[trammway]

Originally Posted by Torque-ative

Siva Sir,...can we have some pictures of the tractor taken by you.
It would be much more descriptive than the single pic on the website !

Cheers !

I have not taken delivery of my Tractor yet, Just booked one.

though I have taken lots of pictures of the tractor that I test driven. I will upload the pics today or latest by tomorrow.

Actually there are few more picture of this tractor on the website which could be accessed in this Link here Mitsubishi-Shakti VWH-120 Power Tiller

[Torque-ative]

Siva, thats what I meant if you could post the TD pics

Wonga farm Enthe uoor sir ??

[trammway]

Originally Posted by Torque-ative

Wonga farm Enthe uoor sir ??

WoW (Unga Farm Entha Uoor ?)

My farm is located off Pondicherry-Bangalore National Highways (NH66) near to a town called Chengam. This place is around 40kms distance from my hometown Tiruvannamalai.

Here are some of my farm pictures (all at different places of the farm)

[trammway]

The pictures of my TD arrived. Have fun!

[vinod_nookala]

NIce shiva,
This is looking like a 4wd toy to me. Can you explain the various levers on this? I have no idea!

[trammway]

Originally Posted by vinod_nookala

NIce shiva,
This is looking like a 4wd toy to me. Can you explain the various levers on this? I have no idea!

On the fly hand operation
1. 4WD / 2WD lever
2. 4WD High / Low lever
3. Gear lever
4. PTO lever
5. Speed control lever (Red in color next to dash board)

Static hand operation
1. On the right hand side mudguard for height adjustment of rear lifter

Foot operated
1. Break pedal
2. Small accelerator rod just near to the right mudguard and platform
3. Clutch pedal

Switches
1. Rotary type light switch (headlight)
2. Pull type engine off switch
3. Rotary type turn light switch (turn signal and hazard)

[dwaraka]

Originally Posted by trammway

Exactly.. The tractor I booked today is

Mitsubishi-Shakti MT180D Tractor

This is one of the smallest tractors that ever produced in India with 18.5BHP 3cyl diesel engine (I'm not talking about tillers) and comes with 4WD (High and Low) and differntial lock and loads of excellent features.

The company who produce this tractors are "VST Tillers Tractors Ltd.", this is a Joinventure between VST Motors (Remember India Garage) and Mitsubishi, Japan.

My laptop is caught with issue and with the service guys, allow me to take one or two days to write a TD report with pictures as I need to download them from my mobile.

Meanwhile, pay your visit to this url which says all about the tractor's techanical details. (checkout the applicaitons link too)

::** Mitsubishi-Shakti MT180D Tractor ************************************************** ************************************************** ************************************************** *******************************

Congratulations. VST tillers and tractors is based in Bangalore, Mahadevapura.

[rjstyles69]

Originally Posted by dwaraka

Congratulations. VST tillers and tractors is based in Bangalore, Mahadevapura.

They are the same guys who own India Garage and a few other dealerships .

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Man, it looks real cute. Hope its adequately powered & stable for all the farming needs (even though you have mentioned it).

Also, I like this idea of getting into farming Wish I too can have a lil farm like yours sometime.

[Shubhendra]

Originally Posted by wanderlustindia

You are right Maddy. We'll have to go for the conventional Farm tractors (the one's that make 33 HP or so, 4 cylinder). My Uncle who looks after the farms says PowerTrac from Escort is a huge hit back home in UP. We are now keenly considering that alongside the usual suspects from the Mahindra and HMT stable. Apart from the farming, the tractor will do duty on the road once in a while and we need something that can go atleast 30-35 kph (which the conventional ones should do comfortably in top gear).

Hi Wanderlust,
You Need minimum 35 BHP Tractor which can plough and can handle 7 Pin Cultivator. You can go for second hand Massey 35 or Swaraj 735. Good tractor will not cost you more than 2 lacs.

Regards,
Shubhendra Singh

[spawnofsatan]

@Trammway - we have a mango farm too, but its in Gujarat, we recently purchased another tractor a few months ago, our old tractor is an escort and is over 15 years old, and still runs great,its just under capacity for us. We bought a 55 HP John Deere with power steering and 2wd, we were advised to go against the 4 wd as we didn't need it for farm work and would consume a lot of diesel. We didn't know too much about tractors because we are from Bombay, but the neighbouring farm people were very helpful.

Will post some pics tomorrow, they are on the other computer.

[Bailee_Jatt_Boy]

We currently have a hmt 5911 and it has been serving us well for the last 10+ years not matter what kind of load or tilling no issues what so ever. But that things fuel consumption is off the charts. For the ones that dont know tractor fuel consumption is usually calculated in number of liters in number of hours.

But all things set aside so much tractor talk going on and no one mentioned the king "New Holland" tractors?

[trammway]

Originally Posted by spawnofsatan

@Trammway - we have a mango farm too, but its in Gujarat, we recently purchased another tractor a few months ago, our old tractor is an escort and is over 15 years old, and still runs great,its just under capacity for us. We bought a 55 HP John Deere with power steering and 2wd, we were advised to go against the 4 wd as we didn't need it for farm work and would consume a lot of diesel. We didn't know too much about tractors because we are from Bombay, but the neighbouring farm people were very helpful.

Will post some pics tomorrow, they are on the other computer.

I wish to buy a John Deere or the higher capacity tractors but the thing I wanted to try self farming and wanted to try something smaller to get the feel of it. Slowly I will upgrade my farm and equipments, may be the small tractor then converted to spray machine alone.

Originally Posted by Bailee_Jatt_Boy

We currently have a hmt 5911 and it has been serving us well for the last 10+ years not matter what kind of load or tilling no issues what so ever. But that things fuel consumption is off the charts. For the ones that dont know tractor fuel consumption is usually calculated in number of liters in number of hours.

But all things set aside so much tractor talk going on and no one mentioned the king "New Holland" tractors?

Yeah, I did notice the tractor's fuel consumption mentioned in somewhat similar manner. Can anyone tell me this in liter measure

S.F.C. (Specific Fuel Consumption) 230 gm/hp-hr

We should be happy that the farming and agriculture talks are started going on around the internet and more youngsters from urban area is looking at farming opportunities.

[Bailee_Jatt_Boy]

+1 to the farming and youngsters thing.

I don't know much about SFC, but a quick google result showed this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specifi...mption_(thrust)

From my experience on the farm I can say that our tractor averages about 6 - 7 liters of diesel per hour of usage, the difference depends on what kind of use it is.

[spawnofsatan]

Originally Posted by trammway

I wish to buy a John Deere or the higher capacity tractors but the thing I wanted to try self farming and wanted to try something smaller to get the feel of it. Slowly I will upgrade my farm and equipments, may be the small tractor then converted to spray machine alone.

I suggest you go for a John Deere only when you are ready to upgrade, I test drove several tractors and we picked the John Deere, it has power steering and basically the product quality is way superior than the ones around. And plus we make castings for them

I am posting some pics of my John Deere, we don;t self farm since that is not our predominant industry and cannot spare time to do so, but I do love driving around in the farm on the tractor, it is a lot of fun.