After last week’s classics, the focus is now on the present times in agriculture. Which means, among many other things, that each and every land vehicle has a safe and comfortable cab.
All pictures were taken at the local 2024 and 2025 Harvest Days in the southeast of the Netherlands, held annually at the same location, always in the second weekend of August (consequently, the organization never needs to change the event’s promotional signages).
2025 John Deere 6R-215 with a 2017 Bos land leveling machine.
2014 Fendt 722 Vario with a GRS seedbed combination (at the front) and a Lemken Solitair 9 pneumatic seed drill.
Two Pöttinger disc mowers, attached to a Deutz-Fahr 6180 TTV Warrior.
Maximizing the cutting width, a 2020 John Deere 6155R Ultimate Edition with three Krone disc mowers.
2021 John Deere 6155R Premium Edition, towing a new Joskin Silo-Space 2 480D silage wagon.
The Joskin’s rearmost axle with its suspension and steering system.
Articulated wheel loaders take part in the silage storage process at the farms, here’s a 2020 Volvo L90H.
And a 2024 JCB 427, powered by a 6.7 liter Cummins engine.
Over to the supporting acts with a 1999 DAF 95XF-380 Space Cab 6×2*4 farm machinery transporter, equipped with a winch and a knuckle boom crane.
The 1997 95XF was the first major update of the 1987 95-series. It got a new 12.6 liter engine, replacing the venerable 11.6 liter, and a much-improved interior.
2018 Scania S450 6×2*4 curtainsider.
2015 Scania P250 4×2 box truck, powered by a 9.3 liter, inline-five turbodiesel. Striking livery!
2024 Volvo FM Electric 6×2 hooklift truck. More and more electric heavy trucks and tractors appear on our roads.
Today’s final piece (of equipment), a Volvo EWR150E that can dig it. Unlike tracked excavators, wheeled excavators are street-legal. Therefore, they have always been utterly common.
With colour and brand variations most of that stuff is familiar especially the Volvo wheel digger I followed one for a week or so clearing roadside water tables after a severe storm, it was towed about on a loloader trailer from site to site with the tipper I was driving,
Tractors these days are really close to being “world design” compatible although front mounted 3 point hitches are not being used much here in the US. Is the Lemken seed drill a conventional grain drill or is it for narrow row crops?
September corn silage harvest was always my favorite time of year and the Joskin silage wagon looks great.
Narrow row crops, the row spacing for that Lemken model is 12.5 cm – 15.0 cm (4.9” – 5.9”).
In Central Europe, Joskin goes all the way with a tridem axle semi-trailer, preferably towed by a Tatra 6×6 tractor. Capacity 87 m³ (114 yd³). We’ll never see such a combination at work in NL.
impressive and surely keeps up with a big CLAAS harvester
Great selection of photos. Haven’t been to a farm show in years. (Thursday/Friday spent loading for Saturday market) Claas choppers and Fendt tractors are what we see most of here in the Shenandoah Valley. Fast and very powerful for chopping corn or spreading manure.
Claas dominates the market for combines and harvesters here too. They’ve got an excellent, long-standing reputation.
New Holland, John Deere, and Fendt are the most sold tractor brands.