Tractors you wished you’d owned....and never

SuperTwo

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Can any1 answer this as i see 1455s smokin like this on you tube. Are they just screwed to get that amount o smoke or have they upgraded injector pump injectors piston liners and crank. Also why do they take so long to go from tickover to full open compared to standard engine.
Slow to rev up and drop down cause youre moving all the oil in the turbo clutch plus the weight of the flywheel
 

Llmmm

Member
I bought a 6.11 from 92 three years ago with 5700 hours on. If was not very expensive as no one want to buy tractors that old for a lot of work. I use it on a tmr. About 7-800 hours/year. It has only been disconnected from the mixer twice. Once to run a bale trailer to clear some bales before rain and once to get the last load of grain to the mill before they closed so we could finish a field one evening. It starts after 3/4 round every morning no matter what, and has not missed a beat since it got here.

It’s very rare to find tractors like that in Denmark.

Someone is looking for 10 year old mainstream tractors for export every week. I don’t get it. The last few i have bought has been from dealers where i have told them to call me when the right export-candidate is traded in.



Agree unfortunately. It would be much easier if the new ones would put the old ones running costs, fuel use and reliability to shame. But my 27 year old tractor is the most reliable and cheapest to run year after year.
I agree those old tractors were very reliable and cheap and easy to fix but they were terrible places to work compared to modern tractors .correct me if im wrong but that deutz had a window in front that opened to stop you roasting in summer but the engine noise would deafen you.
 

Serup

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Denmark
I agree those old tractors were very reliable and cheap and easy to fix but they were terrible places to work compared to modern tractors .correct me if im wrong but that deutz had a window in front that opened to stop you roasting in summer but the engine noise would deafen you.

Of course, comfort is probably the area which has evolved the most over time. I wouldn’t want to drive it all day every day, when i look at what else we have.
But tractors today have a lot more that can go wrong and that i can’t fix myself. So they cost more to run.
 
Can any1 answer this as i see 1455s smokin like this on you tube. Are they just screwed to get that amount o smoke or have they upgraded injector pump injectors piston liners and crank. Also why do they take so long to go from tickover to full open compared to standard engine.
Guessing a massive turbo aswell to get 629hp. It would take a bit of spooling up. Same tractor filmed in a tractor pull hardly smokes because he'd got the revs up at the start
 

Llmmm

Member
Of course, comfort is probably the area which has evolved the most over time. I wouldn’t want to drive it all day every day, when i look at what else we have.
But tractors today have a lot more that can go wrong and that i can’t fix myself. So they cost more to run.
Im not an expert on tractor but is do all makers do an old syle tractor asked a guy once he said they were lightly build and wouldnt last a series valtra massey 4709 would be two i looked at but was put off
 

Robt

Member
Location
Suffolk
That's where the knowledge of being able to use the lap top to diagnose the problem and then having the ability to fix it comes it to play, to many haven't the ability to put the two together and are hoping the laptop will preform a miracle. I see it every shift here in work.
Wish santa had brought me a 7810 John Deere !
Mr Holywell, life is too short to keep wishing while sat on your dumper. Get your self a summer job in the southeast. You only die once!
 

Serup

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Denmark
Im not an expert on tractor but is do all makers do an old syle tractor asked a guy once he said they were lightly build and wouldnt last a series valtra massey 4709 would be two i looked at but was put off

A 100 hp tractor today is nothing like a 100 hp tractor 30 years ago. I once had a case farmall 95 with a demo tmr mixer for a few days. It looked nothing like my old tractors. Axles, backend, size of lift arms - everything - looked underrated for what i understood as a tractor that size. They have 150 hp to look the same today. I doubt it could withstand the same stress over time. But they are still dear.
 

Purli R

Member
Does this count?
850272
 

Tomtrac

Member
Location
Penrith cumbria
We certainly were not "Rough", we were a family firm that treated our tackle with respect. Put it this way, when we sold up in 1996 our old 1965 MF 135 was still in 'Good nick' as they say.
The Nuff dated from the time when production shifted to Bathgate. A chap l knew who sold them said that was the problem. Before then he said they were utterly reliable but to use his words "After that quality control went out of the window"

Yeh so you had a ringer or a bad one
 

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Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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