Crazy wide trike tractor in action | Start season 2026 with team blue | Onion planting
25-01-2026
Dutch farmers are known worldwide for their trike conversion of farm tractors. This has two big advantages. 1: the soil is equally compacted across the full width of the machine and 2: it is very manoeuvrable on the headlands of the field. You can see both of these points during this video. In this case a New Holland T7.270 is converted in to a trike configuration. Both front wheels are hydraulically driven and thanks to the dual rear wheels the tractor is 4.5m wide. Onion sets (or set onions) are being planted here using a Warrens Delta Planter mounted on the back of a Maschio power harrow. The outfit is 4.5m wide as well, planting two 2.25m wide beds per pass. These onions are planted late January and can be harvested late June or early July, depending on the growing season. The field of light and fertile silt soil, where a cover crop has been growing, is first ploughed using a second New Holland T7.245 and 6 furrow Pöttinger reversible plough. The machinery belongs to large scale Dutch arable farm Firma van Es, located in the South West of the Netherlands.