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John Deere 6030, 4520, or 4840? Which Do I Choose?
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GM Guy
Posted 8/7/2024 07:06 (#10842288 - in reply to #10840239)
Subject: RE: John Deere 6030, 4520, or 4840? Which Do I Choose?


NW KS/ SC ID
NTM Farms - 8/5/2024 14:21

GM Guy - 8/5/2024 00:41

Buy the 4840, pocket the extra that would have otherwise been blown on the 6030, or hearing aids for the 45/4620. 6030s are cool, but expensive to work on and wont hold up as well as a 4840, and cab is miserable in comparison.

Sell the 730, replace with 1850 Oliver or 3010-4020 if you have to stay deere.

Sell the 8N, replace with 600 or 800 Ford, S55/550 Oliver or 135 MF.

The 730 and 8N are fun collector tractors, but you'd be better off selling them and getting a much more usable tractor to replace it. The 1850 Oliver should cost the same or less, and the 8N upgrades shouldnt cost much.

JMO, would rather upgrade the two existing and add a 4840 than keep the two existing and get something fancier than a 4840.

4840 is a good value because no 540 PTO and 2wd only and the large size kinda weeds down the potential market considerably so they are usually one of the cheapest sound guards besides a 4630, and they are way better than a 4630.

7010-7080 Allis are good tractors (dont buy a 7000) and due to the mediocre cab, sell fairly cheap. You could have a decent pair of those for what one 4840 will cost.

When I was a little guy, we had a 1950T Oliver. It seemed like a pretty good hoss, in the mix with a 1066, 856, 4020, 70 and 60. I really liked the looks of that tractor. It had big, rice and cane singles but did have axle dual hubs. Never remember duals on it. I think it had a Waukesha turbo charched engine??? It didn’t stay around so, that’s why I only remember bits and pieces of it.


Sounded good, ran good, but definitely a short life engine in factory form, Id imagine engine issues is why it left. Old buddy of my late father has a 1950-T that he bought new and has it overhauled with updates and its pumping out over factory HP by quite a bit (I think it dynoed 130) and its holding up fine.
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