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Masseyrk662 said:
I was asking himself there he reckons 96 or 97 roughly
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I think there was a 2640 2wd drive locally here when I was young. It was the main tillage tractor on a farm, mostly ploughing and maybe rotavating for sugar beet. Most likely bought new. Probably a standard 4 furrow KV plough. I used to hear it roaring away when I went to school.

It would have been a rare machine in these parts.
 
Mf 7715 said:
Did you have any 3000/3100 series Masseys back in the mid 90’s? We had a 3095 around that time.
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I loved the 3100/3000 series.

Drove a 3125 for a local man spreading fertiliser with a 2tn Rauch & crane. He just let me at it after a brief training session. Spread a lot of stuff and he used to bring it to me with a jeep and trailer.
I loved that tractor with its dynashift. Such a change from driving Old Ford’s with manual gearboxes and at best dual power.

His baby tractor was a 3075. We also drove a 3680 & 3670 on the same farm - giants. The 3670 had dynashift.
 
he says the 2640 used to mow and do a bit of tillage, he hadn’t huge interest in tillage but he always had some tillage till about 05 I’m going to guess. The 699 and 399 2wd were baling, the 690 (first tractor I worked) was wrapping and the other 690 was at small square baling, haybob etc. no @Mf 7715 we never did but a good friend of mine had one from new and still has it and it’s going very well. He’s also a contractor. But one thing we did have years ago was a 8100 series, that was a fine bus, pity I didn’t get driving it ever
 
Come to think of it, a number of years later I was drawing silage for a contractor. He gave me his brand new blue top 8340 Ford. A grand tractor but I’d much rather the Massey 3125. So much nicer style, better cab and better to drive. I did a lot of hours in both tractor.
I’d imagine the 8340 would last longer but I’d still prefer the Massey any day.
 
Crops said:
Come to think of it, a number of years later I was drawing silage for a contractor. He gave me his brand new blue top 8340 Ford. A grand tractor but I’d much rather the Massey 3125. So much nicer style, better cab and better to drive. I did a lot of hours in both tractor.
I’d imagine the 8340 would last longer but I’d still prefer the Massey any day.
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Massey cab's are still nicer than New Holland, and I own a New Holland.
 
MasseyS said:
Massey cab's are still nicer than New Holland, and I own a New Holland.
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I’d imagine that NH have gotten closer to Massey cabs recently but back then they were worlds apart.

I was looking at latest NH models and they look good. They really should use the metallic paint as standard.
 
Masseyrk662 said:
he says the 2640 used to mow and do a bit of tillage, he hadn’t huge interest in tillage but he always had some tillage till about 05 I’m going to guess. The 699 and 399 2wd were baling, the 690 (first tractor I worked) was wrapping and the other 690 was at small square baling, haybob etc. no @Mf 7715 we never did but a good friend of mine had one from new and still has it and it’s going very well. He’s also a contractor. But one thing we did have years ago was a 8100 series, that was a fine bus, pity I didn’t get driving it ever
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Crops said:
I loved the 3100/3000 series.

Drove a 3125 for a local man spreading fertiliser with a 2tn Rauch & crane. He just let me at it after a brief training session. Spread a lot of stuff and he used to bring it to me with a jeep and trailer.
I loved that tractor with its dynashift. Such a change from driving Old Ford’s with manual gearboxes and at best dual power.

His baby tractor was a 3075. We also drove a 3680 & 3670 on the same farm - giants. The 3670 had dynashift.
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My father bought the 3095 secondhand in ‘96 it was 4 years old, I did all the mowing and baling with it, I was 18 at the time and I thought I was the coolest tractor driver around, thinking back now I probably was…. It was a 32 speed and never gave any problems.
 
Mf 7715 said:
My father bought the 3095 secondhand in ‘96 it was 4 years old, I did all the mowing and baling with it, I was 18 at the time and I thought I was the coolest tractor driver around, thinking back now I probably was…. It was a 32 speed and never gave any problems.
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A lovely tractor and lovely looking with it.

Remember the electronic acre meter etc that some of them had on the right hand pillar - Datatronic
 
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Crops said:
Come to think of it, a number of years later I was drawing silage for a contractor. He gave me his brand new blue top 8340 Ford. A grand tractor but I’d much rather the Massey 3125. So much nicer style, better cab and better to drive. I did a lot of hours in both tractor.
I’d imagine the 8340 would last longer but I’d still prefer the Massey any day.
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I spent 2 summers in a yard with an 8340 when I was in school. Nobody liked driving it. 2 x MX Cases with over 12k hours each always were taken from the yard first.
 
Them 3095’s were a cool yoke. In 2006 the father bought a brand new 6480, dyna 6, heated seat, electric mirrors, I never even heard of a heated seat before that so I thought it was a rolls Royce of a yoke.
A few years later I ended up power harrowing a field with a fresh 820 and I never knew what vario was until that day, I went home and told the father we had to buy a 7480.
 
Masseyrk662 said:
Them 3095’s were a cool yoke. In 2006 the father bought a brand new 6480, dyna 6, heated seat, electric mirrors, I never even heard of a heated seat before that so I thought it was a rolls Royce of a yoke.
A few years later I ended up power harrowing a field with a fresh 820 and I never knew what vario was until that day, I went home and told the father we had to buy a 7480.
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When asked by the salesman what optional extras your father would like, he simply replied “yes”……
 
Masseyrk662 said:
Had to go rooting there, I had an IPhone 3GS at the time. View attachment 160263View attachment 160264View attachment 160265
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Oh Lordy.

I lived in John Deere world and then the man who does our contract work turned up in a new 716 like that. I knew very little about Fendt before that. He then moved onto a 718 I think. He knocked a lot of hard work out of both of them.
That model shape of Fendt will be go down as a classic in my opinion.

Little did I think that we’d eventually have one. It’s a machine that you feel happy walking up to each day and enjoy driving. I intend that we maintain ours for as long as we can and run them until they give up.
 
Crops said:
Oh Lordy.

I lived in John Deere world and then the man who does our contract work turned up in a new 716 like that. I knew very little about Fendt before that. He then moved onto a 718 I think. He knocked a lot of hard work out of both of them.
That model shape of Fendt will be go down as a classic in my opinion.

Little did I think that we’d eventually have one. It’s a machine that you feel happy walking up to each day and enjoy driving. I intend that we maintain ours for as long as we can and run them until they give up.
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That range of fendt was far ahead of its time, in my opinion now if you spec any big brand tractor to the last they are all nearly as good as eachother but back in 2004-2010 ish the fendt was far ahead, a 7400 massey for example was a fendt bar the engine and front axle, but they were still a long way behind with the technology in the cab.

In 2014 the father bought the 7616 and 24 acres of rough land for forestry, the dealer gave us a 718 on demo at the time and I was in love with it. I really wanted it but the father said the land and the 7616 was the same price as the 718 at the time. 7616 was traded in 2024 by me and the father said which was better value now ? (The forestry is worth a lot more now)

But in saying that I decided to buy a tractor this year and that 7s.190 came up, it’s a 720 fendt in massey colours with a Sisu engine. (When you take off the back right wheel “Fendt “ is written into the chasis) it has every single extra on it. I wasn’t sure at the time but glad I went for it now it’s a lovely tractor, still don’t think I would buy all varios as just not practical if you want to keep them fresh but definitely nice to have one in the yard.
 
LoughreeMan said:
I spent 2 summers in a yard with an 8340 when I was in school. Nobody liked driving it. 2 x MX Cases with over 12k hours each always were taken from the yard first.
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I was a Ford man when I started out, I thought all I'd ever need was a fleet of 10 series and I'd be set for life. Had 2 6610's and a 7610, gave a few days driving an 8340 for another contractor and I hated it. Got a different 8340 on trial off a dealer I was doing a good bit with and hated that as well. That was the end of me and Fords. Got into a mighty, awesome and phenomenal Deutz DX6.05 and never looked back. The last 10 series went in 2003 or maybe 2004. Apart from a brief dalliance with the Devil in the form of a Deere, and the Fendt, have been all Deutz ever since.
 
TAFKAT said:
I was a Ford man when I started out, I thought all I'd ever need was a fleet of 10 series and I'd be set for life. Had 2 6610's and a 7610, gave a few days driving an 8340 for another contractor and I hated it. Got a different 8340 on trial off a dealer I was doing a good bit with and hated that as well. That was the end of me and Fords. Got into a mighty, awesome and phenomenal Deutz DX6.05 and never looked back. The last 10 series went in 2003 or maybe 2004. Apart from a brief dalliance with the Devil in the form of a Deere, and the Fendt, have been all Deutz ever since.
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It must have been a real low point in your life when you went deere and fendt.
Glad to hear that things are back on track.
Never tried Massey's 😙😙🤔🤔
 
TAFKAT said:
I was a Ford man when I started out, I thought all I'd ever need was a fleet of 10 series and I'd be set for life. Had 2 6610's and a 7610, gave a few days driving an 8340 for another contractor and I hated it. Got a different 8340 on trial off a dealer I was doing a good bit with and hated that as well. That was the end of me and Fords. Got into a mighty, awesome and phenomenal Deutz DX6.05 and never looked back. The last 10 series went in 2003 or maybe 2004. Apart from a brief dalliance with the Devil in the form of a Deere, and the Fendt, have been all Deutz ever since.
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I'm the antithesis, was working towards all Deutz until they went water cooled and the early Agrotrons didn't impress with their oven of a cab with poor Aircon. 6..50 went when the spfh arrived, NH of course and gradually the blue replaced the green.
 
mixed fleet said:
It must have been a real low point in your life when you went deere and fendt.
Glad to hear that things are back on track.
Never tried Massey's 😙😙🤔🤔
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I didn't want to taint my opinion of Massey, I could only be disappointed comparing subsequent models to the perfection of the 135
Arthur said:
I'm the antithesis, was working towards all Deutz until they went water cooled and the early Agrotrons didn't impress with their oven of a cab with poor Aircon. 6..50 went when the spfh arrived, NH of course and gradually the blue replaced the green.
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The John Deere blip was around the time of the early Agrotrons. We never had one between a 1995 DX which was the last of them and the first of the high bonnet Agrotrons in 2004.
 
Masseyrk662 said:
I had the electrician out yesterday evening, we got him to change the lights in the slatted shed to LED, something that should be done in all the sheds. We brought the canopy of the shed down as well after it was damaged in storm last year. Probably not great for ventilation as when we used to kill bulls it was hard enough keep air flowing but I don’t think there will be ever more than 40 animals in this shed anymore and even if there is we have another 2 bay shed with slats with no cattle at all anymore so we will be fine for space.

I got the machinery shed setup with the 32 amp plugs, 32 amp C curve and 10mm2 wire for the welder so I’m happy with that now
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I am going adding a bay onto this shed either over the Christmas or February midterm, I had planned on another shed in yard but Iv bought a lot of machinery this year and the house extension now will take a bit of money too. I have everything inside bar the slurry gear and that disc harrow which should be where the father has that sweeper left, but when I get my new rake and if I buy a front mower I have no where for them so I just need something handy for now
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Finally got the steel and timber for this job, I’ll try do it over the midterm, if I put it up here I’ll have to IMG_4488.webp
 
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