JD M series v MF

[johndeere6920s]

valtra is also huge in South America, not a chance it will be dropped globally.

Correct I think there even built down there , they will always shuffle things around to suit markets .
The likes of challengers wouldnt sell well in Europe for example.
A different brand is a bigger slice of the overall market pie

 

[nashmach]

Correct I think there even built down there , they will always shuffle things around to suit markets .
The likes of challengers wouldnt sell well in Europe for example.
A different brand is a bigger slice of the overall market pie

That's Correct, Valmet had a plant there since the 60s.

 

[Blue Ray]

Was it not dual power on fords ?? Runaway multipower was kinda unique to MF i thought .
Grand on flat ground though but hills were a different challenge .

And the switch was dash mounted on a series 1 7610, floor switch only appeared with the super Q cab.

 

[AYF]

valtra is also huge in South America, not a chance it will be dropped globally.

Probably why they aren't huge in north America!


When I was in Canada in 2006 they were just starting to re badge Massey's as Challenger.
Don't know did that take off?
Literally just painted them yellow and different stickers!

 

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And the switch was dash mounted on a series 1 7610, floor switch only appeared with the super Q cab.

It was a late 1982 / early 83 7610 with bubble roof Q cab, minimec injection pump, "Dual Power" (sorry for mortally offending the Fordies) with the switch on the floor and a H pattern column change gearbox. It was a good tractor other than the porous engine, which I replaced with an X patern engine with CAV injection pump, which was a big step forward in power and fuel use. I was only commenting that it had no low down grunt and at high revs drank like a fish and smoked luke crazy, meaning it had a narrow working power band between 1,700 and 1,900 revs. It was still a massive improvement over the useless 6600 my late uncle had.

 

[jf 850]

It was a late 1982 / early 83 7610 with bubble roof Q cab, minimec injection pump, "Dual Power" (sorry for mortally offending the Fordies) with the switch on the floor and a H pattern column change gearbox. It was a good tractor other than the porous engine, which I replaced with an X patern engine with CAV injection pump, which was a big step forward in power and fuel use. I was only commenting that it had no low down grunt and at high revs drank like a fish and smoked luke crazy, meaning it had a narrow working power band between 1,700 and 1,900 revs. It was still a massive improvement over the useless 6600 my late uncle had.
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You've come on a lot tractor wise in the the intervening years .


Nothing to your sprayer advancement though..

 

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You've come on a lot tractor wise in the the intervening years .


Nothing to your sprayer advancement though..

Only a pic from the interweb, but nowt wrong with the sprayer or tractor.
At that time I was spraying with a 15M manual fold berthoud and moved to a 21M hydraulic fold Berthoud when I started in the machinery sharing group.