I can see in the comments that more love New Paint and Payments, and don't get it. The corn doesn't grow any faster with a bank loan tractor or vintage machinery, but the vintage gear can keep your farm profitable. You can buy a pair of used tractors for just the down payment on one of the fancy pants tractors. If you have payments on a tractor, tillage accessories, planters, sprayers, and combines you need to cover so many acres that you are no more than a Peasant for the Banker Lord's treasury. Do some spreadsheets on six weeks of corn planting and how you can cover huge acreage with four, six, eight, or twelve row planters and smaller more fuel efficient tractors; throw in rain delays, it's kind of surprising how much coverage can be had. And then look at leaning up the processes where you no-till vs plowing and the equipment needs lessen and so on. Be clever because bigger payments mean less profit.
I like the 4430, but then I like the older equipment anyway. Tried & tested, that is why it is still around. Love the answer to the waste of human space. Perfect
Purchased a 3040 back in 2018 as a non runner as my first project as an 18year old. Found out it was a back loom, made my first loom and had the old girl running a dream within a day. Had been stood for 5 years and mobes it on for 3k more than i brought her for, lobe the older JD tractors. Keep up the good work
I’ve got a 1976 model 4430 that’s turned up and runs real strong. But if you walk by it with an ice cream cone it wants block heat and half a can of Cosby sauce.
I would go for the 4430. John Deere also made the 3 cylinder 1130 in 1977 with 2 x 12 volt in parallel. They are a bit of a bugger to get at though as they are housed in front of the instrument panel. Air con on mine, no problem , I just take the doors off the Duncan Supercab!
I would be quite happy to drive the 4430 all day every day. If John Deere re-released them tomorrow you would have to line up to buy one. I know of a 4830 still driving a big square baler as a contractors machine. It doesn’t get much TLC either. Jeff
I bet it’s a fun time kicking round Wes’s place! For the person who owns the tractor a simple start is nice but as you say, that was the easy part. I’m with you guys, if there a/c and a radio I’d be happy driving anything
It’s going to have to be Wes’s 4960 if I had the chance to drive anything of his. Just a sheer powerhouse with a soundtrack that won’t ever be forgotten. Excellent video from both of you. 👌🏼👍🏼
More of a blue fan but had to choose would be the 4430 only because I like the old stuff and the simply way it was built with the reliability of the machine.
Id take the 4430 for a season for sure.. Great visibility, reliable horsepower, far better lock being 2wd.. Easy on the fuel, and way more fun to drive..
Mucker! Welcome to New Jersey 🗽✌️👍 I used to watch OLG until Wes got a little political. Nice that your friends and do exchange trips across the pond. I'm up the road north in New Hampshire. Much quieter than Jersey. 🇬🇧🇺🇲👍💚
I'd have absolutely no problems with spending time in that 4430, after all the sound guard was the original quiet cab, a great place to spend the day, and that's from a die hard MF man
4430 purely because it was the 1st incarnation of the Sound Gard Cab . I had a 4230 about 15 years ago as a hobby tractor but unfortunately I had to sell it .
Beautiful tractor. My grandfather had a 62’ 730 diesel that I first learned to drive a tractor on. To me the older tractors look so much better than the newer ones.
