Still earning a keep

[IH 684]

Bertha has arrived back home today, another season of potato cart done, another 400hrs on the clock, not put a foot wrong or needed a spanner on her, exceptional performance considering what ive been asking of her, as usual. Had a wash down and a polish, got a days work on the hedgecutter, followed by a week or so of ploughing, then she will be getting her front linkage put back on ready for the 130 acre of drilling ive got booked for the second week of november

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Just waiting for the financed upto the neck brigade to critisise.

 

[Drillman]

Just waiting for the financed upto the neck brigade to critisise.

Each to there own but with prices as they are I think the paid for brigade will sleep easier.

 

[cfr1964]

Bit of ploughing with this today.

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That is a thing of beauty
Perfectly balanced,a classic case of "if it looks right it is right"
You might have guessed I rather like the 7810

 

[Vincent]

A few more 78 pics

 

[cfr1964]

Someone will be along shortly to tell us 78s and Fords in general are nae use
But until then

 

[John 1594]

Someone will be along shortly to tell us 78s and Fords in general are nae use
But until then

Bad expericences stay with you for a lifetime......

 

[Drillman]

Bad expericences stay with you for a lifetime......

To change the subject I notice there is a red 1594 for sale locally to me at a dealers for £5500.

 

[John 1594]

To change the subject I notice there is a red 1594 for sale locally to me at a dealers for £5500.

There also one on ebay with a nice QD loader, cant get a bid on it at £4100, its listed as having "gearbox problems"

i happen to know that the problem is a broken sprag bearing, which is about 100 quid to replace, but its a full strip down to get at it, as it lays between the hydrashift packs!!!

As things are at the moment im holding back on purchasing another tractor, little bit of uncertainty as to which way the job is going. The purchase of a new offset flail mower to do the drainage board work is going to me my only machinery expenditure this year i think

 

[Drillman]

There also one on ebay with a nice QD loader, cant get a bid on it at £4100, its listed as having "gearbox problems"

i happen to know that the problem is a broken sprag bearing, which is about 100 quid to replace, but its a full strip down to get at it, as it lays between the hydrashift packs!!!

As things are at the moment im holding back on purchasing another tractor, little bit of uncertainty as to which way the job is going. The purchase of a new offset flail mower to do the drainage board work is going to me my only machinery expenditure this year i think

That's OK as I was going to follow on by saying I'm not sure I would recomended purchasing off that particular dealer anyway.

 

[snowhite]

Funny i would have expected to see some MF2640 there must be many still working hard

 

[John 1594]

That's OK as I was going to follow on by saying I'm not sure I would recomended purchasing off that particular dealer anyway.

Say no more

 

[Zetor]

depends how much oil flow your splitter needs, mate runs his splitter on a dexta, but its biblically slow, and a bit weak, so tends to favour his zetor, which then didnt have enough flow to run his wrapper at a decent speed, so i lent him the 1494 and he started wrapping bales properly

990 is basically same size as a 165/4000, but 2/3 of the price

Tell your friend on old Zetor's with a big cab's you can gear the pump up by selecting 1000 rpm on the pto speed selector, it makes a fair difference [emoji41]

 

[John 1594]

Tell your friend on old Zetor's with a big cab's you can gear the pump up by selecting 1000 rpm on the pto speed selector, it makes a fair difference [emoji41]

This is a 7341 i think?

 

[Zetor]

This is a 7341 i think?

Ahh too new, I think those pumps are engine mounted.

 

[J 1177]

Bit of ploughing with this today.

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Now thats tractor porn

 

[J 1177]

Old girl drying beans last week

 

[TripleSix]

Hope she's gonna earn her keep with little issue.

1982 6045, 3300 hours from new, been on a sheep farm locally

 

[msheep66]

Hope she's gonna earn her keep with little issue.

1982 6045, 3300 hours from new, been on a sheep farm locally

Looks very tidy

 

[FonterraFarmer]

Bit of ploughing with this today.

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That would be perfect........if it was ROPS

 

[davedb]

I spose my old girl is a classic really being a 1996, still does the job