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What's the oldest in service piece of machinery on your farm?

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  • #52
    Suckler
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    amacca wrote: »
    Seeing lots of mentions of 135......must be up there as one of the greatest pieces of agricultural machinery ever ..... of course I am biased.

    Possibly not the greatest, from what I remember (and open to correction) there were other brands of that era - David Brown/Ford - that possibly offered more hp, better hydraulics and had better options than the "MF Red giants", was it not a case of great marketing as well?


  • #53
    Kevhog1988
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    Suckler wrote: »
    Possibly not the greatest, from what I remember (and open to correction) there were other brands of that era - David Brown/Ford - that possibly offered more hp, better hydraulics and had better options than the "MF Red giants", was it not a case of great marketing as well?

    would the dexta be the same age as the 135?. First tractor we ever had here was a super dexta. Absolute rocket on the road (For that size of a tractor)


  • #54
    cuculainn
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    AckwelFoley wrote: »
    Curious as to what is the oldest in use machine on your farm. More interested in machines you may uses day to day or seasonally rather than just rotting in a hedge.

    We use still a 135 from the 1960 on the odd occasion

    My Auld Fella


  • #55
    amacca
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    Suckler wrote: »
    Possibly not the greatest, from what I remember (and open to correction) there were other brands of that era - David Brown/Ford - that possibly offered more hp, better hydraulics and had better options than the "MF Red giants", was it not a case of great marketing as well?

    Oh it could very well be.....im no expert in tractors of that era or in general I only know I'm happy with the one I've got


    And I do know ours has done some amount of work ...amd with the exception of a regular service hasn't got much in the way of TCL

    And although it looks a bit shook cosmetically it's still ticking away and that's a good enough endorsement for me

    Especially when I consider some of the more modern stuff

    I have a tractor here that's costing an average of about 2k a year to keep going over the past 5 yrs (excluding fuel insurance etc) with various niggles and problems (one admittedly self inflicted) ...the 135 is a saint in comparison afaic:D


  • #56
    Suckler
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    amacca wrote: »
    Oh it could very well be.....im no expert in tractors of that era or in general I only know I'm happy with the one I've got


    And I do know ours has done some amount of work ...amd with the exception of a regular service hasn't got much in the way of TCL

    We're in the same boat here, 1969 MF 135 that started its life with us and is still going. It was the only tractor from then until very late 90's. Bar a few years in the shed it hasn't stopped. Although it has an easy enough life now, transport box is on it 99% of the time.


  • #57
    Suckler
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    Kevhog1988 wrote: »
    would the dexta be the same age as the 135?. First tractor we ever had here was a super dexta. Absolute rocket on the road (For that size of a tractor)

    Dexta / Major etc. were before the 100 series...I think
    100 series would be competing against Ford 3000 and the like


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