18,000 hour fendt
- Thread starter warksfarmer
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- Ardrossan Ayrshire
Fella near me used to scrape out with a te20, abour 10 years ago it was worn out completely. A cheap new Indian tractor was bought with a functional hr meter. The tractor blew up about a year later with 800 hrs on it. He remarked that the fergie had been scraping out for about 50 years, no wonder it was knackered!
Speedstar
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- Location
- Scottish Borders
Personality I don't think that is a lot of hours for a tractor, we have ran forklifts to over 20,000 hours with very little trouble , maybe things made back in the day were better made
- Location
- Lincolnshire
No, It was the 1.6 Diesel engine in those days, the Mondeo had the rubbish 2.3 engine at that point followed by a 1.8 turbo.
Frankzy
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- Location
- Jamtland, Sweden
Volvo TD60 !
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- S.E
The problem with running machines for long hours over many years is the cost to change for a new one. Once you step off of the 1/3/5year replacement policy its very very difficult to get back on. You need to ask yourself, if you are sure, that you don't want to go back to new machine ownership in the future. We do both over a couple of businesses and as long as you have the workshop/labour to deal with replacing a gearbox/engine on a machine its do-able but if you are relying on a dealer the costs will be large and you will of wished you had put that money into a new machine.
New machines have problems too mostly little niggles but the warranty should cover these on the whole. Overall I would say the older machines cost less to run but its not that straight forward.
New machines have problems too mostly little niggles but the warranty should cover these on the whole. Overall I would say the older machines cost less to run but its not that straight forward.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
It isnt that hard to buy new again (if you save the cash!) swapping twice at 5 years costs more than 1 swap at 10 years.. its dealer margin at every swap, but I find you get a feel of impending doom if you are the driver and then think about swapping .
- Location
- Bedfordshire
Is it okay to do what you want if its never in the budget!!?
- Location
- Bedfordshire
Surely the best thing is buy at 5 yrs and sell at 10
Man engine and turboshift best tractor ever built possibly
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Durt Burd
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- Location
- SE Ireland
But they were not flawless. The handbrake used to stick on our 818 and it had a few other niggles. Having the hydraulic cross controller down by the side of the seat was awkward compared to the 920 we had. But they were very good on fuel.
They also had piston liners crack occasionally and engine couplers fail but still do 20k hours at minimal cost per hour
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Not in my experience, buy decent quality and spec brand new and keep it a long time is cheapest, if i have traded something in there is a good reason for it.. avoid!
Deerefarmer
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- Location
- USA
2 years ago when I took this pic, this one had a bit over 16k hrs,owned by a fellow contractor, cant remember about the transmission but he did say the engine got a rebuild around 12k hrs
The Mo0ndy never had the 2.3 (as you say, terrible), that was the Sierra. |
Ducati899
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- Location
- north dorset
Used to drive a 818 with same gearbox,bomb proof.... 1994 tractor had done just over 20000hrs by 2002 iirc, some might even remember it being in classic tractor
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puntabrava
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- Wiltshire
Funny how they run cat dozers and Volvo dump trucks and slews.
Tomr10
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Tony has a cat excavator they blur the name out on
barleybasher
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That's nothing, 'Tis but a scratch etc compared to the 62,000 Hour Leyland in Classic Tractor this month, like triggers broom!
Mind you I'd rather spend those hours sitting in a Fendt rather than an old Leyland, god knows what the 83 year old owners back is like after using that Leyland hedgecutting for so long!
Mind you I'd rather spend those hours sitting in a Fendt rather than an old Leyland, god knows what the 83 year old owners back is like after using that Leyland hedgecutting for so long!
Wonder what the depreciation on that Leyland would be, would they have been more than £6200 new?