Brian hates them, I personally like them but I also wasn’t around to experience the rear end failures. There’s a couple that have put in many many years worth of work in this farm with few issues
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Brian hates them, I personally like them but I also wasn’t around to experience the rear end failures. There’s a couple that have put in many many years worth of work in this farm with few issues
beags86
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Head gasket issues. They didn't have enough head bolts for the head. Which led to head gasket failures. I think later on they changed the number of head bolts.
The trans is lighter to. I think it was also the M trans.
A 560 gas is a lesser evil. No engine problems, no as much power to break the trans/ rear. But still not heavy enough out in the field.
Grandpa had bought a brand new 560D with loader. It was in great shape with low hours went it burnt up in a round barn fire in 81. No one was that upset about it. Other then it was still a nice tractor. It was middle of winter below zero morning. Barn was smoking pretty good already and it wouldn't start. There was a 460 gas dad had so he hooked it up and drag the 560 out. But the barn hill was icey and the loader was down. The 460 didn't have enough weight to pull it out.
Every thing else on the farm was diesel. ( Nothing plugged in)
The neighbor had a 806 gas that dad thought would have enough weight to yank it out.
So he ran to get it and by the time he got back the barn fire was too hot to get close enough to hook the chain.
The 560 was gone. Dad say he watched it fall through the floor a few minutes later, as the fire department arrived on scene.
They ended up letting it burn out. 560 gone, 20 or so Holstein calves gone.
Dad was milking cows in a barn up the road, so he was just using the round barn for young stock as the time.
(Dad figured any calves were dead or if they were still alive, they would die later on from the smoke, so he focused on the tractor instead)
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79rustyk10
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Ah, ok. Didn't the 560 fiasco almost bankrupt IH?
beags86
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I don't know, that was before my time.
My grandfather had several 560 gas models and my father had a 460 diesel. Other than those caused by lack of maintenance, I never saw any major issues. I'm guessing the tractors with issues were either fixed or destroyed by the time I was paying attention in the 80's/90's.
Finished rebuilding the governor and got it installed this evening. Been down for a month feels good to have it running again, need to fix a couple other leaks and make the paint not so ugly
An H? I thought you were working on an M.
This is my H that I’ve had for years, the M is mom and dads and that is coming up here soon once I get the “new” jeep project back operable. The H was running great but I had no choice but to tear into the governor since it was puking oil everywhere. This thing has to have a pile of hours for as worn out was everything was inside there
beags86
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Might as well toss that H in the scrap pile with the 560s
Might as well toss that H in the scrap pile with the 560s
I think Beagle is turning into a Deere fan.
When your rig moves at <0.5MPH you can do things like that.
You just need more doublers. And massive portals.
And very strong arms.
Here's my old 1978 John Deere 2440 - pretty solid and strong machine, I run an 8' multi spindle bush hog with it and an 8' set of chisel plows for food plots. Pretty low hour machine for the year (890 hrs) because it's spent its life on a military base moving snow.
I bought this peach.
Drove it home on a beautiful sunny day.
Used it on the auger.
It smoked a bit.
Ended up needing an injection pump.
I liked these silhouette pics.
That’s far too many pictures of a boring 3010, but I like pictures.
Martin
Drove it home on a beautiful sunny day.
Used it on the auger.
It smoked a bit.
Ended up needing an injection pump.
I liked these silhouette pics.
That’s far too many pictures of a boring 3010, but I like pictures.
Martin
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beags86
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