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Hubert Wilmer
March 21, 2018
PROFI TEST: Arrive at the headland, linkage up, pto and diff lock off, markers up, shuttle back and forth – today’s tractor drivers need hands and plenty of them. Most tractor makers now recognise the…
March 21, 2018
PROFI TEST: Our July issue gave a general assessment of the 12 tractor cabs selected for our comparative test. In this issue we continue the analysis of the various platforms’ individual strengths and weaknesses in…
March 21, 2018
DRIVING IMPRESSION: While the UK is still coming to terms with running 6,000-litre trailed sprayers, there are other parts of Europe where there’s demand for even more spraying capacity. This has prompted Amazone to develop…
March 21, 2018
PRACTICAL TEST: Looking around Europe, certain manufacturers sell strongly in small pockets without ever achieving blanket coverage. Sprayer maker Berthoud falls into this particular distribution camp, but through no fault of its product line –…
March 21, 2018
PRACTICAL TEST: It’s almost as if they’re breeding. Walking around the tillage events over the past couple of seasons, observers could not fail to notice the proliferation of shallow disc/tine cultivators. Amazone added its contribution,…
March 21, 2018
PRACTICAL TEST: KIK is the rather intriguing German tag for Amazone's 'compact and integrated fold-up system', fitted to its eight-row ED 601K precision seeder. We operated a prototype version of the 6m KIK drill in…
March 21, 2018
PRACTICAL TEST: Marketed on this side of the Channel by Kongskilde UK, the Becker Aeromat maize drill was updated in 1998 with the addition of an extra air nozzle and a longer ejector. Last season…
March 21, 2018
DRIVING IMPRESSION: Amazone ZA-M ultra 3600 profiS fertiliser spreader Welcome to Spin City Sold with a 3,600-litre capacity hopper and on-machine weigh system, the Amazone ZA-M ultra 3600 profiS is the flagship model within the…
February 17, 2018
TUNING: You can’t keep an inventive fellow down. Well, not for very long. In any event there’d appear to be no shortage of such fellows among Case IH Puma operators if the sack-load of sent-in mods is…
January 10, 2018
TRACTOR TEST: Just over a year ago, Case IH clipped one member from the Farmall family, turning the U Pro into the Luxxum – a lighter Maxxum if you like. Built in Austria and also…
October 7, 2017
DRIVING IMPRESSION: A CVT option in the Quadtrac is designed to take the 20-year-old tractor to the next level to keep it one step ahead in the four-track concept
