Most Liable Tractor on the British Market

[cider_eater]

What is: The Most Liable Tractor on the British Market as they are getting very expensive?

 

[startinghandle]

Do you mean liable or reliable????

 

[keredg]

An old fordson major or JD ? of same era, my JD is 42 years old and still working fine, only 19989 hours. A new tractor will not last that long.
Seriously though it depends on what its for and how well maintained and treated, Which dealer you have locally and how good they are. Here in spain some dealers buy extra tractors to be broken for spares, or use good 2 - 3 year old ones to fix others, mostly electronic problems, I know of a few new New Hollands used for spairs in dealerships. UK may be different.
They do the same with motorcycles and scooters as the plastic parts alone almost cover the price of a new unregistered one

 

[Stuart2]

You need legal advice not agricultural

 

[Red Fred]

I have one that's a Liability, but I won't say the make

 

[Stuart2]

I have one that's a Liability, but I won't say the make

Actually that reminds me of the first tractor I drove as a kid.....a nuffield. ☹

 

[GeorgeK]

This one. Not so little but makes up for it in liability

 

[Red Fred]

Actually that reminds me of the first tractor I drove as a kid.....a nuffield. ☹

Funny you should say that- 100mph in 10th, only one squeaky brake and steering rather like that on the Titanic

 

[deleted user 837354]

This one. Not so little but makes up for it in liability

I take it autosteer and too many long days did that.

 

[Moors Lad]

This one. Not so little but makes up for it in liability

SHOCKING!!

 

[Foxcover]

I take it autosteer and too many long days did that.

Too much Instagram and Snapchat at the wheel.

 

[deleted user 837354]

Too much Instagram and Snapchat at the wheel.

Jebus. I don't like using the phone at the best of times, too much going on.

 

[Pennine Ploughing]

Massey Ferguson 135

 

[Shavings man]

Actually that reminds me of the first tractor I drove as a kid.....a nuffield. ☹

We had one a really good tractor did us well ?

 

[Thomas5060]

Was the driver of that tractor not killed?

 

[Robt]

Too much Instagram and Snapchat at the wheel.

Please do not judge and jump to conclusions. I believe the driver fell ill and that was the outcome... Very lucky and lessons learnt all round

 

[Farmer_Joe]

Please do not judge and jump to conclusions. I believe the driver fell ill and that was the outcome... Very lucky and lessons learnt all round

That sounds possile if you look how high up the pole it travelled to make it snap,

 

[BBC]

I take it autosteer and too many long days did that.

Before there is too much speculation on what happened, here is Tom H’s post from January 2018 regarding what actually happened......

Tom H - January 2018
Just to give more detail on what happened. It happened at 11am, the driver had actually had an early finish the night before and had a day off down to the weather about three days before.

It was total human error, I'm not blaming autosteer at all. I love it and would struggle to be as profitable as we are without it. My operators also love it. The driver was aware of the pylon when he set in on this breed up the field. How could he not be, its massive! What caused the issue was, as he got going he started to get a blockage on the cultivator down to some trash moving through the machine. he was adjusting this with the hydraulic depth control. With his attention moved to this he totally lost proximity to where the pylon is was. You have to remember that this tractor has telemetry. so it recorded in real time what it was doing and what was happening. So we could see when investigating that he was working the hydraulics as he approached the pylon. The rest is history. In hindsight we should of mapped the pylon, (we do have a lot of them mapped) so it then beeps at you when near. This is something we are now about to do and making sure it gives a beep early enough to stop this again. We are also looking at other ideas. He volunteered his phone records and text messages etc all looked legitimate.

Points to mention.

I like a lot on here thought "how the f&%£ing hell does some one hit one of those! Well afraid they do, three this last year alone. Weston power are changing 2x wood poles every day in harvest alone!

We shared it as I want to make people aware, we are a big social media farm as a lot of you know, we do some great things, but things do go wrong. We could of pretended it didn't happen BUT IT DID!

Auto steer users. map you obstacles.

Know what you should do. Our employees are fully trained in this and have stickers in there cabs with what to do numbers etc.

Mobile phone signal was a massive issue in this situation, he managed to contact me via WhatsApp! I struggled to make a call to the Weston Power when stood in the field too. We have digital two-way radios in all tractor. There wasn't anyone else in a tractor close enough to hear him. Again we are looking at lone worker devises.


If I was looking in I would find it hard not to judge. I'm thick skinned. Its great the operator who's fault it was, wanted us to put it out there to learn from his mistakes. He's very lucky to be alive. Its the biggest "near miss" (not really a miss) we have had and will hopefully ever have. WE GOT AWAY WITH IT.

 

[cider_eater]

I didn't mean it that way
Well where ever I move to it's nearly all green tractors JD
Whats the difference people gone softy ? I thought the blues were good, made in uk we feed
those engineers, uk don't feed the foreigners, much, So the difference between the makes IH NH MF JD Feint +. I just don't know.