706/806 development ??

[DrAllis]

(quoted from post at 07:14:55 11/14/23) The 4010 was not out in 1959. ** Only way that it could have been late 1959, is if it was a prototype set up for some heavy duty/high hour testing. And if that was true (and it could have been) there's no way it had a "4010" decal on it. And quite possibly the sheet metal wasn't what we know as a 4010 either. They had to do testing for sure, but under the cloak of secrecy.

 

[the tractor vet]

Yea it was , sure got the neighbors talking . lots of lookers and they were at the big local fair . I was 13 at the time . Seams that a lot of firsts happened during that County Fair being it is larger then the Ohio State fair and for years a vary large ag display of all colors . . From Fair to Farm , people came from all over to that fair . at one time around here ya were no more then ten miles from a dealer of any color . Here where i live we had two dealers in town not A block apart , five miles east were two dealers just across the road from each other and two miles north of them was another dealer , Two miles from the center of town was another dealer to the west 7 miles was a dealer , 7 miles south was a dealer they were everywhere . yes Paul had his 4010 for harvest that year . That past spring was when the new 460 arrived at my uncles and the Fall before was when the 560 arrived just before harvest . I would help with tater harvest every year from the time i could reach the clutch pedal on the O C 3 and that would have been 1952 .

 

[Bermuda Ken]

IIRC....IH had these in development in 1959.

The 706-806 were NOT rushed...IH took its time to get it right with its first clean sheet tractor in over 2 decades....

 

[NY 986]

Nearly all of the testing was done in the Southwest due to its remoteness. I'm not saying it is completely impossible for a 4010
to have gone elsewhere for testing but it would be quite rare. A dealer and farmer would have to have a high degree of trust in
the eyes of JD. Going back to the Model A JD used remote locations for nearly all of its testing. Having previous series sheet
metal was a common practice to keep curiosity to a minimum so I would imagine that any 4010 did not go out in its final form for an
independent test.