New tractor, which model to choose

Farma Parma

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Arable Farmer
Location
Northumberlandia
I think the 8S is too big and too heavy for a 205hp tractor, 225 for me.
265 end of. that 7.4lit performs its best when horses are upped !!
But at them prices the smallest one is crikey i hate too say it but id be looking at a 722/724 fendt in the right spec not all the bells n whistles it would be no dearer New
 

Cowabunga

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Location
Ceredigion,Wales
You have to love MF fan boys, never even seen the thing and and still he preaches about how amazing it is . And as for sucking air from the cab end why would you do that the cleanest air is the air in front of the tractor not behind it all your doing is sucking the heat from the engine and transmission and blowing it into the cooling system.
I’ve seen pictures of it and know roughly what some of the new features are and how it differs from others. It might well be a complete dog to run, but we will only know that in the fullness of time. I suspect though, that from what I can see of the design, that it will be massively successful.

Having said that, I said the same about the Same Rubin years ago and that turned out to be a complete turd. :ROFLMAO:
 

Boysground

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Wiltshire

Bg juniors maize clamp tractor

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Definitely needs 500 hp :ROFLMAO:
That does double as a snow plough, apparently 4.5m wide on the road with snow chains is a bit of a handful!!!!

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Farma Parma

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Northumberlandia
scroll down this lads FB page for those on FB anyways & afaik these two tractors are stil fs but could be wrong.
Makes a new 205 8S look very dear. even at £110k
These are VT trans tractors aswell

 

B R C

Member
Arable Farmer
Based on the realistic scenario of £30k trade in, plus £15 cash then that leaves either £20k to finance on £65k or £70k on £115k. £20k year one on overdraft £600, £10k paid off, £10k year 2 overdraft £300, total £900 interest. Might cost £2-3k if independent finance needed. Would need multiply the above interest by a factor depending on how often you change, as the new one wouldn’t be changed as often, probably in the region 1.5 -2.
 
Based on the realistic scenario of £30k trade in, plus £15 cash then that leaves either £20k to finance on £65k or £70k on £115k. £20k year one on overdraft £600, £10k paid off, £10k year 2 overdraft £300, total £900 interest. Might cost £2-3k if independent finance needed. Would need multiply the above interest by a factor depending on how often you change, as the new one wouldn’t be changed as often, probably in the region 1.5 -2.
Independent finance for the 20k over 2 years will be near the £1000 mark, not the 2 or 3k you say.
 

snipe

Member
Location
west yorkshire
Thats more like it, someone is lifting the mans leg at £138k heck thats fendt tractor money & no massey is equ to a Fendt iam afraid
esp there residual values.
thats list price. I
Personality at that money and with the current mf second hand value being poor I would buy another make with a much better resale value
We have just priced up to swap our 2 tractors, Massey new was 81,000. Valtra was 85000. both agco dealers value them identical. Both within 50hrs of each other..
 

B R C

Member
Arable Farmer
I’m talking interest not the payments.
Sorry back to original post. I think with the higher horse power ranges say 150 plus the most powerful in the range will always be more desirable so no right answer, what about fuel consumption. Is it going to be doing a lot of jobs where even the smaller horsepower is not really needed. If it’s your biggest tractor would be tempted to go for the bigger one if not i wouldn’t.
 
I’m talking interest not the payments.
Sorry back to original post. I think with the higher horse power ranges say 150 plus the most powerful in the range will always be more desirable so no right answer, what about fuel consumption. Is it going to be doing a lot of jobs where even the smaller horsepower is not really needed. If it’s your biggest tractor would be tempted to go for the bigger one if not i wouldn’t.
So where did the "2 or 3k for independent finance" come from? It would be below 1k.
 

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