thats more like it
we used to have a 5150plus.... it was the strongest built machine we ever owned.. the abuse it took was incredible... one lad used to enjoy sticking it in neutral on hills & regularly managed 60+mph with loaded trailers on.. he did admit it skipped about a bit when he tried to get it back into gear afterwards!!!!, we traded it in for a mcCormick mtx140 with a perkins lump in... largest pile of excrement ever to be thrown together in the doncaster works... we actually bought 2 & traded them for JD6920s, taking a massive financial hit in the process... they were so crap, my brother actually went out & bought an old ford 7710 to use when one broke down. it was used 5 days a week.
Case build a good tractor in my opinion, alot of people say the case quadtrac's run rings around the equivalent claas/cat challenger & i still keep saying my boss should of bought a magnum rather than that scrappy french ferguson! We had a TG285 before that ferguson which had a 6pot perkins in it which loved doing the crank shaft seal
When i was first at the farm when i left school we had a 7710, i hated it! they had a 4600 and 5000 too but luckily they got rid of the 4600 and the 5000 is due to leave soon, hateful things!
Edit: i should point out we had the largest size magnum they make on demo once, and it absolutely destroyed our mole drainer which may be partly why he didnt get one![]()
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Last edited by _Jake; 08-09-13 at 09:50 PM.
The best thing when you have a sore back is when you sneeze you get jolted![]()
a 5000 was the 1st tractor i drove... they were amazingly advanced in their time.. we have a 1968 (never actually been registered) 3000, and we fight over who is driving it... its the sort of tractor, like a 35/135 that makes you just grin like the cheshire cat when you drive it.
Waiting for gta to install!
Gta 5