Has anyone had any experience with Mahindra tractors? I have a local dealer who is trying to work a trade with me and I have not heard much about them. The tractor I looked at was the 3016...if that matters.
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Take a walk over to MTF (mytractorforum.com). You'll find a Mahindra forum with lots of posts and folks who are very happy to answer your questions.
I looked at them long and hard when buying a 50hp tractor. We went with a different brand due to layout of controls and for a flat platform where your feet go. I know a number of people with a Mahindra who are still very happy with theirs. I did like its heft - the new tractors are so light these days. Anytime you see a JD tractor ad where it is doing loader work you'll see there is a box of rocks on the rear to compensate for the lack of weight from structural steel, which is a far cry from the likes of their 80's era 2355, etc.
I can remember ballasting plenty of old iron with FEL's on 'em. Used to fill a 55 gallon drum with concrete and run a bar through it to attach it to the 3 pt hitch. Plus, the loader tractor almost always wore heavy cast-iron wheel weights and loaded tires. Unless the tractor itself was massively oversized, ran a JD 4440 with a FEL and even that got a bit light in the rear with the loader lifting loads near capacity.
That ballast box you see in the photos does a lot more than just hold the rear end down, it also counterweights the loader reducing wear and tear on the front axle pivot and spindles.
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Agreed. Ballast is useful and can increase the level of safety as well as reduce wear and tear. The three pt hitch (and drawbar) are also useful for more than simply providing a hanging point for ballast; ballast on the three pt can often be a hindrance. The Mahindra is built heavier than most mainline models of tractors today, and that weight can be useful in some situations.
One my one-tractor farm the cement ballast block sits in the weeds 95% of the time, available (and much appreciated (or at least as much as one can appreciate a cement block)) when needed. Rears are loaded, but I really ought to get some cast wheel weights, too.
They hooked up with IH in the 60s.
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Anybody running the old farm tractors with Hydro transmissions (966 Hydro on the farm where I grew up, helluva nice tractor but the trans has been rebuilt/replaced at least 3x that I know of.) will attest that not everything IH did was gold plated.I've saw and help fix enough IH's to have some bad feelings towards them.
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