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Why is Will from The Inbetweeners driving your tractor??

 

Ha! That made me smile. I was watching that last night, classic.

 

On another note, I was looking at tractors on Ebay too, as you do. Don't really have a need for one (yet!), but do want one... As Pavman said, they seem to go for silly money...

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Just how much you need to pay for a second hand one, its mental

 

anyways got lucky in the end so now have my first, a 1986 Case International 685 XL

 

Looks a tidy tractor for its age.

 

Whats it like at starting in the cold as some of those old 85 series ones could be a real pig to start once the temperature dropped!

 

I drive its modern day big brother in my day job, like a space shuttle inside the cab in comparison to yours :lol:

 

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Back in the summer someone asked me to back one of those up to a trailer. I hopped in and sat there for about 5 minutes poking buttons and pulling levers but nothing happened. I had no idea how to even start the damn thing. It was more comfortable than my car, though. You farmers are spoilt these days :D

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Back in the summer someone asked me to back one of those up to a trailer. I hopped in and sat there for about 5 minutes poking buttons and pulling levers but nothing happened. I had no idea how to even start the damn thing. It was more comfortable than my car, though. You farmers are spoilt these days :D

 

The only problem is finding the £65.000 + to buy the thing in the first place.

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I like the cases a friend of ours we help with bailing hedgecutting etc has a cs 93 I was using on wrapper in summer it was lush he's also got a 895 xl a ford 7810 and a couple of internationals we've got 3 fergies a David brown 1490 hydro shift and soon a 955 xl at the mo I'm hedging with a ford 7810 and by far I love this one the most apart from the cs we do a bit of logging as well and we use a tef 20 with spade lug wheels for in the wood shouldn't get that stuck :)

 

Rgds sx3

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Dads just shelled out on another Tractor a Case 4240 with loader after we knackered the old Leyland 262 we had been using as a loader tractor to move the hay and haylage we make around. It broke the fan belt and very quickly overheated and looks like it's cracked the cylinder block but thats the risk with old tractors I suppose . He's trading in the Leyland and his old Zetor 7245 which is getting past it for the Case after he spend about a month driving round looking at tractors that he can get in and out off (he has MS so is unsteady on his feet making some tractors nigh on impossible for him to get in an out off). Can't wait for it to arrive so I can have a play with it.

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  • 2 weeks later...

This is my one on steam lorry recovery duties when my friends broke down on a road run last year. Looks like you got a useful tool there make life a lot easier, as much as i love mine i would much rather be in yours on a cold wet day in marsh land :). Best of luck with it and have fun.

 

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i learnt to drive on one of those ,start with the heel ,run on ,,tvo ? i was only a boy but feels like yesterday looking at the pictures ahhhhhhhhhhh.
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Looks a tidy tractor for its age.

 

Whats it like at starting in the cold as some of those old 85 series ones could be a real pig to start once the temperature dropped!

 

I drive its modern day big brother in my day job, like a space shuttle inside the cab in comparison to yours :lol:

 

IMG_0169.jpg

 

DSCN1844.jpg

 

 

give it a squirt of ether and it fires up ok, i have now got the bits to service inc a new inlet heater plug, i am not sure the plug is getting the squirt of Diesel off the pump and had no light to sort it out, its dark when i leave for work and again when i get home!

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