Which tractor is the most driver friendly for a 14hr + day?

[Cowabunga]

My old Massey had a cover on the exhaust that rattled like anything at exactly the peak torque rpm of the engine. After asking around, it turns out everyone's of that model does the same! What a joke. How can you do a long day with that sort of noise going on in kit of that cost.

Practical people don't. They sort it out.

 

[it's not over]

Makes you wonder how they managed in the60s70s 80s and 90s. Probably didn't moan so much and just got on with the job

 

[Qman]

For a 14 hour day you need a tractor with a big fuel tank, how many tractors have this?

 

[Will 1594]

Make you wonder how they managed in the60s70s 80s and 90s. Probably didn't moan so much and got on with the job

You did not know , or have any Thing better , that’s why .

 

[Speedstar]

What more could you possibly ask for ? ?

Everything that's on your list and an armchair for a seat

good to see you chilling out with your good jeans on

 

[Boysground]

This one was as it was used so would be roughly a 3rd of a new 828 which speaking to a few (4) 828 owner's and drivers I'll stick to my old 7930 for reliability

Shows the difference between individual machines. The 7930 I had was by a long way the most unreliable tractor I’ve ever owned. Almost didn’t buy another Jd. Hopefully the 6250 will be a bit better.

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[Richard Smyth]

The arse is worse with sitting on it all day so no point patching the knee and I don't like sitting on patches!! Come to think of it I'll have had nothing patched in 20 yes since I left home
Right next to the auto steer. One hand can do everything with very little movement. Only time hms is used here os combi drilling with these modern tractors there's little enough to do so having to move mu hand 4 inches isn't exactly taxing !!.

A big comfy American seat and very good vision for a big lump of a thing no big dashboard helps

horses for courses but I find those seats some of the most uncomfortable places to sit all day out of any I’ve driven. In fact the only recent jd seat I liked was in a 6170r.
Much prefer the seat in my 927 Fendt. Can be in there 14-18 hrs a day no problem.

 

[ARW]

Clean windows and a clean cab help. Spend a day in a tractor with mucky windows is awful

 

[daveydiesel1]

Clean windows and a clean cab help. Spend a day in a tractor with mucky windows is awful

I dont always have clean windows but if am goin out for full days work i like them clean. Makes such a difference

 

[Highland Mule]

Make you wonder how they managed in the60s70s 80s and 90s. Probably didn't moan so much and got on with the job

They also made themselves very ill, and now have to spend their time in pain with artifical joints, out of breath with badly working lungs and out of pocket with expensive digital hearing aids.

 

[KB6930]

good to see you chilling out with your good jeans on

Hey I've seen the young'uns going about I'd say I'm bang on trend just now

 

[Tomr10]

Fastrac all day can sit with feet up while it’s getting fixed from what I hear

 

[KB6930]

Shows the difference between individual machines. The 7930 I had was by a long way the most unreliable tractor I’ve ever owned. Almost didn’t buy another Jd. Hopefully the 6250 will be a bit better.

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We bought this 3 yrs ago and have only put 1000 hrs on it's had a set of injectors last summer but needed them when we bought it and an exhaust manifold. It leads a fairly charmed life here 3m sumo and 4m combi drill so will hopefully be fine for a few more years. I do about as many hrs on these older ones than the R series so much so I prefer these cabs and seats now

 

[Hooby Farmer]

Whatever one makes me the most money

 

[spikeislander]

One with suspended tracks , cab suspension too

 

[Y Fan Wen]

You wouldn't even need the full 14 hours before the scream from the transmission gave you irreparable tinnitus.

Dad was in the navy before and during the war and spent a lot of time in engine rooms. He told me you could hear the ships with DB gearboxes coming before the others. He said he was grateful never to have served in one.

 

[2wheels]

They also made themselves very ill, and now have to spend their time in pain with artifical joints, out of breath with badly working lungs and out of pocket with expensive digital hearing aids.

what?

 

[Highland Mule]

what?

Cheapskate.

 

[michael N123]

Spent plenty 14 +hour days in my valtra N4and no complaints apart from the air con gets to cold
Used to have a bad back and it disappeared when the old N3 got traded in

 

[Will 1594]

what?

You obviously not spent a lot of time on an open top combine , or the old tractors , with a clutch that knackered your knee ,like our browns ,or ford 7000 , ,the noise and heat from the primative tin rattle cabs , and endured days on end with the dust from baler ,
Best tractor when about 15 was super major with 360 t in it @norse may remember it in 75/76 ,was very quick down the road with big combine wheels on it , or 282 leyland just for exhaust whistle ,
Worst tractor 1690 brown , fan assisted oven on wheels ,thats why they painted chassis black to hide all the leaks ,
You can keep your nostalga tractors now ,ok for a bit of fun for a road run or bit of match ploughing ,but would not want to go back to the left lung knackering ,dusty ,knee knackering ,thumb breaking no power steering piles of sh!t some where