kcm.MN
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caterpillar guy
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Nice looking tractor to bad it has that stupid bassacward hand clutch on them.
Bob Bancroft
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- Aurora NY
Maybe alright for an adult. As a youth I was called upon to run tractor a lot. AC WD/WD45 were easy. Not so much the JD 50/60. I didn't like the two cylinder tractor and it didn't like me! I couldn't believe it when, near my 11th birthday, a new 2510 showed up in the spring of 1966. I could operate that one!
Richard G.
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I have owned Cat D2, JD A's, H, several Case tractors.
All with hand clutches.
JD's are the easiest to use, adjust, and replace parts in.
Richard in NW SC
All with hand clutches.
JD's are the easiest to use, adjust, and replace parts in.
Richard in NW SC
onefarmer
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- 6735 S Lowell Rd, St Johns, Mi 48879
As a 6yo kid I liked the hand clutch. I could reach it and pull it. Couldn't reach the pedals on the MH44. Grew it on a JD620 then a 720. When my dad died I got the 620 that I hadn't been on in years. I was surprised how fast I took to it again.
greenmech
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- Lakeville MN
Us JD guys have to stick together! Hand clutches are great! Ron MN
Richard G.
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You got that right Ron.
I own one JD two cylinder, a JD 50. It came with the farm my dad bought.
It is the only tractor with a hand clutch that I've ran that actually makes sense.
Forward Go, back stop. PTO is independent of that clutch.
Shift gears any time the clutch was disengaged.
I worked on a farm as a kid with AC WD's and WD-45's.
Hand clutch was opposite but the PTO still ran, just couldn't shift gears
that way. You had to use the foot clutch and then the PTO stopped.
Seemed ridiculous to have to use both.
My Case DC has the hand clutch on the left side. Ok for some I guess.
It is the only tractor with a hand clutch that I've ran that actually makes sense.
Forward Go, back stop. PTO is independent of that clutch.
Shift gears any time the clutch was disengaged.
I worked on a farm as a kid with AC WD's and WD-45's.
Hand clutch was opposite but the PTO still ran, just couldn't shift gears
that way. You had to use the foot clutch and then the PTO stopped.
Seemed ridiculous to have to use both.
My Case DC has the hand clutch on the left side. Ok for some I guess.
Rich'sToys
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- Southern MN
The AC hand clutch was just their version of a live PTO. As mentioned, you need to use the foot clutch for normal driving.
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