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Buying high houred tractors

Massey mad

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Hi all, looking at getting a cheapish 180-200hp tractor. What would you all say is too high hours to be buying been looking at a few 76/ 7718 models with 6-7k hours on
 

mtx.jag

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Hi all, looking at getting a cheapish 180-200hp tractor. What would you all say is too high hours to be buying been looking at a few 76/ 7718 models with 6-7k hours on
It all depends what they have done for the first 7000 hours. We had a 7618 on hire for the last month with 7000 hrs and it’s been the biggest ball ache ever.
There are other 7618/20 locally with 9000 plus on that have been superb
 

Massey mad

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It all depends what they have done for the first 7000 hours. We had a 7618 on hire for the last month with 7000 hrs and it’s been the biggest ball ache ever.
There are other 7618/20 locally with 9000 plus on that have been superb
Thanks for the reply, what sort of issues did you have with it? Thanks
 

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Webinar: Expanded Sustainable Farming Incentive offer 2024 -26th Sept

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On Thursday 26th September, we’re holding a webinar for farmers to go through the guidance, actions and detail for the expanded Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) offer. This was planned for end of May, but had to be delayed due to the general election. We apologise about that.

Farming and Countryside Programme Director, Janet Hughes will be joined by policy leads working on SFI, and colleagues from the Rural Payment Agency and Catchment Sensitive Farming.

This webinar will be...
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