A new steel track crawler tractor will take to the field alongside its modern McCormick wheeled counterparts at a demonstration day being staged on Tuesday, March 3rd by Lincolnshire farm equipment dealership Robert H Crawford & Son.
The event marks the working debut of the Warrior STX350, the first full-size steel tracked tractor to be launched for some time. Crawfords have a long association with the Track Marshall products, as dealers when these machines were still produced in Gainsborough, as a manufacturer of ploughs for crawler tractors, and today as a major supplier of spares and fully refurbished examples.
Although rubber track tractors are now commonplace, Crawfords believe there is a still a market - albeit small - for a steel track machine because of the traction that can be achieved in wet conditions on a slippery surface.
Tractors like this are still popular in Italy for deep ploughing, especially in hilly areas, but they typically have engines with no more than 100-110hp. The Scaip Warrior packs a 350hp Cat engine, so it pitches into a more mainstream tractor power category.
The new machine will be demonstrated alongside the latest 'X generation' tractors that are transforming the McCormick range, including the 143-212hp X7 Pro Drive; the 111-176hp X6 and X6L tractors; and the smaller X4 and X5 models, all launched in Britain within the past 12 months after an unprecedented new product design and development programme by manufacturer Argo Tractors.
"The new McCormick tractors featured at the Crawfords event illustrate just how much work has gone into this programme," says Ray Spinks, sales director at McCormick distributor AgriArgo UK. "These modern tractors are bang up to date will all the features that owners and operators expect, so I hope farmers and contractors in Lincolnshire will take the opportunity to come and see and try them."
The event runs from 9.30am to 4.30pm at White House Farm, Carrington (PE22 7DZ) close to Robert H Crawford's premises at Frithville near Boston. Local farmers who turn up on their own tractors and take a McCormick for a spin qualify for a free Dyno test of their own machine.
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