Ade Posted November 30, 2005 Share Posted November 30, 2005 its a sad day well kind of 3 of our long serving main tractors are going we had a few things in the pipe line and the 2 new hollands are going now the tm150 and the 8560 are off and the big jd8110 is going also ..the two hollands are being replaced by valtras and the deere is not being replaced as the new 6920 bought in the autum was a extra tractor .. my 7920 will do all the mowing and drilling and one of the new valtras will plough .. we are having a t160 and a t180 both 50k and on air .with front linkage on the 180 both are also having wide tm650 tyres on rear and 600s on the front .... new holland have been a good tractors the 8560 clocking up 8,000 hours on a t reg and the tm150 on a 02 reg has done ,5,000 so they aint done to bad but as contracting gets harder and prices are competitive we have to have reliable kit and we need 50k and on air . we are also thinking about changing the bateman as we are doing less and less spraying and more supesion fertlizer spreading for a faster bigger unit like a unimog .. but we aint decided on that .... i did call maudie bond today and asked the rep to call in .. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gav836 Posted November 30, 2005 Share Posted November 30, 2005 we had a unimog do some spraying for us last autumn-never again!! If they are low ground pressure then i'm a monkies uncle!! we'd never seen such a mess! Our 8560 has done 7000hrs now on a P reg, started to make a few funny back end noises now. Does spend alot of time on a KRM opti drill though, 4m wide, looks like a mounted simba free flow in a lot of ways only fully mounted, too heavy really! Has to have a big sumo press on the front just so it can lift it, no wonder its started to complain! Its on its second wiring loom though, the first one burnt out at 2500 hrs, both the cab and engine wiring loom and alternator had to be replaced, very costly!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pingu Posted November 30, 2005 Share Posted November 30, 2005 Judging by the way your replacing your NHs with Valtras they must be reliable how have your current ones down thats a bit of a downsize from a 8110 to 6920 thought Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ade Posted November 30, 2005 Author Share Posted November 30, 2005 we never had a tractor that the 6920 replaced it was a adition to the fleet the 8110 did the mowing and drilling as my 7810 was a bit slow on the mowers in heavey going also did not like the 6m power harrow. so i had my 7920 and had it chipped so we dont need the 8110 . i like the valtra we aint had any think go wrong with the two we run now and before that we had a 8050 series and that was a good lass...... we have decided not to change the 890 claas so we are changing wo tractors we have also ordered a new 4 rotor rake and 2 new look lift trailers .. so i dont thik dads purse will takemuch more ...... o yea and i got a nissan navara outlaw pick up .....but thats about nackered now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pingu Posted November 30, 2005 Share Posted November 30, 2005 Ah ok i understand now how much has your 7920 been opened up to ? and how many hours she done in her first few months to a year whats your average workload with the tractors hours wise i'm just asking to find out how it varies round the country round here anything from 500 to 2200 hours for contractors machines Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Fendt pwr Posted December 1, 2005 Share Posted December 1, 2005 Sounds nice to have new tractors on the way,I asked my boss if he had any plan to upgrade his 1255xl with a bigger and newer tractor and got told too stand on the diff lock more or change down a gear oh well thats life hey :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ade Posted December 1, 2005 Author Share Posted December 1, 2005 the deere has done 600 hours so far its factory output o the dyno was 229 hp after 100 hours it was put up to 234 ( thats what they should be) and we had a powerslave chip put on it and that a varable knob in cab max hp is 280hp but i only have it right up on mowing .... our tracors do diffrent hours with there jobs ... the two valtras do less hours beacuse they are on sewage all year roung and they only work 6 am to 2.30 5 days a week . the 6920 and the tm150 do the most as they work all winter doing slurry pumping the tm150 has done 5,000 hours and the 6920 has done 500 hours the 6920 and the tm150 and the 8560 do trailering for silage we pull one valtra off the sewage for the rake and we use a hired in mccormick 200hp for the pit on our allbuzz 4m buckrake.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Powerstarâ„¢ Posted December 3, 2005 Share Posted December 3, 2005 Albuzz Sure you don't mean Albutt \ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
new holland driver Posted December 3, 2005 Share Posted December 3, 2005 in my opiinon god bye and good rideuness Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ade Posted December 3, 2005 Author Share Posted December 3, 2005 Albuzz? Sure you don't mean Albutt? \ 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Powerstarâ„¢ Posted December 3, 2005 Share Posted December 3, 2005 OK look foward to it, never heard of it so should be interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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