Medium size four-wheel drive tractors are becoming popular as farmers strive to increase productivity per man day. These tractors represent the next step up in horsepower with only a moderately higher cost per horsepower than available large two-wheel drive tractors. This paper describes how a four-wheel drive tractor using two-wheel drive tractor components minimizes cost. The new John Deere 7020 tractor is used as an example to show how this was accomplished.


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    Title :

    Why A Medium Size Four Wheel Drive Agricultural Tractor?


    Additional title:

    Sae Technical Papers


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    Farm, Construction, Industrial Machinery and Powerplant Meetings ; 1970



    Publication date :

    1970-02-01




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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