Tractors
- Thread starter wilber
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I've been running an '08 Landini Powerfarm 105 (100hp) for the last 5 years. It's used every day to feed cattle. Has a loader of course. Been rock solid reliable. Apart from service items the only part I've had has been a £3-50 bolt on the top link sensing spring in over 4000 hours. I've been impressed with it really. Never failed to start even down at -11c (which is cold for UK) having a Perkins engine. Only thing I'm not right keen on is the seat. Other than it has a clutchless shuttle, clutch button on stick, splitter on fwd gears, electric PTO 540/1000, 4WD and diff lock but traditional levers for hydraulics and spools. Has air con too as cab doors are full width so no side windows for ventilation in hot weather. A good stockmans tractor but happily pulls a 4 furrow reversible Dowdswell plough all day.
That sounds very similar to our CX105, Landini own McCormick IIRC. Our 105 also has a Perkins engine, which never uses a drop of oil!
It's a cracking loader tractor to be fair, it has a Quicke loader on it and puts four round bales of Silage into our Kuhn feeder wagon on a daily basis, it's also used heavily in the summer for loading round bales onto our McHale wrapper at the stack, which it then stacks (500+ bales in 2014).
The only problem we've found with it, is the clutch calibration, once it starts to snatch and get a bit sharp on the pedal it has to be calibrated again by the dealer, which isn't a massive job.
Our McCormick MC135 Power6 has a much better clutch system, it has a clutchless shuttle, but it's hydraulically operated by the paddle and the peddle, resulting in a much more controlled uptake of the clutch plates, no snatching.