What’s the best tractor of all time ?

[holywell farmer]

Jd 6810 it belongs to a contractor I pump slurry for in the winter over 24-000 hours on it great tractor,very well built the ten series

 

[Will 1594]

John Deere 6920 for me . My favourite to drive is my 6930 autopower but the 6920 had the edge on engine power and had enough tech to do every you needed .

6 cyl major 44 mph . Ford 7000 7600 Zetor 12045 , 6310 deere and 6620

 

[Gormers]

Greatest tractor ever…. Grey Fergie TEF …. but is it the best? …. probably not

 

[Gedd]

When i was a kid we had a ford 3000 thought it was the best thing since sliced bread did everything now if its not 150 hp plus it isnt good enough 50 odd years ago though

 

[DeeGee]

Just my own favourites:

Massey 135
Internationals 475, 956, 1056, 1455
Massey 3120
Massey 6290

 

[Henarar]

Greatest tractor ever…. Grey Fergie TEF …. but is it the best? …. probably not

most of the rest are based on a Fergie

 

[flatliner]

Fiat 880 DT5, couldn't be beaten in the clamp back in the '80's, would climb over anything. Such a shame the metal work was made from bean tins

 

[Fellstoflats]

The ones with the least amount of stupid electrics and ecu’s needing a guy with a laptop to ‘repair’ it!

(from a livestock farmer’s perspective.)

A man came to 'fix' our new Fender today. After 2hrs in the cab on a laptop, he announced it had a glitch he didn't know how to fix..

That's progress, apparently.

 

[Fellstoflats]

I was only thinking about this this morning whilst feeding cows. For me it is my John Deere 6920s auto power. It is compact enough to do loader work well, it is big enough to handle all the jobs that need more power on our 140ha with ease and simple enough that any of the family can drive it without hours of tuition. Its fast at 50k and comfortable. It’s currently on 10500hours and I fully expect with some love it will do that again for us. It is a tractor that unless through accident will be unlikely to leave the family, will end up like the old Dexta that was on the farm I grew up on, just used for light jobs and kept for sentimentality. I also like our 6410 and my 2155 Fastrac but not in the same way. It will be a sad day if we end up with something new with buttons and adblue . 47 and sounding like an old man .

I mourn the loss of our 6920. I'm not a tractor man, but I loved that thing.

 

[Speedstar]

6 cyl major 44 mph . Ford 7000 7600 Zetor 12045 , 6310 deere and 6620

Not so long ago you told me the grey Fergie was the best you had driven as it was better than walking behing the horses

 

[yellowbelly]

It's a generation thing - each one has it's 'best'. Here's ours .................

1960's ............. Ford 5000.

1970's ......... Ford 7700.

1980's ............... Ford TW20.

1990's .......... JD 4055.

2000's ........... JD6910.

All capable of being mended by me with a box of spanners and a ball pein hammer.
When electronics, lap tops, gps (you can drive straight without it - FFS,that's what the steering wheel is for), add blue and all that malarky became common, in true Dragon's Den fashion, I was out.

 

[Tha Ulsterscot]

MF 135.

Surprised we had to wait until post 25 for the best to appear. But it's all relevant to the drivers age.

 

[Hilly]

Jcb 3185, next question .

 

[J 1177]

Mf 6480, always wanted a fergie, got one, still love it 7 years later.
Oh and 5130 syncro, basic, utterly bombproof, sounds tremendous and still pulls like stink

 

[Hilly]

Jcb 3185, next question .

I tell a lie , jcb 3230 with Manual gear box .

 

[DeeGee]

Mf 6480, always wanted a fergie, got one, still love it 7 years later.
Oh and 5130 syncro, basic, utterly bombproof, sounds tremendous and still pulls like stink

Yeah, I have one of the last 6480s (2012) before the next models went over to Ad Blue.

It does have a lovely sounding engine, rarely rev mine above 1500 as most of its work is in Eco PTO on a Lely 770 tedder so it only needs 12-1300 erpm to run it at the recommended 400 - 460 PTO speed.

It blows out some black smoke in protest for some reason, but never really breaks sweat.

Most days when hay making I like to switch off the air con and open the offside door on a hot day, you get lovely fresh air and also hear something akin to what being in heaven must sound like.

 

[Renaultman]

Awww jees @Clive slow on the forum today to start a fight this big??!!!

I’ll start with any modern JD from the 6series 6010 to the 6r perfect alrounders with spec for all from the basic levers to the funcy auto powers.

Just please no one mention a TM or valtra the other thread Clive mentioned is for them!!

Leave my TM alone, unless I'm doing any roadwork it's my tractor of choice, 12000 hours fitted Isobus and autosteer, does all the spraying, currently on a 4m Vaddy rapid ahead of a T7 235 and T7 210 electro command (which doesn't have autosteer, or that would probably be on,)

 

[ollie989898]

Any modern tractor with a screen and lots of buttons where I can drive it without having to touch the pedals or pull a gert lever repeatedly all day. Did 11 hours on powerharrow earlier this week and it was bliss. Talk about a polar change to sitting on a power harrow in my youth. Technology, GPS, point me at it.

 

[Renaultman]

Any modern tractor with a screen and lots of buttons where I can drive it without having to touch the pedals or pull a gert lever repeatedly all day. Did 11 hours on powerharrow earlier this week and it was bliss. Talk about a polar change to sitting on a power harrow in my youth. Technology, GPS, point me at it.

I hear you.

 

[DeeGee]

I hear you.

I ain’t said anything yet………