WHAT IS A FARM TRAC?????

Woodbeef · Aug 19, 2004

The largest model is not actually a Ford clone. It has a Perkins engine and an Escorts built Carraro tranny.

I do like the looks of the Euro PolMot/Escorts version better,especially the mfd cabbed ones.

callais · Aug 23, 2004

I saw FarmTrac for the first time this weekend while I was buying a box blade for my Yanmar. These have got to be the most comfortable tractor!!!! Roomy and everything is in reach. I don't know how they hold up, but if there longgevity is as good as comforatablity, we see these things around for a while.

Charolais · Oct 2, 2004

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You are correct.The 80 has a flat platform, shift levers on the right, shuttle shift on the left. Real nice for loading and stacking round bales. It has a park brake that works.(grin) Pull that park brake lever and it'll lock and slide both wheels. I'm impressed with the lift arm control also. It has joysticks for the loader and the dual remotes. Only thing I didn't like on the tractor was the exhaust pipe. I cut the curve off and put a rain cap on.

That Perkins is pretty good on fuel also. I think it's a 21 gal. tank and I've run 19 hours several times when I was checking the fuel usage. Oh, and no smoke out the exhaust. New emissions setup took some of the fun(smoke) out of the diesel. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

CMunger · Oct 2, 2004

Mr Beef- Is the Perkins used in that tractor a Simms Diesel built under a license from Perkins or is it the real thing? Simms builds the engines in the Massey clones, TAFE, and they are built under a Perkins licensing agreement. Something MF ushered in, in the old days.
Chuck M.

BobG_in_VA · Oct 3, 2004

"...or is it the real thing?"

I just had to jump in here. Back in WWII, the best fighter aircraft of the war (P51 Mustang) used a Rolls Royce engine that was built under Licsence here in the good ole USA by Packard. So I ask you, "Was IT the REAL thing?" Just wonderin'? BobG in VA

gamble77 · Oct 12, 2004

It is a true "Perkins"...both the FarmTrac 70 & 80 are "platform" tractors (although they have been renamed here recently the 665 & 675).

For the price, dependability, and performance these are some of the best valued tractors around.

Charolais · Oct 13, 2004

The 80 I have has Perkins in big letters on the valve cover. Now like many companies they could outsource and have another make the engine for them. I used to run MF back in the late 60's and on in to the early 80's. When I was checking the 80 out I started it up on the lot. All I can say is that engine sure sounded familiar to me. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif The Perkins engine was one of the major reasons I bought the tractor.

I didn't know that the 70 had the Perkins. I was thinking it was a 3 cylinder and from the same that Ford used. Have they made a change this year?

The price, well I got the tractor with the 5540 loader/6ft. bucket and hay spear for just a little over 22K. I don't know where I could find that package in the major colors for that price. It seems to be a well made tractor. It's easy to operate and has plenty of power. With the platform you're sitting up high enough to make loader work easy too.