rate these tractors for reliability

BeeDI

Lads, if you had a choice of 100hp brand new tractors from the following makes, which would you pick, assuming price was the same for each.
Landini. Zetor. McCormick.
Maybe my question is simplistic, but I'm asking anyway!

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1. mccormack
2. landini
3. zetor

Tora Bora

As I understand, landini and mccormick are pretty much the same tractor under the bonnet. Could be wrong though. I know one mccormick bought new six years ago. Has been reliable, but is well taken care of.

hiscan

Tora Bora wrote: »

As I understand, landini and mccormick are pretty much the same tractor under the bonnet. Could be wrong though. I know one mccormick bought new six years ago. Has been reliable, but is well taken care of.

They are both owned by the Argo Industrial Group.

1 Landini
2 McCormick
3 Zetor

Although looking at the new Zetor unveiled at the Sima show,my opinion on them could change very soon,they have come on a lot looks wise anyways

maidhc

My biggest concern about Zetor is that it is an orphan manufacturer in a world of multinationals.

Had one before and wasn't impressed with its reliability at all.

Cant comment on the others.

reilig

hiscan wrote: »

Although looking at the new Zetor unveiled at the Sima show,my opinion on them could change very soon,they have come on a lot looks wise anyways

Would you really buy a tractor based on looks?

Wait a minute, maybe that's why so many people buy John Deere's?? :D

hiscan

reilig wrote: »

Would you really buy a tractor based on looks?

Wait a minute, maybe that's why so many people buy John Deere's?? :D

Absolutely not maybe I worded my reply wrong what I meant to say was,they have come on leaps and bounds looks wise as I always thought they used to look very bland.
The jury is still out on whether they have changed under the bonnet or not as I know they were a very unreliable tractor.

irishh_bob

BeeDI wrote: »

Lads, if you had a choice of 100hp brand new tractors from the following makes, which would you pick, assuming price was the same for each.
Landini. Zetor. McCormick.
Maybe my question is simplistic, but I'm asking anyway!

if i were to pick the best of a bad lot , id go for zetor with mc cormack propping up the lot purely based on the fact that they dont hold thier value as good as landini

johnpawl

I strongly disagree with the notion that older zetors were very unreliable. We've had them since the mid 70,s : 8011s, 12011s, 12045s, 12145s, 14145s and I have to say that they were a very reliable old workhorse, that took some serious abuse and anything that did go wrong due to wear and tear was easily fixed without the need to call a mechanic..I'm restoring an old 12045 crystal at the moment and although I cant speak about the new ones I know for a fact that the old ones were a good simple machine ( in my opinion anyway:))

denis086

Were the same as john had half a dozen zetors/ursus over the years and while they had their problems they were cheap to fix and were cheap horsepower and were very highly speced at the time when it was 165s running beside them the front suspension made them very popular with whoever was driving them. Theyve always done everything themselves as a brand so fair play to them

Kilmac1

we bought a landini powerfarm 100 in august and shes not a bad yoke like for the power shes smaller than a 5820 john deere and she'll bate the clean ****e out the jd everywhere. I drive the landini most weekends with a 14 ton cheiftain dumper filled to the balls and she walks away with it don't she the point in spending 30+ for a 150hp yoke when shes walks with it. Only problem we had with her is a piece of steel bent in the clutch but shes sorted now.

irishh_bob

Kilmac1 wrote: »

we bought a landini powerfarm 100 in august and shes not a bad yoke like for the power shes smaller than a 5820 john deere and she'll bate the clean ****e out the jd everywhere. I drive the landini most weekends with a 14 ton cheiftain dumper filled to the balls and she walks away with it don't she the point in spending 30+ for a 150hp yoke when shes walks with it. Only problem we had with her is a piece of steel bent in the clutch but shes sorted now.

best review of a tractor ive ever read

Kilmac1

irishh_bob wrote: »

best review of a tractor ive ever read

thanks