10,000 hour plus tractors

[Holsteinfriesian90]

What did you trade the 6620 in for?

6930. 66 is still a good tractor now just linkage getting worn would still go field and do a days work no problem.

 

[Weasel]

10000 hr tractors.

ithink the marshall 844 might be the only original one with a working clock, 10300hrs
valmet 8400 11000, I know its not even close to right, be closer to 15000
mf 6180 9200 again not even close, had 7300hrs in 2013
nh ts 115, 4000ish hours with the second set of tyres at 20%? only came this tuuesday but looks and drives 100%
390, 2700 clock not going, not clue
35 ?
mf 399 9300hrs


valmet is here from 1600hrs, still a front line as such but now only doing 3-400hrs ayear, 5 years ago it was recording 600hrs when the 6180 was recording an average of 800hrs year, taking a big workload of the valmet, also at that time we ran a 106 54 Renault as a third big tractor.
mf 6180 came in 2010, with 4900hrs, has done a lot of work and same as valmet third set of tyres at the minute and both were mostly baling, mowing, and harvester tractors, grass isn't sore on tyres.

no notion of changing them, we know them, valmet might soon need a second hyd pump, massey still needs the sycnros it needed when we bought it(needs to be stopped to get into 1st gear). the 399 was sold and bought back as a simple tractor, 106 54 was sold and never replaced, the ts replaced a 7740 that was a loader tractor here for 6.5 years, again it was not true hrs but added up, sold needing a pack in the sle and it only cost 8500 to change from a 97 7740 to 01 ts115, if the pack was in the 7740 it would have stayed but couldn't get a mechanic to sort it in a hurry. They are our main tractors for 50 suck cows and a bit of contracting part time, seem to work.

Any pictures of the 106 you had?

 

[glasshouse]

Manitou 728 1997 on 14,700 hrs
Had a torque

 

[wdah/him]

Any pictures of the 106 you had?

not that I know of, wasn't a patch on the older 110 14, no pictures of it either.

try to block the 106 from memory, wasnt the best of them, a 96 model that was turboed, we did the gearbox, clutch, steering i mean all of the steering pump orbital rams and still not drive in a staight line, brakes need work too, went on fire once by electric in dash and twice when welding the hitch hooks, broke a rear lift arm from the top cross shaft, sump cracked, turbo and working hard meant it would get very warm and before we sold it it needed engine work all sub 7000hrs. local renault mechanic said most of that was common problems with them, apart from the nearly burning when welding hitch hooks.

Had to be the worst tractor to do a days baling with the position of the shuttle, but reasonable grip, the 3125 was nearly always first choice before the 106, 6180 a little behind the 3125 for ability.

 

[dieselboost]

Very interesting thread and obvious that there are many working tractors out there with in excess of 10 and 15 k hours , as would be expected.

What I find even more astounding is that tractors with these hours seem to never be advertised for sale all that much!! Well that is with the correct and representative hours!

Must be wholesale clocking and winding back of hour meters going on, every TM that I have looked at recently were all at 8,000 or so hours and under!? Where do the high hour heros actually end up? Is it a case of export or clock an sell domestically again?

 

[fermerboy]

NH 7840 with loader just knocking on 15000hrs not main loader (Loadall) but doing about 6-700hrs/yr
Ford 7840 just over 16000hrs, getting a little sluggish now.
TM 140 on 9400hrs, still a nice tractor to spend a day.
Just got another 7840 turbo thats barely run in on 5600hrs

 

[Lowland1]

Metal fatigue is a bit of an issue on higher houred combines I will admit but I've 2 approaching those hours and apart from a couple of superficial cracks in tinwork fatigue hasn't reared it's ugly head yet. Touch wood. I am a stickler for keeping bearings and bushings in first class order which I think helps. It's when things start knocking that they start breaking up. I know a NH here with over 9000 hours done and still going and a MF860 over in the States with over 11000 hours and it cut corn this year well last year now.

If you look at combines in South Africa you will find 10 -12 year old combines with 8000 hours or more on them. This is because it tends to be dry at harvest so you can leave the crop until you are ready to harvest so one combine can do a lot more acres per year

 

[Still Farming]

Won't be going anywhere if Climate change ,carbon, emmissions tighten right up???

 

[cousinjack]

Mf 399. Well over 10k ... been great, eats clutches and the back end is underengineered but never given too much trouble.

Mf390, 2wd. 9.5k... excellent tractor.. simple and reliable..

Jd 6310, just turned 10k .. frankly been a pain in the ass, head gaskets, injection pump, gearbox issues, radiator, oil cooler..
But still remains my favourite one to use !!

Jd6610.. just turned 10k
Superb.. hardly any issues given it's had a hard life

Jd7810 .. 6k ... faultless !!

Jcb 525-67... must be around 15k
Been excellent... did the engine just after we bought it at 5k hrs, which I think was due to a previous bodge job..
Had a bit of gearbox trouble, nowt out of the ordinary considering the hammering it's had..

My natural tendency is to recommend older 'bomb proof' models to buying new, but the new 6130m deere we bought, is now at 3k and has never let me down !!

 

[cousinjack]

M

Very interesting thread and obvious that there are many working tractors out there with in excess of 10 and 15 k hours , as would be expected.

What I find even more astounding is that tractors with these hours seem to never be advertised for sale all that much!! Well that is with the correct and representative hours!

Must be wholesale clocking and winding back of hour meters going on, every TM that I have looked at recently were all at 8,000 or so hours and under!? Where do the high hour heros actually end up? Is it a case of export or clock an sell domestically again?

My old 1135 fastrac, which I know was well over 15k hours and frankly worn right out, turned up for sale with a 5 gallon overhaul, new tyres and a new decal set with a magical 7k hours on the clock..... looks damn smart too.... I'd be fooled by it !!

 

[Aircooled]

A lot depends on the type of work being done. A yard tractor should last forever but a tractor doing long hauls will need bearings replaced which can end up costing too much.

 

[holywell farmer]

NH 7840 with loader just knocking on 15000hrs not main loader (Loadall) but doing about 6-700hrs/yr
Ford 7840 just over 16000hrs, getting a little sluggish now.
TM 140 on 9400hrs, still a nice tractor to spend a day.
Just got another 7840 turbo thats barely run in on 5600hrs

Out of interest what's current nh equivalent of the tm 140 ?

 

[Renaultman]

Out of interest what's current nh equivalent of the tm 140 ?

T6 140? If such a thing exists?

 

[cubby]

Jd6630 11200 hrs
Jd7810 12550hrs
Both front line tractors in our young contracting business

 

[dieselboost]

T6 140? If such a thing exists?

It is the T7.190/T7.210 that would be the modern day equivalent of the TM140.

 

[fermerboy]

Out of interest what's current nh equivalent of the tm 140 ?

Depends on how opened up the TM is!!!
I was led to believe that a T7.210 would be similar, never driven one to say for sure.

 

[Renaultman]

It is the T7.190/T7.210 that would be the modern day equivalent of the TM140.

Isn't the T7 a bit heavier and longer than the TM? Saying that there was very little difference between the TM155 and the T7 210 but I never compared weights.

 

[Deerefarmer]

Where do the high hour heros actually end up? Is it a case of export or clock an sell domestically again?

C'mon, do you think anyone will confess

 

[oil barron]

Isn't the T7 a bit heavier and longer than the TM? Saying that there was very little difference between the TM155 and the T7 210 but I never compared weights.

Short wheelbase T7 is about the same weight as a TM and uses the fiat winner back end. T7.175 classic is the equivalent of a TM140 with 140 rated horse power. Although I think the T7s all use the HD front axle now, which was only on the TM155, TM150, 8360 and 8560 before. T7.165s would be another close option which ironically has more rated power than the T7.175 ?

T6 is about a ton lighter and not available with range command.

 

[2wheels]

Short wheelbase T7 is about the same weight as a TM and uses the fiat winner back end. T7.175 classic is the equivalent of a TM140 with 140 rated horse power. Although I think the T7s all use the HD front axle now, which was only on the TM155, TM150, 8360 and 8560 before. T7.165s would be another close option which ironically has more rated power than the T7.175 ?

T6 is about a ton lighter and not available with range command.

our case mxm 140 (tm140 ) had the heavy duty front axle the same as the 155s. the 155s had a heavier rear axle than the 140s .