Machinery is too expensive and what we produce is too cheap.
Just how comfortable are 4000 series Fastracs?
- Thread starter Feldspar
- Start date
If wheat was the £400 plus per t is should be if adjusted for inflation since the ‘80’s I don’t think we would complain much about machinery prices
Threads on here would be moaning about tax bills and not machinery
- Location
- Northumberlandia
ive said it before 90% of Fendt Tractors are bought by FARM owners...
Not Tenant Farmers.
Local Rep completly agreed with me on a recent chat.
Not Tenant Farmers.
Local Rep completly agreed with me on a recent chat.
- Location
- Northumberlandia
your right clive ive said many a time if wheat for example was priced where it should be & north of £300/t would do me
id have a new 724 every 5 years not to mention all the best of the machinery world has to offer yoked to the back of it
Don’t worry if grain was 300 -400 per ton your 724 would be 500 kyour right clive ive said many a time if wheat for example was priced where it should be & north of £300/t would do me
id have a new 724 every 5 years not to mention all the best of the machinery world has to offer yoked to the back of it
- Location
- Northumberlandia
I need to type quicker.
Thing about the 724 is it's versatile , fastracs aren't , but they have their place . be fooked without mine .
Chae1
Member
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Don't think you'll find there's many jobs a fastrac won't do as well as a conventional tractor if any. I've had a couple demos and done a variety of jobs with them.
There in a different league to the old models including my 2170.
You're talking 4ws ? wish I'd got it .
Chae1
Member
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
No grip. The new models keep downwards pressure on ground through hydraulics to maintain grip. Had one on dump cart hauling through wet fields, winter ploughing on stuff that had cows on all winter and resembled the Somme. Also a trailed horsch drill. That was comparing it to a NH t7050. Did ultimately buy another NH though.
- Location
- Pinnaroo. South Australia
It all depends what you are trying to achieve with them. For me a 724 would only be a glorified loader tractor. My 900 series is where I think they hit the sweet spot. Very versatile machine for my application
- Location
- Bedfordshire
Had a demo of a 4220 recently. Much much better than 3230 and in a different league comfort wise compared to 10year old John Deeres.
I agree about aching backs, but a Fastrac is much better than a conventional tractor IMO. I hate the side to side movement you get with a conventional set up as a rear wheel goes in a hole/drain, the fastrac 3230 reduces the movement, a 4220 you don't even know there was a drain.
I agree about aching backs, but a Fastrac is much better than a conventional tractor IMO. I hate the side to side movement you get with a conventional set up as a rear wheel goes in a hole/drain, the fastrac 3230 reduces the movement, a 4220 you don't even know there was a drain.
Possibly because your fields are slightly bigger .
- Location
- Darlington
First year hire for me, 10 weeks should have been 8 but would book 10 again. My teenage TMs have had a far easier life and will hopefully do more years for me. Not a lot of difference between a TM155 and T7210 IMO and to the OP if I could have had a JCB 4220 I would have snapped their hands off.
- Location
- Pinnaroo. South Australia
That has some bearing on it although smallest field is 18 acre so not massive. Biggest reason is the 724 would not pull the equipment we use to do the job. Horses for courses.
Posts like that won't do any harm when it comes to selling your eh @Clive ?
I’m not sure I can make a market !
Praise where due though, I’ve run some terrible bits of machinery over the years and it’s a pleasure to work with good kit that just does the job well