M F 4709

[RhysT]

We’ve got a 5455 t2. Done 1500hrs in 15months with us. Just coming up to 5000hrs. Been very good tractor for us even though we spent £2500 on a new crown wheel and pinion, prop shaft and new front axle bearings.

 

[Cowabunga]

We’ve got a 5455 t2. Done 1500hrs in 15months with us. Just coming up to 5000hrs. Been very good tractor for us even though we spent £2500 on a new crown wheel and pinion, prop shaft and new front axle bearings.

Sounds like the previous owner was allergic to the grease gun.

 

[RhysT]

Sounds like the previous owner was allergic to the grease gun.

Yes, and we believe he’d been using a lot of muck grab/shear grab work in constant 4wd. Lucky we’ve got an old Massey mechanic that lives just up the road from us.

 

[holywell farmer]

Yes, and we believe he’d been using a lot of muck grab/shear grab work in constant 4wd. Lucky we’ve got an old Massey mechanic that lives just up the road from us.

Using 4wd for yard work is silly It will wear tractors and tyres out,

 

[mixed breed]

Having owned a 390t and clocked over 8000hrs of mainly draft work, I felt a little underwhelmed when I had a look and drive of the 4700. It's seemed a toy, but that might just be me.

Possibly ideal for what the op is looking for though.

 

[holywell farmer]

Having owned a 390t and clocked over 8000hrs of mainly draft work, I felt a little underwhelmed when I had a look and drive of the 4700. It's seemed a toy, but that might just be me.

Possibly ideal for what the op is looking for though.

Out off interest do 4700 come with ad blue ?

 

[Cowabunga]

Out off interest do 4700 come with ad blue ?

It is fitted to cab models of 4708 and 4709, plus all more powerful models of course. It does appear or sound like Adblue is not needed for platform versions of those two, which is most peculiar if correct.

 

[Moors Lad]

A neighbour is wanting a lightish duty 70 to 85 hp runabout/hobby tractor (not a "real" farmer!) - anyone put a few hours on a 4700 series that can comment on reliability?

 

[Treg]

A neighbour is wanting a lightish duty 70 to 85 hp runabout/hobby tractor (not a "real" farmer!) - anyone put a few hours on a 4700 series that can comment on reliability?

Got a 4708 with 120hrs on it, so far it's been faultless but it's the next 5000hrs that matters

 

[raiderz]

I had a 4709 Global on demo from Dobsons last month, liked it but in the end I decided to get a 5711 Global Dyna 4, I liked the 4709 but I'm used to Dyna 4 in my 5410 and Dyna 6 in my 66/6716's so was a no brainer really. 4709 is a nice simple tractor, air brakes, the one I had didn't have air con, which I thought was a bit silly really as there's acres of glass in the cab.

 

[Finn farmer]

I am used to Massey’s and also they will be the closest dealers, so in all honesty it probably will be a Massey, just trying to figure out if I should look at the 47 range and get a better newer tractor or get say a 5610 which will be older and a lot higher hours.

We had a 5610 for 4 years/4300 hours. Great little thing that had a lot of grunt for its size. Only problems were that it ate two alternators at the start (the pulley started slipping, sorted when we tightened the 3rd ones pulley ourselves) and with them went three belts. It did a lot of loader work, bale hauling with a lowloader with 16 bales on it, ploughing with a 4 furrow reversible Kuhn and snow plowing at winter. It did way more than we imagined, but since it wasn't able to pull all our equipment (mainly Fusion 2) we had to swap it in for a Case.

 

[ns_sheep]

Have three neighbours with 4710's. All are quite happy with them so far, one complained how rough it was in the field so he only uses it as a yard tractor (it's his smallest tractor). Another works it quite hard running a forage harvester and tmr mixer. I think he had some problems with the pto clutch slipping on the mixer when it was new but must be sorted now as he still has it on the mixer. Seems like a fairly good simple little tractor.

 

[V9 CRH]

Have you looked at the McCormick X4 range ? 70-107 hp non add blue engines, manual or power shuttle transmission, manual linkage or elec Hyds. O.P Cracking little tractor to suite what you need !