Massey 8s owners/drivers

daveydiesel1

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Co antrim
i think they look really good the cab is big but you spend all day in there,

im a small livestock farmer with a 6465, if some one said you would have to manage with a 8s it would be no problem? thats what got me the most, people complaining but in the flesh its just seemed a sensible size for 225 bhp :scratchhead:
im not sure where people are trying to fit them!
reminds me alot of the 2000 series, they had great sized cabs and im not sure this is 'that' much bigger? bearing in mind the 2000 series was 1980 ish!!! top power 150bhp!
Sat in 1 once and was impressed with the cab inside. Deffo a big improvement over the previous cab for space and visibility
 

snipe

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Location
west yorkshire
Anyone had any problem with speed reading in tall crops. When driving in crops the speed readout can go up and down by 20% in 10 seconds. My sprayer takes its forward speed from the tractor plug so it’s important that the speed is accurate. when talking to the mechanic before I found this problem he was saying that the tractor gets its speed mechanically and from a radar. Anyone else had this problem.
 
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Sharpy

Member
Livestock Farmer
Anyone had any problem with speed reading in tall crops. When driving in crops the speed readout can go up and down by 20% in 10 seconds. My sprayer takes its forward speed from the tractor plug so it’s important that the speed is accurate. when talking to the mechanic before I found this problem he was saying that the tractor gets its speed mechanically and from a radar. Anyone else had this problem.
Tell the control box to lift its speed from the transmission sensor, not the radar?
 

Lincsman

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lincolnshire
Anyone had any problem with speed reading in tall crops. When driving in crops the speed readout can go up and down by 20% in 10 seconds. My sprayer takes its forward speed from the tractor plug so it’s important that the speed is accurate. when talking to the mechanic before I found this problem he was saying that the tractor gets its speed mechanically and from a radar. Anyone else had this problem.
It will work off the radar, the mechanical bit is to work out slip.
 

Sharpy

Member
Livestock Farmer
Is this something you know can be done on a 8s or a suggestion?
A suggestion. On my Vicon spreader the plug which plugged into the tractor harness to get the forward speed had one pin for wheel speed and another for radar speed. Assuming your sprayer just plugs into the tractor it's probably a similar set up. I was advised by vicon not to use radar as waving crops or a puddle confused it.
 

KB6930

Member
Location
Borders
Fastrac does this too it's because it's only got 1 radar the JD we've got radar on has 1 facing each way and it doesn't get any bother in long crop
 

Andy12345

Member
Location
Somerset
Found this on FB the new 8s 305
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Boysground

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Wiltshire
Anyone had any problem with speed reading in tall crops. When driving in crops the speed readout can go up and down by 20% in 10 seconds. My sprayer takes its forward speed from the tractor plug so it’s important that the speed is accurate. when talking to the mechanic before I found this problem he was saying that the tractor gets its speed mechanically and from a radar. Anyone else had this problem.
Had this problem on a Fendt, ended up turning the radar off and it used mechanical and gps speeds. Don’t buy them with radars now.

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Cowabunga

Member
Location
Ceredigion,Wales
It is an issue that goes back to the early 1990’s. In the operator’s manual back then they showed how to calibrate the Dickey-John radar unit for different height crops which effect the distance between the unit and the crop, hence the time taken between the signal being sent and its return.
The reason the tractor takes two readings, one from the transmission and one from the radar, is so that the wheel slip percentage can be computed and read for the driver to drive more efficiently and also to integrate the wheel slip with the linkage [or drawbar] draft control which can override the draft signal if a [driver set] maximum acceptable wheel slip is exceeded. The most efficient wheel slip for tillage is around 15% and generally I would set radar linkage slip control to reduce depth, or more accurately ‘transfer weight’ at between 18 and 20%.
 
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'Nah, you'm alright mate- you can take your demo back'. Fudging hideous machine- Massey 8S punishment tractor edition?

'Nah, you'm alright mate- you can take your demo back'. Fudging hideous machine- Massey 8S punishment tractor edition?
You have very negative opinions on a lot of machines and like to run down other people's choices considering you don't, and never have, owned a single item of agricultural equipment
 
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You have very negative opinions on a lot of machines and like to run down other people's choices considering you don't, and never have owned a single item of agricultural equipment

Right, so have you got an 8S then?

I've got a fiskars axe, so my opinion is worth the same as anyone else's: fudge all.

You wouldn't be so sour if you had a Valtra. (y)
 

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