worth the buy?

[bazman82]

you going to work on this paint job next https://www.tractorhouse.com/listings/farm-equipment/for-sale/20316015/2010-farmtrac-7115dtc

Hah, I saw that tractor last week. I like the extra seat inside the cab for passengers. My boys love to ride on the tractors but it's hard to have them sit on my lap and try to focus on the equipment behind me. If I had good paint skills I'd go orange but it kioti or kubota orange. I'd go SAME orange my tractor is a rebadged SAME explorer 85/95 T.

 

[searcyfarms]

yea saw that while i was digging around for MSRP on those units. i dont know for sure but im just goign to guess they were around the 30K +- range new - 10 to 12 yrs old and that kind of hp and FWA thats what im thinking

 

[searcyfarms]

regarding the seat - i am going to be adding a buddy seat to my 5088 one of these days when i get other projects caught up - it will take some fabricating and i want to add a seat belt, i already added a seat belt to my 5088 air ride seat and recently glad i had mine on when i had a pto shaft come apart and bind up in road gear on my 2038R it would have spit me over the hood if i had not had it on

 

[bazman82]

I believe when I was searching for stuff I found an old ad for some new farmtracs around this size and they were low 30s and upper 20s.

I know it's a safety issue but, I get on and off my tractor so much that a seat belt would be annoying. If i worked with hills I'd be a different story and it's good that nothing bad happened with you when your PTO shaft came apart. You were using it at that speed were you?

 

[searcyfarms]

i started using seat belts on my equipment when i got my skid steer in 1997 - a SS will flat spit u out the front or up into the ceiling if you arent careful. Then my dad was mowing, ditch bank gave way, ended up nearly turning over our 706 - one rear wheel off ground mower in air, thank goodness he had the loader on and it caught and kept him from turning over - my buddies 2-105 White has a seat belt in it and i have worn it for a long time mowing with a Batwing in unfamiliar fields of CRP and when you find a washed out ditch or something you were not anticipating - thank god for seat belts, my former uncle in South Dakota was spit out of the front door of his cab on his Versatile while baling hay and was killed after being run over by the tire and wound up in the baler - my cousin found the tractor still running pined up against a haybale, engine/baler/running and tires spinning, if he had been wearing his seat belt he might still be with us - that was a tuff one to bear - and uncle jack was a safe operator, cattle rancher.

I have since worn seat belts like a car - every time and off/on like everyone else but it only takes once like the pto issue on my deere and i was at appx 15mph road speed on asphalt headed to the neighbors when it all went wrong and bound up the machine and it was so violent of a stop my feet flew forward off the pedals, my hands came off the steering wheel and i would have launched for sure right over the hood, my hand went up/out like i was jumping off a diving board - thank god for that seat belt - its just second nature now for me i dont even think about it and i know where the button/latch is it just happens same as pulling the overhead arm down on a skid steer, you just do it like pushing in the clutch before shifting - i love my seat belts!!!!

For each his own, i dont rag on anyone for choosing to do what they do but for me its a must and i have had more than one incident that i am so glad i was wearing it not only in my car/truck but on my equipment

 

[Citydude]

i started using seat belts on my equipment when i got my skid steer in 1997 - a SS will flat spit u out the front or up into the ceiling if you arent careful. Then my dad was mowing, ditch bank gave way, ended up nearly turning over our 706 - one rear wheel off ground mower in air, thank goodness he had the loader on and it caught and kept him from turning over - my buddies 2-105 White has a seat belt in it and i have worn it for a long time mowing with a Batwing in unfamiliar fields of CRP and when you find a washed out ditch or something you were not anticipating - thank god for seat belts, my former uncle in South Dakota was spit out of the front door of his cab on his Versatile while baling hay and was killed after being run over by the tire and wound up in the baler - my cousin found the tractor still running pined up against a haybale, engine/baler/running and tires spinning, if he had been wearing his seat belt he might still be with us - that was a tuff one to bear - and uncle jack was a safe operator, cattle rancher.

I have since worn seat belts like a car - every time and off/on like everyone else but it only takes once like the pto issue on my deere and i was at appx 15mph road speed on asphalt headed to the neighbors when it all went wrong and bound up the machine and it was so violent of a stop my feet flew forward off the pedals, my hands came off the steering wheel and i would have launched for sure right over the hood, my hand went up/out like i was jumping off a diving board - thank god for that seat belt - its just second nature now for me i dont even think about it and i know where the button/latch is it just happens same as pulling the overhead arm down on a skid steer, you just do it like pushing in the clutch before shifting - i love my seat belts!!!!

For each his own, i dont rag on anyone for choosing to do what they do but for me its a must and i have had more than one incident that i am so glad i was wearing it not only in my car/truck but on my equipment

As a former heavy equipment operator, I learned my lesson in seatbelts. I was running a D9-H tracked dozer dozing gravel off a hill and slot dozing. It was nightshift so minimal lights, just what I had on the dozer. I made a push and was backing up the 100 foot slot in third gear. My left track run up on a round boulder that rolled into the slot that i didnt see and before I knew it, I was thrown all over the cab while that track bounced on the rock. If the right side door had popped open, I would have been killed. From then on, I've worn my seatbelt in everything that moves.

 

[bazman82]

So I can finally give a better update to the tractor. It has its faults but for the most part it handles great and worked really well for making hay and doing what I needed it to do. For a big tractor it does make some tight turns. It handled all the hay equipment as it should, nothing bogged it down nor did I get stuck moving manure. Getting on an off a lot was no issue, there is quite a bit of space around the seat. There is plenty of room for 1 of my 2 boys to hang out and sit with me. Putting it in 4 wheel drive takes a bit. Seems you need to be in just the right spot for it to engage. The manual says to be stopped before engaging it and sometimes I have to roll the tractor alittle before that happens. My old SAME sat most of this summer because of that. Just the comfort of the ride itself made everything that much easier to sit there for hours. It still needs a cup holder though...

The Canopy:

The Grapple:

The Bucket: Pic. to come, picked up a 7' quick attach at an auction in Sept for 225 bucks. Its usable now, but I will clean it up and get before and after photos.

So, for the faults that I have run into so far are: needs a new hydraulic pump ($650 when I priced it and had 2 in stock I believe) and needs a new thermo-start (literally just ordered it, $180.42, in stock). I will be ordering the pump pretty soon though since I will have the space freed up in the shop after the 24th of this month. It also seems to go burn through oil fairly quick. I actually had to add oil towards the end of the summer whereas my old SAME for the same amount of work I never had to. It doesn't leak cause there are no oil spots or oil anywhere on the engine. I do get the white smoke when starting it up, more so now that the temp has dropped but then clears up fairly quickly.

I'm working through these minor kinks but once everything is smoothed out it will be one **** of a tractor and for now, I really enjoy using it.

 

[tradosaurus]

That's a clean looking tractor for its age.

How much did you buy it?

 

[bazman82]

That's a clean looking tractor for its age.

How much did you buy it?

16k. Feels like a lot for an orphan tractor but it is a 90hp tractor and as long as I take care of it, it should last me a long time.

 

[Molalla1]

16k. Feels like a lot for an orphan tractor but it is a 90hp tractor and as long as I take care of it, it should last me a long time.

Nice sturdy machine bazman . . .