Best tractor you owned

Barleycorn

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BASE UK Member
Location
Hampshire
Valtra 121, bought as a demonstrater in 2012, fueled up to 150 HP at the PTO, hardly put a spanner on it in 7000 hours, relegated to 'spare' now, but probably will outlast the Kubotas that replaced it.
 

40 series

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Bit smaller on the hp side but a kubota 4630. 45hp handles a 5t top dresser no problem and had 1 clutch and a few hub seals. If all tractors were as good as that one id be a lot better off financially
 

melted welly

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Arable Farmer
Location
DD9.
JD 7810 was a favourite, ex demo, did near 15,000hrs before it went. Biggest expense was exhaust system needed replaced and brakes done a couple times. Would’ve loved to kept it and done it up but reality got in the way of that.

TM150 did 10,000 hrs and other than set of brakes was faultless

it’s successor a puma 155 went away with 10,500hrs and again just brakes and that stupid prop shaft bearing with no grease point. Air con was crap though.

Got an 08 plate tm155 powershift but it’s currently at the doctors with gearbox issues. Hoping to get it back on the road though as it’s only done 9500hrs and I’ve not long bought a couple of new rowcrops for it. 🤣
Looking at what it’s worth thinking few grand to put it right be good investment.
 

Spud

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
YO62
Pretty much any of the three 7400 series MF's we've had, all of them better than the 3000's, 61, 62, 64 and 76's (though the 7618 is up there re reliability, had nothing outside of servicing bar an alternator & belt tensioner)
7480 was first ever Vario in 2006, new for £45500, sold in 2018 with 11800hrs for 12k, worked to death for the first half of its life, but never did less than 900hrs a year

06 7495 came second hand with 2700hrs to take load off the 7480, bar a gearbox wiring loom and not much else, it just pulled and pulled. Traded in for a new 7620. Should of sold the newer 6490 we had at the time instead and kept this one - definitely the one that got away. It lost £10k in 3yrs and 3400hrs, so can't complain really.
7490 05 came Feb 19 as an extra tractor, to be a permanent convenience/back up, and replace a seasonal hire tractor. It had done 10,000hrs when it came, just shy of 11000 now. Brakes were knackered when it came, and we've done a few little jobs to it, but hell it does go well (and it's the only one we have that actually sounds like a proper tractor!) We paid 17k for it, so not a bank breaker.

The Sisu Vario combination has served us very well, and continues to do so
 

Ormond

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Fendt 718 bought new 2010....still running it...9350 hours.....would of it been stupid to buy two instead of trying to run a new Holland along side the 718.....most probably not......
 

box

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
NZ
Same Explorer 80, trouble free tractoring at its finest. Almost no electrics, no A/C, no heater, no cab, no cooling system, no air seat, no powershift, manual 3 point linkage, manual draft control, manual remotes, no bullshhit.
 
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ARW

Member
Location
Yorkshire
Our old T7040
Bought in 2014 with 4000 hours, it’s clocked 11600 now and apart from the little stuff it’s only had a damper plate and 2x new back tyres. It’s now semi retired
 
MF 3070 bought new, 2 wheel drive, rep could not believe we wanted 2 wd. Done all the silage carting for many years, did fert. spreading with a set of 15.3/80 bodged on front for low pressure, then relegated to rake. Now mainly stuck on the hedgecutter.
Not touched apart from two handbrakes for driving tests and an air con. rad. broken during cleaning.
Started off oil changes every 100 hours 'cos that was what we did.
 

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Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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