Why a Discovery

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.............. thanks to you all. The stupid thing is like most others you can't help letting your heart rule your head which is maddness really but you just can't help yourself. The 4trak !! I agree but it's just what it is functional, reliable, a work horse but who cares. I'm going to buy one and God help me. even if He doesn't He'll have a laugh as well.

Thanks Telstar
 
pob1975 said:
tell me if im wrong but as the fourtrak is lighter and still 3.5 tons it can pull more wieght im not dissing the disco altogether just saying i have found them to have a lot of problems but as you seam intent on shuning anything of a non l/r badge then ill leave it thier
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I've just read this again and realised what you seem to be saying. Would I be right in thinking that you've assumed that the 3.5tonnes includes the weight of the towing vehicle?? and therefore because the di****su is lighter than a disco it can carry more weight?

Because it's not. The 3.5 tonnes is the maximum allowed weight of the trailer and it's load. the weight of the vehicle doesn't come into it. as long as the manufacturers plate says it can tow 3.5tonnes then that is what it can tow.
 
Telstar said:
.............. thanks to you all. The stupid thing is like most others you can't help letting your heart rule your head which is maddness really but you just can't help yourself. The 4trak !! I agree but it's just what it is functional, reliable, a work horse but who cares. I'm going to buy one and God help me. even if He doesn't He'll have a laugh as well.

Thanks Telstar
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Watch out for rust. They rot worst than Disco's and parts for them are a lot more expensive.
 
Telstar said:
.............. thanks to you all. The stupid thing is like most others you can't help letting your heart rule your head which is maddness really but you just can't help yourself. The 4trak !! I agree but it's just what it is functional, reliable, a work horse but who cares. I'm going to buy one and God help me. even if He doesn't He'll have a laugh as well.

Thanks Telstar
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well best of luck then , now fook off!
 
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Fourtrack not a bad motor really but having drove one for two years in my old job I will say if you are 6ft or just have long legs they are bloody uncomfortable. Left knee gets wedged against the corner of the centre console. As far as pulling goes would say they about the same fourtrack will pull a house down grip allowing as will the disco.

Disco towed a Fordson Major Roadless 4x4 tractor which I reakon had to weigh about 3.5 tonnes in itself on a transport trailer based on a heavily modified rice horsebox chassis which would be 0.5 tonnes approx so 4 tonne and it was fine.

Fourtrack towed about the same in timber a few times aswell.

The fourtrack lacked the ground clearance that the disco has aswell.

So in personal opinion Disco 1 fourtrack 0 but each to their own and supposwe it depends really what you intend to do with them.
 
Shire horses have massive ground clearance and no limitations to height of the operator. Massive space, no nasty centre consols to get in the way ;)
 
I like them cos you can drop them in a ditch like this, drag them out with a forklift, and only break an indicator!
 

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