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JayinNY

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Anybody have good/ bad luck with Zetor tractors? Farm I worked on had a 4/wd one a 6240 or something, i only used it a little bit seemed ok, and they still have it.
 
I tried one out one time. I figured if those commies had to farm with junk like that,it wasn't any wonder they couldn't feed themselves. As I recall,the PTO lever was on the wrong side,but the worst thing about that was,there was a button on the end of the handle that,given the position and shape of it,I had to try to push in with my little finger. seems like the button was in back and you had to pull it up and ahead or some skrewd up thing. There was some other totally monkeyed up thing about running the PTO and hydraulics at the same time. I picked corn with it for two or three days,but I couldn't get it out of here fast enough.
 

The conditions them things had to deal with in the countries they were made by/for dictated a tuff tractor and something joeblow (or ivan blowski) could fix and keep going with a pair of pliers and some wire.....

Anything made before 1989 (when the wall came down) prolly didn't enjoy a lot of dealer support for parts and labor. Sure it was there, but unaffordable to common folks.....
 
rrlund, I enjoyed your response. You sure tell it like it is. Nice way to break up a boring Sunday evening when the only thing on TV is hurricane info that has been on all week. If people can't act like they have some common sense by now it is their own fault.

I do look for the country of manufacture on smaller reactors like Allis Chalmers, etc. tractors when attending auctions. If it is someplace like Romania I just move on.
 
The place where my son works has 3 Zetors. He says they're tough as nails and the few times they have needed parts, been no problem getting them.
They don't have a Zetor dealer per se, but the dealer for Kubota, Mahindra and Kioti carries parts for the Zetors.
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This goes back about 10 years because I was still working in Toledo. I had to wait for an east bound CSX train one night on the way home. It had new Case IH tractors on it. One of them had the wood box around the cab + other wood crates around it for export. In good size letters the word Zetor was on each of the wood boxes, so did Zetor sell some Case IH tractors overseas?
 
Some Zetors were indeed sold as John Deeres,does that say enough? They are indeed tough tractors though not very refined unless of course you go for a late model which is up there with the rest if not better than some of the main stream tractors.
Sam
 
There were a bunch of them around this area at one time but most are gone today. With few exceptions most guys are glad to have them gone and most wished they'd bought something else when they did buy the Zetor.
I don't know of an engine that lasted more than 5000 hours on the whole lot of them... clutches, brake seals, etc.
In some respects they were not terrible tractors but they certainly left a lot to be desired...
Deere did rebadge some of them for their developing markets at one time... I think in the 90's but that agreement has since ended.


Rod
 
I have a Long 900 that is a Zetor 8011, Its 85 hp 3 remots and is super easy on fuel. It dose take some getting use to running it but it becomes 2nd nature quickly. 16 forward and 8 in reverce gives you a big range of gears to work with. Alot of the parts can be changed to USA made parts witch are cheeper. These were brought in to this country incomeplet but painted blue, The rims front and back and finders are Oliver and MM burn off spare parts from White. If you need to go slow for a 3pt tiller or bale big windrows of straw this is the tractor you need. Bandit
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