Best value new tractor

Probably finance a new tractor of that size, with that deposit, over 7 years, for €12-13,000 per year at a guess. Might make more sense than the repairs if one machine can get you out.

A new Holland t6.160 would come in about €125k all in as far as I know, if you don't want too many bells and whistles.

If the loader is anyway good I’d be keeping her. The second machine will always be handy. Like how will you load the fertiliser with the one tractor

He said he was looking at something he could sell when the Warranty runs out. Is bangoverthebar registered for VAT.

Sher the 06 claas with 7k hours is very fresh always, throw some tyres on her and drive on

Ya, that's a good point too, it's handy to let the spreader on one. You would miss the second one, when you get used to 2

you have your answer there then. My BIL has to class 650s and doesn’t get much bother with them. If I didn’t like masseys so much I’d probably be keen on having one myself

is that the one Eardly has at the moment? If it is then it’s a nice tractor. I had it out on demo

Have you considered contracting out any of your work? Those are fair repayments and repair bills. Not to mention the time spent.

I saw this yoke on donedeal, no vat. Sell the claas,

https://www.donedeal.ie/tractors-for-sale/new-holland-t7-190-no-vat/36932608

Depending on where you are in the country. Massey dealerships seem to have good deals on new masseys. I know of two men who traded in their massey for another one, each one has slightly higher spec but its the same repayments and included five year warranty and five year service.

II'll either go Massey or New Holland next year. My claas is after giving a lot of trouble, luckily it's all under warranty. But I won't be buying another, they're definitely one of the heaviest makes on fuel and one of the most expensive to service.

I'd say you'd be lucky to get 18 to 20k for your claas.

Lads are leaving JD around here and going Massey. Seems the other brand selling much the same

any one know what a new MF 5s 125 with a loader might cost ?

a €1000 per HP

Probably wouldn’t be the worst investment if you had a 30K trade in.

€70,000 over 7 years is €1,041 per month repayment 😅😅 with cultivate CU

I suppose the New Holland dealers software is named E.A.S.Y tool because it is so hard to use?

There is a learning curve to everything but, if you understand mechanics and familiar with computers learning the diags tools is entirely possible.

Best reliable value tractor

Who did you deal with ? I'd like to try one. A cousin has an M108 with 8k hard hours on it. Doing mainly loader work. A few bits broke on it but it was mainly down to rough drivers

Put up with what shite?

Machines that even when new can let you down when you most need them and are essentially black boxes unless you have diagnostics, expertise, training + the planned obsolescence aspects of it etc.

Sickens my hole tbh…I hate stuff I don't understand…..primarily because the manufacturer wants to make sure its as difficult as possible to…you are essentially reduced to a bystander with a machine you've probably paid or will pay hundreds of thousands for in some cases..

I know its the way of the world but having been let down by these things on a smaller scale in the past …its a real bugbear…

Tiny example but I remember when it was relatively easy to trace an electrical fault yourself in a tractor with little or no equipment as the wires were colour coded…..had to resort to a cable tracer and multiple trial and error type bollockolgy a couple of months back as loom was a mass of fine thin wires with the exact same colour insulation (white) when I did get to the general area…they do have a code on them that identifies them but try get those codes..thats a totally deliberate plan imo…Ive seen italian motorbikes and bigger machines wired in the oddest/least logical way that pale in comparison to how this was set up spiders web of mostly identical wires.

small fault wire rubbing and isulation worn off..short renders tractor mostly unusuable (ok so far ..**** happens) …manufacturer deliberately leaves it almost impossible to perform a simple fix deliberately (not OK)….it should be join wire, shrink wrap and get going again without a half day of headaches ..and if you cant get that far as they calculate a large percentage wont (then do not pass go you are now trapped in the web and at the mercy of probably some apprentice with a laptop that may or may not locate the fault at some stage and should be out to you next tuesday when its already pissing rainf …but dont worry he will sure as hell charge you a tasty hourly rate if its out of warranty etc…..no problem even paying for routine maintenance but to be forcibly reduced to an economic unit to be squeezed as much as possible if anything goes wrong and more and more hurldles put in your way when it comes to having some measure of control on your machinery…..well you probably know from this rant how I feel

I heard New Holland in Basildon is back to three days a week and Strautmann has more or less stopped production. No harm to put a squeeze on them, they've no one to blame but themselves.