- Location
- Moreton-in-Marsh, Glos
All built circa 1992 and still going strong. As well as being an absolute pleasure to use!
Classics Earning their keep.
- Thread starter Tha Ulsterscot
- Start date
All built circa 1992 and still going strong. As well as being an absolute pleasure to use!
glasshouse
Member
- Location
- lothians
Wash your mouth out with soap!
The Tw s were untouchable in their day, and bulletproof to boot.
They only went wrong when they started putting powershift boxes on them
puntabrava
Member
- Location
- Wiltshire
Your talking rubbish lad, why do you think a tw now is 7k!
- Location
- East Essexshire
Because they're too big for an old boy to restore in his garage, and not easy and comfy enough to drive for most people to run commercially.
glasshouse
Member
- Location
- lothians
Show me one for £7k??? I will buy it.
There was nothing to touch them at the time for sheer grunt, except of course an FW!!!
Boohoo
Member
- Location
- Newtownabbey
Plus everyone would rather have a 1455XL
puntabrava
Member
- Location
- Wiltshire
Those estates that owned them moved away from Ford when the tw’s We’re replaced, the side of the engine said hello to a big hole at around 5500 hrs, saw it time and again.
glasshouse
Member
- Location
- lothians
Bu the time the tws were getting replaced there was a lot of choice in big tractors, not so ten yr earlier.
Most of those big estate tractors never got near 5000 hrs, i bought a ten yr old tw30 with 3000 hrs on it
Cheap raw power, you cant buy that today.
- Location
- Moreton-in-Marsh, Glos
We had a TW 25 when I was in Suffolk. It would pull the bolliks off anything!
A fantastic tractor that sounded like a hurricane as it came towards you and chucked lumps of coal out of the exhaust when the going got tough. But it just wouldn’t give up.
We tested against the equivalent MF 2725 and a JD (can’t remember the number) on the same Dowdeswell DP7E+1 (14”) and it absolutely left them for dead!
Big-Al
Member
- Location
- Rugby Warwickshire
One of the last 4755's off the production line used by our kids over the last ten years before they past their driving tests at harvest
shes done just over 6000hrs
poor old girl then goes on the hedge cutter from September till March
shes done just over 6000hrs
poor old girl then goes on the hedge cutter from September till March
blue power
Member
- Location
- Staffordshire
- Location
- Cheshire
At the ripe old age of 23 (1989) this was my tractor. Seeing comments about TWs; this was proceeded by a JD4240s, that was a real grunter and happily pulled the plough in the photo.
bobajob
Member
- Location
- Sw Scotland
- Location
- Moreton-in-Marsh, Glos
Mid Tier Stewardship Herb and clover rich pasture being cut with the the 7740 and a Krone 3200 mower conditioner.
spanners and hammers
Member
- Location
- cambridgeshire
i met Brenda today
GeorgeK
Member
- Location
- Leicestershire
4055 singing with joy to be loose on its favourite job, OSR with the shakaerator. Been direct drilled for 5 years so will benefit from a good loosening. Just happen to be going over a tramline that wanted tidying up beforehand, I'm not overlapping
