Ade

We start planting carrots . Also still have 150 acres of stock feed carrots to harvest before march ....

COOOOOL loving the massey pictures mate .... not so sure about the blue tractors I was brought up anti -fords(new holland) and sorry but refuse to drive them......

I noticed it was jumpy compaired with my old deere but thought it was cos it was cold .. only used it to move a couple of trailers about in my way but got .150 acres of stock feed carrots to lift as soon as it drys up and then we start drilling the carrots. got busy 4 days we buyin the bales in to cover the carrots and parsnips and there is 800 quadrant bales coming in next 3 days .."hell" mind you its so fast to unload them the drivers cant belive it, We have a twin bale spike for the 20 ton 360 excavator and it take about 10 min to unload a truck and drag ..

Well guys I take it by the silence that you all think that the massy is a load of junk and i should stick to the john deere...... with the wet weather I aint done much on it I have been on the excavator all week loading soil

We guys As a jd guy I am new to masseys ( did have a 699 once ) so what can you tell me about my new drive , if it helps its got the fully monty with front pto and linkage and dyno6 .itsa 58 reg .. so give me the gossip on it ,,,,, And before you john deere boys start by saying sell it .. I am going to be 100% open minded on the tractor .may even buy a massey hat one day .... so come on all you red fans tell me the good and bad points ,,,.. Ade

I have been working for a plant transport firm taking cat generators to europe and setting them up on site ,anything from music gigs to outdoor shows to small villages that are having there transformers upgraded....... had a xf95 daf ..

HI guys I have not been on here for ages ..I have had a falling out on the family contracting business and I left the industry for a while to go truck driving .. well after 12-18 months I am got bored and fed up od european transport and come back to farming (not gone back home though stuff them ) I have gone to work for a company in shropshire called huntapac they grow veg for tesco .. quite a bit of kit in shropshire 15 tractors well 5 mf -8 case and 2 jds.. only started this week so only seen a few bits of kit so far..all tractors are 2 years old at the most .....they have mfs are 6480 x 3 and 6495 x2 ,,not to sure yet on the case but i know one is a magnum and there is a brand new 140 hp delivered friday .. on the green front 2 x new 6830s ..As I will be doing the bed tilling and I had the choice of 3 a 58 reg 6495 mf with 300 hours on a case maxum 58 reg or a jd 6830...... until this week I have been loyal to jd but after only a short spell on the mf (all singing version with dyna6) sorry jd fans but I have picked the massey ....They grow 1,200 acres or carrots and 700 acres of parsnips down here and harvest every day 7 days a week 10 months of the year ,I will take my camera next week and put some pictures up .. Ade

All tm 175 and 190 come with the option of axal varable shafts as for the lights if you go into any new holland dealer and ask for the tm series extras book there is loads of add on in there from electric mirrors to fridges to hand free car kits , TOOLBOX and dealers out of hours breakdown phone number are standard on all new hollands.......

some fair kit there mate .....

All them mf tractors .... they must have a massive workshop and loads of fitters ......o my god a mf combine toooo hell i bet they have a ful time parts depot too .... he he sorry great pictures

he thats some kind of art there............. think that jd would look good on the back of my boiler suit mate

sound like some sort of northern treat mmmm get home and dad will have my pants down and give me a right **************************** up the back end

dont no what to do for the best not going to be happy as we would also have to take on a hgv driver as no one has got one our next door farmer is also a lorry man so i may aproch him about his cpc..

its getting harder to make a living the fuel prices last season went up and up .. now red and white i have been on the phone most of the day trying to find out ... we have a sewage contract and keep 2 valtras on it but when its busy we stick a 3rd and somtimes 4th tractor and trailer on the job we will now have to have and tractor that may go on the sewage job regisered on a"O" licence and drain its tank and fill it on red .... pain in the arse we also haul sand out of our own quarry to some local farmers who use it for tracks ect that too will have to run on white fuel ..... i think a option maybe to buy a 8 wheel truck but i think we would have to get some kind of opperators licence ...... we make sure all our trailers and towing implments have good brakes and 5 out of our 7 trailers are on air brakes any way but i am worried about the fuel costs as ..as for the fastrac we dont like them they are to noticable to the police and there is a lot of contractors round here been stopped for speeding ..... one hire firm got done for towing 3 samson spreaders through a 30 mph village at 45mph ..

http://www.fwi.co.uk/Articles/2006/01/09/91743/Red+or+dead.html take a look at this

some masseys are re badged as white tractors and sent to canada and the usa

nice is that what santa has to pull the sleigh

morris corfield used to inport steyr but when valtra came bigger they went to them ..... I aint sure but i thought ross were the last case/ih dealers they even re badge them as RFM not case/ih ....

ross were massive in the case/ih hire about 5 years ago they had well over 300 tractors on there hire fleet. from kent to scotland .. As i said on here a few weeks ago we are having 2 new valtras . valtas come in 5 diffrant colours I wonder if new holland will give farmers the option of having new hollands in case red ....I reacon claas should do theres in zetor red too ( soz gavin )..

I have just heard that ross farm machinery the case/ih people are to stop doing case /ih from march.. they are going to become agco dealers selling mf/fendt/valtra and challanger. the are going to be the first agco dealer in the uk ....... ITS A SAD DAY FOR CASE /IH...

now they are a good piece if red kit...... we had a mf 2725 electronic and it was a fab tractor loads of power and like you say is a comfortable large cab.... ours had a acident and was scraped but they were a good tractor

they all have good points and bad and also drivers and bosses wallets have a say too we employe full time men plus me dad and my little brother and we all like the deeres and the valtras our local new holland dealer is also good but we felt that the tm series were not as good value as the valtras we ordered the 2 new ones about 3 weeks age and they are going to be in our yard jan4th so thats good i think . that claas tractor was a piece of scrap and is well no were neer the quality as a main stream manufacturer ...... .. i do think it would have to be a fendt to better a john deere ....

mmmmmmm nice great for going past speed cameras ..... how much was the paint

no mate allbuzz they are a engineering firm that make grapples for the timber industry but made this one as we kept bending our twose they are blue i will take a photo for ya when i can get to it from the back of the shed

its ok if you open the pump up its when you open the top end revs up it causes problems with transmission we open all ours up out tm150 is 186 hp our jd 6920 is 190 hp my jd 7920 is 280 hp and ourr 8560 is 210 hp but they still oult rev up to about 2400 and dont go no faster they just have more balls ....we had a ford 7810 and puta blower on it and opened it up we got 160 hp out of it hell she sounded great.... we dont open the valtras up as there is a device in them and if opened up it voids any of the 4 year warranty on them