Tractors are a fucking brilliant design aren't they, when you think about it?
Boxy bit for the engine, bit you can sit on (enclosed or open)... giant wheels at the back, little wheels at the front.

Give or take, that's what they look like now, and what the very first ones looked like however many years ago.

Compare that to how different modern cars look from a Model T and I reckon you'd have to conclude that whoever designed the tractor got it pretty much right first time :)
(Professor Kenny Martin Hmm? What?, Fri 25 May 2012, 13:56, 8 replies)

You are, Sir, absolutely spot on.
I can sort of understand people getting quite geeky about tractors, because they are ace. They're like the hammers of the machinery world.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 25 May 2012, 14:13, closed)

Until they try to kill you
Like my uncle Geoff who managed to roll one down a field, shattering his spine.

Apparently he was trapped underneath it for 2 hours before someone came looking for him... I can't even imagine the pain.
( Airman Gabber Living life like a 70's BBC presenter, Fri 25 May 2012, 15:49, closed)

That's why you have a roll bar installed on them.
My father has a Ford tractor that he bought in the 1980s for bringing firewood out of his 40 acre chunk of land. I've driven it back through the woods and used it to pull down trees that got hung up. I never would have dared try that without a roll bar over my head.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Sat 26 May 2012, 12:42, closed)

There was a classic aged Tractor for sale near me
It was a Massey Ferguson looked a bit like this one




except that it was in gleaming pristine concourse condition. I coveted that tractor even though I have absolutely no need for one and it would have been a bugger to do the school run in it
(sittingduck Attention seeking, bullshitting fuck-knuckle, Fri 25 May 2012, 15:01, closed)

Massey-Ferguson 35
With an astonishing 37hp from its four-cylinder diesel engine. The one you really want is the 135 tucked away at the back (the thing with the horizontal stripey grille and square headlights) with its 45hp Perkins AD3 (it'll run forever) and selectable engine- or land-drive PTO.

It'll even run on veg oil, making it an ecologically friendly way to commute. In rush-hour traffic you won't hold much up at 15mph and you'll probably be using less fuel than all those luxo-barge 4x4s that never see a spec of mud.
(gordonjcp, Fri 25 May 2012, 17:25, closed)

Quite big for a 135, could be a 165 or 175?
Did a rebuild on one of those, years ago. Great machines.
( The Togaboy The world will end on, Wed 30 May 2012, 12:18, closed)

Tractors? Big, throbbing engines?
Ooh, would you hold the gearstick, sir? Would you? Oh, suit you, sir!

Sorry, wrong characters.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Fri 25 May 2012, 15:37, closed)

Tractors are awesome. I learned to drive on one (an International Harverster 784 with a hydrostatic gearbox)
Also spent quite a lot of hours using;

Ford Power Major
Ford Super Major
Ford 5610 loader
Ford TW15
MF 690
MF 3070 Autotronic

I want to buy a Power Major and restore it. Need bigger place first.
( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Fri 25 May 2012, 17:36, closed)