Same Trattori

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I worked for a farmer with only same tractors, just to pee the lovers off, I still have nightmares. They where all (3 or 4, don't quite remember) horrific tractor in there own way.
He had a cabless minitauro (if I remember right), which was always covered in oil, was a cate tractor otherwise, with the hitch controls on the dashboard. An explorer that was painfully slow, hard to shift and the whole electrical business melted together when someone thought it was a good idea to lead the current for a few worklights through the 7 pin plug.Later on while I drove it on the road the engine seized. Then the biggest piece of crap, the above silver. Shifting was very hard, not particularly heavy, but the "keep stirring and hoping" type (especially fun when changing direction alot). Three step powershift that only worked when the tractor was warm, fun that was. I was mowing with it, dip the clutch and she just kept going, quite exciting, turned out I had burned the clutch. That was a first (and last).
I have to admit that the owner wasn't very tractor minded so that didn't help.
I quite like oddball tractor myself but I just can't look at same tractors without it sending shovers down my spine.

Good old days eh

 

[dave6470]

They had some good features well before there time
But let down with electrical problems
There where 4 around my area
All on farms that grew potatoes
They had harvesters with mechanical driven axels which worked well on a same as it had two pto shafts one a ground drive

 

[daveydiesel1]

They had some good features well before there time
But let down with electrical problems
There where 4 around my area
All on farms that grew potatoes
They had harvesters with mechanical driven axels which worked well on a same as it had two pto shafts one a ground drive

Could never understand why they done away with this as they were the only tractor with this and was a good sellin point into farms that otherwise would never of had a same. Certainly alot less of them sold round here since they dont have ground drive

 

[Cab-over Pete]

You could still get a few Masseys with ground drive and Case 956 and 1056xl tractors too, which is what Dad bought after the MF 290.
I remember going to look at a Massey 3080 but he preferred the Case.

 

[Mur Huwcun]

They had some good features well before there time
But let down with electrical problems
There where 4 around my area
All on farms that grew potatoes
They had harvesters with mechanical driven axels which worked well on a same as it had two pto shafts one a ground drive

Of all the ones I worked on we hardly had any electrical problems on explorers or Silvers, hell they didn’t have much electronics anyhow and the only slight gremlins were the early ones with the white connector blocks with spade connectors suffering from a few bad connections here and there. Nothing in propotion of the issues on MF 3000 and 61 and Ford 40series of the time. Now the Titan / Racing range was something else electrical wise but afain was down to connections in the loom and they didn’t have stupid soldered shunts hidden in conduits massey style!!!

 

[Lowland1]

They were and still are relatively popular here in Kenya mainly because they price them very competitively to the large flower/veg farms. However spares are expensive and the local drivers can reduce them to scrap metal very quickly. I had a Solar 60 which was a nice tractor.