Tractors in Switzerland

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We just got back from a trip to Switzerland and Italy. Most of two weeks was in Switzerland but a couple of days in Italy. Switzerland is an amazing country, it’s mostly the Alps and passes and valleys. Very rugged mountains. The entire country is about 3.5 times smaller than Illinois.

First off everything is smaller, tractors, trucks, construction equipment and even barns. They also appear to do mostly hay although we did see some small corn fields. They also work some very steep ground so there tractors are built vey low. I also didn’t see end loaders on tractors but I did see some skid steers. This first one seemed to be a typical tractor, I have no idea who makes it. Bucher?
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This second one is the only bigger one I saw, a Fendt. They were using it to pull a dump trailer hauling fill at a construction site.
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This last picture shows is the typical farm. You can see some of the steeper ground. They have a lot of these little barns, some the size of a one or two car garage. Edit, it’s the first picture, I had trouble getting it in.
 
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Nice pictures, thank you for sharing tbem.
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Those fellows have nerves of steel,also snowplowing the roads.
 
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Pretty place! There are a number of interesting videos on YouTube showing how they harvest on the slopes. One machine swivels to keep the operator sitting straight up.
 
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I saw a smaller backhoe on a steep slope. It had these really long stabilizers that must have been extendable to about 30 feet. They were extended down hill and kept it on the hill side and leveled it.
 
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What I liked is the bells on each of the cows. It's musical to here them graze...
 
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My eldest son and his wife recently wint to S. France for a holiday. (we got the kids!) While there, they attended some sort of agricultural fair with lots of farm tractors , old and new.

I've looked into the Hurlimann tractor history. Swiss... They go back a long time.

Mine is the SL&H version, things have changed.

 

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