Lincs Lass
Member
- Location
- north lincs
We had the 70-80 and 90 ,,the 80 and 90 never put a foot wrong but the 70 was just the poor cousin ,didnt quite make the grade
Tractors and machines you wish you'd never ....
- Thread starter bobk
- Start date
- Location
- Co antrim
Zetor 12441
- Location
- Mid Norfolk
Anything made in Meltham.
Simon Chiles
DD Moderator
- Location
- Surrey/ Kent Border, UK
Taarup 307 autoswather. No matter how many times I fixed it something else then proceeded to fail. Finally I gave up and traded it for a new Kuhn 301G which gave 11 years service without having to lay a spanner on it, apart from changing knives and skids. It only died when some kids ploughed into the back of it doing about 60.
Ha the “Auto-Swather”
We had one , needed the pto going to drive the pump to,work the swather table side to side, if you had a major issue like hitting a stone and damage to the mower you had to keep it going, despite the fact your instinct was to switch it off , in order to slide the table into transport position or you couldn’t get out the gate.
We piped ours up to the tractor spools eventually .
fermerboy
Member
- Location
- Banffshire
Claas Jaguar 40 trailed forager.
What a piece of junk, wouldnt take grass in most of the time, hand crank reverse if you choked it which was a lot.
Chain drive to the drum which chewed up regularly.
Ours had hand controls for the spout which meant the back window open, hence I'm half deaf now.
Had a blow up and bloody NFU insurance wouldn't stand a new drum and it was never right after that, fickle to set and vibrations hard on bearings.
What a joyus day when it swallowed the shearbar, and destroyed itself completely beyond repair.
What a piece of junk, wouldnt take grass in most of the time, hand crank reverse if you choked it which was a lot.
Chain drive to the drum which chewed up regularly.
Ours had hand controls for the spout which meant the back window open, hence I'm half deaf now.
Had a blow up and bloody NFU insurance wouldn't stand a new drum and it was never right after that, fickle to set and vibrations hard on bearings.
What a joyus day when it swallowed the shearbar, and destroyed itself completely beyond repair.
MF 168
Member
- Location
- Laois, Ireland
MF 350, bought to be a yard scraper tractor in winter and a bit of summer topping. In the 1800 hours we had it the entire timing casing fell off the front of the engine, gave gearbox trouble and the hydraulics packed in from a valve giving up in the backend. Alternator quit within the first 50 hours and even the headlining fell apart. It's the only tractor ever to leave here with under 8k hours on it.
All PZ haybobs closely followed by Lely Acrobats
All PZ haybobs closely followed by Lely Acrobats
- Location
- Yorkshire
He never mentioned insurance
Yep we had one o them just scrap from day 1.
Lincs Lass
Member
- Location
- north lincs
Not me but the nieghbor have an Almer Salmon sugar beet system ,,or as their guys refer to it ,,the scrap heap challenge ,,if it lifts 6 acre a day without dropping to bits ,its done well
Selectamatic
Member
- Location
- North Wales
Fisher Humphries Hedgecutter.
Teagle single row potato harvester.
Teagle single row potato harvester.
Roy_H
Member
Funny isn't it? All manufacturers seem to throw the odd "Lemon" off the line. I was under the impression Krone made good mowers. I well remember their first attempts at making a big square baler were just awful!
Lincs Lass
Member
- Location
- north lincs
My dad would say the whitsed magic eye potato harvester,,good idea in theory, not in practise
- Location
- south norfolk
Northeastfarmer
Member
- Location
- Cleveland
The gaybob
Roy_H
Member
A horrendously expensive machine to buy and those that bought one found that they were difficult to sell again as they had such a poor reputation.
- Location
- Cornwall
Awwww. Come on ..... at least they had those catches to keep the door open a few inches and let some air through ..
Oh, and deafen you at the same time