Jcb 4220
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del_boy
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- Herefordshire
We had our icon on a 4m folding lemken a few days ago. Handles it with ease with only a 900kg weight on the front.
Chae1
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- Aberdeenshire
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- Bedfordshire
I am not running a 4m combi, but my comment will be that it will lift and operate it fine, but the rear wheels would not be big enough to support the weight from a soil point of view. You wouldn't want to be near any wet holes for eg.
Edit: But if you were doing a lot of transport work and 100 acres of drilling then the Fastrac would be the best option.
Edit: But if you were doing a lot of transport work and 100 acres of drilling then the Fastrac would be the best option.
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Is that with the hopper on the back we have got a front hopper so hopefully balance it out
del_boy
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No its the rear hopper version.
Managed it fine but as said above the 600 tyres aren't ideal if drilling on the furrows, its not the usual drilling tractor we normally use. We have a set of 750 floatations for it if we had more time we would've put them on to try
Managed it fine but as said above the 600 tyres aren't ideal if drilling on the furrows, its not the usual drilling tractor we normally use. We have a set of 750 floatations for it if we had more time we would've put them on to try
I would like a set for mine do you now of any for sale
del_boy
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No cant say i do. They kept them off the old 4220 they had before and we had to plasma the centres out bigger as the new icon had bigger hubs. She does look the part and travells very well on them
but is wide on the road though.
del_boy
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- Herefordshire
Yeah. Kept it off the previous 4220. It uses the solsteer bridge link and then connects to the jcb steering system.
puntabrava
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- Wiltshire
Why that instead of 724, you think it’s life costs will be cheaper?
alomy75
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del_boy
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Have you tried the gps in the new icon? We had one to try in the autumn and it had it own system and i was pretty impressed with it, not sure if its a mix between jcb's own and trimble. Am sure the signal was jcbs. The big screen and multiple swipe pages in the icon made it very nice to use. We fitted the greenstar as we already had it but i certainty wouldn't have wanted to buy it as an extra to then be fitted its certainly not worth the extra.
In all honesty greenstar doesn't work as well in the fastrac as it does in the john deere . I haven't tried anything else as the icon I had last spring on demo it wasn't working at the time so dunno if it's just greenstar or if it's the tractor.
I've got it in mine and you have to have the sensitivity of everything turned way up compared to the deere to get it to hold a line and has to have the rear steer switched off or it just waves around all over the place .
I've got it in mine and you have to have the sensitivity of everything turned way up compared to the deere to get it to hold a line and has to have the rear steer switched off or it just waves around all over the place .
Thanks for your advice hopefully ok as delivery next week first fastrack how do you like yours
I like it a lot but don't want another .
del_boy
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The icon we got automatically defaults to 2ws when you engage autosteer.
I agree it doesn't seem to work aswell as it would in a john deere. We have trouble with it actually getting on the line, seems to take a bit but once its on it its ok. We thought it was because we was running sf1 but we tried a sf3 grace period and was exactly the same. Will try turning the settings up