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<blockquote data-quote="Spud" data-source="post: 4721792" data-attributes="member: 78"><p>This area was awash with Fords way back when. The neighbours have a 1976 R reg 6600 with a Duncan cab - biggest reason being to accommodate the mid mount Econ hedgecutter it inherited from it's 5000 predecessor. It's done about 20000 hrs, mostly with the same operator, and is still backup for it's 7840 stablemate now.</p><p></p><p>They also had a 1977 S reg 6600 with a q cab, it left maybe 10yrs ago with well over 10000hrs for a 6640. It had a bit more removable mid mount Econ hedger in it's early years, then a loader in it's latter years. Both 6600's had a short motor apiece.</p><p></p><p>Next came a 2wd 7600 on a W reg, q cab again. Proper poky tractor, we used to hire it to power harrow and lead spuds. It's done a lot of work, used to drill a lot on dual wheels with a 4m MF30. It's mowed, carted, drilled and cultivated, and was buck rake tractor for a good many years. Has spool levers on cables and a gearstick extension, and 10"wide front wheels. Still drills several hundred acres of beet with a 6m drill, and bosses the feeder wagon, carts silage and does general back up. 14000+ on the clock. Two short motors iirc, but little else.</p><p></p><p>1981 saw a fleet flagship, a 7600 4wd - wheel weights, 16.9r34's, it was heavy cultivations and forager tractor. Left for a suntan with the 6600 (all these on the same farm) and a 7840 took it's place. Bet this is the one they wish they'd kept. It had a short motor too!</p><p></p><p>Following an apalling MF550 in 1977, and the neighbours good run of 3,45&7000's, then the 6600's, dad bought a year old 4600 in 78. No power steering, no spools, just tipping pipe, but had a q cab, with that peculiar single back window with the big ally shelf on the bottom - I've only ever seen it on 3&4600's. This one still had the original engine when it left in 2001, but wasn't a particularly loved tractor - it jumped out of 2nd gear, the doors flew open, and the steering wheel pulled your arms off. It was spray and fert tractor for a few years in the early 80's, used to roll and drill on cage wheels. It used to eat hour clocks, but I reckon it had only done 6000ish when it left. No dual power, unlike the neighbours fleet.</p><p></p><p>Still, it wasn't all bad, and we got a 1979 V reg 5600 to join it at a year or so old. It had one of those flat bar weight baskets, 750 front wheels, proper q cab and a wireless that worked! Gained a 6610 engine at about 2000hrs when the original went porous, but I'm struggling to remember it ever needing surgery. It's still here, nearly 11000hrs recorded, and a lot not. It was the 'big tractor' once upon a time, heavy cultivations, light cultivations, taty work, sprayer tractor with a 12m Hardi LX1000 for about 10yrs doing everything (it took over from the 4600 in the mid 80's when the taties expanded, and a 1000l sprayer replaced a 600lt one) and still sprayed the beet up to 2yrs ago. Spent a long time in front of a 3m Maschio HB power harrow (14 rotors!) and on an irrigation pump in the early 90's when we first came here. It went to ploughing matches for 10yrs, (may still again when the kids get grown up!) It gained a loader for a few years, and now scruffles beet, runs a flail and powers the log splitter/sawbench (its the only tractor to do any work today!) No dual power though, and had a head gasket about 10yrs ago. Its cosmetically not the smartest, but mechanically good, though the brakes arnt what they once were.</p><p></p><p>Another neighbour in the village had a hard worked R reg 6600 back in the day, it was a do anything tractor, in its latter years it had a big diesel tank on the front and ran an irrigator pump. Q cab.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Spud, post: 4721792, member: 78"] This area was awash with Fords way back when. The neighbours have a 1976 R reg 6600 with a Duncan cab - biggest reason being to accommodate the mid mount Econ hedgecutter it inherited from it's 5000 predecessor. It's done about 20000 hrs, mostly with the same operator, and is still backup for it's 7840 stablemate now. They also had a 1977 S reg 6600 with a q cab, it left maybe 10yrs ago with well over 10000hrs for a 6640. It had a bit more removable mid mount Econ hedger in it's early years, then a loader in it's latter years. Both 6600's had a short motor apiece. Next came a 2wd 7600 on a W reg, q cab again. Proper poky tractor, we used to hire it to power harrow and lead spuds. It's done a lot of work, used to drill a lot on dual wheels with a 4m MF30. It's mowed, carted, drilled and cultivated, and was buck rake tractor for a good many years. Has spool levers on cables and a gearstick extension, and 10"wide front wheels. Still drills several hundred acres of beet with a 6m drill, and bosses the feeder wagon, carts silage and does general back up. 14000+ on the clock. Two short motors iirc, but little else. 1981 saw a fleet flagship, a 7600 4wd - wheel weights, 16.9r34's, it was heavy cultivations and forager tractor. Left for a suntan with the 6600 (all these on the same farm) and a 7840 took it's place. Bet this is the one they wish they'd kept. It had a short motor too! Following an apalling MF550 in 1977, and the neighbours good run of 3,45&7000's, then the 6600's, dad bought a year old 4600 in 78. No power steering, no spools, just tipping pipe, but had a q cab, with that peculiar single back window with the big ally shelf on the bottom - I've only ever seen it on 3&4600's. This one still had the original engine when it left in 2001, but wasn't a particularly loved tractor - it jumped out of 2nd gear, the doors flew open, and the steering wheel pulled your arms off. It was spray and fert tractor for a few years in the early 80's, used to roll and drill on cage wheels. It used to eat hour clocks, but I reckon it had only done 6000ish when it left. No dual power, unlike the neighbours fleet. Still, it wasn't all bad, and we got a 1979 V reg 5600 to join it at a year or so old. It had one of those flat bar weight baskets, 750 front wheels, proper q cab and a wireless that worked! Gained a 6610 engine at about 2000hrs when the original went porous, but I'm struggling to remember it ever needing surgery. It's still here, nearly 11000hrs recorded, and a lot not. It was the 'big tractor' once upon a time, heavy cultivations, light cultivations, taty work, sprayer tractor with a 12m Hardi LX1000 for about 10yrs doing everything (it took over from the 4600 in the mid 80's when the taties expanded, and a 1000l sprayer replaced a 600lt one) and still sprayed the beet up to 2yrs ago. Spent a long time in front of a 3m Maschio HB power harrow (14 rotors!) and on an irrigation pump in the early 90's when we first came here. It went to ploughing matches for 10yrs, (may still again when the kids get grown up!) It gained a loader for a few years, and now scruffles beet, runs a flail and powers the log splitter/sawbench (its the only tractor to do any work today!) No dual power though, and had a head gasket about 10yrs ago. Its cosmetically not the smartest, but mechanically good, though the brakes arnt what they once were. Another neighbour in the village had a hard worked R reg 6600 back in the day, it was a do anything tractor, in its latter years it had a big diesel tank on the front and ran an irrigator pump. Q cab. [/QUOTE]
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