners like a Wheel Horse lawn mower if you used the breaks right, great tractor for mowing and rakeing hay. Plowing with the A JD 3/14 ment only 7ft per round in second gear. About as fast as you could walk. If you started early in the morning it didn't take long to walk to the pickup for noon dinner.
A 4020 fetches just as much today as they did brand new.
My dad traded his IHC M loader tractor (farmhand f? for building hay stacks) in dee 50 for a IHC 400 in order to use pulling 2-7' JD press drills. First tractor i drove in dee field puling 30' of Melroe drag. I worked out west on a cattle ranch and dee whole summer was spent pulling a #9 or #8 JD 9' sickle mower and JD dump rake with dee 400. When not dat then a super WD-9 pulling a gram hoeme, disk, drill at dee same time. Before dat, rancher had the M and 400 hook together pulling those three pieces. Took half dee field to turn around in.
But i remember Dad telling mom saying then dat he got more for his M (i believe from the late 40) than he paid for it so he could not turn dee deal down. Dee price has been going up for a long time on them there McCormicks.
Before the M he had a F-? for dee field work and go back far enough he sold dee horses for a JD-D in the late 20 i do believe. db
Its been a long time since I have heard that word. Didn't even know how to spell it. I used to pull one with a U Minneapolis Moline. That would have been about 1958. At ten years old I was to small to operate the clutch on the other tractors, but the U had a hand clutch. I don't remember why, but I would stand all day while I pulled that gram hoeme. I think our WC Allis was a 1946. My transportation for fishing was a Ford with overdrive. I could work the clutch on that little tractor. It did 22 mph.gram hoeme