On what basis to you claim that? The power is about the same. The weight very similar with front weights fitted. The back end of the rigid tractor is heavier. The tyres the same size. I fail to see where the traction advantage of the 1200 comes from, especially as the semi-mounted plough has no real weight distribution through draft control or any slip control on the tractor. No independent brakes either.
your probably right about the police but if there was a serious accident and been driven by a young lad on a tractor licence only then it's a different story .
Weights on the front of rigid tractors that plough are pretty much standard fitment. You never ever see weights on the front of a 1200 for two reasons. Firstly approximately the same weight is on the front due to the engine hanging out there but secondly is that they just can't lift enough to need any more. The rear end of the 1200 is relatively light weight. It has a good balance but no better than a rigid fitted with the obligatory set of front cast iron.
read the posts on this thread from two owners (one an ex owner) ,i also spoke to an ex owner in Cornwall, who also stated how well they pulled, it has also been posted on the thread about the advantages of equal wheels, please Man up and admit your Wrong just this once !!
Presumably it affects classic status value doing that ? This has been advertised for a while without much interest.
I didn't say anything about weights on the front I mentioned PAVT's
please read other peoples replies as i have already stated the axles are from the dreadful 1080 tractor the predecssor to your dreadful (in your opinion) 595 tractor,also you praise your JD 2140, although good reliable ,nice to drive tractors were not noted for their grip and certainly not torque ,something JD put right in the later 2650/2850 models
You have gone to far with this post
Correct, a friend of mine had a 1200, changed it for a 3095 turbo, he always tells me the 3095 has nowhere near the grip of the 1200
Well he is this time
Such tractors are extinct. They don't make them any more for a reason. Indeed at just over 100hp, nobody but MF made such a thing and they didn't sell that many. If they were superior, as you claim, not only would they have sold many more than they did but they would have continued to sell well for much longer than they did. Fact is they were only built for about ten years and they struggled to find a market for the last few of those.
So your 5400 series MF has 16.9 34 tyres all round?
But radials were available on some 1200's so could be used for this competition
The 2140 would run rings around the 595 all day long, including torque at low revs. Even though rated at 82hp compared with 88 for the 595, in practice the A4.318 was a turd.
Yes they were on late production models as optional extras. I suspect that most will have been fitted with radials after the first or second set of cross-plies wore out. It still didn't make them more desirable to enable sales to remain at sustainable levels. They died out like the dinosaur with no further development being viable. They were just outclassed by the competitors, which included MF's own 3000 and 6400 series whose basic chassis are still in production today, at least 40 years later.
So it doesn't have the same size wheels as a 1200, as your previous post suggested
Pretty sure you will find 595 hubs are no larger than 185 hubs, 185 hubs or axles were never fitted to 1200s
