Anyone run SAME tractors?

[Matthew Storrs]

Yes, I took the dorado up the road- its got a fair bit of poke I thought and nice smooth transmission. Haven't been on the road with the postknocker- dealer wouldn't let me cause of insurance purposes. The Silver seems to have massive front tyres, but the rear tyres don't look proportional in comparison. I like the fact that you sit quite low in the Dorado- in general its quite a squat low tractor- which gives a nicer feeling on slopes somehow.

[Matthew Storrs]

SAME is cheap and cheerful, you get a lot of tractor for the money. A lot of farmers don't like them because they want to impress their neighbours with JD's or Fendts etc.

We don't care about such things and have been running a fleet of SAME for more than 20 years I guess. Last non SAME we bought was a new IH784 so that puts some sort of date on it.

I snapped a gear lever off once but it was a long long time ago and hasn't happened since on any of them.

Can't think of any special faults other than dissolving bodywork on the sprayer tractors, probably due to the sprays.

Had a couple of them self combust due to wiring faults, that is about the worst thing I can think of.

Still got 5 of them on the place at the mo.

 

The equvilent priced john Deere will have an extra 5 or 6 thousand hours on it, and I still here horror stories about all the 'big' names. Same is very popular here on Dartmoor- I think they probably make good livestock/hill farm tractors. Also the dealer is only 10 miles away, I hav had two Zetors previously and whilst some aspects of them I find very good they always seem to suffer very poor brakes and hydraulic problems plus there is always a seal going somewhere- these were older Zetors to be fair and I hear the newer ones are much better.

[Peasgood]

We did have an excellent local dealer but he ditched them in favour of "posher" makes because he wasn't able to sell enough of them. A bit affluent and snobby in places around here.

 

We have a 90 widened out to 80" and a 130 (I think. great big 6 cylinder thing that just purrs along all day). Now I wouldn't do it myself but Uncle mows a bank we have that is summat like 45 degrees. He mows across the bank with them too!!

[mendiplogs]

We did have an excellent local dealer but he ditched them in favour of "posher" makes because he wasn't able to sell enough of them. A bit affluent and snobby in places around here.

 

We have a 90 widened out to 80" and a 130 (I think. great big 6 cylinder thing that just purrs along all day). Now I wouldn't do it myself but Uncle mows a bank we have that is summat like 45 degrees. He mows across the bank with them too!!

 

Hi pea I no someone with 130hp one good tractor mate done loads of hrs to thanks Jon

[Peasgood]

I looked at some pics, it is 110 not 130

[WeFixIt]

We did have an excellent local dealer but he ditched them in favour of "posher" makes because he wasn't able to sell enough of them. A bit affluent and snobby in places around here.

 

We have a 90 widened out to 80" and a 130 (I think. great big 6 cylinder thing that just purrs along all day). Now I wouldn't do it myself but Uncle mows a bank we have that is summat like 45 degrees. He mows across the bank with them too!!

 

 

That wouldn't mr rvw... Would it?

 

 

 

Is it a chipper, is it a mower or another broken stump grinder who cares we'll fix it!

[WeFixIt]

Take a look here....

 

http://www.afmtractors.co.uk/enquiry.php

 

 

Is it a chipper, is it a mower or another broken stump grinder who cares we'll fix it!

[Peasgood]

That wouldn't mr rvw... Would it?

 

 

I don't know what you mean so I guess not.

[WeFixIt]

Dealer RVW PUGH!

 

 

Is it a chipper, is it a mower or another broken stump grinder who cares we'll fix it!

[Peasgood]

I've never heard of him, so no.

Just looked him up and he isn't far away. Just shows how much interest I pay towards tractors.