Best tractor engine ever made? 3.. 2.. 1.. go !

bobk

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Location
stafford
The 2 Cummins engines here are very good , but the 2 powerstars have been fantastic , can't say the same for the rest of the tractor though
 

Runs Like a Deere

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Mixed Farmer
Mine needed three clutches [my father always started off a gear too high with eight ton silage trailers behind], at least one slave cylinder, rebuilt HiLo unit and PTO clutch and a replacement auto hitch, all before 6000 hours. Then at about 9000 it needed a rebuilt main hydraulic pump. That’s about it really. It was worked very hard and did thousands of acres with Kidd Klipper drum mowcons and eight ton silage trailers behind. On mixer wagon all winters.
Ours used to do pretty much everything, it was our main tractor until we switched the second tractor, a 2130, for a JD6200 which was swapped for JD6400.

Prior to the 6200 arriving it used to run the Fhar FH900 chopper and tow a 8 tonne fraser silage trailer behind it, it must have been slow to be fair but it did it. All with 81hp sounds mad now doesn't it.
 
Ours used to do pretty much everything, it was our main tractor until we switched the second tractor, a 2130, for a JD6200 which was swapped for JD6400.

Prior to the 6200 arriving it used to run the Fhar FH900 chopper and tow a 8 tonne fraser silage trailer behind it, it must have been slow to be fair but it did it. All with 81hp sounds mad now doesn't it.
I knew of a 2140 that used to lug a 4 furrows reversible overm plough
 

Flatlander

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Arable Farmer
Location
Lorette Manitoba
I mate used to pull a 5 furrow rev with a JD1640 back in the day
Back when men were men and sat out in the open on steel seats 30-40 horse power pulled a three furrow plough up and over the downs, I guess soil was easier back then because now 200 hp will only pull 6 furrows and then only if the gps is working. joking aside I ploughed many acres with a 5 furrow kv conventional in a ford 5000. carrying a 5 reversible on a little Deere must have required a sh1t ton of weight up front.
 

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Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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