I'm a bit biased to Case, but if you go for a 470 or 570 diesel with all the goodies, you get 188 cu. inch motor, hand and foot throttle, alternator instead of generator, easy starting, negative ground compared to the D-17, 8 speed transmission, diff lock, iso couplers, draft-o-matic 3 point hitch (not eagle hitch or AC's snap lock), hydrostatic power steering (not an add on), fully independent pto (you can stand behind the tractor to run an auger or run a wire winder), 2 sets of hydraulics (opt), some have power shift wheels, (you may want to spread them out for straddling windrows or put them in narrow for tillage or storage), you can easily fit them with an upright muffler or an under slung if you need to get it into a small shed or under trees when brush hogging, they accept a loader very easily and you can still steer it, and they're fun to just take for a drive! Good road gear. Easy handling. But most of all, they're a simple vintage inexpensive tractor to own and operate yet have all the modern conveniences listed above. A LATE model 430/530 will be the same thing except for the alternator and the iso couplers. The generators always work for me on my 30 series so not a big deal and they make adapters for the couplers. Some guys just change them over to iso if they don't care to keep the tractor as original equipment. I put many an hour on a 1957 D-17 diesel and I feel the Case is a better tractor, but it is 10 years newer so.....
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Today's Featured Article - Third Brush Generators - by Chris Pratt. While I love straightening sheet metal, cleaning, and painting old tractors, I use every excuse to avoid working on the on the electrics. I find the whole process sheer mystery. I have picked up and attempted to read every auto and farm electrics book with no improvement in the situation. They all seem to start with a chapter entitled "Theory of Electricity". After a few paragraphs I usually close the book and go back to banging out dents. A good friend and I were recently discussing our tractor electrical systems when he stated "I figure it all comes back to applying Ohms Law". At this point
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