When Chrysler announced early in 2014 that the 2015 Ram 1500 pickup offering would include a diesel engine option, dealer orders poured in. The company was so inundated with demand for diesel 1500 Rams that it announced it would increase its planned production of diesel engine models to one out of every five Rams rolling […] Read more
Ram 1500 gets a factory diesel
Pickup Truck Special Feature: Chrysler’s Ram gets out in front of the half-ton competition with a diesel engine option, plus, Ram engineers stroke building a unique off-road truck off of their to-do list with the launch of the Rebel
A lighter, aluminum Ford F-150
Pickup truck special feature: Ford calls the 700-pound lighter edition of its bestselling pickup a “reinvention”
After 37 consecutive years as North America’s best-selling pickup, Ford hopes to keep that winning streak alive with the “reinvented” 2015, F-150. This year Ford became the first North American automaker to make extensive use of aluminum in a pickup truck body. But the list of design changes runs even deeper. In creating the backbone […] Read more
PHOTOS: Ford’s aluminum body F-150
No ordinary aluminum, this Ford is made with high-strength, military-grade, aluminum alloys
If the idea of all that aluminum makes you think this new lightweight “effie” is delicate compared to one with all-steel construction, Ford wants you to think again. The company even claims to have entered a “disguised” 2015 F-150 in the famous Baja 1000 desert race.
Configure your own Tundra
Pickup truck special feature: Toyota says it can offer buyers a full-sized truck matched to any need. With 10 models available, it’s hard to argue with that
Toyota is providing choices, it emphasized in its October press release, which announced the introduction of its 2015 full-sized Tundra pickup. There are, in fact, 10 different models of Toyota Tundra with enough trim options to create 25 different configurations. “Choice” might be an understatement. First, there is the 4×2 regular cab SR long bed […] Read more
How to identify blade fuses
Blade-type automotive fuses have been an industry standard since 1981. We take a look at the different types and how to identify the one you need
You’ll have to look pretty hard to find a new vehicle or farm machine that still uses glass-tube electrical fuses, although there are still many older working machines equipped with them; and some other electrical gadgets still use them. New vehicles and farm machines now almost exclusively use blade style, also known as plug-in, fuses. […] Read more
Getting up to speed
There was a time when if a salesman had to spend more than five minutes with you explaining how to operate a piece of farm equipment, you probably didn’t need it. If you really did, chances were high you already knew how to use it, because it worked like virtually all the others. On top […] Read more
Grainews surveys used equipment auction prices
What's it worth? We look at two New Holland four-wheel drive tractors: the T9040 and T9060
Welcome to another instalment of our regular feature that looks at auction sale prices for farm equipment. For each of these articles we pick a couple of popular machines and check the selling prices published online by the large auction firm Ritchie Bros., which holds sales all across the prairie. This time we look at […] Read more
Case IH updates the Maxxum and Farmall 100A Series tractors
Appealing to livestock producers, these two tractor lines in the 110 to 145 horsepower class are designed to work well with loaders
With livestock producers now enjoying the kind of commodity price surge grain and oilseed growers experienced from 2008 to 2013 (although BSE once again looms as a threat to that for Canadian cattlemen), it’s no surprise the major brands are ramping up the profile of tractors and equipment that are best suited to stock farms […] Read more
John Deere upgrades its digital product offerings
The brand’s online Operations Centre gets enhancements to expand functions and make it more user friendly
In February, John Deere announced some improvements to its suite of digital products. Among those were a software update for GreenStar 3 2630 monitors that provides a 20 per cent boost in processing speed. And the Machine Sync application gets expanded functionality, allowing two machines working in the same field to better share prescription map […] Read more
Grainews surveys used tractor selling prices
What's it worth? This time we take a look at a couple of Case IH four-wheel drives, one from the '80s and another from the '90s
In this instalment of our ongoing survey of used equipment auction prices we look at a pair of Case IH four-wheel drive tractors, each from a different decade: the 9370 from the 1990s and the smaller 4494 from the 1980s. Once again, we used Ritchie Bros. posted online auction results as our information source. Those […] Read more
Cyber-Savvy Farmer
