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These tractors are 20 years old. They have had 20 years of wear and tear. They have 20 year old technology. No machine I have ever used has got better with age, they wear out and need repairs. They are too slow on the road, too rough on the road, no intregrated steering, no ISOBUS. There's hardly any of them left here because they were mostly traded off at least 10 years ago and now are too old to be on the front line, they are mostly worn out.

We have 20+ year old machines at work and they are one breakdown away from a salvage yard. One of them, the better one could swalllow a minimum of £10,000 into the transmission tomorrow. That's assuming nothing else is found once it gets split. Most of that cost is labour, so what will likely happen is that it would get dragged off to eastern Europe when it dies to be reborn with cheap labour.

It's fine buying these old girls as back up if you have other machines on the farm, but most places here run the bare minimum machines and what they do have simply has to run.

Here are some used and ex-hire John Deeres for you, tell me why you'd bother running a 20 year old tractor with this many late models to choose from with a 15+ year advantage http://www.benburgess.co.uk/usedmachinery/tractors Some NH https://used.ernestdoe.com/product-listing-agricultural/

That 50 grand tractor doesn't look quite so cheap now, does it?