It’s &06 day!!

[Highwayman]

This one belongs to my son inlaw.its got a hair dryer and runs like a raped ape.
Let’s see yours!

 

[Mrfred54]

Nice 806. Wish I still had mine. Is it really got a turbo or just the decal?

 

[the tractior vet]

Nice 806. Wish I still had mine. Is it really got a turbo or just the decal?

Well i still have one . Been around them since Sept . of 63 . Man i worked for back then bought the first one shown to the public at the Canfield Fair over Labor day . the next Saturday my uncle bought the next one to hit the area. . Both of them got Turbos installed by General Maintenance Diesel out of Canfield . i got to run both of them . Back then they were MONSTERS of the field five bottom plow 18 foot disc . My boss like it so well he bought a second one and ran two along with two 706 's , my uncle bought a 706 the next spring . I did not get a 806 till like 86 when i snagged one at Stilesville with a bad T/A and started scarffing every bad T/A i came across . My one Jockey buddy thought i had lost my mind buying them along with the dead row ones . Donny and i did a ton of traveling and covered sales in five states . Sometimes we would split up with the others shopping list and a blank check also i did buying for a old Oliver dealer north of me , ah the new age of the cell phone . I think it was like 87 when i bought the second 806 from my old bosses farm the new owned was selling it due to a leak up in the ft bolster by sealed bid and i placed my bid a cheap bid of 2150 bucks and won the bid . The o/ring on the cap was blowen . Took about and hour to fix as ya had to remove the left frame rail to get to the one bolt . Took it to the sale down at my buddy's brothers monthly auction and it sold for 5625and it is still in the neighborhood.

 

[the tractior vet]

This one belongs to my son inlaw.its got a hair dryer and runs like a raped ape.
Let’s see yours!View attachment 159938View attachment 159935

Ya can't beat a 806 . Ya keep everything adjusted in the clutch and dump valve keep the fluids changed regularly they will out live you . Mine is not so good looking but runs vary well with over 11000hrs and only the valve cover has been off ONCE . I just replaced the range trans shifting fork due to my one friends kid getting a little rough on slam shifting it . mine has become the GO To tractor of the neighborhood and at times i have to go hunt it down . I have had to put two clutches in it though due to pulling silage wagons off the one farm my one friend was renting and that on steep hill got the clutch two years running . we were dragging BIG silage wagons loaded to the roof and were weighing 34-38000 lbs per load way more then we should have been pulling with a 13500 lb tractor

 

[DeltaRed]

Never owned an 806. But I've owned a 706 for 42 years.Late '67;310 german turbo charged(makes 96 horse);56 series shifters;13,000 hrs. My baby,will never leave.

 

[Absent Minded Farmer]

Happy with my gas 806. Has enough power for what I need & isn't too bad on gas.

Mike

 

[pat in wis]

Wifes 806 with a Rajay turbo next to my 1066

 

[urbancase]

Well I have little brother, early 706. Need to get it finished.

 

[m16ty]

Here’s mine.

 

[the tractior vet]

Here’s mine.

That is like mine till we put the wide ft. on it , yours just needs about a dozen oil leaks to keep up. Ya know how it is the cobblers kids go bare foot and the guy who works on I H's that has saver OCD on fixing them his leaks like a chive . .

 

[m16ty]

That is like mine till we put the wide ft. on it , yours just needs about a dozen oil leaks to keep up. Ya know how it is the cobblers kids go bare foot and the guy who works on I H's that has saver OCD on fixing them his leaks like a chive . .

I did just the opposite. It had a wide front and a buddy of mine had a narrow lying around so I put it on. Granted, the wide front is safer, but I really like the looks of the narrow. I just used the tires off the wide front, which are 11.00-16. They just barely fit on the narrow. They are pretty worn, I worry if I get new they won’t fit.

Mine still has a few leaks, I’m slowly working on getting them stopped up.

 

[the tractior vet]

I did just the opposite. It had a wide front and a buddy of mine had a narrow lying around so I put it on. Granted, the wide front is safer, but I really like the looks of the narrow. I just used the tires off the wide front, which are 11.00-16. They just barely fit on the narrow. They are pretty worn, I worry if I get new they won’t fit.

Mine still has a few leaks, I’m slowly working on getting them stopped up.

Myself i prefer the narrow . Lot better for planting and Cultivating . I run 9.5 x15's on the ft. . My buddy kept insisting we put a wide ft. on it and one day i said ya want a wide ft . then you buy one . every tractor i owned since 1968 has been a narrow even over here in or hills . If you do lay a narrow ft over they rarely roll all the way over i have seen several layed over and they usually lay on the ft end and on the side of the rear tire . With a wide ft if they get to the tip point that ft end acts like a pole vaulting pole and NOW they will go all the way over . changing from a 38 inch row spacing to a 30 with out the duals on yea it get a little scary on the side hills . and buddy we have some HILLS that will put the pucker factor into you . The hay fields down at the Zonka farm yea most SANE people would not want to be on the east end of that field .The hay bine will shove my 806 sideways on the turn to the south at the east end and coming up the south leaning east side will drag the back of the 806 down the hill and with the new radials make it worse . mine weighs around 13500 lbs with loaded rears and a 1219 J D haybine shoves it around like a rag doll. then there are the silage wagons . Ya just got to use COMMON SENSE . I have stood my 706 straight up while plowing . My one buddy stood my 460 up and by the time he got the clutch down it just stood there straight up . I had my 1240 deere corn planter shove my one 706 down a hill when i made the mistake of turning down hill at the head land onto the grass shoving me to a round 500 foot drop off . One farm the field lane when going DOWN it with the 706 all the trans oil went forward and the suction tube would suck air and if you did NOT already have BOTH BRAKES ON and your T/A was WEAK you lost all HYD and you had around a 1/4 mile to the CREEK that was DEEP to get it WHOAED . That happened to my Jockey friend and he ALMOST went for a swim.