New Landini tractor is a smart mover for field and steading work in West Fife
Thu 13/10/2016
When a tractor’s workload involves three diet feeder mixes a day, 365 days of the year, if there’s one thing it needs, it is reliability.And having experienced the assured performance of the previous tractor given this task – a Landini Powerfarm 100 – Robert and Sharon Buchanan at Pow Farm, Powmill by Dollar had little hesitation replacing it with a newer, more modern model.
“The Powerfarm 100 had clocked up 4500hrs with no serious issues but reliability is paramount for a feeder tractor so it came time to replace it,” says Mr Buchanan, who produces beef and milks 200 commercial Holstein Friesians on the 440-acre all-forage farm.
“I wanted a simple and relatively compact tractor but of good quality rather than cheap and nasty,” he adds. “It also had to be very manoeuvrable for steading work – and that’s what we’ve got with the Landini 4-100.”
The tractor is used twice daily on a diet feeder all year round and is also pressed into service on a slurry pump as well as at silage-making time with a tedder and rake.
The tractor’s busy workload saw it clocking up 1600 hours in its first 15 months on the farm and such has been the satisfactory performance that another Landini has followed it on to the farm – this time a more powerful 113hp 5-115H – complete with a Landini’s MClassic loader from local dealer George Colliar.
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