Farm Tractors: CLAAS - Xerion 3800

Farm Tractors: CLAAS - Xerion 3800 ​

Category: Farm Tractors Manufacturer: CLAAS Price: £70000 Condition: Used

Description:
Xerion 3800
2010
4084 hours
50kph
Air brakes
Full gps steering + Rtk Mobile base station
Front linkage
5 electronic rear spools 4 front spools
Axiobib tyres 65%
Hydraulic top link
Rear pto
Iso Bus

Very tidy tractor was on maxi care service contract only selling due to change in farming practice

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[kill]

@Cab-over Pete perfect lime spreader mount for you???

 

[Cab-over Pete]

Thank you.

I might just be one step ahead of you there............

 

[warksfarmer]

Thank you.

I might just be one step ahead of you there............

Get it bought. Best tractor we've ever used. I'm pretty sure ours had a reg AY10 actually ......

 

[kill]

Thank you.

I might just be one step ahead of you there............

Please do a thread with loads of photos then

 

[Cab-over Pete]

I’ll try and remember.

The cat is out of the bag I suppose. I ha e bought a Xerion 3300 to convert. It’s a Trac VC with the turning cab and I hope to convert it to a saddle Trac with the cab fixed over the engine.

It’s a bit older than this one pictured here but only 5000 hrs. It goes a treat on my brothers 3.5m Sumo (as it should!!) so hopefully it’s going to be ok.

Thanks for lots of good advice from @Xerion (yes Max, she has the US built engine) and lots of encouragement from @Shovelhands !!

 

[spikeislander]

Arghhh must not buy xerion I must be strong . Soooo want one .

 

[Chae1]

I’ll try and remember.

The cat is out of the bag I suppose. I ha e bought a Xerion 3300 to convert. It’s a Trac VC with the turning cab and I hope to convert it to a saddle Trac with the cab fixed over the engine.

It’s a bit older than this one pictured here but only 5000 hrs. It goes a treat on my brothers 3.5m Sumo (as it should!!) so hopefully it’s going to be ok.

Thanks for lots of good advice from @Xerion (yes Max, she has the US built engine) and lots of encouragement from @Shovelhands !!

Brilliant. Look forward to seeing project progress!

Did you see the one in best fert spreader rig with hopper on back.

 

[Cab-over Pete]

Arghhh must not buy xerion I must be strong . Soooo want one .

I resisted for a long time because I just thought they were too big, but now it’s been here a fortnight it looks nothing really.

 

[Cab-over Pete]

Brilliant. Look forward to seeing project progress!

Did you see the one in best fert spreader rig with hopper on back.

No, I didn’t. I’ll have a look.

 

[Chae1]

No, I didn’t. I’ll have a look.

Could use it for granular lime!

 

[Cab-over Pete]

Ah yes. I’ve seen that before. There is one picture on the web with a Xerion and Bredal outfit on the back. That’s what I’m planning to do.

 

[Clive]

Get it bought. Best tractor we've ever used. I'm pretty sure ours had a reg AY10 actually ......

Martyn has always said that was his favourite tractor , good machines if you need power /weight

 

[warksfarmer]

Martyn has always said that was his favourite tractor , good machines if you need power /weight

Might be wrong as it was a while ago but I think it weighed about 11 tonne with no weight package on it and at 380hp does give it a nice balance. The only negative was getting in and out of it as the steps weren’t brilliant iirc.

 

[Cab-over Pete]

Yes, the steps will need improving.

The weight of it does bother me a bit, but all the front and rear linkage will go, as will the drawbar and the cab mounting frame for its rear facing position together with all the huge ram and framework required for turning the cab, so hopefully at least half a tonne gone there.

Thing is, I’ve tried lightweight and it’s just not up to the job. The Multidrive is a great little tool and I would think superb with a full 6 tonne sprayer on the back, but it’s nowhere near as capable as they said it would be with the 9 tonne spreader on. For that reason I will keep my body to fit on the Xerion and sell the Multidrive as a chassis cab. It will be an ideal sprayer base for someone I hope.

The Xerion on 42 inch tyres as opposed to 30 inch on the Multidrive should help greatly too. I’ll see if I can squeeze 800s on it if possible.

Despite its shortcomings I will be sad to see the Multidrive go. It’s an absolute dream on the road and she flies with fertiliser in the hopper. But I don’t need that most of the time. I need a robust and heavily built unit to lug a big old dollop of lime around, just like the Big A, and the Multidrive is out of her depth on some of the ground I get on to. It’s not just the actual spreading because in a straight line up the field she is fine. However, getting through rough gates, across plough furrows in corners, rutted tramlines and ridge and furrow grass mean she is soon outclassed I’m afraid.

A couple of weeks ago I had to cross two rough 15 acre fields of stubble, get up a sharp little bank to a corner gate with plough furrows across it. The field to be spread was ploughed, flat at the far end and steep at one side. The Multidrive will take 9t of lime but I was loading only 7 tonnes, dragging it to the field, spreading some on the flat and then following the headland all the way round to the steep bit to spread that. It took nearly all day to spread 110t which was soul destroying.

I can’t be doing with that when I’m under pressure so it’s time for something different.

 

[Clive]

Yes, the steps will need improving.

The weight of it does bother me a bit, but all the front and rear linkage will go, as will the drawbar and the cab mounting frame for its rear facing position together with all the huge ram and framework required for turning the cab, so hopefully at least half a tonne gone there.

Thing is, I’ve tried lightweight and it’s just not up to the job. The Multidrive is a great little tool and I would think superb with a full 6 tonne sprayer on the back, but it’s nowhere near as capable as they said it would be with the 9 tonne spreader on. For that reason I will keep my body to fit on the Xerion and sell the Multidrive as a chassis cab. It will be an ideal sprayer base for someone I hope.

The Xerion on 42 inch tyres as opposed to 30 inch on the Multidrive should help greatly too. I’ll see if I can squeeze 800s on it if possible.

Despite its shortcomings I will be sad to see the Multidrive go. It’s an absolute dream on the road and she flies with fertiliser in the hopper. But I don’t need that most of the time. I need a robust and heavily built unit to lug a big old dollop of lime around, just like the Big A, and the Multidrive is out of her depth on some of the ground I get on to. It’s not just the actual spreading because in a straight line up the field she is fine. However, getting through rough gates, across plough furrows in corners, rutted tramlines and ridge and furrow grass mean she is soon outclassed I’m afraid.

A couple of weeks ago I had to cross two rough 15 acre fields of stubble, get up a sharp little bank to a corner gate with plough furrows across it. The field to be spread was ploughed, flat at the far end and steep at one side. The Multidrive will take 9t of lime but I was loading only 7 tonnes, dragging it to the field, spreading some on the flat and then following the headland all the way round to the steep bit to spread that. It took nearly all day to spread 110t which was soul destroying.

I can’t be doing with that when I’m under pressure so it’s time for something different.

Xerion sounds ideal to me after reading that

As Lee says we all loved the one we ran for a while

 

[spikeislander]

This is one for the machinery thread and cold winter night, but ,I’m in a dilemma we run a jd 8345 rt and I’m considering complementing it with a wheel tractor of the same size (8345r or similar) . Would love a xerion but I would hope it would be able to do a few smaller jobs occasionally ( move bowser, fert around a bit of corn cart with 18 tonne trailer) is this an absolute no no? I’ve got a good fendt 724 which is a lovely tractor but can’t share any of the primary cultivation kit really and makes more sense to change tractor rather than a whole range of kit to match it.
Basically how clumsy are these bigger tractors?

 

[Mark C]

This is one for the machinery thread and cold winter night, but ,I’m in a dilemma we run a jd 8345 rt and I’m considering complementing it with a wheel tractor of the same size (8345r or similar) . Would love a xerion but I would hope it would be able to do a few smaller jobs occasionally ( move bowser, fert around a bit of corn cart with 18 tonne trailer) is this an absolute no no? I’ve got a good fendt 724 which is a lovely tractor but can’t share any of the primary cultivation kit really and makes more sense to change tractor rather than a whole range of kit to match it.
Basically how clumsy are these bigger tractors?

You could just get this one the OP has advertised bought [emoji23]

 

[Cab-over Pete]

This is one for the machinery thread and cold winter night, but ,I’m in a dilemma we run a jd 8345 rt and I’m considering complementing it with a wheel tractor of the same size (8345r or similar) . Would love a xerion but I would hope it would be able to do a few smaller jobs occasionally ( move bowser, fert around a bit of corn cart with 18 tonne trailer) is this an absolute no no? I’ve got a good fendt 724 which is a lovely tractor but can’t share any of the primary cultivation kit really and makes more sense to change tractor rather than a whole range of kit to match it.
Basically how clumsy are these bigger tractors?

I’m quite surprised how nimble it is. I bought it without doing much homework on them because I wanted the strength and simple, rugged Raba axles. I thought if there were shortcomings I would just have to get around them. However, I took it out onto a stubble field for a play and was pleasantly impressed with how well it turns at the ends, easily back into a 12 meter bout with the four wheel steering, which I need for lime spreading. It then picked up speed very quickly once back in work so I think it will do well.

It is big. It dwarfs the Multidrive, even the Big A, but it’s very manoeuvrable.

I’m just going to get her fuelled up and have another go on the Sumo later.

 

[General-Lee]

Take a while to find pics, Troy Stuart’s did a stint of either grain or maize hauling with a Xerion!