Newholland T5120 or MF5711m? What’s better? For loader tractor on sheep and beef hill farm?
Loader tractor
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Mouser
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- near Belfast
Not sure what 'm' is but if Massey has left hand power control lever it's very good for loader tractor. Nh slightly bigger and better engine but overall I'd go Massey.
Neither, both too small, lightweight, and flimsy. Have confidence in the future, and buy something as capable as a forklift, but as comfortable as a limousine..... Everyone has an opinion, this was mine
After you've driven all the demonstrators, buy the one that you like best. It doesn't matter the colour of the paint
michael N123
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agri knives
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- middle of ireland
The t5 nh are only a lightweight flimsy toy , my next door neighbour has one on his farm of 50 ewes and 15 cattle , bought new , very few hours and it’s in the garage regular. The biggest machine on the back is a bale unwinder.
Had a fiddle with the new T5.140 dynamic command on Monday as it happens
VERY smooth gearbox, quiet cab, nice electric loader joystick, though it would be better beside the main joystick rather than "stretching" over the top of the control that's also on the armrest
It's physically a big lump of a tractor, not a very tight turning circle, and the engine bonnet is huge! The stoll (NH) loader carriage could be seen down the side of the bonnet, but the carriage is near 8 feet away from the from front axle, that's a huge distance to balance counterweights at the back.
The cab steps are near dangerous. They're too small and very steep. It's not a tractor you casually step forward to exit without serious risk of slipping (yeah yeah, HSE says exit backwards)
It wouldn't be a bad place to spend a day, just wouldn't be my choice. Until you've driven them, you can only listen to what someone's heard from their 3rd cousin that married the farm sheepdog, and can't make up your own mind.
VERY smooth gearbox, quiet cab, nice electric loader joystick, though it would be better beside the main joystick rather than "stretching" over the top of the control that's also on the armrest
It's physically a big lump of a tractor, not a very tight turning circle, and the engine bonnet is huge! The stoll (NH) loader carriage could be seen down the side of the bonnet, but the carriage is near 8 feet away from the from front axle, that's a huge distance to balance counterweights at the back.
The cab steps are near dangerous. They're too small and very steep. It's not a tractor you casually step forward to exit without serious risk of slipping (yeah yeah, HSE says exit backwards)
It wouldn't be a bad place to spend a day, just wouldn't be my choice. Until you've driven them, you can only listen to what someone's heard from their 3rd cousin that married the farm sheepdog, and can't make up your own mind.
fiatf130
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- Co. Antrim, N. Ireland
What age is it? The latest ones are completely different machines to the older ones so your comment is completely irrelevant if his is an older one!
agri knives
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- middle of ireland
It’s 6 or 7 year old, I think it’s built in Turkey.
So really what you're saying is Jimmy, your derogatory comments regarding the T5 belonging to one of your neighbours are..... irrelevant
Bit like this post as well, but it is fun to make fun of the afflicted
agri knives
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- middle of ireland
I don’t rate any of the smaller Nh tractors too high, I thing they have produced cheap tractors to gain market share with low budget tractors.So really what you're saying is Jimmy, your derogatory comments regarding the T5 belonging to one of your neighbours are..... irrelevant
Bit like this post as well, but it is fun to make fun of the afflicted
michael N123
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You do realise no one actually gives a shite about market share and just buys whatever they want
agri knives
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- middle of ireland
Yes but the manufactures are trying to increase their market share .
michael N123
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They wouldn’t be a very good business if they didn’t try
fiatf130
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- Co. Antrim, N. Ireland
So not a T5 then! T5 are built in Jesi Italy. T4 are built in Turkey as far as I know and are a cheaper tractor to compete with cheap makes etc for hill farmers and the like.
MF have priced a 5711m, and seems reasonable, or as reasonable as they are these days, waiting for NH T5 120 price, but think I need to try them both first
manfromhill
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Try and get a reasonable time with them with a loader on I think it always takes a bit of time to get into the way of something
oil barron
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- Aberdeenshire
Your Neighbour probably has a TD5. There are 3 levels of NH to suit all budgets. TD5, T5 utility which is a sub 4 tonne machine like an old 7635 and T5Auto/dynamic command which is a 5.5tonne machine more like a TSA110 than a TL.
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Wellytrack
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The hilarity continues..
I don’t know if anyone else has noticed but i cannot take these threads seriously anymore.
Such is your jihad to spread the holy word of Valtra @agri knives i hope when the time comes you have made arrangements to be placed upon a pyre on a long boat, pushed out to sea, the boat set alight by flaming arrows shot from long bows and the gods appeased for your passage to Valhalla..
I don’t know if anyone else has noticed but i cannot take these threads seriously anymore.
Such is your jihad to spread the holy word of Valtra @agri knives i hope when the time comes you have made arrangements to be placed upon a pyre on a long boat, pushed out to sea, the boat set alight by flaming arrows shot from long bows and the gods appeased for your passage to Valhalla..