one for the MF die hards

[ColinV6]

I think it did
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Overall it looks like an old model to me, hints of claas on the cab. Not a fan of the squared off rear mudguards either.
Bonnet looks decent enough.

 

[Farma Parma]

Overall it looks like an old model to me, hints of claas on the cab. Not a fan of the squared off rear mudguards either.
Bonnet looks decent enough.

Maybes got the old 700/800 series Fendt Mudguard Mould Cast offs eh !!! coz thats what they pretty much look like.
should have made it a 5 post cab, door will be a ###t in the wind, there bad enough now.

 

[Frankzy]

Maybes got the old 700/800 series Fendt Mudguard Mould Cast offs eh !!! coz thats what they pretty much look like.
should have made it a 5 post cab, door will be a ###t in the wind, there bad enough now.

Or have a small air cylinder close the door for you

 

[Will Blackburn]

Cameras instead of wing mirrors ?

 

[Tarw Coch]

One minute we’re complaining they’re too fudging expensive, the next we’re piling on the costs with air assisted doors and cameras instead of mirrors.
FFS

 

[Will Blackburn]

Strikes me that cameras could well be cheaper than the monster mirrors required for compliance these days?

 

[Cowabunga]

Maybes got the old 700/800 series Fendt Mudguard Mould Cast offs eh !!! coz thats what they pretty much look like.
should have made it a 5 post cab, door will be a ###t in the wind, there bad enough now.

They've had a five post cab option for years. Hardly anyone bought it, certainly not in the UK. The price wasn't right for a start and it was always a couple of grand more expensive after working out the different discounts, than the six post cab, even though there was one door and pillar less.

 

[Tarw Coch]

But where would you put the screens?with mirrors you effectively have 2 or 4 relatively large screens to look at at a glance left and right, not sure where you could put that sort of screen space that’s easy to glance at

 

[Farma Parma]

Overall it looks like an old model to me, hints of claas on the cab. Not a fan of the squared off rear mudguards either.
Bonnet looks decent enough.

Maybes got the old 700/800 series Fendt Mudguard Mould Cast offs eh !!! coz thats what they pretty much look like.
should have made it a 5 post cab, door will be a ###t in the wind, there bad enough now.

They've had a five post cab option for years. Hardly anyone bought it, certainly not in the UK. The price wasn't right for a start and it was always a couple of grand more expensive after working out the different discounts, than the six post cab, even though there was one door and pillar less.

oh the Panoramic full size glass from behind exhaust stack to rear window metal wasnt it without looking in older brochures
Hardly the type i was referring too tho. Was that only on the 64/7400 series ?

 

[Wellytrack]

Interesting. Some think just because they drive a tractor they have more brains than the people who design and build them.

#Newsflash.

They don’t..

 

[Speedstar]

This is yet another MF on its way home , because some one at the factory said i can save you £1 biulding that tractor by not putting grease nipples in the swivel bearings unlike on every other MF up to the T3 & the result is one day they are fine the next the come a part , it will have grease nipples in when it leaves the workshop, why do these people think bearings do not need lube in them

 

[Lofty1984]

This is yet another MF on its way home , because some one at the factory said i can save you £1 biulding that tractor by not putting grease nipples in the swivel bearings unlike on every other MF up to the T3 & the result is one day they are fine the next the come a part , it will have grease nipples in when it leaves the workshop, why do these people think bearings do not need lube in them View attachment 895208

She looks in top condition mind ?

 

[dee]

This is yet another MF on its way home , because some one at the factory said i can save you £1 biulding that tractor by not putting grease nipples in the swivel bearings unlike on every other MF up to the T3 & the result is one day they are fine the next the come a part , it will have grease nipples in when it leaves the workshop, why do these people think bearings do not need lube in them View attachment 895208

What's hours is on it

 

[Tarw Coch]

Interesting. Some think just because they drive a tractor they have more brains than the people who design and build them.

#Newsflash.

They don’t..

That may well be true but a lot of very intelligent people can be found lacking in simple common sense, almost as if their clever minds have to over complicate things.
It’s not so much that a humble tractor driver could do a better job of designing a new tractor but they will look at things from a different perspective in relation to its practical use, it would do no harm for the designers to consult with the end users from time to time as I’m sure drivers will see simple things that the designers have overlooked.

 

[Speedstar]

What's hours is on it

had a new front diff & all the swivel bearings done 4000 hours ago

 

[SMID]

Nail firmly hit on head, worked with some brilliant men who were 2 stages worse than usless at anything practical

That may well be true but a lot of very intelligent people can be found lacking in simple common sense, almost as if their clever minds have to over complicate things.
It’s not so much that a humble tractor driver could do a better job of designing a new tractor but they will look at things from a different perspective in relation to its practical use, it would do no harm for the designers to consult with the end users from time to time as I’m sure drivers will see simple things that the designers have overlooked.

 

[Andrew]

That may well be true but a lot of very intelligent people can be found lacking in simple common sense, almost as if their clever minds have to over complicate things.
It’s not so much that a humble tractor driver could do a better job of designing a new tractor but they will look at things from a different perspective in relation to its practical use, it would do no harm for the designers to consult with the end users from time to time as I’m sure drivers will see simple things that the designers have overlooked.

Believe me not many new tractor drivers have much common sense any more

 

[Cloonpotatoes]

I was told over weekend that its Dyna8 (my man has seen the boxes with his own eyes), with no VT option for 12 mths.
MF are developing their own DynaVT, why, when they have the best vario available to them, i dont know!
Cab looks Fastrac-ish, a 5 post cab which goes wider as it goes higher to defect noise and heat
Launch models will be 200+hp with smaller models coming 12 mths later.
Expect physical examples at SIMA

Because they will be owned by tata in the near future

 

[Wellytrack]

That may well be true but a lot of very intelligent people can be found lacking in simple common sense, almost as if their clever minds have to over complicate things.
It’s not so much that a humble tractor driver could do a better job of designing a new tractor but they will look at things from a different perspective in relation to its practical use, it would do no harm for the designers to consult with the end users from time to time as I’m sure drivers will see simple things that the designers have overlooked.

Sure, that happens but generally tractor drivers won’t be better at engineering or designing tractors, same goes lorry drivers digger drivers etc.

Yes a lot of very clever chaps are good at designing farm implements and trailers etc, usually though A LOT of trial and error, Harry Ferguson after all, was famously a clever farmers son from Co Down.

All to often you hear “Sure what would they Know anyways....” attributed to Doctors, Teachers, Legislators, Engineers etc. It’s depressing.. Anti-intellectualism and the celebration of illiteracy, I swear I think the world is getting more and more like Mike Judges Idiocracy.

Time served mechanics and engineers are smarter than me. Designers with clean new thinking are smarter than me, they may not have physically spent the time getting their spuds roasted on a tractor seat but they will be taking a fresh take on the data being relayed back to them.

Hell, if it was up to farmers to design a tractor they would still have lift and draught levers ‘Because you need nothing else......’ clutch and grind gear levers ‘Because it works fine’ low capacity lift and hydraulics “Because it does what we need it to”

Have a think about what tractors from the 60’s and 70’s were on farms in the early ‘80s.

The same clean sheet design of the 3000’s would not have happened with a committee of farmers in 1986.

But here we are.

 

[Cowabunga]

Because they will be owned by tata in the near future

GIMA make the transmissions called Dyna4 and 6 for MF and Claas. In the very unlikely event that MF, the jewel in AGCO’s crown and only brand sold worldwide, was ever sold, their share of the transmission factory may well be sold seperately.
Seriously doubt whether Tata has the recourses to buy out MF just now. TAFE is the more likely candidate and the owner is already a significant shareholder and sits on AGCO’s board of governors. The owner is, of course, Mrs Mallika Srinivasan. She is also on the board of Tata Steel, which is where the confusion might lie.

Again there is no indication whatsoever that MF, by far the biggest AGCO brand, is for sale.