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Nova Scotia | we have two Fendts now , 924 and a 930 , both have been very good , 3700 hours of use with the two of them so far , between the two of them they been to the shop 3 times, just for a few hours , then back to us, the service package 3 years 3000 hours for everything ! oil changes , the whole 9 yards EVERYTHING! YOU DON'T SPEND A CENT ON THEM FOR THE FIRST 3 YEARS! this service program was a real incentive for us. to change the oil in a big tractor is fast becoming a $1500 to $2000 job with the price of oil and filters these days.
The two 8*** series JD's they replaced burned so much more fuel than the fendts it isn't even really funny , kinda sad when you start to add it up over 5 years on two tractors.
i would have no problem saying for any tillage , planting , hauling , you would be way more happy with a fendt than any other color period, i feel the only place where a person would not be happy would be in the rows , spraying , top dressing , sidedressing ect, Fendt needs to get them on 60 inch centers on it's big boys , I hear the new 700 series Fendts will go 60 inch , they run up to 240 hp.
with our operation we use the two fendts as our tillage tractors , we have two 7200R JD's for planter , sprayer , sidedress , work , i think next time we look to replace our 7R's we will be giving the new 700 series Fendts a very hard look but there AMS systems in the Fendts need to catch up to JD's for planter , sprayer control , that may be the limiting factor to stay with JD on our row crop tractors. | |
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Is Fendt really the end-all/be-all?
