Equipment Focus: Deutz Fahr demo day brings marque to its market

A tractor may impress with its look in a showroom and on the net, however to get the fact of the way it truly works and performs, a giant area and a few implements are required and that is exactly what Deutz Fahr organized just lately.

The corporate has held two demo days of late, the second being at Dunleer in Co. Louth, which gave each sellers and farmers the chance to take a look on the machines within the sticky circumstances of this autumn.

Tractors on show

The day had been organised together with Quail Equipment of Skerries, Co. Dublin, the Deutz Fahr seller for the realm, which additionally has the company for Pottinger, which additionally supported the occasion.

Deutz Fahr has not all the time appeared probably the most bold on the subject of advertising in Eire, though it’s all the time one of many high three manufacturers bought in Germany, together with Fendt and John Deere.

These two days marked a renewed curiosity by the corporate in elevating its profile right here.

To carry a profitable demo day you not solely want the individuals to attend, but in addition the product to draw them, and Deutz Fahr didn’t lack on this division by any means with 13 tractors on show, 10 of them working.

Of explicit curiosity in Eire are these tractors falling into the 120hp to 200hp bracket and the corporate has this section properly lined with at least 4 completely different sub teams inside its 6 Collection vary which spans this energy section.

Choice by transmission

To an off-the-cuff observer, the philosophy of the engineers at Deutz Fahr seems to be that the transmission kind is of as a lot significance as engine measurement and configuration on the subject of shopping for a tractor.

This method has its deserves as engine efficiency and reliability all through the business is extra evenly matched than it ever was, and so the eye shifts to different core components of a tractor in a bid to differentiate it from the competitors.

Deutz Fahr has settled upon providing 4 transmission choices, though they don’t seem to be all accessible throughout the board, and these themselves are variations on two gearbox varieties.

The primary is a mechanical 5 vary kind which has six splits, or ratios, inside every vary, giving 30 ahead speeds, whereas the second transmission kind are CVT models which are available in two completely different flavours.

The essential transmissions are the Energy Shift (PS) packing containers that are of mechanical drive and have the ranges chosen by gearstick with six powershift ratios in every vary.

Transfer on to the RC packing containers and the vary change can be operated by powershift.

Digital gears

Taking one other step up brings us to the CVT packing containers, the smaller of which is the RV mannequin which is a CVT unit that mimics the motion of stepped gearbox.

This association is exclusive to Deutz Fahr and has attracted combined critiques from the media with questions requested as to why burden a CVT with the constraints of a set ratio gearbox?

The reply is healthier understood when it’s realised that this field is barely accessible on the just lately launched 6.4 Collection which Deutz Fahr has designed as the final word crossover tractor between smaller stockman’s machines and bigger tillage instruments.

The operation of the field is straightforward, push the joystick ahead and it goes up a digital ratio, pull it again and it drops one.

This brings the simplicity and familiarity of powershift transmissions to CVT drives, in a sector the place tractor driving might not be the primary function of the operator.

It’s this 6.4 Collection of tractors, from 127hp to 171hp, which can be thought-about extremely appropriate to the Irish market the place grassland farmers are in search of adaptable machines and tillage clients nonetheless desire a unit that may deal with massive mounted implements.

If a full-on continually variable transmission is required, then the TTV gearbox matches the invoice and is Deutz Fahr’s very personal design and make of CVT.

It retains a two-range perform as the corporate believes this nonetheless provides higher financial system than a one-ratio unit, particularly if area work, quite than transport, is the main use.

The TTV transmission can be fitted to quite a few tractors within the 5 Collection on the different finish of the facility scale, though they’re aimed extra on the continental market.

Deutz Fahr cabs hold you linked

The cab is one other core part of a tractor and Deutz Fahr has fitted its medium to bigger tractors with a unit that’s each practical, snug and homely.

In the meanwhile at the very least, the corporate offers a working setting that doesn’t fake to be one thing greater than only a tractor.

Sat behind the wheel, the operator remains to be conscious that they’re driving a instrument of agriculture quite than an intergalactic categorical prepare.

There’s a correct dashboard and a reference to the bottom that another extremely fashionable tractors lack; it might not be all bells and whistles however you understand that you’re farming, with out the tough edges, and that, for a lot of, is a vital aspect of the job.

Pinpoint precision

Tractor firms can not let any alternative to point out off their digital expertise cross by and Deutz Fahr isn’t any exception with a powerful show of the accuracy of its RTK satellite tv for pc system.

Topcon offers the {hardware} for the tractors whereas the software program is produced by the corporate, with all of the options that we’ve got come to anticipate from satellite tv for pc navigation programs, together with headland turns and administration.

With the A-B baseline set within the system, the tractor situated the place it was, and the place it ought to be, and locked in on the traces in a really quick time.

The accuracy of its positioning was highlighted by David Jefferson, of SDF (Deutz Fahr’s father or mother firm) putting a 1c coin in the midst of the sector and marking its location on the display.

With cautious consideration to the display and a few regular driving it was potential to park the tractor proper subsequent to the coin and discover it within the stubble with little or no hesitation.

Being the highest finish RTK system, this result’s repeatable through the years because of the usage of a base station to appropriate for satellite tv for pc drift.

There is no such thing as a doubt that Deutz Fahr designs and builds a premium product and that product enjoys nice success in different markets.

By bringing the tractors out into the sector, the corporate has demonstrated not solely its competence, however its need to convey that gross sales success to Eire.