Tractor

[addjunkie]

10hp per acre seems reasonable to me.

That could get expensive if you’ve a hundred acres!

 

[Robotstar5]

10hp per acre seems reasonable to me.

Looks like my little grey fergie is just right then, 24hp to look after a couple of acres

 

[chrismac]

But if you've nothing to compare it too is it going to be odd? I've not used anything apart from the Leyland so it might be OK?

there is nothing wrong with it, it justs takes a bit of getting used too. it worked on plenty of tractors for many years

 

[chrismac]

Looks like my little grey fergie is just right then, 24hp to look after a couple of acres

2 or 24 acres it would do just as good a job

 

[chrismac]

I grew up driving David Browns since I was fit to reach the pedals.
In latter years I've driven masseys and I still get it wrong as 1st and reverse are the opposite way around from the db.

DB
1 3
R 2

MF
R 2
1 3
I think? ?

As for the ford box, it defies logic as the gears should go up sequentially across the gate like a car.

This is what it should be like.

R 2 4
1 3

looking at the the ford is straight forward compared to the DB, while the ford 3-4th is right across the gearbox, to me the DB is all over the place, but if you grow up with it its 2nd nature, so we all adapt, for me it was fords.

 

[finyuk2005]

I always found john deer's to be much more straight forward to drive, im sure it would only take a few minutes for the average car driver to figure it out!

(ok....maybe not the average car driver....that average has been going down hill for years!)

 

[Kayos]

Then you're probably limited by the size of available bailers and trimmers. Minescule mowers and toppers can be picked up but I don't know if micro hedge trimmers or bailers will be easy to come by. A well matched size machine /tractor is important. If you want to trim in the conservationally acceptable window (winter) and you've any kind of hills or wet ground, you may well be glad of 4wd.

While the freedom to do what you want/need when you want to use hard to put a price on, it's always interesting to cost compare buying the slightly bigger kit needed to do a job yourself for x years and have to sit in the seat doing it, with just picking up the phone to a contractor.

i.e, if you decided to contract out the hedge trimming, for example, it might let you confidently get a smaller, cheaper tractor. The saving of which would pay for several years trimming. Hypothetically.

This is my thinking for a lot of things these days

I've had a Van for 2 years, currently my daily for various reasons but was acquired so I could "do some jobs"

However the reality is I'm better off doing my job and paying others to do things I'd need the van for

Once the estate is home the van will be moved on, as I can easily get my surveying kit in the estate

 

[Tinbasherdan]

I’ve got a little 20hp Siromer tractor-in-a-box thing for mowing our acre and a half. Can’t fault it really. Engines just a yanmar 3cyl copy. It’s not the best finished thing but it runs well. Drove one of those little solis 25hp things for someone with a 1.5m flail the same as mine and it was absolutely gutless compared to mine. Flail stalled at the slightest hint of dense grass

 

[Turbo]

looking at the the ford is straight forward compared to the DB, while the ford 3-4th is right across the gearbox, to me the DB is all over the place, but if you grow up with it its 2nd nature, so we all adapt, for me it was fords.

The DB and MF are closer to a car gate, something we drive every day.

 

[Turbo]

I always found john deer's to be much more straight forward to drive, im sure it would only take a few minutes for the average car driver to figure it out!

(ok....maybe not the average car driver....that average has been going down hill for years!)

Jd were one of the first tractor manufacturer's to apply ergonomics to tractor design. They were way ahead of MF, Ford, etc.
I remember getting into my first JD many years ago and being amazed how all the controls fell to hand, better than some cars of the time!

 

[Blobber]

So it looks like ive bought this

Ohh and this might be falling on the trailer as well

 

[reb78]

Nice! That looks tidy!

I want a hedge cutter for my JD 2450. My neighbour does it for us but sometimes when he is busy I feel we shouldn't bother him so much (we do pay him). Also, if I had my own I could sort rough bits of ground out that he simply doesn't have time to faff with.

 

[addjunkie]

So it looks like ive bought this
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Ohh and this might be falling on the trailer as well
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That ticks a lot of boxes…..euro 8 head stock and the worlds your lobster

 

[Erie Fred]

A cement mixer ?

 

[Blobber]

A cement mixer ?

He didnt want to sell that

 

[Blobber]

Nice! That looks tidy!

I want a hedge cutter for my JD 2450. My neighbour does it for us but sometimes when he is busy I feel we shouldn't bother him so much (we do pay him). Also, if I had my own I could sort rough bits of ground out that he simply doesn't have time to faff with.

It seems to be very tidy/clean and not just pressure washed within an inch of its life! very low hours at just over 2000
The hedge cutter was cheap but does need 2 of the control cables fitting back on where the connectors have been broken off, like you we have a local guy that does cutting but its so much more convenient to just hook a machine up and do the job yourself when it suits, not cheap bits of kit though!

That ticks a lot of boxes…..euro 8 head stock and the worlds your lobster

Thats the plan to adapt it to take a euro 8 style head stock, seems to be the most common for most of the attachments

 

[Turbo]

Good choice of tractor. Old enough to be simple to maintain but modern enough to be nice to use.
Watch out for rust on the panels, they tend to rust but otherwise they're a reliable tractor.
They're also a well balanced tractor, better than a MF on wet ground.
You could probably make some mods to make the loader easily detachable.

 

[Blobber]

Good choice of tractor. Old enough to be simple to maintain but modern enough to be nice to use.
Watch out for rust on the panels, they tend to rust but otherwise they're a reliable tractor.
They're also a well balanced tractor, better than a MF on wet ground.
You could probably make some mods to make the loader easily detachable.

The loader does detach, you can see the holes on the front lower section of the frame where there would have been legs and a big pin either side that you can just see above the fuel cap to pull out, in theory...

 

[chrismac]

So it looks like ive bought this
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Ohh and this might be falling on the trailer as well
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That 885 will be a great work horse for you, we had the low profile cab, 2 wheel drive version on a 3 furrow reversible kverneland plough many years ago, it was working hard but managed, just a bit light in the nose,
well done

 

[Gareth J]

2000 hrs!

Does the tacho still work...?