how many hours is on your highest houred tractor?

[Speedstar]

Are you serious? You'd spend £35k buying a 10,000hr Fendt, then another 20k doing it up and call it cheap?

I bought a 2005 MF 7490 last spring, just had clocked 10,000hrs. Its done another 300 since then, needs a few jobs, but a cheap back up tractor - its been on the tanker sucking water out of tramlines, now sat on the sprayer while the newer tractors are tatying. It was £17k. If I do every job possible that might need doing it'll still stand me at less than £20k.

It seems my idea of a cheap tractor and yours is different - who buys 20,000hr tractors anyway?

You MF is not in the same league as a fendt when it comes to price and for selling it a fendt will always sell were a MF will not,I would not buy you MF for 10k let alone what you paid for the thing

 

[Spud]

Yes 55k is cheap for a 4 or 5 year old 724 with a new gearbox and engines

If it needs a new gearbox and engine at 10,000hrs it's been seriously abused or never serviced. Either way bloody expensive for it's first owner.

45k would buy you a Sisu motor and Fendt box with half those hours....but different paint.
Pays dosh makes choice.

 

[Spud]

You MF is not in the same league as a fendt when it comes to price and for selling it a fendt will always sell were a MF will not,I would not buy you MF for 10k let alone what you paid for the thing

Nonsense dear boy.

I can't justify Fendt money to do a few hundred hours a year. 170hp Sisu motor, Fendt vario box, with front linkage and 4 spools.

74 track record here is excellent, or I wouldn't of chanced it.

So far it's been on the sprayer, destoner, 2 bed tiller, on irrigator duty, couple of days on the quad baler, a day on the cultipress, a day on the tanker and now back on the sprayer.

It replaced a hire tractor and does what it was bought for with no drama.

Clearly you have more brass to tie up in tractors than I

 

[Speedstar]

If it needs a new gearbox and engine at 10,000hrs it's been seriously abused or never serviced. Either way bloody expensive for it's first owner.

45k would buy you a Sisu motor and Fendt box with half those hours....but different paint.
Pays dosh makes choice.

We have been down the red road and never again, old models were good and we will leave it at that

 

[Bossfarmer]

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Can add another 2-3k to that as clock stopped for several years before coming back to life.

what type of tractor?

 

[J 1177]

This old girl bought new in 1976 just pushed past 15000hrs (none on this baler). It was main ploughing tractor then handled a set of parmiter discs. It just got kept when other tractors were sold dunno why to be honest. It's had an engine rebuild at 9500hrs couple of clutches and 3 sets of tyres oh and one or two head gaskets. It's getting seriously tired now but still runs the mill and the dryer.
If also got a maxxum 5130 with 10600hrs on her its been absolutely bomb proof, it's used every day.

 

[holywell farmer]

i was recently told in a thread that a 10,000hr 724 fendt will fetch much more than 35k, who the hell is paying that and how much life is likely to be left in it?

With the technology in it you would think it would run on forever

 

[bobk]

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This old girl bought new in 1976 just pushed past 15000hrs (none on this baler). It was main ploughing tractor then handled a set of parmiter discs. It just got kept when other tractors were sold dunno why to be honest. It's had an engine rebuild at 9500hrs couple of clutches and 3 sets of tyres oh and one or two head gaskets. It's getting seriously tired now but still runs the mill and the dryer.
If also got a maxxum 5130 with 10600hrs on her its been absolutely bomb proof, it's used every day.

Put the baler in gear , then you can a newer tractor

 

[mixed breed]

mf 6260 03reg done 7700hrs bought 2nd hand in 07.

chucking out a whopping 105hp, it's my strongest horse and attacks the Combi drilling, mowing, pulling the forager, and bailing. Averaged 400hrs a year with me, touch wood no serious repair bills and will hopefully stay with me forever.

 

[Handy Andy]

We've got an International 885XL with just over 12000 on the clock. It had 3700 on when I bought it and a neighbour told me that nobody would ever get 10000 out of an International.

 

[Spear]

what type of tractor?

Valmet 705

 

[Speedstar]

Most hours we have put on any thing was a JCB 520-4 special forklift new in 1985 and when we sold it it had 23,500 hours on it and was still a very tidy good forklift, in all the time we had it all it had was Tyres and serviced no major repairs at all

 

[glasshouse]

Manitou 728 1997
14,600 hrs

 

[GeorgeK]

TS135A 10,000 hours, 14 years old. Forwards and reverse solenoids and an electronic spool valve replaced, that's it. Still our main tractor but we have a backup. I am looking to replace it, but how will I find anything as good? It's compact, good power for size, comfortable, good on the road. It's never actually broken down once, the solenoids were only done because they were getting 'sticky', they still worked ok

 

[borderterribles]

8,720 hours. Mind you , the clock stopped about a fortnight after I bought it. In 1983!!!!!

 

[Cowlife]

Got a Mf3085 with 19800 hrs no major repairs, now lives on diet feeder.
6280 just gone over 10000 as well

 

[wdah/him]

white valmet has 10000 some odd hours on the clock, but it messes about, when we entered it into semi retirement it still did 600hrs a year, after we got the clock working right-altenator fault.

has had brakes twice, one set of power shift plates(a set of breaks lead to the plates going), hydraulic pump, 3 water pumps, bottom pully(this may have effected the waterpump life expectancy), three sets of tires front and back with anouther front set due in a year or two, injectors reconditioned, solenoid in the gearbox and clutch relined. all in all id say thats not bad for multiple drives and jack of all trades frontline tractor for most of its life

marshall 844 10700hrs
mf 6180, 8700 with dodge clock, again altenator issues and third set of tires

 

[Robert K]

Highest hours here are on our JCB 2800hrs

 

[Sharpy]

Valmet 705. Spends its days on feeder wagon now. 32 yrs of loyal service.

Only tractor I know that’s got a digit for 10k hrs on clock (pre digital displays)

John deere 50 series definitely had the extra digit, pretty sure the 40 series had it too.

 

[vantage]

Highest hours here are on our JCB 2800hrs

It will be run in soon then!