They had a solid tuff engine and it was very dependable and fairly easy to over haul I still think they were better than jd but that’s just me If they had had the backing JD dealership had they would still be around 😢😢😢
We sold new MM tractors. I remember them very well. M670 may have lasted well. But the 5 star, M5, and 670 engines vibrated. Would rattle the hood. Seen a blown engine from ether cold start. Rod tore off. Holes in crankcase. Broke out bottom of one block. Knocked the starter off. Expensive repair.
We had a G 1000. I liked the slower running engine and how much weight was in the tractor. I always held it would have outpulled our our ih 1066. But we cracked and welded all 3 blocks in it. After the next crack we scrapped it.
U302 and M670 were the last true MM tractors designed 100% by MM. Upgrades to make the Jetstar 3 as well. There was a ton of innovations with these, and in my opinion put the JD 10 series to shame. IH was really the only one that had comparable. The steering was hydrostatic. Best design on the market for the next couple decades. Tele-flo was a good design. Adjustable rate. The MM of this era made fantastic loader tractors because of the speed they could cycle a loader. The seat design they show at 23:00 is legit! Super easy to adjust, one of few where the weight setting actually worked. The gauges started out old school but quickly were changed to what I would describe as "indiglow" (remember the timex watches in the 90's?) and were leagues beyond the competition in visibility at night. Other little things, like how the lift arms for 3pt had those swivel ends with a pin to make hook up super easy, offering 540/1000 pto that was easy to switch, even the nice wide flat fenders were a boon when you had someone riding back from the field(or out to the field) Ampli-torque is a nice system for it's era, and reduced strain on things by allowing a slow start. Even road travel, you could pull down the lever to move out and once straightened out push it up to go. It's really too bad what White ended up doing to this company. The financial cuts started before these tractors had even gotten to market. It's why the innovations basically stopped and they rehashed the same thing for the next ten years. All so White could try to keep it's heavy trucks going, which ultimately failed anyway. Such a shame.
Minneapolis Moline has style, efficiency and power. This is where Meritocracy yielded from quality to greed. And truth became what we could get others to believe.
One of the best tractors ever produced. I had the honor of operation and can tell anyone about the pure power and economy of these. Superior to anything!
In some of the heavy clay gumbo soils the self propelled combine will travel better if there is some standing water on the fields. On loam soils not so much!
I am a huge MM fan and would actually like to know if I can purchase a DVD with all your vintage Minneapolis Moline dealer movies, as I hate watching them on a iPad and would rather watch on a regular TV. Thanks
I always thought that John Deere should took their old reliable 2 cylinder engines and built it into 4 or 6 cylinders with the same bore and stroke and low rpm that the two cylinders hadhad they matched and combined the engine out of the 730 engine they could have had a 130 hp na or 140 hp w/Turbo charger
I can attest to the M670s having long life engines. We have a 65 diesel that we still use that we think has 30,000 hours on it with the same engine that has never had a complete rebuild, at least that I know of. It's still running strong, starts up every time with a bit of starting fluid in the mornings and only blows a little bit of smoke.
This was the workhorse for my grandpa's farm when my dad was younger and working on the farm until they got the G950. I got to drive the same M670 that my grandpa owned. Coolest experience driving these.
Minneapolis Moline tractor's has the tork and performance to be number one over international and John deer no wonder that Minneapolis Moline tractor's are the most popular tractor on the market and I wish that Minneapolis tractor's stay and high performance tractor's I wish that they would of still kepted on building the big yellow and that's Minneapolis Moline tractor's
Six bottoms? There’s no way. All the manufacturers seemed to do that back in the day. Same tractors that were rated for 7-8 bottoms pull 5-6. Five plow tractors usually did better with 4.
Mike Deusa I know this because I worked for CaseIH for years, and now I have my own shop. I’ve worked on everything. I’ve seen the results of what happens when manufacturers overrated their equipment. I agree it depends on the soil, but I’ve seen waaaayyyyy too many machines that were rated for 6 plows have reduced life compared to when they stuck with 5.
Minneapolis Moline horribly over rated there tractors. During MM expo at rollag 2016 someone tried pulling 8 bottoms in the plowing area with a Vista, it failed. Then they tried a 6 bottom failed.
Obivously you're not from around here. I always laugh when some dummy thinks they can take a plow one or two sizes to big thru hard clay at rollag in clay Co. Minnesota. 1 bottom plow behind an R moline is all that tractor will pull. We plow&rip it every year. It will take a 500 CASE IH quad track to it's knees
And no mr.stout no till is the absolute worse thing you can do to ground turns it to concrete. I'm getting on in years & I'm well up in my Bible verses. & No we're does it say no till in the Bible. It says "plowing"
Every manufacturer over rated their tractors. There are places where a Vista will pull 7 or 8 bottoms. Large combines 4WDs and large grain carts pack the ground much more than years ago did with smaller equipment.
