Worst Case Tractor Ever

[jwal10]

I had 2 Case 830 COM, I liked them. I had a 2010 JD gas. It wasn't the best loader tractor. I think the Diesel engine was the problem, not used in anything else. The gas engine was always needing some tuning but the rest of the tractor was no problem. I went to a 2020 next, then a 2030 for loader tractor. We used a loader tractor a lot, and pulled a sprayer with harrows for Avadex on wheat. Unload flex harrows off wagon, set side by side and attach to wheel booms. Tractor pulled wagon, sprayer hooked behind, wheel booms trailing behind, down the road. I never liked the 2010 transmission, even on 10, 20, 30 series JD's. I would much rather the 2 stick German transmissions. I had a 1010, it was different all together. Never had a problem with it. It had a 3pt. fork lift on it, toting filbert boxes. Seemed built more like a JD 40 I had for running grain augers.

I didn't mind the chicken roost steering, gave a lot help to make steering easier. Grew up on a DC with a wide front way out there. A DC 4 die seem to steer OK though, turned much shorter. I had a 300. Dad had a 400. I got a 430, loved that little tractor almost as much as the 300. Had 2 830's, a 770 and a 870.

Dad was all IH but when he wanted a diesel, he knew he did not want an IH. He had a TD-9 and it was a mess to keep running, many cracked heads. He bought a slightly used 400 Case with a Case trip loader, traded a Farmall M with an old pipe loader. We had a great Case dealer+ they sold Oliver and Gehl forage equipment, Bear-cat hammermills and flail choppers. Dad stayed with case, 00 series to 30 series until he bought an IH 706 used. His last tractor was a Farmall 1256. He did not want a 70 series powershift. I liked the 2 range 8 speed Case transmissions but would have been nice to have 1 gear up or down, without clutching, but it was best they didn't make one. I never got the need for so many gears, I sized the machine to the tractor but a high low to split a gear in the tough spot or at end of row was really nice. Like Massey and IH had. But never liked the TA on the bigger tractors. I did have a 504 with the old TA, worked nice with a loader for a faster reverse. I just took that all the way to the JD 8 speed power shift, Never liked the 15 speed. Guys were always trying to shift up one more gear, but just wouldn't quite pull it. Gears were just closer together for more shifting, up and down. One gear was enough with the 8 speed most of the time but needed 2-3 on a 15 speed. 8 speed I just ran right there in 5th, perfect for speed and the equipment of the time, but could shift down without clutching....James

 

[tractorguy2]

I've always thought the letter series through the 600 were all very good tractors. The tractors made in the 60's were a few years behind the competition. Grandpa Harry ran an Oliver 1850. Dad had a 706. Grandpa Tom 3020 and my uncle had Case 830, and 930's. Oliver was the tractor to have in the 60's.

 

[nick831]

Have a Case 830 ck com. Works great no issues with com. Have used it in all kinds of work. The com is very simple. I would be shocked if anyone had trouble running it properly. Nick

 

[Fixingfarmer]

The engines between the two were part of the same family but everything else on the 1010 was different from the 2010. The 1010 was basically an updated version of the 2 cylinder 430 with a 4 cylinder engine. It had some of the same issues of the 2010 mainly in the engine area but is suppose to be more reliable then the 2010. The reason why the 2010 had issues from the get go is because it was kind of the orphan of the New Generation tractors. Most of the engineering money and time went towards the 3010/4010/5010. There was inter factory squabbling on who had to design and built the 2010 and as a result it was a shoe horned together project with a blending of technology from both the bigger tractors and the 1010.

I’ve always kind of figured this is why they let the Germans build the later little ones after they bought the factory over there. Good primo stuff was made in Waterloo and always has been. Some of the other places had their share of struggles and interesting ideas. About the time they got the engines right in the little ones they changed the transmissions and had the ones that roll away if not left in the right gear and crack transmission lines like eggs.

Crab steer case would be the modern one nobody liked I think my grandpa had a case sc that was a great tractor my uncle still has it. Would be the one that replaced the earlier lemon like they said I always wondered how they kept from snagging stuff with the front steering sticking out like that but I suppose you get used to it