JCB Archive: Best of Both Worlds

“A machine that was not only good for ploughing, drilling, spraying and so on but also when necessary was good on the road and on rough terrain,” The #JCB Fastrac featuring in the 1991 archive film ‘Best of Both Worlds’.
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[@Modlendingen]

Brilliant video, there is something about these old videos and how they are made that makes me remember the old days :)

[@danielsizer41]

What a brilliant video

[@MrTomo1188]

I've driven an early(ish) Fastrac (P reg) beast of a machine but bloodly loud

[@user-xe4zw9lr2d]

You want to have tried the 185/ 65 hauling a trailer with 18 tons of potatoes on the open road no problem.

[@denizdogan5087]

❤❤❤❤❤

[@bertnl530]

0:26. Doesn't driving at this speed affect the plough or the 3 point hinge?

[@stiegerstx500]

Don't know why they bothered with an ac system the ac isn't worth a shit in any 8250 or 8310 I've ever ran

[@denizdogan5087]

Yeşil Kart traktör fendt en yüksek hıza çıka bilir. Bunu sorunu yapmışlar
JBC traktör.
Tıpkı kece traktörlerin çok bol bulmuş yakıt yakmayı. Beygir gücü asrı yüksek.
Dört dörtlük içi mekan düşkün.

[@williamweller7428]

10:18

[@Pete68T]

Did JCB Never See a Unimog ?

[@franzk.3215]

Or a MB Trac 😁

[@Fngsouth]

Just before they got the idea for the fastrac i'd say.

[@golfy808]

Probably cost twice a normal tractor

[@straightsix9140]

It would have been ,as its twice the tractor ! Tractors of that era which were slow ,uncomfortable and simply not in the same league as Fastrac

[@mirkokonestabo8645]

@@straightsix9140 Nah, there were Mercedes Benz Unimog (1946) and MB Trac (1972), before JCB Fastrac. Pity MB sold MB Trac to Werner and MB Trac was later manufactured as LTS Trac, Doppstat Trac and WF trac

[@luxemburger_landwirtschaft]

@@mirkokonestabo8645 Fastrac was only produced after the MB tracs weren´t anymore. Also, MB trac wasn´t sold to Werner, but had to end due to a conract with Deutz-Fahr (and their Intrac) which had intended to produce a trac together but stayed unfulfilled. WF trac built their own, MB trac inspired tractor and LTS, later taken over by Doppstadt built some kind of a MB trac successor.

[@churchparkfarm3178]

Fantastic tractor but give me the Ford 8630 any time

[@thunderace3584]

MB Truck?

[@chrismarshall45]

Very good concept but inherently unreliable jcb are makers of quality earth moving equipment so please build some of that quality into the fastrac then perhaps in this part of the world it will lose its nickname of fastcrap

[@dieseldrivenpulvermos673]

It’s unreliable reputation comes from when idiots haven’t ran a fastrac an treet it like a normal tractor and ruin the clutch and gearbox quality machines if driven correctly and greased often have heard of 2140 fastrac doing 28,000 hours without mayor issues

[@JL_modding_7930]

No there very good fastracs are they have brand out an icon

[@straightsix9140]

​@@dieseldrivenpulvermos673 heard of a 3155 done 36,000 hrs and 260,000 miles .It was still a tidy tractor . God only knows how many earlier models covered as their clocks only went to 9999 , then round again ! If only they could talk ......

[@jonnybloggs6790]

@@dieseldrivenpulvermos673yeh very true …if anything major happens it’s usually operator error.