Finn farmer
Member
My friend has one of those. Done under 4000 hours and has been offered 70k€ for it. Looks new and has the reverse drive kit.
Tractors you wished you’d owned....and never
- Thread starter Northeastfarmer
- Start date
- Location
- South Molton
Case (couldn't afford something else) JX60
2009 3189 hrs now. 16k purchase price 8k spent on repairs
2 radiators
2 injector pumps
2 clutches
Heater hoses
Synchro
Hydraulic pump
Link arm
3 doors and 2 back windows. They were operator error....ish. gas struts now removed from self opening doors!
Windscreen is still cracked from the numerous times the bonnet unmatched. Now has secondary fixing to keep closed!
2009 3189 hrs now. 16k purchase price 8k spent on repairs
2 radiators
2 injector pumps
2 clutches
Heater hoses
Synchro
Hydraulic pump
Link arm
3 doors and 2 back windows. They were operator error....ish. gas struts now removed from self opening doors!
Windscreen is still cracked from the numerous times the bonnet unmatched. Now has secondary fixing to keep closed!
GeorgeK
Member
- Location
- Leicestershire
If you want your older tractor to feel like a new one, keep a roll of crisp £5 notes with you in the cab. Throw a few out the window every hour!
- Location
- South Molton
Better to put it in a tin box for the next breakdown ?
- Location
- DD9.
they were upgraded MB tracs, saw one at RHS in late 90s, it was in doppstatt orange.
- Location
- northumberland
come to think of it, it was a 955 the dull red and cream ones then onto the newer red n black 956xl
Pistonbroke
Member
Apparently they were always getting stopped by the police or vosa for going too fast and bought three Fastracs to be legal. Sounds like they regretted itMy friend has one of those. Done under 4000 hours and has been offered 70k€ for it. Looks new and has the reverse drive kit.
They did a red and cream 956xl aswell
Red Fred
Member
- Location
- Hants/Dorset border
My JX90 is still behaving impeccably (touch wood). It was £20g new in 2008, and has always been on the loader, but is just coming up to 7000 hours now. They changed the clutch around 5000hrs iirc and I replaced the radiator the other day, but that was due to operator error (driving it out through deep floodwater and a fan blade decided to eject). On the whole, though, it has been far more reliable that either our Doncaster donks, DBs or Fords, which had loads of problems even though we see them through rose tinted glasses.
- Location
- South Molton
No other tractor has ever cost is as much financially or in grief as this one!
Even changing the clutch was a nightmare as until they split it you can't tell which one of the 3 clutches they could have fitted it was!!
Neighbour had a JX with a loader think he changed it after the 3rd warranty front axle!
- Location
- Cumbria
Our neighbours used to have a 955xl and 956xl both red and cream internationals. I used to sit in our front garden at silage time to listen to them whistling past. The 956 used to lead pig slurry from our pig unit, if I was lucky I sometimes got a ride in it - happy days.
Two tractors I wish we could of owned, JD 2140 SG2 and I also have a hankering for a Renault 106-54
- Location
- South Molton
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- Location
- Co antrim
- Location
- South Molton
We had 2 owned and 2 hire tractors as a harvest student in hants.
JD 4050? 125hp 6 pot with 15 gear power shift
Renault 6 pot again 125 hp , real good lugging tractor. Would out pull the JD all day long, windscreen would get so hot from exhaust you couldn't put your hand on it.
And two ford 8200 2 wds that no one wanted to drive.
When I first joined Sentry as a manger trainee. “My” tractor was a Case MX170. I used it on everything . The original driver used it for ploughing only. It was a great tractor and very good on the fert spreader too. It was all
Good until I adjusted the max throttle speed . It then did 47kph.... you can guess what happened next
Good until I adjusted the max throttle speed . It then did 47kph.... you can guess what happened next
James
Member
- Location
- Comber, Down
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Location
- M6 Hard shoulder
n.w
Member
- Location
- western isles
Remember chisel ploughing with one of these in Essex back in the 70' and trying to figure out why the willows were all canting over when i finished the headland...then i noticed the roots behind the plough. V8 i think.
- Location
- Co antrim
Its a 171 ye would want