What your opinion of the the Mercedese MB trac's tractors. would you take it over a fastrac if short of money. Any LTS trac 160 working out there?

Pros.- large quiet roomy cab with good seat and passenger seat combined with front suspension makes long hours easy to endure, smoothe powerful engine-will go forever if looked after, front links easily available, powerful easy to maintain disc brakes, row crop and flotation wheels easy to come by second hand, srecond hand demount sprayers readily available, handy load platform to rear of cab, good rear lift capacity, 30mph with 18t trailer no problem. Cons.- manual gearbox, poor visibility of hitch, smaller dia. wheels than ideal, rear draft sensing linkage wears. Go for 1300 up-very strong build.

when buying one, what do you look for. also, know of any good ones out there.

What model are you thinking of, and what kind of work would you be doing with it?

planting, haulage, spraying, know anything about the LTS trac 160?

Is the turning circle comparable to a fasttrac?

The turning circle of an MB trac runs rings round the Fast trac.

I have never been in an MB Trac that turned tighter than a 4 wheel steer Fastrac!

And I have never been in a 2 wheel steer Fastrac that turned tighter than an MB trac!

how much fuel does the mb trac and jcb fastrac

Perhaps thats why they do 4 ws Glenn.

we swapped a MB 1000 (9000hrs trouble free) for a JCB fastrac 1115 and regreted it after a month, go MB every time ! we then swapped the fastrac at 1500hrs for a MB unimog 1600 with 2500hrs for under £3000 to swap, no regrets this time!!

As an example, with my MB trac 1000 I can plow and power-harrow 10 acres on a tankful,30 British gallons, No idea what a Comparatable 100 HP Fastrac would use.

I've got nothing against the Fastrac dirtdigger, Personal preference.

If you are buying, watch the gearbox. Crude, so liable to be abused. V.expensive to repair. Especially worry if you can make it jump out of reverse. Based on sample size ONE !

what year?

1988 and the problem was found when we bought about 1993. This was an 1100. As I understand MB used the same truck gearboxes right through to the end of manufacture.

I thought they updated the gearboxs in the 1989 models? any good sources of used mb tracs know?

Yeah but the MB trac will still be turning when the fastrac's buggered up.

Does anybody have any ideas about the 9000? See some Swiss ex army ones advertised recently One contractor close to us (Who has a fastrac!) Claims that MB Trac is too heavy and will bog at first chance because of weight. Any comments? Cannot decide weather to buy Unimog, MB Trac or cheap Fastrac. Mostly for roadwork, some field work inc ploughing and silage/hay/baling work

Is the 9000 an unimog, not familiar with . what are they asking for them, hours etc. every consider the Doppstadt trac, mb trac?

I think you mean MB 900. If you are talking about the ones I have seen, they are the old model(pre 1982). As for MB tracs being heavy, that's rubbish. Our 1000 MB is lighter than a JD 6100, and much lighter tan any Fastrac.

Just out of interest a 2135 4ws Fastrac weighs around 6.25 tons with half tank of fuel, front linkage but no weights.

Also just out of interest an MB trac 1000 weighs around 4.60 tons with full tank of fuel, no front linkage and no weights.

Glenn, the MB must be the lightest thing the Germans ever made!