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Issue: 10/2023 ( 2023 )
DRIVING IMPRESSION: If you're wanting a mechanical option to control weeds, then the Swedish firm Lyckegård may have a solution for you with its Kvickfinn — a tool that loosens the soil with tines, before…
Issue: 09/2023 ( 2023 )
WORKSHOP: It goes without saying that an unshielded or broken pto shaft may cause considerable damage and injury. And while this may sound like ‘teaching grandma to suck eggs’ here we explain what checks to…
Issue: 09/2023 ( 2023 )
REPORT: There are certain jobs that are the bread and butter tasks for many contracting operations — silage making, slurry spreading, baling — but Tom Voyce wanted something more niche, hence his move into vegetation…
Issue: 09/2023 ( 2023 )
TECHNICAL: Roger Stirnimann, from the University of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences (HAFL) in Switzerland, discusses the basics of tyres and ground pressure and how they can result in compaction.
Issue: 09/2023 ( 2023 )
WORKSHOP: Only have valves on the inside of your wheel rims? Then the task of changing tyre pressures can be more challenging. Yet it is possible to retrofit these on the outside without taking off…
Issue: 09/2023 ( 2023 )
USED MACHINERY: Arriving on UK farms from early 2018, the Fendt 900 Vario MT twin track models that replaced the Challenger MT700E. Apart from sharing the same cab frame, however, the 900 Vario MT was…
Issue: 09/2023 ( 2023 )
DRIVING IMPRESSION: Way back at Agritechnica 2019, John Deere unveiled the new E-AutoPowr — an electrified version of its CVT. Now the first units are hitting the market, so we decided to take a closer…
Issue: 09/2023 ( 2023 )
DRIVING IMPRESSION: Börger has opted to pair up two of its RC150 separators to give a combined maximum output of 300m³/hr. Working with engineering firm Stade, the mobile unit is aimed at a growing contractor…
Issue: 09/2023 ( 2023 )
REPORT: Valtra and its forebear, Valmet, are still relative young ’uns in the Irish and UK tractor market ... and in Germany, too. Even so, these models have already forged a spot in the hearts…
Issue: 09/2023 ( 2023 )
REPORT: Twelve years ago Fendt presented the Cargo R, a rear-mounted loader that was intended to boost the versatility of the reverse-drive 800 and 900 series.
Issue: 09/2023 ( 2023 )
REPORT: Brothers Paul and PJ McGrath are aware of the benefits of lowering tyre pressures, but they concede that it hasn't been done religiously ... until now. To reduce the pressure-altering hassle, they retrofitted a…
