Gav836

well the escort i had used as much oil as petrol until it had a disagreement with a Mondeo on a blind junction, so i'm no big fan :D :D

OI! i'm an anti MF man myself, give me a Ford anyday :D

I reckon an NCC style Matbro makeover would look better still, improved the Escort no end :D

don't you now take ten paces, turn and........ :D :D

i reckon you two need a topic all to yourself where you can verbally knock 7 bells out of eachother, the great blue V red battle :D :D

Biggest faults that i am aware of with these tractors is the PTO clutch pack from what i was told by our fitter at work a few months back, other than that i don't think that there is a lot that causes grief on them. Depending on the hours its done, it should last well. My neighbours 3350 done 10 000hrs before his clutch pack needed replacing, his gets used on a power harrow, Taarup forager and JD baler PTO wise, so it lasted well.

I loved our one too, it just had little niggles. My neighbour here had 2 turbo'd 7810's, one of which he used to pull a 3 row tanker type beet harvester. I lost count of the number of times that i saw one of them being towed back to the farm yard

From personal experience, i've had a 7810 which was an excellent tractor but it was a poor starter from cold and several other owners locally all say the same. Up until 2 years ago we had a 110-90 Fiat which had covered 7500hrs and had very little trouble in its life. To say that that little tractor could pull would be an understatement, it had bucketfulls of grunt and would pull 14 tons of barley with ease, and no it hadn't been tweaked. Have you considered going for a Fiat Winner or F series tractor F100,110,120,130,140? We still run a F140 with 7600hrs on it and apart from routine maintainence and general age related wear like a clutch has never been no trouble. For your money they represent very good value as the Iveco engines are bombproof and much better than the Ford ones

Not sure on this one, but weren't Landini marketing some of them in their colours as well? Could be something to do with it just the name bit thats a puzzle if thats the case

4-4 now, the Case is the better tractor, the NH looks like its been beaten with an ugly stick

I'm good to baler operators, if i have to stop i will back up so the straw gets spread out along the existing swath as a 25ft Lexion leaves a bloody big heap, i have only cut part widths in the past as our gamekeeper has to do his own bales with a vintage MF baler, just can't cope with 25ft in one swath! Most of ours is chopped though, we don't do a lot of straw for livestock. One of our customers did bale 60 acres of barley up and 100 acres of wheat with a conventional baler one year, never seen anything like it, it was spitting a bale out every 6 feet!

I escape that as i don't do any spraying just granule spreading. I have however backed into another combine with our Lexion taking off the straw chopper in the process, the idiot parked in my blind spot, just couldn't see him in the mirrors! I know have a rear view camera fitted, brilliant bit of kit, can even back onto the header trolley with no help now. Insurance claim was about ?6k for that and ?3k for the new APS drum where it tried to digest a flint that was too big to fit in the stone trap whilst cutting tangled up spring barley \

One of our near neighbours at work at a mishap with a 24m Case sprayer. His sprayman stopped for breakfast after finishing the field with a nice clean brand new sprayer, after he'd finished his breakfast he went to go back to the yard, trouble was he forgot to fold in the booms in the process and ripped them off the sprayer-result one very unhappy boss who put him on nasty yard duties and didn't speak to him for a few days :D

2 of the farms that we do contracting for own these feeders, i know one, a black one is mounted on a JD2140, the other, an orange one, on a JCB. I may be able to get some pictures of one of them if i go across there, depends where they have the machine at the time and wether or not it is in use

I'd still have a Fendt 818 over my Renault 836 anyday but it was the large price difference that was the problem for my boss, he did like the Fendt as well but just out of reach at the time

Nice pics there, they have some nice kit even if it is red Kverneland own Taarup who make diet feeders and grass land equipment, they did have the Taarup name on them to start with but that has gradually been replaced by the Kverneland name

I live 20 miles from Kings Lynn but work only 6 miles away from there

It took 3 of us a week to get the bloody thing running right. Its on a contracted farm, the owner sold the best kit and left us with all the crap so pipe blow outs are common along with the reel knocking out of gear, pump not switching off at the end of a run, pump engine dying on us and the local fishermen sabotaging the pump as they don't like it 100m away from their lake. In fact in the whole season there was only one day where it didn't play up or go wrong in some way

The one that my old boss tried was fully weighted and just couldn't outpull the Atles, Renault just seem to have got the power to weight ratio and balance of these tractors down to a fine art

carrot harvest first, theres a lot over-wintered under plastic and straw in the ground that still have to be harvested. We have some like that, so will be them out and potatoes planted on another field way before cereal harvest

definitely a NUMPTY in view of his response cheeky little.......... :D

unless i missed something my cat is still female, better get your eyes checked cheeky :D

only as a scratching post, got scars to prove it :D

the cat suffers from male hate syndrome, she won't go near men! Will put the weird behaviour down to your age, male menopause and mid life crisis :D

Don't mind the weird mood but please refrain from singing though, (if thats what you call it ) its upsetting my cat :D :D