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| Looking at some different 6400 Deeres. I know of the 6400, 6410, 6420 and 6430 models made in Germany. What are the 6405, 6403 and 6415? Cheaper model 6400s? Could you get them with rack and pinion rear axles?
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Southwest Iowa - Trees and Ditches | I don't know a whole lot of their backstory. I have heard they are built in Mexico and intended for construction work. Regardless, I own a 6403 and love it. Reliable, and a very simple machine to work on...no computer diagnostics required. It's kind of like owning a MFWD version of the old 4020. |
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Rivers, MB | We have a 6405 mfwd open station w/ a 640 loader. Really, really like the tractor. Everything is mechanical except the PTO switch. Use it for running augers, roto-tilling, mowing, loader/forklift work. Have run it for about 5 years now and have had very minimal downtime. The hourmeter quit on us last summer so put in a new dash and i think we've replaced one fuel line. the mechanical left hand shuttle shift works very well. Only thing I don't like is that the joystick for the loader is in a location that makes it nearly impossible to get on and off the right hand side of the tractor. Hydraulics are nothing special but isn't a factor for us with the jobs we do with that tractor.
Don't know about the axle. No row crop here so don't pay attention to that stuff.
Edited by mennoboy 4/13/2012 21:50
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| Had a '96 JD 6400 hi-clear mudder, put 2900 from new, about halfway there went up a size in tires and went to Michelin radials, was cheaper than the chiropractor. Pain in the ass to work on, parts were at times miserable to get and usually pricier. SCV design sucks. Sorry cooling system, and I always felt like I couldn't see out of the cab. Sold it to a neighbor that just had to have it, been good for him, but showing its age, brakes, pto drive, and exhaust. Right now I have a 6230 hi clear mudder rented to run drains with while my ditcher tractor is in the shop. There are very few construction and farm machines I have never operated. This thing just don't fit me. The powerquad controls with the buttons/switch and LF reverser just don't feel right, and about the most gutless 75hp wonder I have ever been on. Probably my age showing. |
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Columbia Basin, Ephrata, WA | 6x15 tractors were available with rack and pinion axles. I'd guess that's true for the 6x05 series also, but I don't know about the 6x03's.
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Eastern Iowa | I remember Deere trying to market the 6405 as a modern 4020. Might have been the Furrow. Ultimately, it wasn't a successful campaign, despite how most guys feel about their old 4020. Tractors with more modern bells and whistles sell better.
I still believe in the KISS principle--keep it simple, stupid. Especially when it comes to stuff with lots of moving parts. |
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West Central Wisconsin | We owned a 6403. Bought it new. After two years, 1400 hours, It had completely wore out the front tires (bald) without alot of road time. It also had to have $4500 worth of transmission work done to it. After that bill and not having it for 2 weeks, we finished the season with it and got rid of it. Was the best day I have had seeing that thing go down the road. We bought it when we were just starting out and it was our do-all tractor but by no means did we work it hard. 3 bottom plow, 12' disk, 6 row planter. Maybe we just got a bad one, but I would never own one again even if it was to just run an auger or haul pen pack. NO WAY. Not on my farm. |
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| We bought a 2wd 6403 in 2003 brand new to be our main little tractor for grinding feed and mowing hay and pulling a plow in the spring we bought it to replace a john deere 2840 which had 27,000 hours and had never had any motor or rear end problem ever, my grandpa bought it brand new in 1979 and has been the best tractor we have ever owned and we will never get rid of it. It was a very simple tractor and was very stout, but with it only having 9 gear u where always going a little to fast or going to slow. The way u shift them the main gear A B C are not to be shifted on the move u must stop and that was a pain in the a#@ you always wanted to go for B 3 to C 1 if u would try to shift B to C u would gear grind the hell out of it. We also had transmission trouble with it and had to but a new shifting fork in it and a new clutch when it only had 2200 hours. We put 3500 hours on it and had enough and traded it on an 8300. Over all it wasn't that bad it was reliable but after we bought it and put 200 hours on it we where kicking our self's in the butt for not buying a 6420 with the power quad . It was also the best day of the year driving that thing to the dealer and bring home our 8300 don't miss it one second. Just my two cents |
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| Shhhhhh....watch it people hate 2840's...they say worst tractor deere ever built..lol....have one pushing 13000 hours on it...go to tractor here |
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Columbia Basin, Ephrata, WA | Yeah, why is that? Our 2840 has been good despite a very rough life. My uncle's 2840 is still his go-to tractor. I also know of a 2940 in the area with 19,000 hours as of several years ago.
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| There where a lot of 2840 sold around here when my grandpa bought ours and there were some guys that had massive rear end trouble with them and a lot of trouble in general. But for what ever reason ours has never had any major trouble with it and we have worked the living **** out of it every day and we still our today. That tractor so far has been by far the best new tractor we have ever bought. The only trouble we have had with it lately is with hyd pump and that didn't turn out to be that bad. Been a dam good tractor for us the last 33 years and we will never get rid of it. That was the first green tractor the grandpa ever bought he always bleed orange and HATED john deere but the lack of orange dealers in the area he bought a green tractor and he was just looking for some reason to say it was a piece of crap and he could never find one and to this day he still raves about is Allis- Chalmers and never talk about that 2840 but when came down in the spring in the fall when he need to plow or disk or do some hard job u would alway's see him on that 2840 he even painted a orange strip on the front of the hood the day he bought it, so it would make him feel better to get on it Hahhaaa. |
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Eastern Iowa | They were the first tractors Deere imported from Germany. Despite the similarity to the Dubuque-built 30 series in that size, they did have some problems getting that project ramped up.
My uncle bought a 2840 after ag tractor production left Dubuque, which is nearby. People were laid off. He was called a communist for buying it, LOL! |
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Columbia Basin, Ephrata, WA | Our 2840 arrived instead of an orange tractor also. My dad and grandpa bought the 2840 and a 148 loader new because that was the biggest Deere tractor that could go in the old barn to clean it. Money was tight, and the 2840 was actually more affordable than the AC. I'm not sure if the sticker price was lower, but they were able to lease the 2840 in the spring until they had the money to buy it in the fall.
I think the reputation of the 2840's was damaged by the park lock design, which was easily and completely fixed by the recall update to a separate parking brake lever. Kinda like the air cleaners on 4520's, one bad design feature that got out the door and gave a bad name to an otherwise good tractor.
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