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NW KS/ SC ID | the 8020 series is the 03-06 5.9L Dodge of JD tractors. Modern enough that you have plenty of features and advancements, but without the crap that plagues the newer ones.
To my understanding the 8030 series went to CANBUS, and it is not without fault. The farmer I run trucks for during harvest went from a 8320 to a 8430, both ILS PS tractors, and the 8430 has been more problematic. Fan drive issues, sensors dying, etc. the ol 8320 just ran and ran.
His dad has a 8R and having to park the thing over on the summer fallow with the exhaust pointed away from the field to do a parked re-gen while the 1980 4880 Massey 4wd had to go from half the cart duties to all of the cart duties was kind of a low point. Then the ILS halfshaft failed in the middle of the field with less than 3000 hours, and again the MF did it all. IIRC it too has has a few sensors quit.
If you are not running cart with multiple combines, the cooling system is not really an issue on an 8020 series, if we could keep it on the clean side of the field we could go a week or more between cleanings, but if we had to run in the ****, it was blown out daily.
So IMO if you are hung up on JD, go 84 or 8520, long exhaust tip preferably, as supposedly they had more snort.
Or for tile plow, would a MT600 series Challenger with the Fendt CVT be on the list of possibilities? | |
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8020 vs 8030 vs early 8r?
