Number of tractors

[Flatlander]

Two challengers that do the lions share of the work.the 855 does the cultivations and seeding. The smaller 765 does fertilizer spreading. Grain cart and runs a rotary ditcher. Have a 7210 on the auger at harvest time and a 5288 international as a dryer tractor. matbro as a loader and a Deere loading shovel.

 

[Farmer Roy]

Out of interest, what is a “classic” tractor ?
Is it just an old tractor that is built before a specific year, say 1980 or whatever ?

is not an expression I hear used here, lots of old tractors are still at work, but they are never referred to as classics

 

[nick...]

Out of interest, what is a “classic” tractor ?
Is it just an old tractor that is built before a specific year, say 1980 or whatever ?

is not an expression I hear used here, lots of old tractors are still at work, but they are never referred to as classics

I’d hazard a guess at anything over 25 years old.
nick...

 

[Chae1]

We've, 5 at moment. T7 200 9k hours bedder all winter, rakes, Ted's carts silage etc rest of year. T7 190 loader tractor. Feeds cattle, carts around bales etc all winter, Deutz m620 just does mixer wagon and mobile grain drier. T7 260 mainly arable tractor. Runs mowers in summer and does silage pit. 2 manitous.

450 suckler cows and circa 700 acres arable.

Looking to add another one at the moment. Had a Fastrac which was mainly arable tractor but sold.

 

[Hampton]

Yes, I’ve got 2 jcb 531/70 as well. 2017 at home farm and 2007 at other farm 8 miles away feeding approx 100 fat cattle, stacking and carting bales, pushing up corn and loading out

 

[bravheart]

Not long ago someone posted on here about a tax inspection. Inspector claimed that they had too many tractors for the business. Taxman was taken round the yard shown the tractors and the owner told the taxman to go unhitch the slurry scraper and hitch up some other filthy implement which obviously lived on another tractor but the description evades me atm. probably a bedder.
End of inspection

 

[grim]

Got 600 hectares and 180/200 hectares spud land mostly leased
2017 8320r 500 hours a year does the heavy cultivation work
2023 6r215 ivt ,800/900/year new this year took over from the 6155 which is put down the line , ploughing, spud harvester , pulls cultivator and bedformers at planting time, square baler
2022 6r185 900 hours/year spud planter , spud/grain trailers a bit cultivation
2015 6175r 400 hours/year destoner, 6 metre jd 750
2019 6155r 800 hours/yeardestoner , spud trailer and grass seed mower, spud topper
2021 6155m 600 hours/year spud/grain trailer, the odd day pulling drill
2008 6430 250 hours/year auger tractor/feed out and runs the verge mower , irrigation tractor
2130 not many hours a year pulls the header trailers about

 

[Fish]

3 tractors here, if you ignore the 380gta tool carrier, which is in compleat retirement and only comes out for a bit of drain jetting.
So 3, all Fendts, all varios, all rtk auto steer, if you can drive one , you can drive them all, each can take over another tractors job in the event of a breakdown.
I took the decision years ago to make sure there was interchangeability with in the fleet.
2013-718-8000hr
2017-516-1700hr
2019-724-1500hr
only me most of the time + son when he’s home from college + my wife who drives the case 7140 combine 50% of the time.

 

[Will 1594]

I'm sure we've done this before.

My advisor would say too many. I would say not enough.

aye and we all still wake up every morning
and remain optimistic
man in yard this morning who is normally very blazay and full of it
looks like charles atlas this morning with spud job

 

[killie_cowboy]

11 years ago it was just the Sanderson TX525 (93), MF 65 (61), MF 5455 (09) and New Holland NH95 digger (96)

Now it's still the NH95, 65 which is mostly the scraper tractor and 5455 is mainly dad's machine which does far less now, spraying, feed wagon, fert spinning and other odd things. 3645 (07) came in 2012 which also does the feed wagon sometimes, straw blowing, rolling, topping, etc and 7716 (17) came in 2020 which is my machine, does slurry spreading, carting, dung spreading, mowing, rotavating, etc. JCB TM320 (13) replaced the Sanderson in 2014.

We are certainly not under-tractored, but good to have spares and saves being on the treadmill of replacing with brand new every 5 years. New implements are generally always bigger now anyway, have 12 ton as opposed to 10 trailer and 2250 gallon tanker with dribble bar now as opposed to a 1550 Fraser as well and some quite steep ground so the 77 has to put a shift in.

 

[Fendt65]

1 fendt 516 with loader 300 acres grass for hay and haylage plus sucklers ,
trailering and raking for contractor friend,
it does everything even cooks my tea and all on a sniff of diesel.

 

[Andy12345]

Back in the day, 25 years ago to be more exact I managed to farm 800 acres of combinable crops plus some contract work on top with 2 mainline tractors. A JD 6910 and a 6400 a combined HP of roughly 240 which folks put on a haybob these days !!
6910 pulled an early 4 metre Vaddy Rapide and a set of 3 metre Simba 2Bs with a set of Vaddy 6 metre rollers on behind when needed!
6400 was the cultivating machine . tripple Ks . Reco PH and also did the spraying with a Cleanacres Airtech 20 metre sprayer.
Only problem with the whole set up was that it required some hugely long hours from myself and 1 other chap to get the workload completed but we managed. I reckon we were at about a quarter of a horsepower to the acre which in a plough based system wasn't so shabby

 

[Romeogolf]

Fastrac 4220
Bateman RB55
Jcb Tm320s
Ford 5610.

700 acres, 150 beef cattle

Easy.

I can cope with switching any implement save for a sprayer, hence the Bateman. Timeliness is close to Godliness.

 

[tractorsandcows]

1 fendt 516 with loader 300 acres grass for hay and haylage plus sucklers ,
trailering and raking for contractor friend,
it does everything even cooks my tea and all on a sniff of diesel.

Thought it actually made diesel when working

 

[Fendt65]

Thought it actually made diesel when working

Why do you have to exaggerate

 

[cousinjack]

400 acres here, maybe 300 arable….

1 all but new,
3 x classics
2 x older classics (80’s)
4 x 70’s
Plus a few vintage that don’t see action..

telehandler and old sp sprayer.

Main tractor is a Jack-of-all-trades with loader if required… (130hp)

1x big tractor ( 180 hp) . Which doesn’t get used much.
Couple of classics which are great for an extra hand at harvest but are not costing on finance etc…

would like to offload the two older classics as we don’t use them now.

 

[cousinjack]

Out of interest, what is a “classic” tractor ?
Is it just an old tractor that is built before a specific year, say 1980 or whatever ?

is not an expression I hear used here, lots of old tractors are still at work, but they are never referred to as classics

The ‘classic ‘ status seems to be getting used for quite modern machinery now in my opinion..

Quite common for 30 series Deeres to be referred to as classic’s.

for me I think the cut off is about 20 years, so anything pre 2003 would be a classic in my eyes.
40 years would see it as vintage….

 

[ford 7810]

13 tractors and one self propelled forager, sounds big fleet but,three main tractors JD 6145r 2017 and two Valtras n111 with loader on and n121 both 2011s, 4950,9400,6800 hours respectively 2013 claas 850 speadstar forager 3600 hours. all for contracting plus our own 46 acres with sheep on.then ten vintage & classics from 1941 std fordson to the 1989 ford 7810 all fords. 3 std fordsons 2 E27N majors ,4000 two 5000s and one field marshall.the JD 6145 ford 7810 one 5000 bought new and not really thinking of changeing any thing.(I hope)

 

[Spud]

13 tractors and one self propelled forager, sounds big fleet but,three main tractors JD 6145r 2017 and two Valtras n111 with loader on and n121 both 2011s, 4950,9400,6800 hours respectively 2013 claas 850 speadstar forager 3600 hours. all for contracting plus our own 46 acres with sheep on.then ten vintage & classics from 1941 std fordson to the 1989 ford 7810 all fords. 3 std fordsons 2 E27N majors ,4000 two 5000s and one field marshall.the JD 6145 ford 7810 one 5000 bought new and not really thinking of changeing any thing.(I hope)

From the look of that impressive fleet, I guess the loader tractor is next to change?

 

[daveydiesel1]

13 tractors and one self propelled forager, sounds big fleet but,three main tractors JD 6145r 2017 and two Valtras n111 with loader on and n121 both 2011s, 4950,9400,6800 hours respectively 2013 claas 850 speadstar forager 3600 hours. all for contracting plus our own 46 acres with sheep on.then ten vintage & classics from 1941 std fordson to the 1989 ford 7810 all fords. 3 std fordsons 2 E27N majors ,4000 two 5000s and one field marshall.the JD 6145 ford 7810 one 5000 bought new and not really thinking of changeing any thing.(I hope)

Does your customers normally cart in the grass themselves?