Anyone on here own a tractor, tractor loader, with 10,000 plus hours, id like to here your comments , make, model if you have had it from new and anyproblems on the way? I know in classic tractor a dairy farmer was writing the praises of a newholland tractor on a diet feeder with high hours, so please more ?
10,000 hour plus tractors
- Thread starter bluebell
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4440
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- South Suffolk
1135 Fastrac 12000 hour, 1998 build.
It's been okay.
Still worth what I paid for it with 3000 hours on it 15 years ago.
It's been okay.
Still worth what I paid for it with 3000 hours on it 15 years ago.
Sharny dubs
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Massey 6495 11k hours
Massey 7618 8800 hours
Renault 10500 hours.
2 Masseys are still everyday working tractors. Renault is a spare. A lot of people or obsessed with repair figures. Depreciation is the one that will cost you a lot more unless your tractor is a total pos. A finance direct debit seems to make people happier than a repair bill
Massey 7618 8800 hours
Renault 10500 hours.
2 Masseys are still everyday working tractors. Renault is a spare. A lot of people or obsessed with repair figures. Depreciation is the one that will cost you a lot more unless your tractor is a total pos. A finance direct debit seems to make people happier than a repair bill
- Location
- The North
i would argue if it been on a diet feeder its a fairly easy life not representing a typical 10000 hrs, others may disagree.
Rowland
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- Location
- Northeast England
Remember it’s ok running older well used gear that probably will need on going repairs .
New gear that shouldn’t break down so often is also ok . But gear tends to break down when you need it the most so having a main line tractor break down in the middle of harvest/ hay / silage time could be classed a as bit of a pain
Wellytrack
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Own nothing under 10k hours.
Sharny dubs
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It is a pain there is no doubt but can you really justify a new expensive machine just because it might break down? I run my machines until such time I loose confidence in them. If you leave in the morning expecting it to break time for a change. If breakdowns are still unexpected then its maybe worth working away. I'd love a brand new tractor but there is still life in mine so no point passing on a good tractor to someone else.
That's my thoughts anyway
motrac3a
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- Location
- North Yorkshire
MF 35X with Multi Power delivered on the 22nd April 1963 now showing 14362 hrs on the clock. Used most weeks on the pressure washer but is more or less pensioned off. Multi power still works tho!!
- Location
- West Somerset
Case 5130 with loader, just hit 15000hrs
Gerbert
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- Location
- Dutch biblebelt
I swopped my 15k or so hour JD6400 for a 9k hour JD 6420 in 2018, I thought it was quite luxurious!
I like the way @Sharny dubs puts it, as long as you have confidence in them, why swap.
I like the way @Sharny dubs puts it, as long as you have confidence in them, why swap.
Cowabunga
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- Location
- Ceredigion,Wales
My father said that they would never last. ?
- Location
- South Wales UK
Some good deals on newish high houred tractors about and if want something newer and not doing many hours yourself are they worth buying???
Wellytrack
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2x 10500 believed accurate.
1 x 12000 approx (clock incorrect suspect 15k+ hours)
1x 11500 believed accurate.
1x 10000 approx (clock incorect)
The 12k hour one needs about 3k’s worth of tidying up done immediately, but it’s done 4k hours with me and needed nothing but 250 hour servicing and filters, 3 pairs of batteries and a fuel lift pump.
1 x 12000 approx (clock incorrect suspect 15k+ hours)
1x 11500 believed accurate.
1x 10000 approx (clock incorect)
The 12k hour one needs about 3k’s worth of tidying up done immediately, but it’s done 4k hours with me and needed nothing but 250 hour servicing and filters, 3 pairs of batteries and a fuel lift pump.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
There is quite a strong argument to say stuff just before Ad-blue is probably the cheapest to run, a sort of golden age in tractors.
Wilberforce
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- Location
- North Shropshire
Same here,anything under 10k hours just isint run in properly!
Combined total of Manitou and Maxxum here is 32k hours. Contractors are used for silage and muck, these two feed , fertilise and move stuff around on a dairy farm. The Manitou needs to go before something major goes, axle issues are it’s downfall. The best thing about the Maxxum is the engine, Case didn’t make that , enough said!
Red Fred
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- Location
- Hants/Dorset border
895 Stockman Special went well round the clock, it was doing 1100 a year until the counter packed up. No one else ever sat on it from the day it came of the lorry. I still look at that wonderful L cab and think "Did I really spend 18 solid months sitting in that little box?" The mind boggles 
Weasel
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- Location
- in the hills
- Location
- DD9.
NH T7030 classic on 10,000hrs here. Been ok, had brakes done twice, couple of electrical niggles. Engine, gearbox and hydraulics been fine, had a hand primer and a couple of goes repairing aircon fault.
cheap to run, decent on fuel, not exactly sparkling road performance but a decent place to spend a day. Was on 4m p/h combi up to 9500hrs and is no worse for it.
as said previously, it’ll be here till we lose confidence in it. We’ll change it when it stops feeling “right”. Took a 7810 jd to 14,000hrs, it became unreliable and was traded in. Currently the 7030 feels like its plenty life left in it so I’d hope for another few thousand hrs out of it yet.
cheap to run, decent on fuel, not exactly sparkling road performance but a decent place to spend a day. Was on 4m p/h combi up to 9500hrs and is no worse for it.
as said previously, it’ll be here till we lose confidence in it. We’ll change it when it stops feeling “right”. Took a 7810 jd to 14,000hrs, it became unreliable and was traded in. Currently the 7030 feels like its plenty life left in it so I’d hope for another few thousand hrs out of it yet.
Bramble
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Ford 7810 14000 hrs
NH 8340 10100 hrs
NH 8340 8500 hrs
NH TM190 9500
JCB 3CX 9000 hrs
Manitou 626 14000 hrs
All, except the Manitou and the 2nd 8340, have been in the workshop for engine and/or transmission work at some point but parts are mostly pretty cheap. The TM engine rebuild was expensive @ £5k. The 2 8340’s have been the cheapest to run
Plus a few others that either don’t have clocks or the clocks have stopped
NH 8340 10100 hrs
NH 8340 8500 hrs
NH TM190 9500
JCB 3CX 9000 hrs
Manitou 626 14000 hrs
All, except the Manitou and the 2nd 8340, have been in the workshop for engine and/or transmission work at some point but parts are mostly pretty cheap. The TM engine rebuild was expensive @ £5k. The 2 8340’s have been the cheapest to run
Plus a few others that either don’t have clocks or the clocks have stopped