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Have a zoom meeting with @Feldspar he will educate you! Jolly nice fellow too from just over the hill to you!
Wouldn’t airbrakes on the sprayer legally allow much higher road speeds?As far as I’m aware the legal road speeds haven’t changed so no reason to be buying fast tractors [emoji57] and any modern tractor should be comfortable enough in field speed
Which size tyres do you run on tractor and sprayer please James?My biggest concern after reading about Fastracs was the reliability. Got a 5 year warranty on ours given these concerns. Problem is if it goes down at a critical time we don't have another tractor that could pull the sprayer instead just like that, although given ISOBUS it could be done with some new hydraulic fittings. Have 1000 hr service coming up and a slight grumble in the diff with 4WD which I need to check (might be something I'm doing).
Never driven Fendt, so can't comment on their comfort, but can certainly say that the 4220 is just in another league compared to the Masseys we had. If you're thinking about a Horsch, one of the key strengths is stability at speed, and you need a comfortable tractor to make that doable from an operator's point of view. I had a sore back before and now it's gone despite having spent 750 hours in it this year. I almost wouldn't drive anything else now. 4WS does mean a bit of extra complexity and button pressing to swap between the two modes (Topcon doesn't steer in 4WS very well so use this at either end of the field). However, I find backing the sprayer into corners a LOT easier with 4WS as you can pretty much put the boom where you want it (almost easier than a SP now I've got used to it).
Only thing to think about with the trailed sprayers (especially a GS with a long wheel base) on 36m is that it's so long that you don't have much room to switch boom off and turn except in perfectly square headlands (this is again exacerbated with Topcon because at the moment I'm struggling to get it to model a steered trailed implement, but have been told of a trick to improve this which I need to try).
Wouldn’t airbrakes on the sprayer legally allow much higher road speeds?
High road speeds and trailed sprayer on rowcrops with water moving around sounds dangerous to meWouldn’t airbrakes on the sprayer legally allow much higher road speeds?
What tractor you got atm, and any reason why just a fendt or jcb [emoji848]
Wouldn’t airbrakes on the sprayer legally allow much higher road speeds?
High road speeds and trailed sprayer on rowcrops with water moving around sounds dangerous to me
Depends on size,weight and width more than hydraulic or air brakes
Yes, I run a Fastrac with a demount and even on high speed rowcrops, it’s like driving a chivvers jelly down the road at any speed, never mind high speeds.High road speeds and trailed sprayer on rowcrops with water moving around sounds dangerous to me
The front diffs are a weakness, although I thought it'd been sorted now.My biggest concern after reading about Fastracs was the reliability. Got a 5 year warranty on ours given these concerns. Problem is if it goes down at a critical time we don't have another tractor that could pull the sprayer instead just like that, although given ISOBUS it could be done with some new hydraulic fittings. Have 1000 hr service coming up and a slight grumble in the diff with 4WD which I need to check (might be something I'm doing).
Never driven Fendt, so can't comment on their comfort, but can certainly say that the 4220 is just in another league compared to the Masseys we had. If you're thinking about a Horsch, one of the key strengths is stability at speed, and you need a comfortable tractor to make that doable from an operator's point of view. I had a sore back before and now it's gone despite having spent 750 hours in it this year. I almost wouldn't drive anything else now. 4WS does mean a bit of extra complexity and button pressing to swap between the two modes (Topcon doesn't steer in 4WS very well so use this at either end of the field). However, I find backing the sprayer into corners a LOT easier with 4WS as you can pretty much put the boom where you want it (almost easier than a SP now I've got used to it).
Only thing to think about with the trailed sprayers (especially a GS with a long wheel base) on 36m is that it's so long that you don't have much room to switch boom off and turn except in perfectly square headlands (this is again exacerbated with Topcon because at the moment I'm struggling to get it to model a steered trailed implement, but have been told of a trick to improve this which I need to try).
Especially 6000 litre capacity one.
Which size tyres do you run on tractor and sprayer please James?
The front diffs are a weakness, although I thought it'd been sorted now.
Especially 6000 litre capacity one.