What happens to older tractors?

[devonboy]

saw a john deere scraper fractor in my brother in laws workshop yday it was one of those indian made ones , 50hp things no cab, anyway it was a 16reg and had 13000 hours on the clock.......

 

[Lowland1]

saw a john deere scraper fractor in my brother in laws workshop yday it was one of those indian made ones , 50hp things no cab, anyway it was a 16reg and had 13000 hours on the clock.......

They sell a lot those in Kenya however they are made of chocolate and get broken very easily by the locals everyone is complaining how soft they are compared with the staple mf 290 that was commonplace

 

[devonboy]

its colder in devon , so the chocolate is harder

 

[case 5140]

Where does these old tractor go, 2000, 2009, reg tractors, there still seams to be good money in them but who buys them, do they go abroad?
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Yes, who buys them, l don't know any one who would buy a 12 year old tractor.

well mine have been over 10 years old,... for the last 20 years!

 

[nick...]

They sell a lot those in Kenya however they are made of chocolate and get broken very easily by the locals everyone is complaining how soft they are compared with the staple mf 290 that was commonplace

Can’t be that bad doing 13,000 hours in three years.sounds like a great tractor being used by stockmen who are generally thought to not see after machinery,and yes I know they are not all like that
Nick...

 

[Will 1594]

Surely it’s about the hours on the clock. I have bought some new tractors over the last few years they will knock up 2000+ hours a year but I am always looking for tractors of say 4000-5000 hours as backups and age is not important it’s basically the useful life remaining. I don’t worry about impressing the neighbours with the number plate as here no one understands the numbers.

Think some are getting more impressed with the older number plates ,doing big hours ,than all the lilly livered sounding hair dryers that need a laptop to fix them , like the new plough that would not work yesterday ,because it has electrics ,to control turnover and front furrow , could of ploughed 50 acre time they been messing with it ,its now stuck half over and needs a service guy and lap top to sort it , wont be buying that type

 

[Lowland1]

Can’t be that bad doing 13,000 hours in three years.sounds like a great tractor being used by stockmen who are generally thought to not see after machinery,and yes I know they are not all like that
Nick...

Kenyan tractor drivers will make any stockman in the UK look like he has serious machinery skills

 

[Hooby Farmer]

Kenyan tractor drivers will make any stockman in the UK look like he has serious machinery skills

When I lived in Namibia the neighbouring farmer was showing his new guys how to read the dipstick on the tractor engine, and how if the level falls below this line it needs topped up. Some of the guys must have not understood about half of the info or if they didn't understand what was being talked about about. Two weeks later the Massey lies down, me and Davy take it apart. Engine and sump full of sand. We think that they poured sand into the bottom of the engine to get the level to rise.

 

[devonboy]

i agree that a lot of stockmen have serious mechanical skills.... the point i make though this type of tractor can be repaired relatively easily, the same as a mf290 which isnt available any more.

 

[Wellytrack]

When I lived in Namibia the neighbouring farmer was showing his new guys how to read the dipstick on the tractor engine, and how if the level falls below this line it needs topped up. Some of the guys must have understood about half of the info or if they didn't understand what was being talked about about. Two weeks later the Massey lies down, me and Davy take it apart. Engine and sump full of sand. We think that they poured sand into the bottom of the engine to get the level to rise.

Where did you bury them?

 

[Scribus]

Where does these old tractor go, 2000, 2009, reg tractors, there still seams to be good money in them but who buys them, do they go abroad?

Exported out of the way, can't have them undermining the market for shiny new expensive stuff.

 

[Scribus]

Think some are getting more impressed with the older number plates ,doing big hours ,than all the lilly livered sounding hair dryers that need a laptop to fix them , like the new plough that would not work yesterday ,because it has electrics ,to control turnover and front furrow , could of ploughed 50 acre time they been messing with it ,its now stuck half over and needs a service guy and lap top to sort it , wont be buying that type

And yet the plough company would have boasted of the extra productivity offered by their product!

One of the major problems manufacturers have is that the principles and design of tractors and machinery are now well established and there are few if any major mechanical engineering developments to come, so they simply throw electronic doo dahs at the job instead. Now some of it is quite useful it must be said, joystick control of fore-end loaders and gear shifting options being two that immedietly spring to mind. Yet there is a downside and that is reliability and longevity and these are issues which they may not be quite so fussed about seeing as farmers are still buying top brand machines rather than the more basic makes which are available.

So where do they go next? JD obviously think the next step is greater digitization and even autonomy, but not everybody is of that mind, as we have seen there are even those who believe that farms as we know them will be replaced with giant vats of bacteria churning out foodstuffs, which is fine until they get infected with something dodgy. Until then the tractor companies have to come up with new ways of convincing us that their particular product is better than anyone elses and I rather fear they are running out of genuine ideas.

 

[holywell farmer]

My main tractor is a 04 plate now on 9100hours does 1000 hours a year hopefully will do a fair bit more yet

Credit to you for running an older tractor in your contracting business

 

[Ian j]

Where does these old tractor go, 2000, 2009, reg tractors, there still seams to be good money in them but who buys them, do they go abroad?

Plenty of financial for them here as well as the expert market plenty of uses especially on livestock farms even as main stream use far easier payed for no huge finance payments or /lease payments no fancy electronics to go wrong the export market trends to keep prices high and take the tractors from the home market I have a 1980 100+ hp perfectly capable of a days ploughing when needed

 

[2wheels]

When I lived in Namibia the neighbouring farmer was showing his new guys how to read the dipstick on the tractor engine, and how if the level falls below this line it needs topped up. Some of the guys must have not understood about half of the info or if they didn't understand what was being talked about about. Two weeks later the Massey lies down, me and Davy take it apart. Engine and sump full of sand. We think that they poured sand into the bottom of the engine to get the level to rise.

strange that they can't work out the oil needs topping up but know that putting sand in will raise the level on the dipstick.

 

[ridger]

Yes, who buys them, l don't know any one who would buy a 12 year old tractor.

I bought a 18 year old tractor this time last year and it's going well

 

[Lowland1]

strange that they can't work out the oil needs topping up but know that putting sand in will raise the level on the dipstick.

Oh they know what they're doing if the tractor is broken then it's time for a sleep

 

[Oscar]

Bought a 12 yo JCB Fastrac 2155 month ago , lovely bit of kit and just as capable as a modern £100 k plus tractor .

 

[Mursal]

Our local Renault car dealer was reported to have a Big hole dug behind the house full of old Renaults !!

 

[Hooby Farmer]

Where did you bury them?

Thankfully not our men

strange that they can't work out the oil needs topping up but know that putting sand in will raise the level on the dipstick.

You wouldn't believe some of the stuff I've come across