New-look Landini Rex and other specialist tractors at LAMMA 2016

A new look version of the Landini Rex purpose-designed orchard/vineyard tractor will be at LAMMA for the first time as part of a range of low, narrow and high clearance tractors available for specialist growers,

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The latest Rex has a redesigned bonnet made from stronger and more weather resistant materials, and a refreshed cab with upgraded features.

However, the new Rex continues to provides the same technical solutions that fruit growers appreciate and continues in F (narrow orchard), GE (low orchard) and GT (large orchard, open field) versions.

All are powered by fuel-efficient Perkins three- and four-cylinder engines with outputs from 68-110hp. A choice of 12x12, 15x15 and 30x30 speed transmissions with mechanical or power shuttle makes the most of the power available for different applications.

Being displayed alongside is the evergreen Mistral compact, commonly used for pulling ‘fruit trains’ through orchards at harvest before being put to lighter duties such as mowing and spraying for weed control, and other jobs that need a small but capable, durable and reliable tractor.

Liked for its easy-to-drive character, comfort (in open and cabbed formats) and grippy but still highly manoeuvrable four-wheel drive, the Mistral is available in four models with 35-54hp and is increasingly used as a scraper tractor on dairy farms.

Details will be available on the newly-launched Landini 5-D High Clear, which has two- or four-wheel drive from large diameter row crop wheels all round.

Improved power characteristics and fuel economy result from a new engine with 85hp, 95hp and 102hp outputs.

Further improved fuel economy comes from choosing the new 540/540E pto option, which gives the required shaft speed at either maximum power or at almost 30% lower engine revs.

Information on Valpadana specialist tractors – a sister brand of Landini from manufacturer Argo Tractors – will also be available.