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Originally Posted by Wetwork
All our JD tractors are from the late 80's so I haven't ran into too much I can't figure out yet, which is typically just normal end of life parts swapping. I do call in the pros is I know its gonna take me days to fix when a pro can do it in a day. It's getting down to nut-cutting though, I'm spending more time in the barn then in the field. Been pushing the old man to up-grade but ...heavy farm equipment is not priced the same as it was in the 60's and 70's which my father isn't seeming to understand very well.
I do know a lot of local farmers (I'm a rancher) are and were using soviet hacks to fix and diagnose problems on their modern JD stuff. Yes I did say soviet which in cattle country were I reside, raised my eye-brow. Of course it is their kids doing it, when I say kids I'm talking 30 to 40 year olds. The vast, vast majority of farmers and ranchers are in their late 60's and older (most of us kids do not come back).
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I hear building tandem rigs is making a comeback - now they're building them from 70s era tractors. Big power without computers. Tandem rigs became popular - or necessary - during WWII when labor was in short supply. There were some strange combinations. I know a guy who mated a Allis Chalmers WC to a Cat crawler. A guy in North Dakota farmed with tandem and triple two cylinder Deeres right into the 1970s. There were lots of working tandem hitches into the 50s, then turbos came along and horsepower was cheap and easy.
This is from the 50s, before adding turbos gave a single tractor more horsepower.
Of course you could add a turbo to an LP tractor and add a few weights for traction.
