I've always been a fan of the dual PTO setup. There was a company years ago, that made some kind of vegetable harvester that used both 540 & 1000 at the same time, but I don't recall what it was at the moment.

I have an 806 with dual PTO, I’m in the midst of restoring it right now but when it ran the 94 pto horse power, dual shaft was sure nice. Wasn’t like the 2010 me and my dad had a couple years ago, we’d have to change the shaft on it all the time for running a bush hog and to run the grain drier

Thank you! Glad you enjoy!!

Because there completly different process. Discing back then you went hubs deep, 6 plus inches. Today they just break the surface an inch or two deep. Plowing is almost non existent but in some areas making a come back. Back then you had a 90 hp tractor, that's like a 5 bottom blow and a 13 foot disc. Today, everyone wants wide but shallow but then have to buy a $500,000 tractor to pull it around.

Good luck on that project!

I'm curious, what features of the 706 were a first?

@@SilverGleaner I didn't mean IH had industry first features on the 706 in particular, just often in general, contrasted to how late they were with good looking fenders. IH was the first to have 16 transmission speeds with 706/806 in 1963, the most in the market until Oliver's over/under hydraul shift with 18 speeds in late 1967. 806 was the first row crop tractor over 90 PTO HP. 1206 was the first turbocharged row crop and also the first row crop over 100 PTO HP. D-21 series II with a turbo debuted almost exactly the same time as 1206 in mid-1965, but was not considered a row crop tractor by many (including IH marketing). But back on the side of being late, 706/806 were the first Farmalls to offer 3-point hitch, which obviously had been in the market for a while (previous Farmalls had Fast Hitch only). But 06s did feature lower link sensing draft control with that 3-point. I'm not sure if that was an overall industry first, but had to be close if not.

@@TonyM132 OK I was just wondering but I must correct you that the D21 was absolutely a row crop tractor because it was sold with everything you needed for row crp wrok, such as a 3-point, adjustable front axle, spin-out power shift rear wheels..... I don't know why it wouldn't be considered a row crop tractor. The D21's around me that I remember growing up were only row crop. Dad shared a farm he rented with a guy who had a series I D21 that had 18.4x38 rear tires. He added a turbo to it but it was a row crop tractor and a stock D21 Series I came out in 1963 with 103 PTO horse power which Allis advertised as the first over 100 horse power row crop tractor. Then in 1965 the D21 Series II came out as the largest row crop tractor. One more thing, the D19 diesel came out in 1961 and it came stock with a turbocharger. This all said, I wish I had bought a 1206 back when they were dirt cheap. I like the looks of them. Our neighbor has one that they've had since I was a kid. It had a cab but they recently removed it. They used to pull a 4 bottom Oliver plow with it like we did with Dad's 190XT. They broke the front end off once right by the highway so every one could see it when the school bus drove by. His oldest son and I were in the same class so I gave him a lot of crap about it. What is in my reach, dollar wise, at present would be a diesel 806 which the same neighbor I graduated with that his dad has that 1206, has an 806 that he drives on tractor drives and I drive my AC 200. I think an 806 would be a nice match to my 1967 190 XT. Would also like an 1850 Oliver and a 4020 some day to make me dream team of tractors complete.

@@SilverGleaner Well I'll be darn, I didn't know D19 had a turbo, or if I did I forgot. I was thinking there were gas D19s, which there were, but diesels got a turbo, huh. Does that make D19 the only tractor model ever to offer both a gas engine and a turbo-diesel? I know I didn't forget hearing plenty of times that the 806 was the largest row crop available when it debuted in the summer of '63... So just now I looked at a couple books and found ads calling it the "world's most powerful tricycle tractor." I'm sure some authors translated that into most powerful row crop, since in the 1960s "row crop" generally meant standard narrow front, optional adjustable wide front. Later 1206s and 1256s had narrow fronts too, though the wide fronts became more popular. If you consider D21 row crop, does that make it the only row crop model built in the 60s not available as a narrow front? Oliver 1900 2-cycle is similar, more powerful than 806 but not available with narrow front. I don't know whether it had adjustable front axle, but it too certainly doesn't "look" like a row crop tractor of that era, like an 1800 does, ya know? The next generation 1950 with the same engine was a traditional row crop, could have narrow front too. In one of those same books I just saw an ad talking about "IH exclusive lower link torsion bar draft control," so maybe my memory was right about that and all other brands still had top link sensing if they had draft control. It would make sense for IH since they were still selling Fast Hitch too which of course uses no top link. I've always considered Deere, IH, and Oliver to be the most advanced, similarly styled, modern tractors of the 1960s. Allis was a little different in looks and a few other ways but probably deserves to be included as the fourth. So I like your "dream team"! But Farmall 856 or 826 is a more direct competitor with 4020 and 1850 in my book, 806 pairs up more with 4010 and 1800. But there was overlap between them for sure.

Just popped into my head: Oliver 1855 was available with gas or turbo-diesel too, and was just under the wire of being sold in the 1960s. There are probably one or two more in American tractor history somewhere...