Fendt has a reputation for building premiumquality, premium-priced tractors – but combines? No. Not in recent history, anyway. Yet, from this harvest, that much-envied reputation may well stretch to combines with the launch of a Fendtbadged range of harvesters. We drive the 330hp, six-walker 6330, Fendt’s combine flagship
The Germans are definitely getting it. The French may get it. Whereas we’ll probably never get it. After much speculation, the Fendt combine is now a reality and, for German farmers at least, it’s on sale.
UK readers of profi international could ask, with some justification, why we are featuring a machine that is unlikely to ever make it to this side of the Channel. Our reasoning is simple: If we don’t know what our Continental counterparts are getting, how can we put the appropriate pressure on manufacturers to give us the same? So, to business. Initially, Fendt will market four Dronningborg-built models which, not surprisingly, share much with the recently launched MF7200-series harvesters (profi news 10/99). The two lines, after all, trundle out of the same Danish factory.
The Fendt range:
Model No. walk Engineers output
5220 – Five – 161kW/220hp
5250 – Five- 183kW/250hp
6300 – Six – 221kW/300hp
6330 -Six – 243kW/330hp
All four models follow the same basic design, just varying in size of grain tank, standard cutting width, fuel tank capacity, threshing width and, of course, engine power. There are spec differences but, for the most part, these are relatively minor.
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