Condition of a stock tractor

[Woolless]

Used to wash every 12-18months when on the arable farm I was on, some of the self employed boys with their own tractors would wash daily, I had to much to do to wash more than once a year! Used to do it after it had been carting beet because I'd have it back for ploughing and drilling where it would stay cleanish.. never polished it, inside wasn't the cleanest but when your snowed under with work all year round I wasn't bothered. I'd grease every machine I was using daily and sometimes twice a day mind! Where as the boys I knew washing daily wouldn't grease anything! Plus they all had bad electrical problems, radiators caked with thick wet dust where as mine was spotless in the radiators etc as never washed it and no electrical problems on a tractor that was 10 years older.

I wash the car/jeep every 12/18 months! You were spoiling the tractor @Al R!

 

[Hilly]

Looking at the prices that Cheffins got in the sale that was reported in this weeks FG I think my old Massey is probably still worth damn near what I paid 12 years ago.

yes but the gap between it and replacing it with the equivalent will be eye watering.

 

[M-J-G]

yes but the gap between it and replacing it with the equivalent will be eye watering.

Yes, I am still surprised by how many folks
buy a tractor for 20k, then 15 years later get 20k as a trade in and say it didn't loose any money, yet they had to spend 40 grand to change to the same as they originally had.

 

[Al R]

I wash the car/jeep every 12/18 months! You were spoiling the tractor @Al R!

My car was 8 years and then my mother washed it got an OSR plant in drivers footwell that is almost as high as the seat, 6 years it's been there now