Very basic tractors
- Thread starter Gedd
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- Galloway
Put into inflation calculator is 38000 today could you buy something similar for that?
Lincs Lass
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- north lincs
But what could you buy new now thats basic ,a clutch gear box ,quadrant position and draught ,, lever spools and no fancy electronics .
Everything nowadays has got some sort of computer running it and nothing that can be fixed with a box of spanners .
manfromhill
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Still a few of these about tell by the red hubs
we missed out on one got a standard lp 4wd with no splitter but heater for same price had it 5 years 4000hrs great tractor traded for a 4230 with the new lip cab to do same job and it was a donkey
we missed out on one got a standard lp 4wd with no splitter but heater for same price had it 5 years 4000hrs great tractor traded for a 4230 with the new lip cab to do same job and it was a donkey
Dave W
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- Location
- chesterfield
The bigger question is why on earth would anyone want to buy a dinosaur like that new
- Location
- Lorette Manitoba
Not everyone wants to be in the dealers hands fir eternity. I’d rather give up some fancy electronic that won’t last for a tractor that’s going to run without sensors shitting the bed and shutting everything down There a time and a place fir it all and yes I’ve a stack of electronic on most of my equipment and it’s nice have its benefits but for a lot of new equipment how’s the man buying it in ten years going to value it knowing all the problems that come with aging technology.
kiwi pom
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- canterbury NZ
I remember them coming out, quite a few bought by dairy farmers in the bit of Cheshire I'm from.
Cheap compared to other makes if I remember right. The L models were pretty basic anyway, not sure what else was removed from the spec sheet other than black paint on the engine.
They did a 'basic XL cab model too, called the Duo. One of the farms I did work for had one.
Good basic tractors for yard and light field work.
Cheap compared to other makes if I remember right. The L models were pretty basic anyway, not sure what else was removed from the spec sheet other than black paint on the engine.
They did a 'basic XL cab model too, called the Duo. One of the farms I did work for had one.
Good basic tractors for yard and light field work.
Dave W
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- chesterfield
At 10 years they’ll probably be eagerly bought by some Polish chap with a can do attitude who will have taught himself how to mend his own stuff with laptops.
Surely this is a generational argument that rears its head every time new technology comes out.
Remember people were sceptical of these fancy new engine things and shunned them in favour of carrying on with horses
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- Aberdeenshire
You can still get pretty dam basic tractors it's just that nobody is picking them cause they're cheap garbage.
I reckon the new axos 240 will be a pretty basic simple machine but hopefully of reasonably quality and maybe even the new Tafe tractor might be a decent basic tractor...
I reckon the new axos 240 will be a pretty basic simple machine but hopefully of reasonably quality and maybe even the new Tafe tractor might be a decent basic tractor...
I bought a two wheel drive one as a scraper tractor, did some field work in summer, was a good little tractor
livestock 1
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Those 895’s are often 12k now second hand
Things look so cheap looking back but at the time they weren’t
Things look so cheap looking back but at the time they weren’t
Devil's advocate
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- Posh side of Barnsley
CASE Farmall A
Some reports of poor build qualty, but nice basic spec if they are built ok. 90's tractor.
Timbo
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- Gods County
Like the T4 New Hollands, Siroma etc, pretty flimsy, light duty. Buy new, keep 5 yrs, move on for another new one. Don't expect it to be going for much longer.
Party Pete
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I see the 895 says it has a powershift gearbox . Never realised that was an option !
manfromhill
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They didn’t have a heater but other than that a basic l with a gear splitter price a 2650 basic cab 2 wd was 4 grand more And a 6810 ford 2 we was 3 grand more to get 4 wd on them was a bit more again
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- Staffordshire
They renamed the torque amplifier as a 2 speed powershift on later 95’s and 42 series.
But you could get them with a shuttle instead our 895L was one
livestock 1
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We bought a 6810 Ford 400 hours on for £17,500 it was on a J reg
Prior to electrical sensors, machines never went wrong.