Robert Tuckwell Contractors has renewed its fleet with six new JCB Fastrac 4220 iCON tractors finished in a bespoke black and silver colour scheme.
Delivered to the contractors’ by JCB dealer Oliver Landpower’s Tingewick branch, the new tractors have joined a seventh Fastrac purchased in 2024.
Based at Mursley in Buckinghamshire, the Tuckwells grow milling wheat and both forage and energy maize across the land they farm, and also provide a range of contracting services to other farms in the area. They are no strangers to the Fastrac, having bought four in 2019, replacing them with six in 2021, and swapping those out for another six in 2023.
Daniel Tuckwell (right) receiving the keys from Kevin Ludgate of Oliver Landpower Tingewick. Main picture: Robert and Daniel Tuckwell check out their latest fleet of Fastrac tractors.
“We have a policy of working with JCB and Olivers to change the fleet at what is judged to be the best time to extract the best residual value, because for us it’s all about ownership cost per hour,” explains Daniel Tuckwell, who runs the 3,800-acre farming and contracting operation with his father Robert. “So far, that’s worked out at around two years, with between 3,800 and 4,400 hours on the clock in the case of our latest change-over.”
The new six new Fastrac 4220s are all to the top-spec versions with a heated and ventilated leather-upholstered driver’s seat, heated front and rear windows, headland turn assist, a rear hitch camera feed to the touch-screen, and ISObus plug and play implement controls. Two of the seven tractors are equipped with fully-integrated satellite guidance with section control for light field cultivation.
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