Fendt Dieselross
The Fendt Dieselross was the second tractor that the technician Johann Georg Fendt brought onto the market. He built his Fendt brand and the owner-managed Fendt factory on the series of the same name .
History of the Fendt Dieselross
The first Dieselross series was produced as a small diesel tractor with 6 hp and launched on the market in 1930. It was the first European small diesel tractor to be equipped with a driving-independent mower and a mounted plow. The name Dieselross was chosen because the device should spare the farmer the horse. The small diesel tugs were built on a gasoline-powered small tug that Joh.Georg Fendt constructed from 1925 and which was ready for use in 1927. It already had the essential design features of the later Dieselross.
The first Dieselross was replaced in 1932 by the successor model F 9 with 9 hp and solid rubber tires; the vehicle also had a fully suspended front axle. The F 18 followed in 1937 with 16 hp and for the first time in Europe with a drive-independent PTO . The most successful model was the F 22, developed in 1938, with an upright engine and water cooling . With the high performance, farmers with a larger farm could also be addressed. The vehicle's two-cylinder engine and four-speed gearbox set standards that lasted into the 1950s.
After the start of the Second World War , the production and sale of diesel tractors were initially strictly regulated due to the shortage of fuel and later banned completely, so that in 1942 a tractor with a wood gas generator was built, the G 25 model. After the Second World War, Fendt built the Dieselross with air- and water-cooled engines with one, two or three cylinders and outputs from 12 to 40 HP. The range has been expanded in order to be able to respond to customer requests as specifically as possible and to establish the diesel tractor as a universal tractor. In 1949 the F 18 produced around 20 tractors per month and the small F 12 developed in 1952 went into large-scale production. By 1955 a total of 50,000 diesel horses had been built and sold.
The Fendt Dieselross F 12 type was built from 1954 to 1959. There was a water-cooled and an air-cooled version. The Dieselross F 12 GH (water-cooled) had 850 cm³, 12 HP and a standing single-cylinder MWM engine (type KD 12 E). It was intended for small or medium-sized farms and finally replaced the horse and cart as a field or tractor team. The Dieselross was available with a wide range of attachments, such as B. a cutter bar, a hydraulic hoist and numerous farm implements.
From 1959 the last Dieselross models FW 237 and FL 237 were transferred to the successor series Fendt Farmer with a modernization of the design and the technology.
literature
- Fendt, Schlepper und Traktor 1928–1975 , Volume 1, Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-613-02051-3 .
- 75 years of Dieselross: a success story , Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4793-9 .
- Albert Mößmer: Fendt Dieselross , GeraMond Verlag, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-86245-555-3 .
