Top 3 tractors of all time?

[Tomr10]

Open question peoples favourite or the most important.

Should there not be a county in the list,
Something old with tracks,
And a trantor

 

[maen]

In no particular order
MF 135
IH 454 (much underrated)
MF 390

We have all three bought from new. Our insurance is going up as their value increases. Simple tractors, easy to repair, with available new spares. India still makes versions of IH434 and MF135. You see them throughout rural India for the same reason my father bought them. Our current main tractor is a financial liability in comparison.

 

[bobk]

Anything but john deere . ..... and massey .....

 

[timmyboy]

Billy Bob has the answer!

 

[Scribus]

Open question peoples favourite or the most important.

Should there not be a county in the list,
Something old with tracks,
And a trantor

The Trantor has been mentioned although they called it a JCB Fastrac.

 

[spikeislander]

Jd 3350
Ih 956
Fendt 614

 

[Drillman]

In ascending order

Ford 7810
NH7840
NH TM135

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[Tarw Coch]

Anything but john deere . ..... and massey .....

Hmmmm, I’m struggling to thing of a third to go with JD 10 series and MF 6200 series.

 

[bobk]

In ascending order

Ford 7810
NH7840
NH TM135

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You're not far off , 1st one is a bit boris ..

 

[Tarw Coch]

Jd 7810
Mf 6290
New Holland tm 155

Think I’ll declare @holywell farmer the winner, you’re welcome to disagree as long as you don’t mind being wrong.

 

[Drillman]

Hmmmm, I’m struggling to thing of a third to go with JD 10 series and MF 6200 series.

NH TM series. Only thing is the TMs are not third there first!

 

[Bury the Trash]

JD3130 First 100hp+ 6 cylinder heavy-weight.

Responsive and handy.

And very good (light) power steering.

 

[Tarw Coch]

NH TM series. Only thing is the TMs are not third there first!

Would you need to be more specific than just say NH TM’s?
Heard of a few issues with the larger 175’s/190’s.

 

[Drillman]

Would you need to be more specific than just say NH TM’s?
Heard of a few issues with the larger 175’s/190’s.

Early 175/190s had issues I will concede. Later ones were by all accounts quite reliable.

But I do believe the first generation TMs were the best. The merger between NH and CaseIH did the revised models no favours as Basildon was churning so many out quality control slipped a bit.

 

[multi power]

MF135
MF165
MF390

Not far away there, except 398 is better than 390

 

[DaveGrohl]

MF 135
MF 3075
NH TM155

 

[Lowland1]

Ford 4000
Ford 4600
Ford 4610
variations on a theme. I still have them at work everyday

 

[hendrebc]

Ford 4000
Ford 4600
Ford 4610
variations on a theme. I still have them at work everyday

I thought ford 4600 as well. They're absolutely f**king everywhere still! Must be a decent tractor to be so popular and so many still left working. I know of about 10 withing a few miles of me still doing some work. Massey 135 would be the only other tractor I can think of to be about in such numbers.

 

[Fendtbro]

MB 1500. When these came out in 1980, what else could travel at 60k with a 5 furrow reversible on the back with no bouncing.. Girlfriend on a proper passenger seat, sitting in a pretty quiet ac'd cab... Proper contractors machine.
Grey ferguson/35's The little old fergys got men out from behind a horse and on a seat.. top quality design and top grade steels used. Jesus, you could still put most of them back into frontline service doing 12 hour shifts!
Fastrac. Full suspension and four wheel steer are the only real advances in the last 20 years..

 

[Beames]

John Deere 6430. Pocket rocket of a tractor.