are new tractor over priced

[Tarw Coch]

It still can. I contract farm for farms that size and they make good money.

They are earning money from an investment, they are not making a living from farming

 

[Sid]

Glad you didn't omit bluetooth, it's so important,

Have you seen the adverts for cars lately, don't think they even have an engine?

I bought an X reg tractor 20 years ago, MF 6270, aircon, semi powershift, power shuttle, eco pto , electric hydraulics and I regard it as the best tractor on the farm, I have said several times on this forum that I’d buy an MF 6200 series in prefeference to anything on the market today, I certainly have no need for the fancy screens and electric spools that it seems to be getting harder to avoid which add to the build cost and judging by some threads on here are expensive to fix, meanwhile I’m yet to have a problem with a mechanical spool which would no doubt be a cheaper fix if it did go wrong.

I don't want electric spools either

 

[TheTallGuy]

What was th average house price in 1975? As that ford 4000 sounds expensive?

Parents bought their mid terraced house in a village with 3 bedrooms for £7, 000 in 1977

 

[Hilly]

Last brand new tractor I bought was 1990 came with wide tyres radio loader and was 12k things soon changed they went to over thirty it a matter of a year or three I never bought a new one again and wil

It's the same as the comment in your pickup thread about cars... too many new tractors bought on tick, just pay up X every month and nobody actually knows a nailed down price for a new tractor - just what the finance company has the final 'value' at


And aye, they're stupidly over priced. But so is everything

It’s a rat race I do not enter .

 

[M-J-G]

Last brand new tractor I bought was 1990 came with wide tyres radio loader and was 12k things soon changed they went to over thirty it a matter of a year or three I never bought a new one again and wil

It’s a rat race I do not enter .

Funnily most people I know in NI say exactly the same about new cars.
Let the folks on the mainland take the crazy hit on the new one and they step in and but a 2 or 3 yo at 2/3 of new value with a couple of years warranty left on it.

 

[Hilly]

Funnily most people I know in NI say exactly the same about new cars.
Let the folks on the mainland take the crazy hit on the new one and they step in and but a 2 or 3 yo at 2/3 of new value with a couple of years warranty left on it.

Good idea, I’ve not bought a new car since 1994 .

 

[M-J-G]

Good idea, I’ve not bought a new car since 1994 .

Our last car was 3 months old.
My last pick-up was new, but I don't think I'll buy new again.

 

[T Hectares]

Sensible thinking at last!

I'm a big NH combine fan @Two Tone, but I think Claas beat NH to this market with the Tucano hybrid !!

 

[beardface]

The biggest cost for manufacturers is r and d and health and safety equipment mainly, which now has to be the same across all makes due to eu law. Trouble with r and d is unlike the car sector where millions of units are sold so the cost is spread much further, the ag sector sells much lower volume and so the cost is passed onto the consumer at a much higher level. The joys of technological progression.

 

[Hilly]

Our last car was 3 months old.
My last pick-up was new, but I don't think I'll buy new again.

Our last car was 3 months old.
My last pick-up was new, but I don't think I'll buy new again.

I don’t own a car I have no interest in cars and the roads around me just destroy cars .

 

[TheTallGuy]

Funnily most people I know in NI say exactly the same about new cars.
Let the folks on the mainland take the crazy hit on the new one and they step in and but a 2 or 3 yo at 2/3 of new value with a couple of years warranty left on it.

I've just bought a second hand Golf, 2 years old in virtually spotless condition at roughly half the original price - it's recently had new tyres & brakes (including discs) as well as a full service & valet. It's the newest motor I have had & likely to remain so because no way do I want to drop that much value in just 2 years use..... unless I win the lottery!

 

[7610 super q]

Trouble is, it's got to the stage where S/H is out of the question now too. And when you get to third hand territory, you're really just shifting through scrap metal.

 

[goodevans]

I don’t know about house prices but in 1976 my Dad wanted to buy my Mum a new Ford Escort for £ 1500 but she wanted a Volvo which was about twice that. We also bought a Ford 6600 in February 1976 for £4500 i think or i think it was 22 tonnes of Potatoes at the time

P reg for potato

 

[Tubbylew]

Trouble is, it's got to the stage where S/H is out of the question now too. And when you get to third hand territory, you're really just shifting through scrap metal.

Won't be long before we're re-importing 00 and 10 series deeres from poland etc.

 

[M-J-G]

I don’t own a car I have no interest in cars and the roads around me just destroy cars .

Yeah I've called with friends that stayed in a B&B down beside you and it was a sh1tty road to get to it.
We're only a mile and a half off a half decent road so we're lucky be comparison to where you are.
The private road here is only half a mile, and we look after it quite well.
Single track road after that, but the council look after it not too bad.

 

[Chae1]

I'm a big NH combine fan @Two Tone, but I think Claas beat NH to this market with the Tucano hybrid !!

Is it not single rotor though?

Same as old 480s?

 

[redsloe]

P reg for potato

Lol, dad bought a 188 and a 2130 I think!

 

[Dead Rabbits]

I definitely think new tractors are overpriced. Then again every time I want to sell something it’s too cheap and every time I want to buy it’s too expensive.

Grandpa bought the last new tractor on the family farm in 1953, still have it. He also bought the last new pickup in the family in 1947, still have it. I’m no fan of buying new unless you can absolutely justify it. It takes some serious productivity to pay for new iron. I feed a decent amount of dairy animals with just 2 tractors.

My dad and his brother get along fine on about 600 acres of crop ground and 600 acres of grazing/hay with the newest tractor being a 1976. And by get along I mean they don’t make any money, but they don’t lose any either.

A new tractor wouldn’t really gain them much other than something new to cuss at. Neither have ever driven a power shift transmission.

 

[T Hectares]

Is it not single rotor though?

Same as old 480s?

Was thinking more along the lines of it being a simpler cheaper older tech hybrid to be pitched as an affordable alternative to a bells and wistles top spec machine...

 

[kiwi pom]

And 10 men driving 10 Ford 4000's drilling 250 acres a day would mean 10 extra families having an income.

Yep when big, more expensive tractors came along and meant a farm could get rid of labour it was called progress. Now there's no staff left but the tractor price keeps rising its somehow turned into a scandal.