Bombproof old bus to pull 6 furrows.

8100

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South Cheshire
You know you want to..
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john432

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Location
Carmarthenshire
I reckon an MF 8200 might be worth looking for, rarer and less collectionist, reasonably simple machines with not a lot of electronickos to go wrong?
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My friends tractor, been using it on the lime spreader and plough, beast of a thing ,but feels overweight, on the road it's like a man with a beer belly ,running 400 meters. 8260, with just 4200hrs, should I buy it?
 
View attachment 908477 My friends tractor, been using it on the lime spreader and plough, beast of a thing ,but feels overweight, on the road it's like a man with a beer belly ,running 400 meters. 8260, with just 4200hrs, should I buy it?

Depends on your intended workload? Anyone who has taken a 72 series Magnum will know what you mean about an old man with a beer belly running on the road!
 

john432

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Carmarthenshire
Depends on your intended workload? Anyone who has taken a 72 series Magnum will know what you mean about an old man with a beer belly running on the road!
I don't know if it would be suitable In front of a big forage wagon, got the weight to handle, but the transport side. A 6499 would be far more nippy I guess. but a lot more money.
 

john432

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Location
Carmarthenshire
That tractor looks tidy and has front links and good tyres on it, done modest hours too. If you had just field work for it, it would be ideal surely.
Farming has changed, units getting bigger and running back and fore on the roads seems to be the norm now. That gearbox needs a steady driver with mechanical sympathy, youngster would probably kill it in no time.
 

Flat 10

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Arable Farmer
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Fen Edge
Back in the 50s, knew a similar guy who spent every winter on his own ploughing 1200 acres for spring barley above 800 ft on the Cotswolds with an IH T9 and a 6f Hexatrac

Boss used to call round every once a month with another 1000 gallons of TVO.
Impressive. Didn’t cost much. 20ac a day? Or nearer 15? I hope he had a cap....
 

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