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John Deere 8300 240hp: |
| John Deere 8300 240hp Used for main cultivations with an eight furrow semi-mounted Kuhn plough and for establishing crops using a 6m Lemkin Power Harrow/Drill Combination unit. |
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The rated horsepower is a maximum of 250, which is sufficient to pull the largest tilling equipment that we have on the farm. The gross weight of the tractor alone is 8.4 metric tons which is carried on Michelin low ground pressure tyres. This tractor is our main power unit, and does over |
| 1000 engine hours a year, as it will run almost every day from the beginning of July with the start of the harvest season, all the way through to November, when the last of the winter wheat is drilled. We expect this tractor to last approximately six to seven years at this kind of usage level. |
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| The photopgraph on the left shows this tractor pulling a power harrow/drill combination drilling winter wheat. |
| If this were a family car, running at this engine speed for this length of time, it would have travelled the equivalent of 120,000 miles within two years. Or over its lifetime this tractor will have completed the equivalent of 360,000 car miles. |
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