I won't say that we are behind or that Europe is ahead.
For a great many years the Big American companies imported many tractors from Europe.
Many were models they produced over there for sale there and here Ford, Massey, Case, IH, Oliver to name a few.
Also for many years the overseas tractors have made attempts some successful for awhile, some not
to establish a presence here.
As far as all the European tractors being small or fast not correct.
Also in our country and I don't know about Overseas the fast tractors had to have front suspensions and the tires had to be speed rated.
If your tractor didn't have those it would be speed limited to 25 mph in this country, even if it had the capability to run faster.
For many years the JCB's were the speed queens. Some of the larger dairy farms started using them to road haul with
till Law enforcement started ticketing them for exceeding 25 mph with SMV signs, it got changed in NY in 2019 to 36 mph.
As far as Europeans not having big tractors and equipment I know that Germany and France have some very large farms and the equipment
to farm them. Claas, Fendt and Valta come to mind. Certainly not small tractors.
It seems like many of the Italian and Scandinavian countries do have the majority of the smaller sized articulated and bi-directional
tractors. There have been several attempts to establish them in this county and the sales have never supported the continued
interest in the market.
So it's pretty simple really all of you that think that they would be the best thing since sliced bread go BUY one.
I priced one out this past summer and for an 80 Hp bi-directional well equiped with a cab and AC it was just shy of $90,000.
And it took me a few minutes to get my over sized carcass into the seat which was in a rather constrained space.
I could not have comfortably operated that tractor for 8 hours. They are available start buying and you will see more of them.
