Fancy something old school? We look back at the profi classic VHS from 1995 ‘Four high horsepower tractors on test’ when we compared the Case IH Magnum 7230, Fendt Favorit 822, Fiat G210 (Ford 8870) and John Deere 8200.

At the time, these tractors were giants, all in around the 155kW/210hp mark.

In Part One, like our tractor tests today, the four classics headed to the DLG test centre where their performance was checked on the dyno…

In Part Two of our classic tractor test, we focus on the powershift transmission used in all four tractors and meet some farmers who had bought the same models featured in the test.

In Part Three of our ‘Four high horsepower tractors on test’ video, originally filmed in the Nineties, we continue our evaluation of the powershift boxes and study Fendt’s Turboclutch to see how it works.

Part Four of our classic tractor test from 1995 scrutinises rear lift performance.

Can the European focused Fendt beat the North American Magnum, 6/70series and Deere’s fresh out of the box 8200? Find out…

Now we know how much they can handle on the rear lift, part five of our ‘Four high horsepower tractors on test’ video looks at how the linkage controls work and we also study the hydraulic performance.

Part Six: It’s time for service and maintenance.

How much oil does each of these tractors need during a service? We were just coming to a period where big tractors had to be more manoeuvrable so that is measured too…

Driving fast is one thing, but you also need to be able to stop which is why we are with the DLG to measure the braking force.

To do this, they used a separate wheel connected to the tractor via the rear lift: the wheel is used to measure the speed and distance until the tractor comes to a standstill. The average braking deceleration can then be determined from this. Watch part seven of our classic video here…

The final part of our classic legends tractor test is all about weght distribution and we look back on the good and bad points of these four workhorses…

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