Archive Article: 2002/06/21

21 June 2002

Its a long plough, even for a Gregoire Besson plough. In fact it has a total of 17 furrows and was used to create a new 24 hour ploughing record earlier this year on some very light ground and very large fields at Sanguinet, Bordeaux. The Massey Ferguson 8280 tractor is not all that it seems either. Normally rated at 288hp, engineers boosted output to 387hp for the record attempt which achieved 2251.376 ha (620 acres) in the allotted period.