Hagen Brothers farms,Goodrich ND | My opinion, they were a really great idea. The problem is that to save money, they tried to adapt too many off the shelf parts from other applications. Some of the parts did not play well together and hurt reliability of the tractor.
One problem in my area, where all was deep tillage and almost no row crops, was that people tried to use what was a powerful, high speed, 4 wd row crop tractor and , dual it, weight it down and use it for a heavy tillage 4wd tractor. The driveline in a 2+2 was nat designed for that kind of use and suffered some low hour failures.
I owned a 3788 for a few years. finally traded it when our farming needs changed to where we needed a 325 HP heavy tillage Steiger instead of a 170 hp 2+2.
Edited by Jon Hagen 4/3/2013 00:49
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is the IH 3588 the best tractor ever.
