Re: Ford N8 or Massey (Harris) Ferguson TO-20

Posted by James1 on August 18, 2004 at 10:05:08 from (12.2.142.7):

In Reply to: Re: Ford N8 or Massey (Harris) Ferguson TO-20 posted by Mike M on August 18, 2004 at 07:39:13:

Unless you just want a toy and/or have money to burn, no way would I buy these new machines. For moderate use they are handy, easy to operate and are shiny almost to a fault. But they are built with only light to moderate duty parts. I have a friend who knows nothing about tractors and he went this route, despite our collective efforts to steer him in the way of the righteous. Unfortunately, he lacked the patience to look for a suitable machine. The end result is that he spent $12,000 on a used machine with a loader, and I can guarantee that he will have problems. He will try to use it like a loader tractor, and eventually will either tear up the loader and/or the tractor. I work with hystat transmissions and although they are easy to operate (i.e. operator friendly), they are expensive to repair. If you frequently use maximum pull they will need repair, unless they are a heavy duty design, which I again repeat is not found in the light duty tractors. The old IH hydros are a different story, they were heavy duty, but had the fault that they required more maintenance to avoid failures.

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