BigX500

Nice pictures I hope thing work out Ok in the future nice to see young people having a interest in Agriculture one or another,  Has Rea valley turn into AIS yet.

Richard Larrington a bit more expensive but well built and finished.

Should of done it yesterday afternoon going in to chop 3 acres of maize, the field is very peaty and the ditch is higher than the field.

And WHY 1000 hp model Even in France there is that many 1000. A 650 or the new 700 or 850 would of been right. The 1000 hp model was aim at the Eastern bloc and America countries

I agree there. I can also not see the engines of the Big X 1000, could that be because it is just a cheap retooling of the old UH big X ? What is the length of the 1000 compared to the V8.And as I said before I also do not understand why they did not make the BigX 1100.

But I will buy it anyways......

We have a Autotronic 3070 and then put datatronic into it.

I suggested it but boss wanted plough parked up and water drained out of the wheels of the deere start getting it ready for other jobs

How was the JD clinic bigx?

Had a very interesting day. Not a bad forager

Been to the John Deere forager Clinic open day.

anybody have pictures of claases 2007 and 2008 product range catalogues please

cheers paul

Weren't too bad but not dry enough for on-land ploughing so boss decided to get on and back in the furrow I went but cant get 650's to match up in these conditions only on light stuff with no wheel slip :'(

My next chopper

Nice :P  I like the French trailer and muckspreader brochures any nice pictures inside.

Nice pictures. just one question why in America do you your big tractors on narrow wheels then put twin wheels on them surely, 650, 710 and 800s would be better, i mean 25.5, 28 and 31.5 inch tyres

I doubt many, if any, Dutch farmers would be able to reply to your questions Jake! I certainly haven't got a clue and keeping wondering about it myself. But Erik photo's in the Flevo polders and farmers over there are mad for metal! Relatively few cereal crops are grown in that region, mainly high profitable crops such as potatoes, onions and flower bulbs (tulips) with high yields as well. Some years they cost the farmer money, other years (2009/2010) they're worth a fortune. Farm sizes in the Flevo, as in other Dutch arable areas, range from 50 ha up to 500 (123 - 1200 acres) although 250 acres is regard as a 'normal' arable farm nowadays.

Dutch farms have always ran big and new kit and farmers have a thing for machinery, looking after them very well and investing in new technology. Holland has over 17.000 tractors running on RTK-GPS (2cm accuracy steering) whereas the UK has something like 7/8000 IIRC. And all our fields are square! Same with contractors. Every village has one or two contractors at least, many a lot more. Plus that is not counting all those farmers which contractor for neighbours. Compared to the UK, how many contractors do you know? Especially in East Anglia where there's hardly any grass for example.

love the cab on our 7480 only gripe is the foot throttle when ploughing but never use it now use the a & B buttons set them at tick over on the headlands and 1600 rpm when ploughing also have bolted a small plate onto the throttle to give it a bit of width

it a shame the 698 and 699s we are cracking tractors i now the cabs where prone to rotting but the are comfortable to spend a day in

will order one from our dealer

Proper tractor

I saw a man today that made me laugh. Well, I laughed after he had left!

This chap came here trying to flog me a photo of the house and garden taken from a helicopter a couple of weeks ago, you know the ones. He also tried to flog my Siter-in-law one of their side as well, Brother was still in bed after a night shift. Anyway, Sister-in-law refused to buy as she said the garden looked like a tip and she would never put it on the wall. So that was that. The photo of my side was not so bad, fairly tidy and the garden looking reasonable. He wanted £35 each but I questioned the quality as they were framed in a cheap wood effect frame that you can buy from the pound shop and the one of my side had not even been trimmed properly and was hanging out one side of the frame by a quarter inch. So my negotiaton began. He said that he would do the both for £25, Sister-in-law had already refused so I said that that means they would be £12.50 each at that rate. In the end I had mine for a tenner plus a vegetable marrow and six sweetcorn cobs from the garden. I'm still chuckling now. 

Massey Ferguson 3080. seen one Ebay or they out yet and has anybody got one.

Nice job did manage to drive one in 92 when Renault had there roadshow

couple of old sales leaflets

Daz

MF 698 turbocharged 2wd  hooked to a Deutz Fahr FH900 Forage Harvester and a Bateson 13s silage trailer

Quite impressed with the new Massey even though my cab was not clipped on properly, is it just me or does anyone else think the back wheels are very close to the mudguards.

Should be there depending on the weather