My brother in law picks them up at clearance sales. Check the Weekly times for sale locales and dates. Lots of deceased estates, farmers going broke, retiring etc. He makes a business of buying them then reselling for a profit to hobby farmers.
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My brother in law picks them up at clearance sales. Check the Weekly times for sale locales and dates. Lots of deceased estates, farmers going broke, retiring etc. He makes a business of buying them then reselling for a profit to hobby farmers.
Or a David Brown. I had the "cropmaster". Nasty tractor.Quote:
Originally Posted by UncleHo
Petrol\Kero, magneto ignition and a bung generator, hand crank to start. Nasty tractor.
Not knowing about the other states, but assuming similarities, In SA we have a weekly publication, the "Stock Journal". The cockies bible. Big sections on clearing sales, second hand machinery, you name it.
Shorty.
A Land Rover is simply not designed for, or suitable for continuous pulling work. As to the prices of used tractors, think about this, there are 2-3000 dollars of tyres on a used tractor with good rubber. If not good rubber then you will soon have to spend 2-3000 dollars on some.
Add to that, the fact that most cheap "boat launching" tractors are the old pulling tractor. Most are about the 2 or 3,000 dollar mark because they have no hydraulics or three point link.
Hi there all
What started as a strange question in my opinion has sparked a lot of great replys.
I currently use an old 1954 SWB landrover for sprayng and geaneral farm duties, and thought of expanding it to ploughing etc (but wasnt sure of the power/strength - especially the rear end)
I have found this last night on the web - what are peoples views,its a very simple and effective design.
Wayne
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Originally Posted by ellard
Might be OK in British soils. Never been there but I assume the soils are moister than over here. Our soils would really test out a series rover's drive line.
Hi there all
I am in the market for a second hand tractor with 3pt linkage - if you know of any around please PM me.
Many thanks
Wayne
There use to be a yellow unimog getting around Albury with a 3point linkage and PTO front and rear.
I use my S1 around our little padock but only with a big old gate behind it to knock in the horse poo. Would love to mod a slasher on to some jocky type wheels to run of the PTO.
Cheers Easo
Hi there
I dont use metal gates - we use three big truck tyres bolted together and towed behind my S1, for the same purpose to break up and spread the horse poo.
I think these is quite alot of people using these sorts of vehciles for farm uses already with home made impliments.
Wayne
Further details on my experience - I particularly wanted a tractor with a blade as I have quite a few kilometres of roads to keep trafficable.
I spent a lot of time looking in the Land and the local papers both for advertised tractors and for clearing sales. I followed up several advertisements and went to a number of clearing sales, bidding on several. I finally got a 75hp Chamberlain 306, over thirty years old, with a blade, for $3200. That was about half the price of comparable machines, and the reason, I think, is that the sale had four tractors, and this was the third one sold. (I have seen similar tractors in reasonable condition sell recently for $7-12,000, depending very much on the strength of the bidding on the day and the state of the tyres.
That was over ten years ago, and since then the only expenses except for filters, oil and fuel have been a rollover protection bar, a second hand cab, a clutch plate, a tie rod end, a tyre repair and a radiator hose, plus a pair of rear tyres - cost about $1200 for the pair with a trade in allowance of $200 for the one that was not blown. I have added lights and a UHF. It is mostly used for road work but I have used it extensively for fencing and stick raking. I have been looking for a slasher for some time but have not managed to find one at what I regard as a reasonable price.
John