Tractors you wished you’d owned....and never

Vincent

Member
Location
Kildare Ireland
Yes but spanner’s don’t fix an engine, knowledge does.... man that’s a bit too deep for me!
I’ll raise you, that’s crap you have never properly used a laptop then!
That's where the knowledge of being able to use the lap top to diagnose the problem and then having the ability to fix it comes it to play, to many haven't the ability to put the two together and are hoping the laptop will preform a miracle. I see it every shift here in work.
 

KB6930

Member
Location
Borders
When I was a wee boy the neighbour's occasionally brought they're FW60 up from the other farm it was a fair difference to the Ford 66 and 6810's my father ran then the next people to take over the place ran a fleet of Countys which in the early to mid 90's were a rare sight in our area .
The 4955 is just one I really want I have a 3350 but would like a 55 series but any of the above would be good
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puntabrava

Member
Location
Wiltshire
Why is a laptop worse than a spanner? Today’s spanner is a laptop that was a spanner to a hammer 20 years ago
Because many fitters place too much faith in the laptop providing the answer.
When you have owned a few machines that have had intermittent engine faults and drop dead on you and no fitter knows why until they have spent thousands achieving nothing then eventually start changing ecu’s and spend thousands more you realise a laptop is no spanner and is a very ineffective tool with far too much credibility.
 

Bald Rick

Moderator
Livestock Farmer
Location
Anglesey
I really wanted this for a long time. The last "proper" deutz before same and before emission regulations killed the air-cooled engine. And the biggest one. We had a Dx 110 for many years, and this was the one i would have liked to replace it.

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Bought one last year ... to replace the one I sold in 2000.
For a 20+ year old tractor, it’s surprisingly modern and no effort to spend the day in
 

Nithsdale

Member
Livestock Farmer
Bought one last year ... to replace the one I sold in 2000.
For a 20+ year old tractor, it’s surprisingly modern and no effort to spend the day in


The 6 series must've been better than the 3...

We had a dx3.65 delux and it was very basic inside compared to the Same Explorer of same age (both F-reg). Good livestock tractor, very heavy and handled a loader no problem
 

Bald Rick

Moderator
Livestock Farmer
Location
Anglesey
The 6 series must've been better than the 3...

We had a dx3.65 delux and it was very basic inside compared to the Same Explorer of same age (both F-reg). Good livestock tractor, very heavy and handled a loader no problem

Put about 300 hrs on her this year on the tedder
Never missed a beat.


 

SFI - What % were you taking out of production?

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Expanded and improved Sustainable Farming Incentive offer for farmers published

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Expanded Sustainable Farming Incentive offer from July will give the sector a clear path forward and boost farm business resilience.

From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and The Rt Hon Sir Mark Spencer MP Published21 May 2024

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Full details of the expanded and improved Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) offer available to farmers from July have been published by the...
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