We still run a 8870 to this day on our farm and it is one of our favorite tractors! Very simple and basic operation, without all the new electronics and sensors, emissions. It pulls our airseeder and puts the crop in every year. Very low maintenance. Some of the best John Deere ever made
@@sew1194 Deere is rather impotent & feeble when it comes to matching anything that comes from fargo.For instance their 9Rs have yet to feature a all cab glass cab like the red ones have.
It must be an economics based decision. There isn't the same sized market for high horsepower, articulated four wheel drive tractors, and so fewer are produced, based on market demand. It therefore follows that it is infinitely cheaper to buy in a competitive engine, rather than developing one totally from scratch, for such a small market share. Many manufacturers do the same. Steiger in the 70s and 80s famously used RABA drive axles and various manufacturers engines such as Cummins and Caterpillar. They also outsourced their transmissions supplier. About the only thing they built themselves, was the cab and chassis
Walked into KCCanay Fultonville,NY on Saturday morning in April 1993 & saw a poster of these 4 70 Series tractors.Thats how we found out about them.
We still run a 8870 to this day on our farm and it is one of our favorite tractors! Very simple and basic operation, without all the new electronics and sensors, emissions. It pulls our airseeder and puts the crop in every year. Very low maintenance. Some of the best John Deere ever made
You don't see many of these tractors or prior models anymore.
Wow, now this was a promotional video, John Deere knew what they were doing back in the day. I wish they could do this now.
This is when Deere *finally* was starting to get it right with their 4wds
Too bad they didn't keep it up. Red beats them at every turn
@@sew1194 Deere is rather impotent & feeble when it comes to matching anything that comes from fargo.For instance their 9Rs have yet to feature a all cab glass cab like the red ones have.
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Too bad Case IH is still better
@@Formerlytrouserttrout not to mention, considerably cheaper !
Do you have more interesting promo videos like these? I wanna see one with the 60 series tractors
Excelente video que lindos tractores eran esos.
Thanks for the uploads. Keep them coming if you can
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I absolutely love john deere and I bleed green
My condolences
Can you do the 50 series?
We had a 8970 great Cummins engine
I forgot we also had a 8570
Can you do one with the 200 series cause I got a 214
Sad part is.... the big one has a 855 cummins... smh
That’s not sad at all😂😂it’s no 3406 but I’ll take it over a Deere engine
It must be an economics based decision. There isn't the same sized market for high horsepower, articulated four wheel drive tractors, and so fewer are produced, based on market demand. It therefore follows that it is infinitely cheaper to buy in a competitive engine, rather than developing one totally from scratch, for such a small market share. Many manufacturers do the same. Steiger in the 70s and 80s famously used RABA drive axles and various manufacturers engines such as Cummins and Caterpillar. They also outsourced their transmissions supplier.
About the only thing they built themselves, was the cab and chassis
@@jamesbarbour8400they used raba axels right up to the 9300 series and they still use the Fuji powershifts to this day
And then there was GPS and all of the sudden you aren't even farming.. 😂
Off to buy a tractor now
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Power bulge 🤣
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