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flying belgian

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Didn't want to take away from poster down below. I have never driven Ford sos but I have driven JD. power shift. Didn't they function about the same? Weren't they built about the same time? How come you hear so many horror stories about sos and the JD. power shift was tuff as a tank?
 
SOS predated JD power shift by a few years. The story that I heard was that the engineer that designed SOS later went to JD and designed their power shift. The early SOS had problems. You have heard that the later ones were much improved?!
 
Should have added that I had a Ford 6000 for a few years. It may have been one of those that was recalled and updated. The serial number didn't correspond to any info that I could find at the time. I never had any problems with that transmission. It was a slick tractor for baling hay!
 
Ford 6000 was one of nicest tractors I have owned. It was very nice handling and the Selecto Speed was really nice to use. Unfortunately Ford brought it out before it was perfected. After the updates it was dependable and many are still used every day in various Ford models. 6000 was ahead of industry at time.
 
Harold Brock. A legend in tractor design. Look him up online. Interesting reading and there is at least one interview and several of his speeches. Started working beside Henry Ford when in his teens. Made 13 cents an hour. Argument over whether SOS transmission was ready for market (it wasn't) led to him leaving Ford and then John Deere "reached out" to him. The rest is history.

We tried out A Ford 871 in 1959 with it fully weighted front and rear pulling a three bottom mounted plow. It was really a two plow tractor considering our land but it did OK. I practically had to beg my father not to buy it because I suspected the transmission would prove troublesome and was I ever right. So was Harold Brock
 
The 6000s were a pretty neat machine but the SOS was the only transmission option you could get in one. There Might be 10% of them still in use...
I had one in a 3 cylinder 4000 and did not like it.
 
That's funny-I remember(vaguely, as I was maybe 4 or 5yrs old) the Ford dealer bringing a SOS to demo on our farm. They plowed with it against our IH300 utility, and I remember Dad saying that the 300 was better, maybe more power, and he did not think much of the SOS. (And Dad really liked the 8n that we already had.) Any way, not much later on they bought a IH340u and Dad plowed a lot with it. Mark.
 
The guy I worked for as a kid had two 5000 SOS. He loved them, but I didn't - they were really jerky backing up and the jump from 4th to 5th was really rough. That being said, they both had around 10,000 hours on them with no problems
Pete
 
(quoted from post at 20:12:27 09/12/20) Harold Brock. A legend in tractor design. Look him up online. Interesting reading and there is at least one interview and several of his speeches. Started working beside Henry Ford when in his teens. Made 13 cents an hour. Argument over whether SOS transmission was ready for market (it wasn't) led to him leaving Ford and then John Deere "reached out" to him. The rest is history.

We tried out A Ford 871 in 1959 with it fully weighted front and rear pulling a three bottom mounted plow. It was really a two plow tractor considering our land but it did OK. I practically had to beg my father not to buy it because I suspected the transmission would prove troublesome and was I ever right. So was Harold Brock
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I read somewhere that the bean counters at Ford wouldn't allow Mr. Brock to build it they way he wanted. TOO expensive, with the results that Ford got what they got.

The bean counters at John Deere took a whole different approach and allowed Mr. Brock to build it so it would last.
 
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