Your largest problem will be shipping as most markets with high HP open station tractors are quite a ways south of you. I know I've seen JD 7030 small frame tractors in open station when I was in CA this summer. You're going to lose a lot of resale by bringing a high HP open station to SK.

 

I have a neighbour with a JD 7810 open station .

 

A couple 7330 jd's sold at Saskatoon this year. Open station.

 

CIH farm all tractors come with an open cab option

 

I am looking for an openstation (no cab) 130 hp tractor to run augers also. Dealers up here don't seem to know much about it. Can a guy buy one like that anymore ?

 

I put remote throttle and pto on my tractor works great another option to consider. you don't have to be right by auger to run things. got it from I believe spraytest about 5 years ago.

 

I guess I don't know what the tractor market is like up north there but you can always stick an old IH 1466 open-station or something on an auger. Don't really need to go new for auger work IMO.

 

I bought a 4020 this year to use as an auger tractor. Our biggest auger is a 10X71, so I didn't need high HP.

The tractor works great for that application, but, in some situations, even an open station isn't as handy as it could be.

If the auger is set up with the swing hopper to the right it's easy to walk in front of the hopper and access all of the controls from the ground. At one of our bin sites we have to set up with the hopper on the left. In that case you have to step over or duck under the auger to get to the right side of the platform, which is almost as inconvenient as climbing into the cab.

Our 4020 is a Standard model. The access to the platform is from the rear and the old F11 loader that came with the tractor blocks access from the front. My plan was to take the loader off (it was a no-extra-cost option) but as soon as we got the tractor we found about a dozen uses for a smaller loader tractor.

It's not perfect, but it's a lot easier to use than either of our other 2wd tractors which both have cabs.

Mark

 

I bought a 4020 this year to use as an auger tractor.

A powershift?
Our next door neighbor was running a grain vac with a 4020 back in 86.
They hadn't put it in park, just neutral.
My dad's best friend reached up to throttle the tractor down but hit the gear shift instead.
It was his last mistake.

 

I'd love an old 6030 Jd to run augers.

 

You mean one of these......

Holy,......I ran a 7721 with one of these and it has enough power to twist the power shaft apart on the hitch. Lots of mid range torque on those units.

 

1066 international,
The PTO engage is behind and can be reached easily from the ground. We love ours for that reason, hard part is we don't us it often... That size of trator is obsolete on our farm. Black stripe...

 

Cervus equipment in olds has a JD 7405 open cab sitting on their lot.

 

We've run a 4020 with a powershift for years on the augers, but it's always in Park before I get off. I converted it to 12 volts, installed a 90 amp Delco alternator and a suitcase battery on the frame rail beside the starter. That allows me to run big lights all around and keeps everything running with all the starting and stopping. I made a panel in the top of the cab with the fuse panel out of an old car and solenoids to the light circuits so the power comes directly from the battery to the lights. It's a rear entry cab so it's just as handy as an open platform, but it's got a lid on it if I'm picking stones in the rain.

 

I had a friend that was 18 and got pulled under a wheel of a 4020 powershift while it was hooked to a ag bagger. He was shutting off the bagger when it happened, the worst part was his brother found him.

 

Here is my favorite auger tractor. 5020 standard, dyno'd at 135. That is a 13" x 102' with 18 moisture corn, running about 8,000 bu/hr. It won't smoke if the corn is under 15%. Electric shut off on Rosa Master pump, Kee switch is reachable from the ground, PTO is on left side, 15' mechanical hand throttle cable is positioned on the swing hopper within easy reach when operating the trailer trap crank.

That 531 CID is great. If you idle the tractor down with corn still in the hopper it doesn't care. It will pull the full auger at idle. I also have a 4440, same horsepower but 466 CID turbo. It will die if throttled down with grain in the auger.

 

I've used an 1830 JD before on a 13X86.......only doing oats though

 

Lots of the newer open station tractors are so tall that you have to climb up the stairs to reach the controls. Not much easier than a cab tractor with 2 doors.

 

Just got a 13" by71 auger this fall it costed me somewhere around $3000 more just so I could get a 1000 rpm gear box on it ,I wanted to run it with a old 7080 allis (180 hp) that has been on the farm since new it only has 1000 big shaft it works well I took the right hand side cab panel off just when it was on the auger you can get at all the controls much better from this side and that is also the wagon side .it also has a good park on the trans for saftey in 30% wet corn you can bring the tractor down to its knees .