Now really OT! My tech book says: Case LA: 6516 lbs 4 cylinder engine 403 cu inches displacement!! 34 SAE drawbar HP
My Case 400 is actually a model 411, but they were known as 400's. Case made a 400B model in the 60's that was a small tractor. 6144 lbs 4 cylinder engine 251 cubit inch displacement 35 SAE drawbar HP Yes, I am a tractor nut also... ;-) Case used a lot of cast iron and steel in the old tractors. Most of them are crazy heavy. John Deere's are green because you need a lot of green to buy and maintain them. They are good machines but expensive. Dave On 3/22/2012 11:46 AM, gene heskett wrote: > On Thursday, March 22, 2012 12:27:57 PM Dave did opine: > > >> My Grandfather had work horses and kept them up until the 80's, long >> after they were retired from plowing when the John Deere took over that >> task. >> >> Now I live in a large Amish area and during plowing season sometimes >> there will be team of 8 Percheron's walking down the road, all harnessed >> together - 4 in front, 4 in back with an Amish guy walking in the >> middle guiding them down the road to the plows or disk. (Oftentimes you >> can't see the guy - he is right in the middle) They are huge horses. >> They don't move fast but they sure can work. >> >> Then other times there will be a situation where a giant 4wd tractor >> equipped with 4 dual tires comes down the road and meets a team of 8 >> horses. Both are on their ways to do some plowing and both are taking >> up virtually all of the road. What a conflict - in so many ways. Old >> vs New etc. >> > A friend of mine that went by Cannonball fixed that. He did custom farming > in N.E. Nebraska, and had bought a new 30 foot wide disk and a John Deer > 8870 to pull it with. The disk folded up, but the first field gate he > pulled that 8870 up to needed widened nearly 5 feet. He pulled the posts, > did the job, put the posts back in the holes& drove it straight to the > machine shop in Laural NE, where it got about 6 feet narrower. Yup. he was > a character, but AFAIK he never tipped it, but it sure looked like it would > have been easily enough done. > > JD makes some decent machinery, or did in the 70's. The farmer that mowed > the KXNE site had an 8840& I needed a patch for taters behind the TX > building. He came up and asked how much& I waved in the general direction > to a 40 x 100 spot. He fired it back up& when he dropped the 7x14" into > that poor alfalfa, the sound nor the smoke from the stack never changed. > Down& back twice, done. We cut up 10+ bushels of seed taters, but the > only reason we got that many back when we dug was the $#@*&% sand burrs, > seems the potato bug likes them better than potatos. Mainly the weather > killed us, a pretty dry summer. > > >> I have a '55 Case 400 tractor. Much newer than an LA. ;-) >> > Smaller, and likely with more HP, I think that old LA was 31 at the belt > pulley and 22 at the drawbar. 4 16's was about all it could pull in any > gear. Heck, it was already an antique on Dec 7, 1941! It was in '44 when > I buried it. > > >> Dave >> > > Cheers, Gene > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
