The Fendt combine may only be on sale in Germany and France, yet we should still be interested in what our continental counterparts are up to. We are, as we’re constantly being told, part of a highly competitive market – and the available harvesting kit clearly contributes to that competitiveness. For a view of what Fendt is offering German and French farmers, we worked a 242kW/330hp six-walker Fendt 6330, complete with 7.70m wide Powerflow header, last harvest
Making a fresh mark in a mature market takes some doing. But that is precisely what Fendt is attempting in the highly competitive combine harvester sector.
Agco’s German marque recognises that it has to offer something different, something special, and it has dipped into the Agco research bin to come up with an impressive spec in a relatively short space of time. To the Agco-generated parts of the machine it has gone on to add the new and spacious Panavision cab, a turret-type unloading auger, water-cooled six-cylinder Deutz engine, a CAN-Bus electronic network system and the header multicoupler. Last and most obvious, the combines sport the familiar Fendt green (profi driving impression 11/99) thereby setting them apart from the Massey Ferguson models that roll out of the same Dronningborg factory.
For a taste of Fendt harvester flavour, we tucked the flagship 6330 model into a crop of spring wheat at the tail end of last year’s harvest. The ‘Threshing Conditions’ table shows that harvesting conditions were far from testing, even though the damp straw (34%MC) meant that the best separating results were probably beyond reach.
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