I don't know if they are actually tougher than a JD or MF, but you don't see videos of tractors in North America getting worked that hard.
They must have a really strong frame and rear end to take that, lots of iron. If their gear trans were equally tough,
plain and simple wins the day. Or at least keeps running.
As Hill Farmer mentioned they do have a few interesting features along with their short comings in other areas.
On the liquid cooled model's they have a goofy little blind type roller thing in front of the rad that is adustable from the cab. Some thought it was because they don't have thermostates but its actually for cold weather operation instead of sticking some card board in front of the rad etc.
They also have a little flapper valve on the intake mainfold you can pull close to prevent an engine run away.
It has a shiftable pto from 540 to 1000 which is handy. I just leave the 540 shaft in all the time and when I run a 540 pto driven auger I shift it to 1000 drive and run the engine at 1200 or so. For my 1000 drive grain vac I just slip a 540 to 1000 adapter on the 540 shaft.
It has a separate self contained hydraulic tank with pump. Now at first I thought this wasn't a good idea as all my other tractors have common sump for the trans/diff and hydraulics using your typical THD oil. Till one time I had a bearing go out of one of my old CASE transmissions and get filings into everything including my powershift valve body which caused more grief :thumbdown:. Also on my 825 Belarus if you don't need the hydraulics you can shift the hydraulic pump out of gear. Which we've done when we used it for square baling years ago. Why bother having the hydraulics running all day for nothing. It has a spearate power steering pump on the engine and its own reservoir.
For cold starts it has a little tiny tank that holds diesel on top of the intake manifold. With a little gizmo in the intake manifold so that when you push a button a element heats up red hot. Then when you crank it over it allows diesel to drip down on the element creating a diesel vapor which makes for better starting. My Valtra has the same sort of system.
The disc brakes are external and servicable out side the trans housing after a steel cover is removed like on my Old Case 970. Some tractors they're internal and when the linings wear out pieces of linning go into places it shouldn't and cause issues.
The 825 has no spin on oil filter or paper air filter elment. They use a centrifical oil spinner filter system you have to pull a part and wash out with varsol. The air filter is oil bath with a combinations of 3 plastic filter type mesh elements you clean out as needed. The newer models though have switched to normal air cleaner paper elements and spin oil filters. Although I see some newer ones have both the spin on filter plus the centrifical spinner.
Amoung other lower cost import tractors they are a heavier tractor in their size and hp class. For example a
Mahindra 8560 MFD Cab tractor @ 83hp wieghs 8122lbs. The eqivalent
Belarus/MTZ @ 85hp wieghts 9472lbs However the Manhindra has more options & a more modern look so I guess its what you're looking for in a tractor.
In other parts of the world tractors are used for farming along with just transportation, pulling trailers and even ...
racing if you can believe it. So with economics and availabity they typically run their equipment a long time no matter what brand it seems.
