European Tractors

Could be because they run them on the roads a lot of the time. I think the european tractors are geared higher in high gear. They get right out and fly. They had a traffic trap set up last time I was in Germany and they were giving a trac and spreader as ticket just before I got one. Wife was going to take a picture and the cops told her she could not
 
Just guessing but they drive their tractors down narrow roads with traffic going from field to field. I believe their tractors are also faster so I assume the front fenders are to keep things from hitting the traffic.
 
When I was there in the 60's many of them were used as cars to go to the store. Load the family in the cab and go to town. You see a lot of big JD in Manheim and I think there is a JD factory there so they may drive them to the fields to test them
 
(quoted from post at 19:17:44 10/12/19) Why do the European tractors have front fenders where as the US tractors do not. What is different?

European farms tend to have sallee fields and the are more spread out. So European tractors have to do more on road miles going between fields.

Fenders are used and in some countries mandatory to keep tractors from throwing up dirt clods from the tires and hitting oncoming vehicles when on the road

Grouse
 
Most European tractors have a much higher road speed than their US cousins. 30-40 MPH is not uncommon, some even faster. Also they are used on paved roads much more than the average US tractor. European farmers rarely have a truck of any kind. This includes pickup trucks. So tractors, using trailers of various types, do the job grain trucks and semis do in the US. Also they usually do not range as far as the average US farmer does taking grain to market and such. It is common in the US for grain to be hauled 50-100 miles by the farmer, even further in the western states. So tractor speeds, even faster ones, are not as practical in the US.
 
Here is probably why they need fenders.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TELNIG1_NR0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TELNIG1_NR0
Not your average Hanomag
 
We started seeing front fenders on tractors a few years back, but they are an option .
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I got them put on my last new tractor, and I will never buy another new tractor with out front fenders now. We live on gravel roads, and it is a five mile trip between farms. In the winter and spring , the roads are often wet , and the front tires throw so much mud up on the cab windows and side doors, that you can?t see out. With front fenders this is no longer a problem.
 
What tractors have you been looking at?? Our tractors have had front fenders since the late 90s. Maybe its just a JD thing.
 
Tractors here had them since the 80s!
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This is for sale in 🇨🇦 canada but same tractors as were sold here .
 
We?ve opted to have them on our last few loader tractors. It might not be so bad if you don?t have cattle and your normally not playing in the mud. If you?re barreling down the road to go get whatever after going through slop in a wet rutted area to feed cattle you or your windshield gets plastered with mud from the front lug tires unless you either have front fenders or travel at a snails speed for the first half mile down the road. We always take them off at the onset of winter, if your trudging around deep hard packed snow they can get torn off. The grounds hopefully froze then anyways and muds not an issue.
 
When visiting over there you see allot of tractors running the roads pulling trailers that we pull with our HD pickups. You don't see the big diesel pickups running around over there like you do here so they use tractors instead. Most tractors are 4 wheel drive which those ag tires get filled with mud they throw it all over when you hit the pavement at 25-30 mph which most newer tractors can travel at.

I see allot of front fenders on the newer tractors here in the states. I wanted to put them on my new Kubota I purchased last year but balked at the 1000 dollar option. I still may put them on as it throws dirt and stones up with the ag tires on the front when you run at any speed or get into the mud in a field. They would pay for there self if you were to bust a window or somethoing on the cab.
 

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