Living with your 2605

   / Living with your 2605 #1  

TBJolly

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Location
Central Louisiana
Tractor
Mahindra 4025
Most tractor reviews on this site, or most places, are posted by users who just purchased their tractor. For you folks that have owned a Massey Ferguson 2605 (or a 2615) for a while how do you like your tractor now? Has it performed to expectations? Have you had very many problems, other than just a few minor ones?

Would you buy the same tractor again?
 
   / Living with your 2605 #2  
So far so good. Gets grate fuel usage, sips the fuel at less than 1/2 gal per hr. Have had the 2605 since around July 2012. Its built like an older tractor and doesn't have some of the bells, which I don't really need. Its a 4x4 with FEL and Std transmission. Starts up good in cold weather, but does take a little while to get to normal rpm.

Only issues I have run into (that I remember) are:
Hood is hard to raise (there is a upgrade available but haven't checked into it, yet).

When I pull the stop knob, have to remember to turn off the key. The 135 didn't require this as it did not have some of the electronic accessory's.

Brush will sometimes pull the connector off the circuit that shows the 4x4 being engaged. Doesn't stop it from working normal, its just the dash ind doesn't show it engaged.

I have a MF bullet disk plow that the left arm socket of the tractor won't quite fit. Have to use a nail in the pin hole as the busing of the lift arm is to wide to allow me to use a normal size pin.

It only gets about 45hrs/year. I use it for brush hogging, plowing & disking the garden, moving brush around and a little dirt moving & leveling.

I love it.

Would buy it again.
 
   / Living with your 2605 #3  
There is a hood lift effort kit available from Massey
 
   / Living with your 2605 #4  
I bought a new 2635 FWA with FEL, etc., in the fall of 2012. It now has 94 hours on it, 27 of which were put on in the dealers shop.

It just came back from 2 months in the shop and is now out of warranty on elapsed time.

I've lost all confidence in it and plan to replace it soon.

SDT
 
   / Living with your 2605 #5  
Wondering how the shop could put 27 hours on it:(
 
   / Living with your 2605 #6  
13 when originally delivered. 80 when it went to the shop the last time. 94 when it returned 2 months later.

I have previously given instructions to the service manager to unhook the tach cable (remove the cluster fuse on the other tractor) if necessary to run the engine for long periods in the shop but they simply refuse to do so.

I've learned my sesson (again). Nothing but Kubotas in the future.

SDT
 
   / Living with your 2605 #7  
13 when originally delivered. 80 when it went to the shop the last time. 94 when it returned 2 months later.

I have previously given instructions to the service manager to unhook the tach cable (remove the cluster fuse on the other tractor) if necessary to run the engine for long periods in the shop but they simply refuse to do so.

I've learned my sesson (again). Nothing but Kubotas in the future.

SDT

Sorry you've had those issues. Sure were a lot of hours.
 

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