Tractors and machines you wish you'd never ....

[bobk]

Clapped eyes on .

For me , a JD 3130 , all it wanted to do was eat itself

MF 625 combine , brilliant for an hour , then wanted to eat itself .

Any Landrover .

 

[Greythundercloudys]

Class 250 baler, great when it works but always waiting for it to breakdown.

 

[Will 1594]

Galligani round belt Baler , eventually fed it a Swann and vesta breakfast in some dry straw next to a grass field , dB 1690 biggest pile of shire

 

[rob1]

kidd tankerspread dug it out with fork as often as it emptied itself

 

[holywell farmer]

kidd tankerspread dug it out with fork as often as it emptied itself

Blimey

 

[Lincs Lass]

MF 390 4wd ,,cab blower mounted over dash board ,,great in winter ,,a sauna bath in summer ,puh you couldnt see

 

[rob1]

Blimey

Had one on demo and it was very good, my old man bought one but they had slightly redisgned the auger and paddle for some reason and spreading broiler litter with the door only parlty open the paddles couldnt push out enough so broke the shear pins, I suggested we took the paddles out for chicken litter but kidds said no bring it back to the factory and we will cut some bits off the auger flights, that sorted the chicken litter problem but created a flat edge which the shear pins werent strong enough to make it cut through strawy muck, luckily for me the old man retired soon after and I sold it

 

[Spud]

MF6170 - bought new in 97 - the most useless unreliable pile of monkey nuts we've ever had in the place......
.... closely followed by a 1991 JD 550 single stuffer baler that wouldn't start bales if it was dry, wet, long, short, or a day that ended in y, and if it did, it would break down, without fail. Horrible. Sold for a 1200 Quadrant.

Taarup single rotor rake wouldn't do 20ac without another rebuild.

 

[holywell farmer]

Had one on demo and it was very good, my old man bought one but they had slightly redisgned the auger and paddle for some reason and spreading broiler litter with the door only parlty open the paddles couldnt push out enough so broke the shear pins, I suggested we took the paddles out for chicken litter but kidds said no bring it back to the factory and we will cut some bits off the auger flights, that sorted the chicken litter problem but created a flat edge which the shear pins werent strong enough to make it cut through strawy muck, luckily for me the old man retired soon after and I sold it

Sounds an awful machine

 

[Lincs Lass]

MF6170 - bought new in 97 - the most useless unreliable pile of monkey nuts we've ever had in the place......
.... closely followed by a 1991 JD 550 single stuffer baler that wouldn't start bales if it was dry, wet, long, short, or a day that ended in y, and if it did, it would break down, without fail. Horrible. Sold for a 1200 Quadrant.

Taarup single rotor rake wouldn't do 20ac without another rebuild.
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We had a 6170 as well ,,its was too heavy,underpowered and gutless ,,couldn't fault for anything else though ,it was the premier model with dromone puh and the higher out put hydraulics ,never remember if that's open or closed center

 

[michael N123]

Newholland T5 spent more time getting fixed than it did working everyone fell out with it and it got traded in 3 years earlier than planned

 

[Tarw Coch]

MF 6150, has the first in the country and got to know all the mechanics at the dealers very well over the two years we had it.

There’s another thread running on here somewhere, tractors you wish you’d owned, we were pricing up a 3075, got side tracked with a 7740 on demo, only to find out orders weren’t being taken as a new range was coming out when we decided to stay with Massey.
Wish we’d bought a 3075, allthough a 7740 would have sufficed, anything other than the 6150 really.

We changed it at two years old at end of warranty for another that wasn’t quite as bad which we kept for 8 years, it was the most expensive Massey we’ve ever owned for repairs , infact it probably cost more in repairs than all the others combined.

 

[Chae1]

+1 for MF6170 we had one too.

 

[v8willy]

Class 250 baler, great when it works but always waiting for it to breakdown.

Same here with a brand new one.

 

[Robt]

Not sure if I’ve ever said..... Mitsubishi Shogun 2016....

 

[Robt]

Galligani round belt Baler , eventually fed it a Swann and vesta breakfast in some dry straw next to a grass field , dB 1690 biggest pile of shire

Isn’t that fraud? ?

 

[Roy_H]

Blimey

I had the same experience with the 2 MF 19 Muck Spreaders we had. Terrible pieces of junk .

 

[Spud]

+1 for MF6170 we had one too.

We had a 6180 too, bought s/h, long after the 70 departed. It was brilliant in every respect for 8yrs, til it caught fire on the road!

 

[Roy_H]

When l was very young l remember we had a Case 200 baler. I also remember it was made of tinfoil and didn't stay with us long .

 

[holywell farmer]

We had a 6180 too, bought s/h, long after the 70 departed. It was brilliant in every respect for 8yrs, til it caught fire on the road!

Seems a few who had bad experiences with 6100 series