Landini

[paddyland]

Does anyone have experience with the landini Legend and if so was it good or bad just wondering as a couple of contractors are using them and an uncle of mine had one on demo and thought it was pretty good at pulling but the whole image thing put him off so does the badge matter when buying a tractor

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I've only seen one Legend on farm duty. A local contractor who runs Ursus (Polish for scrap ?) had a Legend under the mower last year. Landini and Ursus share a distributor in Ireland.

All the other Legends I've seen are owned by construction companies for lowloader or dump trailer work. I assume that this is a marketing move to get them seen on the roads.

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That Ursus is the polish copy of Zetor Crystal, so it cant be as bad as you try to say.

We had a 1979 Ursus C-385A, a.k.a Zetor Crystal 8045. After a repair (on 14,000 hrs) my brother did'nt tightened up the bolts close enough, between tranny and rear axle.... I drove home with a 6 centimeters space between trans and axle... It hung in the driveshafts. When throttling up, the nose wagged.

We had it for 300 working hrs after tightening the bolts again, and filling 55 litres of oil.

I hear different stories about landini. My friend works at a Deutz dealer, a customer of theirs bought a new Landini. three transmission overhauls within 5 years, on light duties like cowfeeding and haymaking.

If you want to see some tractors with DECENT transmissions, click www.zetorworld.com

[paddyland]

Zetors do keep going if looked after and are all the better if the original engine is slung out and a six cylinder perkins stuck in. The big 141 were good for ploughing i think it has something to do with the geometry of the back axle

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Zetors are good for ploughing, but that has to do with the superiority of the Zetormatic 2 hydraulics...

Besides, the Perkins engine you wanted is just your loyalty to your country.

[paddyland]

No just some cowboys with nothing better to do than faffe about. They are now using 3 x JD7810 and a couple of Valtras.

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in our village some farmers drive a Legend, and one Ghibli. I don't think they'll work over 1500 hrs a year with those tractors. the price is very good for a strong machine with a popular engine (also perkins). Allthougth the tractors don't have the frontaxle-suspension, they can drive over 40 km/h. Our farmers don't have to go on the road the whole day, then they hire the frim which is specialized in harvesting and transport (what is the english name for that firm? In dutch: LOONWERKERS). This firms (hope to) work 2000 hrs a year with the tractors, so they can buy the expencive JD, fendt or other luxe models.
So, no complainings heard about the latest Legends.
reagrds,
AB