Aircon or Not

[Sid]

You sure you aren’t a closet dairy farmer? Their telehandlers are always high

We always keep our machines pristine

How many more hours can we get on these tyres?

Bear in mind that they are approaching 4000hrs and a new set is now well over £6k ... even for Wunhunglo never mind BKT or better

Place your bets ...

 

[J 1177]

Both newer tractors have it, its used all the time, wouldnt buy a tractor without.
The old 5130 dosent and its torture on a hot day.
Iv got asthma and my dad died of lung cancer (none smoker) so im very aware of working in dusty conditions.
If it cost 10k extra on a tractor its still worth it, uv only got one pair of lungs.

 

[kiwi pom]

Nope. We had 3 hot days in 1976, 2 in 1984, and one last summer. Not spending £500 per year gassing up, and replacing expensive parts for that.

I bought a second hand non AC Ford 7810 in 93, determined to be a contractor
Did a lot of buckraking with it, after a particularly hot day showing grass into an old tin shed, trying to keep up with a self propelled, I chucked my ted and rang an AC guy and had him come out and fit a complete system.
One of my better decisions (getting AC, not being a contractor)

 

[tinsheet]

Neither of my tractors have air con, best get back in my cave

 

[Lofty1984]

You will never think to yourself while driving oh I wish I’d not bothered getting a/c where as you will constantly think you should have on a boiling hot day

 

[7610 super q]

I don't do that much tractor work these days, nor make hay any more. It's never particularly hot during spring corn sowing, and August ( harvest ) is slowly but surely turning into the coldest/ rainiest month of the year. Never bothered me too much back in the day using tractors with no air con TBH. Maybe it's our climate in Crapweathershire. Both Manitou and 7840 have aircon, not going to spend money getting them fixed though.
To read posts on here that folks leave £100k tractors parked up cos the aircon ain't working is the craziest thing I've ever read on the internet. I worry about the future of UK farming when I read threads like this............

 

[Lowland1]

Obviously you can just take the doors off your new Fendt and leave them in the hedge bottom.

 

[David.]

Saw that done with Ford cab doors many a time.
Saw a big stone pulled by the drill to the headland, and then chucked in the bottom of the hedge too, one day....
To the accompanying sound of breaking glass.

 

[Lowland1]

Saw that done with Ford cab doors many a time.
Saw a big stone pulled by the drill to the headland, and then chucked in the bottom of the hedge too, one day....
To the accompanying sound of breaking glass.

We used to rotavate everything after harvest with a big rotavator on a County. I used to get it on a weekend when i was home from school. I went round the headland on one field and the rotavator started making a funny noise. I took it back to Dad and he found i rotavated a cab door from a 135 that had been taken off and left on the dyke side.

 

[Kiwi Pete]

So a hp is really about ten horse power?

I read this old thread last night and saw this on Facebust today. Had to share

 

[glasshouse]

I don't do that much tractor work these days, nor make hay any more. It's never particularly hot during spring corn sowing, and August ( harvest ) is slowly but surely turning into the coldest/ rainiest month of the year. Never bothered me too much back in the day using tractors with no air con TBH. Maybe it's our climate in Crapweathershire. Both Manitou and 7840 have aircon, not going to spend money getting them fixed though.
To read posts on here that folks leave £100k tractors parked up cos the aircon ain't working is the craziest thing I've ever read on the internet. I worry about the future of UK farming when I read threads like this............

Case 125 tractor is impossible to drive if air con off.
It has no side windows to open and serious heat off gearbox

 

[ACEngineering]

why even consider no aircon, stupid idea not having it to save a few quid, face it even if aircon option is £2k it makes sod all difference on a new machine costing £100k plus.

besides who will want to buy it second hand with no aircon.

stop being so short sighted and think longer term.

 

[jondear]

Jcb aircon stopped working today .It was hot today .Got to get sorted asap

 

[J 1177]

Jcb aircon stopped working today .It was hot today .Got to get sorted asap

Spent monday in the combine that has no aircon. Sweating my rubbish off, spent today round baling with my 6480 that has good aircon, bliss. I think i prefer the aircon

 

[john63]

We only have one tractor (N-reg 856XL) with air con - unfortunately it doesn't work! Must get someone to look at it.

All the others (combine included) don't have air-con, so in the summer it's a case of being hot, or slightly cooler and very dusty - probably the worst is using the crawler on top work with both doors open.

The next tractor will have working air-con.

 

[spark plug]

Has anyone ever successfully retrofitted air con to a tractor?

 

[Drillman]

Anyone would think we’ve eventually had a couple of warm days as this is the 2nd aircon thread I’ve seen on here in the last 24hrs,

don’t worry everyone I’m sure we be soon back to normal UK weather, overcast and light drizzle

 

[tr250]

As a farmer who suffers from hay fever, I spent most of my early farming years shut in a MF590 sweating my nuts off whilst round baling. Begged Dad to get me some AC, but apparently the cost was too high. Roll on a few years and when it was time to change a tractor, the spec was: AC, nice seat, 4WD. Roll on again and my middle daughter is driving for me, on the 590 I drove back in the day! After seeing her suffer from the heat during her first summer, I soon set about fitting AC to the old tractor. Transformed the tractor, now she wants a radio. So for us, as others have said, AC is a no brainer.

She’ll be wanting rtk on it next

 

[kiwi pom]

Has anyone ever successfully retrofitted air con to a tractor?

Yep years ok though, see my post up thread. It was basically a factory kit installed by an ac company. Worked perfectly

 

[Spud]

In 1993 dad got his first new tractor, an MF3085. It had air con, on the basis that one of its job was spraying. Super. For some reason it did more hours than the other tractors.....

Back end of 1995 and the 956 Nash has chewed it's gearbox. Replacement to be a new Maxxum synchro. Try as I might, I couldn't persuade dad to pay the extra £700 for air con.

Spring 96 and I'm home from my student middle year job and planting spuds for dad with the 3085. Stinking hot day, he'd come down later with the bedtiller on the Maxxum. Lunchtime comes and he's after swapping jobs, on the basis "have a go with the new tractor" No chance says I, you insisted we didn't need air con, so you can drive the bloody sweatbox!

By harvest he'd spent a grand getting air con fitted and declared that no more tractors would ever be bought without this 'basic essential'

That rule has been stuck to, except for cabless tractors!