Schluter, anyone?

[smcapstick]

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[glasshouse]

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What hp?
Is that walstons?

 

[Donkey Oaty]

Morphie estate near Montrose had some of these in the 80s.

 

[smcapstick]

What hp?
Is that walstons?

I don’t know a thing about. Just spotted it on eBay, in a weird category.

 

[Chae1]

I always thought it was Schulters!

Learn something new everyday.

 

[Exfarmer]

What hp?
Is that walstons?

Thriplow is Walston’s

 

[daveydiesel1]

Plenty of people in germany thatd be wantin it

 

[Martyn]

I can say from experience, they are beasts to drive, rather clumsy but massive torque reserve for trailer, draft work. We sold ours on eBay and was purchased by a collector from the continent.

 

[Flat 10]

What hp?
Is that walstons?

He’s a TFF er…

 

[Cowabunga]

If you believe the hype from when they were new, that thing should only be in its first flush of youth.
I never believed the hype because they used standard components from the same suppliers as other brands of tractor, such as ZF and Bosch. Nevertheless they are unique and should certainly be as much collector’s items as County tractors in similar condition.

 

[76masseyman]

Lincolnshire reg’ no’ and P&B stickers on it. Was one up the road from me in the 80’s.

 

[Ploughmaster]

There was a feature on that very tractor in an issue of Classic Tractor (in the early 2000s I think?).

That one (XVL 815X) was supplied new to Sir Richard Suttons Settled Estates at Stainton-le-Vale between Market Rasen and Binbrook. It was the main ploughing tractor pulling a seven furrow semi mounted Lemken for several years. They sold it through P&Bs annual auction sale in about 1996. It was getting a bit shabby even back then, but it is sad to see in its current state Suttons had another smaller Schluter too (a 7800 with about 160hp) which was on a 'Y' plate.

P&B took to selling them for a while after Massey stopped production of the 1135 and 1155, and as that coincided with arable farms moving to much bigger horsepower tractors, P&B needed something to offer to compete with the newly launched Case Magnum and the big Ford TWs and JDs. P&B stopped offering them when the MF 2000 series was launched, and hadn't sold many Schluters.

The 9500 was about 200hp, and pulled like a train. The straight eight sounded lovely under load - simply purred (unlike the Fords and JDs which barked out and sounded as rough as **** by comparison). They were very primitive though - the design hadn't really evolved much from the 1960s - the hydraulic valve block stuck up through the cab floor with the levers on top of it, no electric controls at all, and no air con either!

Here it is in happier times a couple of years before being moved on (relegated to towing potato bulkers about and a bit of rolling by that time):

 

[76masseyman]

The only one of that model sold in the U.K.
Suttons had some extra sound proofing fitted to it in its working days.

 

[glasshouse]

There was a feature on that very tractor in an issue of Classic Tractor (in the early 2000s I think?).

That one (XVL 815X) was supplied new to Sir Richard Suttons Settled Estates at Stainton-le-Vale between Market Rasen and Binbrook. It was the main ploughing tractor pulling a seven furrow semi mounted Lemken for several years. They sold it through P&Bs annual auction sale in about 1996. It was getting a bit shabby even back then, but it is sad to see in its current state Suttons had another smaller Schluter too (a 7800 with about 160hp) which was on a 'Y' plate.

P&B took to selling them for a while after Massey stopped production of the 1135 and 1155, and as that coincided with arable farms moving to much bigger horsepower tractors, P&B needed something to offer to compete with the newly launched Case Magnum and the big Ford TWs and JDs. P&B stopped offering them when the MF 2000 series was launched, and hadn't sold many Schluters.

The 9500 was about 200hp, and pulled like a train. The straight eight sounded lovely under load - simply purred (unlike the Fords and JDs which barked out and sounded as rough as **** by comparison). They were very primitive though - the design hadn't really evolved much from the 1960s - the hydraulic valve block stuck up through the cab floor with the levers on top of it, no electric controls at all, and no air con either!

Here it is in happier times a couple of years before being moved on (relegated to towing potato bulkers about and a bit of rolling by that time):
View attachment 1048472

A straight eight?
Never heard of such a thing

 

[glasshouse]

The only one of that model sold in the U.K.
Suttons had some extra sound proofing fitted to it in its working days.

I thought they were the rollls royce of tractors?

 

[daveydiesel1]

I thought they were the rollls royce of tractors?

Thats a fendt your confused with

 

[Cowabunga]

Schluter was the Maybach of tractors. This is a modern Maybach...

Price ‘From £164,000'

Shluter or Maybach, they all wear out in the end.

 

[Lowland1]

There was a feature on that very tractor in an issue of Classic Tractor (in the early 2000s I think?).

That one (XVL 815X) was supplied new to Sir Richard Suttons Settled Estates at Stainton-le-Vale between Market Rasen and Binbrook. It was the main ploughing tractor pulling a seven furrow semi mounted Lemken for several years. They sold it through P&Bs annual auction sale in about 1996. It was getting a bit shabby even back then, but it is sad to see in its current state Suttons had another smaller Schluter too (a 7800 with about 160hp) which was on a 'Y' plate.

P&B took to selling them for a while after Massey stopped production of the 1135 and 1155, and as that coincided with arable farms moving to much bigger horsepower tractors, P&B needed something to offer to compete with the newly launched Case Magnum and the big Ford TWs and JDs. P&B stopped offering them when the MF 2000 series was launched, and hadn't sold many Schluters.

The 9500 was about 200hp, and pulled like a train. The straight eight sounded lovely under load - simply purred (unlike the Fords and JDs which barked out and sounded as rough as **** by comparison). They were very primitive though - the design hadn't really evolved much from the 1960s - the hydraulic valve block stuck up through the cab floor with the levers on top of it, no electric controls at all, and no air con either!

Here it is in happier times a couple of years before being moved on (relegated to towing potato bulkers about and a bit of rolling by that time):
View attachment 1048472

I had a Farming on Film 4 DVD Lincolnshire farming 1939 to 1989 and there’s a Schluter ploughing on it with a 5 furrow Dowdeswell plough. I will check my library when I get home but I think Thriplow had as many as six from 160 hp to 100 hp

 

[glasshouse]

Someone said they were noisy and primitive

 

[bill and bens dad]

Remember seeing them at Earls Court in the late seventies, they only had a stand outside by the Old Brompton road entrance, Thought they looked a Proper Tractor !! I presume they were expensive compared to the competition at the time ? hence they never really took off ??