Don't you just love modern technology...

[MTyrrell]

Spent this weekend out bailing and carting hay. Anyway to cut a long story short.....

 We started saturday lunch time, I jump in the tractor and turn the key..... nothing...... first I thought it was the battery so out come the starter/charger still nothing. Anyway after some fiddling I managed to start it, looks like its the sensor on the gear stick to stop you starting it in gear.
 Not a problem I just won’t turn it off all day, which is fine, until i finnish the last field. Without thinking I shut it down #-o . Managed to get it started on the fifth attempt and then promptly stalled it :oops: . Took me three quarters of an hour to get it to start again.

  It's only an 04 plate Massey Ferguson, it's already had a host of sensors replaced, and work done on the breaks.
 Don’t you just love modern technology, I never have this sort of problems with the landy.

[poorman]

you  ought to get a john deer!!!!

[MTyrrell]

you  ought to get a john deer!!!!

I know, problem is john dears are silly money, although the contractors down the road have quite an impressive fleet of them. All leased of course.
 
 Found the faulty sensor this morning, now bypassed  :roll:

[Bob696]

short it or open it whichever works.

We had the same problem on a kwak 600. The sidestand had a switch that stopped the starter motor when the stand was down. Damn good idea but it kept getting full of crap. So we cut the damn switch off and shorted the wires.

[Eeyore]

  It's only an 04 plate Massey Ferguson, it's already had a host of sensors replaced, and work done on the breaks.
 Don’t you just love modern technology, I never have this sort of problems with the landy.

It's not one of them with 'auto-shatter' doors as well is it? Yet another dumb idea...... :roll:

cheers
 8)
Eeyore

[MTyrrell]

  It's only an 04 plate Massey Ferguson, it's already had a host of sensors replaced, and work done on the breaks.
 Don’t you just love modern technology, I never have this sort of problems with the landy.

It's not one of them with 'auto-shatter' doors as well is it? Yet another dumb idea...... :roll:

cheers
 8)
Eeyore

Yep that will be the one, not had a door go yet though.

 Another great idea of Massey’s was to use some sort of coating on the break parts to extend the shelf life, this eventually blocks the filters, took the dealers month's to work that one out. :roll:

[strapping young lad]

me dad has just bought a mccormick, i had a go in it the other day but since moving up north id not touched a tractor since 1998 driving a 7840 carting silage for a contractor

my god what a difference...

all buttons and it has a stick shift for going fwd and reverse, like a fork truck


comfier than my car though too :)

[Eeyore]

Yep that will be the one, not had a door go yet though.

 Another great idea of Massey’s was to use some sort of coating on the break parts to extend the shelf life, this eventually blocks the filters, took the dealers month's to work that one out. :roll:

 :shock: You're kidding me, right?

I'd been led to beleive that was a one off problem. Deary me. Wonder how many other dealers have caught onto that one!

cheers
 8)
Eeyore