Posted by Roy in UK on March 27, 2011 at 23:25:51 from (86.128.240.183):
In Reply to: IH Tractors posted by JoeG on March 27, 2011 at 21:54:28:
No way! It is the same here in UK. 70-80 vintage IH just don"t have the reputation as similar aged MF and Ford tractors really. Looking at this forum I get the impression that during the late 70' and 80' Doncaster exported all the good tractors to North America and left the dodgy ones here ( Haha ). During those years Internationals sold like hot cakes around me then they disappeared just as quickly again because of reliability issues. ( Apart from The German built 6 cylinder ones which seemed to be bomb proof! )A guy I know drives tractors for Doncaster Council, doing jobs like mowing and highway maintenance and they were encouraged to buy IH cos that is where the IH factory was. But he always said the Fords they had suffered a lot less downtime than the "Inters". The last IH we had , a 674 bought new in 1977 had several trips to the dealers, whereas the other (Older) Masseys we just kept going. After only 1 week from new it was leaking oil out of the rear engine seal and when the truck driver came to take it in to be repaired he said that day he had taken 3 others back to the dealers with the same problem. A month later it had to go back again for a yet another new seal. One day when I was plowing with it caught fire for no apparent reason and I managed to put it out before any real damge was done but on reflection I should of let it burn. I remember when the XL range came out in the 80's the joke was all they "excel" at was going wrong. Even the local IH dealer got frustrated with them to finish up.
Do I dislike International tractors? Well we bought a B.450 new in 1959, we kept it for 18 years, it pulled like a train and all it ever had in all that time was a new water pump and a hydraulic pump . It was a great tractor.
This post was edited by Roy in UK at 23:50:55 03/27/11 2 times.
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