Chuck: Those Cockshutts, and I'm talking about the Cockshutts built by Cockshutt between 1946 and early 1960s, were one mean tractor on a drawbar pull. The very first 30 came off the assembly line in 1946 with IPTO. They had excellent engine and pto hp for jobs like baling. The 30 would take an H on both drawbar and pto, it didn't look as heavy either. The 40 would out pull a Super M. They had full IPTO 8 years before the SMTA came along, and in my opinion it was a better IPTO than IH had.
The Cockshutt down side was hydraulics, very slow, not many gallons per min. They wouldn't run more than implement cylinders. Most Cockshutts with loaders used an add on crankshaft driven front mounted pump. Cockshutts had a nice seat, but it wasn't positioned right, which caused operator platform to be cluttered. This resulted in a very clumsey tractor to drive. You just couldn't see your work and surroundings as well as you could from a Farmall.
Takes me right back to my old saying, " Out of the 8 or 10 manufacturers of the 40s, 50s and 60s, I've never seen a tractor that didn't have at least one feature I liked, yet as of 2007 no one has built the perfect tractor." In fact I think reliability has gone down hill since 1980. I base that on the fact, I see far too many new tractors letting the owner down during the busy season.
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