r/farmingsimulator25

I was hauling a semi trailer of corn to the sell point and it felt like the truck was so lagging on power to get there. I dont remember the other FS games bei g like this.

Despite our tendency to want to crown a GOAT in all comparisons, there really isn’t a such thing when it comes to medium tractors in Farm Sim 25. It’s a broad category that covers a wide spread of options and they all come with unique personalities that will appeal to various preferences and budgets.

As someone who came into the game with no brand loyalties, I decided to indulge my ignorance and try them all out over a couple thousand hours operating the full gambit of tasks. Here are some strengths (and negatives) across the category according to my experience with them:

Bang-For-the-Buck: Fiat 180-90-DT - front equipment capable, front-end-loader, drives nicely, can handle any job from 180hp down, which is pretty much everything on a small to medium farm, all for $75k!

Coolest: Valtra T255 Versu - super customizable (including colors) and the only medium that is reverse-driving capable. 271 max HP is a drag and I found the maintenance was constant and expensive, but it’s certainly fun and unique.

Budget Puller: Deutz Fahr AgroStar 8.31 - lack of front-end options are a drag, but for pulling < 230hp implements, you can’t go wrong with the cheap and reliable $90k green box.

Best Puller: John Deer 6R 250 - you barely feel the tools driving this well-rounded tractor around. It’s too cushy for my tastes, but if you want to yank a few thousand liters of cow shit around a field in a Rolls Royce, this tractor is your best bet.

Workhorse: Steyr Absolut 6280 CVT - It handles like an “Absolut” tank, very difficult to spin out or oversteer. With front and rear equipment hookups and front-end loader capability, it can handle any task, and feels and sounds like a tractor while doing it. It usually gets the most hours on my farms because it hits the sweet spot of 300hp, all the hookups, and rock-solid performance and reliability. Bonus points to its white paint proudly showing off the mud and manure from an honest day’s work.

The Supercar: Deutz Fahr Series 8 TTV Warrior - the matte black-trimmed option along with a whispering exhaust make this speed-demon feel like you’re piloting a stealth fighter. It’s smoother and faster than a Steph Curry 3 and I love driving it, but its 287 hp is a drag at the second highest price tag.

Death Trap: Fendt 728 Vario - It cooks at 37mph, looks awesome, and I know the community loves it. But I can’t drive this kamikazi coffin. All my most spectacular crashes have come in it. I steer clear of the Marktoberdorf Drifter and get my Fendt fix from the bigger 1050.

Best Looking: the blood red/black rim McCormick X8631 is dead sexy, no? Not sure how practical a tractor that you’d hate to get muddy is though:(

What are some of your favorites? Any tractors I didn’t mention that you feel have definitive strengths?

I always see the AgroStar 8.31 listed as everyone’s go-to budget tractor, and I followed the herd for months. Then I tried out this beautiful machine and I’ll never go back.

Advantages of the Fiat 180-90 DT over the Deutz Fahr AgroStar 8.31:

1. Front end equipment. For me this is pretty huge. This tiny tractor can handle the cheap duo Kuhn mower setup or add a front seed/fertilizer tank to a seeder/planter (can then handle big cotton/grain fields). It also makes it more useful as a shuttle since some mulchers etc… can be front mounted for transport.

2. Driving - it has very little pause from stop in both directions. The turning radius is amazing. It’s not a complete snail in reverse. It feels more mechanical than the modern tractors but is still really smooth which makes it a dream to zip around in. It is pretty squat so it can take turns pretty quickly without a bunch of oversteer. Normal tires are surprisingly ideal, can handle fields/equipment just fine.

3. Maintenance - it’s doesn’t wear down quickly and is dirt cheap to maintain when you do take it in.

4. Cost - $15k-ish less. Not a huge amount but why pay more for less capability?

The only benefit to the AgroStar is 230 hp > 180 hp, which on the surface seems like a lot! But if you look at the actual implements, 180 is really about the peak requirement of the better non-huge tools, and 230 isn’t enough to get to that next tier anyway (300 is where you can handle some of the direct-drill/fertilizer combos, the bigger mulchers and rollers etc…).

At 180hp you can handle a Dalbo PowerChain disc harrow, the Lemken Solitaire 12 seeder, the Kverneland Optima RS planter, the Knoche Speedmax 560 mulcher, the Kuhn GMD front and rear mowers, the Dalbo Maxiroll 630 grass roller, and the Vaderstad Rexius 1240 roller. That’s an entire farm’s worth of great equipment.

I really don’t see any tools in the 180-230hp range that make up for the four advantages I mentioned of the little Fiatagri!

I have had both on the same farms a few times and I always find the Fiat ends up with a lot more hours because it’s simply more useful and fun to drive.

WTF !! There has to be a better way to load logs on a trailer than having to use the crane that uses like six different controls to put logs on something that has holes in it. I have not yet been able to get a single log to load on the damn trailer.

In fs18 for my tablet this same piece of equipment automatically grabs the logs and puts them on the trailer if you get close enough to the logs with the crane enabled. Why is this automatic functionality not available. As you can see I have a crap load of logs to load. The Scorpion Harvester works close to the same except for I have to manually tell it to cut a few more times which I can handle.

I got myslef a 1/32 scale John Deere 9R 640. I love this tractor. Im tryna get one in Farm Sim too! I added a couple pics I took of the real one I saw at a jobsite in Virginia.

Hi,

I've been adjusting video settings left and right, but can't figure how to get ground textures to load normally instead of them getting reloaded a few meters in front of me all the time which completely breaks immersion.

Pls see the video.

Hope you guys will enjoy this one! We are taking map “forest Hills” and making one MASSIVE off-road course across the whole map! Here’s just the beginning.

Yes this will be an open server you guys can play on once done!

Hi guys, bought fs25 year 1 bundle on ps5. Had experience of playing fs in mobile from fs14. Wanted to play this on ps since many years. Recently bought ps5. Excited to play this now. Wish me good luck with this fantastic sim for farming.