Machinery
County: The choice of ploughmen everywhere
Ploughing is hard work – slicing through a soil’s structure, then lifting the weight of it and turning it over...
Four wheel drive
Machinery
Machinery Focus: Massey Ferguson 1200 – the tractor that time overtook
The Massey Ferguson 1200 was a tractor that was claimed to be at the leading edge of design when launched...
Agri-Business
Machinery Focus: 25 years of Claas Xerion and its revolving cab
Germany has a strong association with systems tractors, stemming from a long held view that tractors are multipurpose vehicles rather...
Machinery
Machinery Focus: Bi Som Trac - the top tandem tractor from France
The Bi Som Trac is hardly as well known as the Doe Triple-D from Essex, but this French built machine...
Agri-Business
Machinery: Georges Latil and the constant velocity joint
Latil, an obscure French tractor maker that, apart from selling a few machines to the ESB in the distant past,...