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Ever wake up to something you never knew you wanted, but now totally need? That, my friends, is a speed record-setting tractor, here to haul the hay much faster than you can call the cows home.

British industrial equipment manufacturer JCB has broken the top speed record for tractors, hitting 103.6 miles per hour in a modified version of its Fastrac 8000. In case you forgot, the previous ...

SINGAPORE, July 5, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- JCB has set a new British speed record for tractors with its high-speed Fastrac tractor. The tractor notched up 103.6mph at Elvington Airfield, near York, with ...

THE JCB Fastrac celebrates its 10th birthday this year, but work on what was then called the High Mobility Vehicle or HMV was already underway in the mid-1980s after JCBs top management team had given ...

In October 1945, J. C. Bamford rented a garage in England, purchased a welder, and made an all-steel farm trailer from war surplus parts. Soon he added hydraulics to tip the trailer’s box. Next ...

Say hello to the JCB Fastrac Two, or WFT, the world’s fastest tractor as certified by the Guinness World Records earlier this year. Driven by former bike racer Guy Martin, the modified tractor set a ...

A modified JCB Fastrac has set a new world tractor speed record of 135.191 mph (217.570 km/h), which was the average of two high-speed runs conducted at Elvington Airfield in the United Kingdom and ...

JCB has broken the record for the world’s fastest tractor. Its Fastrac Two hit a two way average of 135.91mph at Elvington Airfield in York. The run eclipses the previous record-breaking speed of ...

This time last year we pitted JCB’s Fastrac 4220 against a Fendt 724 Vario to see just how close the high-speed specialist’s in-field performance could get to that of a top-spec conventional tractor.

This article is brought to you by our exclusive subscriber partnership with our sister title USA Today, and has been written by our American colleagues. It does not necessarily reflect the view of The ...