October 9, 2007

Challenger: The World’s biggest tractor cultivates a new World Record

644ha cultivated in 24hrs
By cultivating an area the size of a football field every two minutes, the world’s biggest tractor – a 570hp, AGCO Challenger MT875B has set a new world record. In 24hrs it cultivated a massive 644ha – or 780 football fields – working with a set of 14m wide Grégoire Besson XXL discs.

The world record was established near Timisoara, Romania, with operator, Grégoire Besson’s Benoit Verdin, driving the tractor for the entire 24hr period. The discs were set to a minimum depth of 10cm in medium to heavy clay loam soil.

In 24 hours the machines covered an area 6.4km long by 1km long, which is equivalent to a 155mm wide strip passing around the equator!

The average workrate for this standard production Challenger MT875B tractor was 26.8ha/hr – a rate of over 30 football fields every hour. But it achieved this at a remarkably low fuel consumption of just 4.42 litres/ha.

This proves the MT875B rubber tracked tractor is the ideal solution for large-scale agribusiness producers who are aiming for the ultimate in productivity and the lowest cost per hectare of production.

This world-beating output and efficiency demonstrates how using the latest technology, agri-businesses across the globe can cut production costs. For example, the Challenger MT875B Auto-Guide automatic steering system allowed the tractor to work at forward speeds of up to 20km, day and night and ‘see’ through high dust levels. This not only relieves the stress on the driver, it also eliminates over- or under-lapping by accurately steering the tractor in precise straight lines parallel to the previous pass.

The rugged design and high engineering standards of the Grégoire Besson XXL discs meant these also performed faultlessly in the demanding conditions.

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