VALTRA thread.

[phil phoenix]

I thought it might be fun to start a Valtra thread, as their 50+ year rise from a basic unremarkable foreign tractor maker into the modern day's coolest brand, available in any colour and configuration has been amazing.

I only started paying attention to them when they brought out the 3 series facelift models in 2013. So thought I would put up a nice video from Normac 2014 of mostly Valtra's working😎

 

Edited April 16, 2023 by phil phoenix

[phil phoenix]

I have next to no pictures of older Valtra's, I wish I had taken more of this nice blue facelift model at Grassland rather than the new at the time MF7626.

G's near Wissington started buying dark green Valtra's back in 2013 with this T183, they ended up with half a dozen of these by 2015 and now have at least 12 new shape T's & N's all in the same dark green.

 

[phil phoenix]

My earliest Valtra T pictures of the T4 (fat exhaust version) from 2016- early 2019.

The first T4 to arrive at TNS after they took on the franchise was a blue demo machine, and subsequently it took them 7 years to sell their first blue ones locally with a couple going out lately with black rims.  95% of Valtras leaving Littleport TNS branch were either black or grey until the past couple of years.

I wasn't seeing many about working locally until 2019. And notice none are on black rims, wherea's now most post 2020 machines round here are on black rims. 

 

[justy 46]

Tought I might pop this in here. We had a mini digger on hire a few weeks ago and this nice clean example was its transport.  Nice classic.. 

 

[phil phoenix]

Thats the spirit Justy, any other nice Valtra's just pin them on the thread chaps😎

[Paul Palmer]

 valtra T at a barn conversion im working on

[PDH]

A Black G? seen in September 2021 at a ploughing event

[CX820Joe]

A couple of Valtra photos I found on my phone.

A T4 seen near my ex's parents place with a Simba solo, and a T191 seen on the outskirts of Shrewsbury with a smaller Simba cultivator.

 

[phil phoenix]

One of a few new Valtra's on my patch this month, A brand new T255 which replaced a 4yr old black one. It was planting covercrop in fen soils to stop fen blow during summer. And just coming up the road as I took the picture was their other Valtra, a black & white T194 with the sugar beet drill.

[phil phoenix]

B & B tractors receiving their Q demonstrator😎

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[phil phoenix]

My local Dealers have got a burnt orange Q305 with Black rims. Pics will follow at a later date. Meanwhile they have just delivered the first new Q series machine😍................Beat that!!!!!

[justy 46]

A few more from the Andrew Ó Riordan tractor run 2 years back. Lots off Valtra around my area. Paudy Buckley of  Vicarstown is the main dealer nearby. 

Edited April 26, 2023 by justy 46

[phil phoenix]

Hopefully UH will bring out a metallic red one next or blue or both😁

[phil phoenix]

Heres a Valtra T just pulling into TNS yard whilst I was checking out the new machines.

[phil phoenix]

Just copied this picture of John Bownes Q305 Demonstrator at work, very smart colours😎

[phil phoenix]

G Shropshires known as Gs Salads have multi thousand acres of land with many different makes of tractors, owned & hired in.  On one farm near Wissington Beet factory they have a fleet of at least a dozen green Valtra's, Ns & Ts, here are some of the photo's from recent years.

 

Edited April 30, 2023 by phil phoenix

[phil phoenix]

And the latest adition sat in the dealers yard a month ago waiting delivery.

 

[EasyEd]

Hey All,

Wish I had something positive to contribute to this thread but I have no idea how far I would have to go to see a valmet/valtra here in north America. There was a dealership not far from where I lived in Alberta but it's gone. The dealerships seem to have disappeared. There is however it appears to me a slow steady infiltration of fendt dealers - nothing wrong with fendt. Grainnews had an article presenting fendt as the Cadillac brand as compared to Massey ferguson which would be the lower level budget brand. Would this be a deliberate Agco corporate strategy to gain market share for fendt since valmet/valtra apparently failed to do so? I found that interesting.

There are maybe - just guessing - a couple hundred valmet/valtra for sale in north America and I'm sure there are more in use. What they do for parts/service I've no idea. Do other Agco dealers support valmet/valtra to at least supply parts? 

kind of a bummer since valmet valtra is a favorite of mine.

-Ed-

[phil phoenix]

Valtra are part of the AGCO group and are the most individualistic brand on the market. Fendt also offer choice but are reknowned for the quality and innovation of their machines. 

[phil phoenix]

Heres Agribales lineup of tractors for 2023 baling season.  Wish I hadn't sold my MF big baler now.

[Jack390]

very smart fleet.