Finally we get to show you tractors! Big tractors! As we’ve seen, they’re useful in war situations too. So enjoy! In this episode, Francesca Chiorando goes inside the largest tractor factory in the UK to see how they build their newest bespoke tractor. We now know that tractors can steal big weaponry. For more manufacturing big stuff: Mega Manufacturing - Airbus A350: ruclips.net/video/Yutzg2NLwcU/видео.html #freedocumentary
Fun fact: this plant used to belong to Ford. Shame they didn’t mention this when they said it had been open since the 60s I grew up going past the plant nearly every day as a child growing up in Basildon.
@@michaelhall7546 Case are red. The company is CNH or Case New Holland and these models are assembled as both brands and also in the Austrian Case assembly plant. Most mid range Case tractors for North America used to be built at Basildon, UK but most of the Case tractors sold in the UK were and are made in Austria. Go figure.
Are any of these New Holland tractors made for the U.S market?. Basildon plant is actually Henry Fords U.K tractor operations. It's now a brand of Fiat geotech of Italy.
Totally. More important now more than ever. Too much dependence on totalitarian regimes. Not that switching over to Qatar for gas and oil is any better really.
It's interesting that this is an assembly and test facility, not a manufacturing plant. The actual creation/manufacturing of the components is all done elsewhere, no doubt where it's cheaper. Well made video all the same.
Yes, the engines are machined and assembled in Italy and most transmissions are machined and assembled in Belgium, matched with Italian axles front and back. French cab frames. Very little UK content so it remains to be seen how the new Brexit UK content regulations will effect this assembly-only factory. The work done in Basildon can be done in any adapted shed anywhere with very little capital investment.
It was a bit misleading in truth, the engines 'produced' at the plant and sent elsewhere has nothing more than paint applied in the UK. All quietly never mentioned. Screw driver plant and little more. We have come along way.
In 2001 I worked for roush technology in Brentwood Essex ( they do mustangs and Ford GT40 stuff) it was my work experience I was 15, they took me to this factory one day for a tour .. it was amazing !
Since this was made which is well over 5 years ago both myself, Kevin Passingham and the plant manager Bob Shirley have retired and the HD tractors are no longer built at Basildon but hey what a great documentary
Case and New Holland is the same company = same machines! And 300HP is definitely not middle of the road, as most tractors have less than that and don't need more.
Yeah I laughed at that. Even back in the late 90s our tractors were over 450hp. Our new one I think is 620hp. Even that struggles to start with a 70 foot cultivator.
Always interesting watching these videos as someone who works there. Although this video was uploaded a few weeks ago, this must've been filmed a long time ago as a lot has changed. The HD's are no longer built in Basildon unfortunately
Very impressive and well run Manufacturing Plant. Highly skilled technicians and management that is making sure all the parts are available and the Tractor assembly line is moving as planned. It is amazing the Engineering that goes into all the machines we use from Tractors, Automobiles, Jet Airplanes and many more that we see that makes our economies function, they are Modern Miracles.
I noticed that pretty much every person was clean cut and well dressed. American plant workers look like bikers, bums and homeless people. Not all , but enough to notice. I did see some Case IH in the background. They should have been mentioned. I toured the Case IH plant in Fargo ND that makes the big articulated tractors, there were a very few NH versions there. Its impressive what these tractors can do now, but older used tractors are selling for insane money because they work and can be fixed without proprietary software.
loved watching this. I feel it takes a great artist and talented mechanic to build anything really... but once you break it down to basic assembly line manufacturing, you lose that, and basically a monkey could do it. Very different from how we do things at our body shop. I hope the art is never lost
Saw one or two red roofs. Wonder if CASE IH Optum series is manufactured there as well. New Holland T7 is the mid-frame high-horsepower series. The Optum series is basically the same tractor with a few operator control differences and a red n black plant scheme.
Yeah maybe, wonder if the T6 is made there. I have a case maxxum and thats made in Austria. Not sure if nh and case have their own factories or they make both in the same since they are practically the same, with the exception of a few small cab tweaks and different colour scheme
@@Matthew-nc9vm yeah, did a quick search and it looks like a lot of CASE IH and Steyr series are built at that Austria plant. I guess if a couple separate plants make cabs and transmissions for both brands, it wouldn't be surprising if they had different assembly plants. Just thought it was odd there was a couple red n black cab roofs in this video.
@@farminstoltzfus Case red for N America are made in UK but those sold in UK are made in Austria. Small ones made in Italy mostly while the articulated and tracked tractors are made in North America.
The docs are amazing. I can't help but wonder, now that the UK has left the EU I wonder how much more expensive these tractors are now. New Holland Basildon doesn't actually make the tractor they just assmble premade components. Everything is made in the EU....another consideration not taken. Sucks to be in the UK.
I could have enjoyed this but, alas, too many contradictions in the commentary and at times sounding like it had been written by the PR dept. 2 million tractors sold, where, worldwide, europe? It goes on with incomplete facts.
It varies over time and models. For T6 and T7 the radiators, or some of the several on each tractor, may be made in the UK. Not sure about wiring looms. Some tyres. Not much really.
@@steviespice3037 Ford pulled out or sold its tractor division to Fiat just before the launch of the 40 series, so that would be back in the very early 1990’s. However they still machined and assembled engines at Basildon, albeit with no forging facility, so blocks, cranks and other major parts were imported to be finished at Basildon, until the demise of the Powerstar or Genesis engine when the TM series and 40 Series were replaced. At that time, Iveco/CNH NEF engines were fitted. These are imported from Italy.
As no doubt your girlfriend has reassured you 'Size isn't everything'. If bigger tractors were needed they would be built. And these are exported to over 120 countries so they must be doing something right.
@@robertshaffner707 While I am sorry to hear that my comment deliberately had a humorous angle to lighten to mood. And can I gently suggest that you Americans should sometimes think twice before bragging?
What would you want to do that for? There's no brag, different machine different job, like in UK we generally don't use dual wheels anymore, just modern big tyres. Different jobs different machine. 300 hp is way bigger than what is used on most UK and many European farms.
@@bigteddy66 true that. But she seems to be trying to portray that 315hp is absolutely unbelievable hp. There is correct equipment used for specific applications and purposes agreed, but i didn't think she understands. We use 210hp draggers for our applications, and they are perfectly suitable
@@Apollo-333 Both are important. So is fuel economy and reliability. The CNH/Iveco NEF family of engines have been work-proven to be superb in every way.
Most powerful army in the Ukraine is the farmers ....they just keep pulling russian scrap iron off their fields ....... too bad a tank is useless in a farm application.......but the scrap metal price is good lol
Plenty around here that have done 15,000 hard hours. I have a Basildon assembled NH8360 tractor [an earlier version of TM155] that has just crossed 10,000 hours, mostly doing loader work and filling silage clamps with a large rear mounted buckrake. Very few issues. Main one being a synchromesh hub in the Range Command semi-powershift 18 forward 6 reverse transmission.
Finally we get to show you tractors! Big tractors! As we’ve seen, they’re useful in war situations too. So enjoy!
In this episode, Francesca Chiorando goes inside the largest tractor factory in the UK to see how they build their newest bespoke tractor. We now know that tractors can steal big weaponry.
For more manufacturing big stuff: Mega Manufacturing - Airbus A350: ruclips.net/video/Yutzg2NLwcU/видео.html
#freedocumentary
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I love this type of documentaries
Good.
@@FreeDocumentary Oh, hello.
Damn I miss Ford tractors! New Holland wears the Ford blue very nice though.
“The driver floors the throttle” *cuts to him pushing the brakes*
Fun fact: this plant used to belong to Ford. Shame they didn’t mention this when they said it had been open since the 60s
I grew up going past the plant nearly every day as a child growing up in Basildon.
I thought they were Ford until they said New Holland. Here in the states, ford tractors are blue and most New Hollands are red
@@michaelhall7546 .wrong I own a Ford and a new holland.
@@ramiroescamilla3956 where you farm bro?
@@michaelhall7546 Case are red. The company is CNH or Case New Holland and these models are assembled as both brands and also in the Austrian Case assembly plant. Most mid range Case tractors for North America used to be built at Basildon, UK but most of the Case tractors sold in the UK were and are made in Austria. Go figure.
@@hedydd2 Interesting. I'm not a farm hand but I live in Arkansas USA so we see a lot of tractors. Thanks for the info
I got a tour of this place when I was In school it's amazing how well clean organised it was
They got the music spot on in the dangerous roads series, but whoever's choosing the background music for this just doesn't get it at all.
Talk about the demand on today's farmers
Having to tow tanks with them
I use to work there i was there for 34 years, a lot have chang & there were 5,000 people working there
Are any of these New Holland tractors made for the U.S market?.
Basildon plant is actually Henry Fords U.K tractor operations.
It's now a brand of Fiat geotech of Italy.
I'm glad this kind of thing still exists in the developed country. I thought they all move to China.
Totally. More important now more than ever. Too much dependence on totalitarian regimes. Not that switching over to Qatar for gas and oil is any better really.
@@FreeDocumentary So. Renewables have failed. Can't deliver reliable or enough energy.
@@FreeDocumentary Thanks teacher.
@@FreeDocumentary > Most totalitarian regimes of the last 500 years have been in Europe.
It's interesting that this is an assembly and test facility, not a manufacturing plant. The actual creation/manufacturing of the components is all done elsewhere, no doubt where it's cheaper. Well made video all the same.
Yes, the engines are machined and assembled in Italy and most transmissions are machined and assembled in Belgium, matched with Italian axles front and back. French cab frames. Very little UK content so it remains to be seen how the new Brexit UK content regulations will effect this assembly-only factory. The work done in Basildon can be done in any adapted shed anywhere with very little capital investment.
It was a bit misleading in truth, the engines 'produced' at the plant and sent elsewhere has nothing more than paint applied in the UK. All quietly never mentioned. Screw driver plant and little more. We have come along way.
In 2001 I worked for roush technology in Brentwood Essex ( they do mustangs and Ford GT40 stuff) it was my work experience I was 15, they took me to this factory one day for a tour .. it was amazing !
Why this is so addictive? In my opinion... Awesome 😎
Thank you FD!
Since this was made which is well over 5 years ago both myself, Kevin Passingham and the plant manager Bob Shirley have retired and the HD tractors are no longer built at Basildon but hey what a great documentary
Love watching these when I'm having a bad day.
Would love to see one of these on some big tractors like CaseIH or Deer. 300* HP is pretty middle of the road in tractors.
Case and New Holland is the same company = same machines! And 300HP is definitely not middle of the road, as most tractors have less than that and don't need more.
Yeah I laughed at that. Even back in the late 90s our tractors were over 450hp.
Our new one I think is 620hp. Even that struggles to start with a 70 foot cultivator.
@@freddofrosch1 2019 John Deere S780 Combine, has 473 hp. The JD-
9 series tractor 390 to 590 hp.
Basildon only deals with the T6 and T7’s among with other harvesters
@@freddofrosch1 yeah the tractors are pretty much the same thing both owned by Fiat
1 new tractor every 4.5 minutes 🤯, yeah process can be taken for granted but that's very impressive!
AWESOME WORK, thank you for sharing your video with us...
It looks a lot cleaner than it did when it was the Ford tractor plant in the 60/70's.
I was there the other day, delivering parts. It is a right dump near Goods Receiving. Still the same buildings I think.
They don't really make anything there. It's an assembly facility.
Proud to say I live on a British Far m
Always interesting watching these videos as someone who works there. Although this video was uploaded a few weeks ago, this must've been filmed a long time ago as a lot has changed. The HD's are no longer built in Basildon unfortunately
Peculiar
Very impressive and well run Manufacturing Plant. Highly skilled technicians and management that is making sure all the parts are available and the Tractor assembly line is moving as planned. It is amazing the Engineering that goes into all the machines we use from Tractors, Automobiles, Jet Airplanes and many more that we see that makes our economies function, they are Modern Miracles.
Very interesting content. Annoying editing with flashing light between clips.
I noticed that pretty much every person was clean cut and well dressed. American plant workers look like bikers, bums and homeless people. Not all , but enough to notice. I did see some Case IH in the background. They should have been mentioned. I toured the Case IH plant in Fargo ND that makes the big articulated tractors, there were a very few NH versions there. Its impressive what these tractors can do now, but older used tractors are selling for insane money because they work and can be fixed without proprietary software.
I did not notice any women on the plant floor.the workers look older as well.Must be a good place to work
You toured the Steiger plant then.
Only place in Basildon that people are clean cut and well dressed.
@@foodqueen1985 Women on the plant floor .There was one.
Assembly Factory = Glass Floor
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loved watching this. I feel it takes a great artist and talented mechanic to build anything really... but once you break it down to basic assembly line manufacturing, you lose that, and basically a monkey could do it. Very different from how we do things at our body shop. I hope the art is never lost
Full spec all the way
Very entertaining do the same on combine harvester please
My lord she is BEAUTIFUL!!!!!
You missed the part about the fuel tanks! I'm sure the bill for red diesel must be enormous! Due to all that testing of the engine 😁
Big changes since I worked at Ford Basildon in the late sixties😀😀😀
Saw one or two red roofs. Wonder if CASE IH Optum series is manufactured there as well. New Holland T7 is the mid-frame high-horsepower series. The Optum series is basically the same tractor with a few operator control differences and a red n black plant scheme.
Yeah maybe, wonder if the T6 is made there. I have a case maxxum and thats made in Austria. Not sure if nh and case have their own factories or they make both in the same since they are practically the same, with the exception of a few small cab tweaks and different colour scheme
@@Matthew-nc9vm yeah, did a quick search and it looks like a lot of CASE IH and Steyr series are built at that Austria plant. I guess if a couple separate plants make cabs and transmissions for both brands, it wouldn't be surprising if they had different assembly plants. Just thought it was odd there was a couple red n black cab roofs in this video.
@@farminstoltzfus Yeah definitely seemed odd.
@@farminstoltzfus
Case red for N America are made in UK but those sold in UK are made in Austria. Small ones made in Italy mostly while the articulated and tracked tractors are made in North America.
Great video thanks
Good video - same about the presenters use of over flowery language, let the actual men in charge of the production talk.
Cor I work here and it's completely different from what they show
A rival of landini trucktor-its new holland trucktor
1 rolls off the line every 4.5min but it takes 2 days to complete one.
imagine using a linde forklift in the largest new holland factory... mind blown xD
very very interesting
*I♥️Free Documentary*
More tech = less ability for self maintenance and more to go wrong. More expense for farmers
I fix these things at work, I found this video randomly
Case used to be in Doncaster ih b4 them
No Farmers No Food..
Seems they don’t know the difference between quality control and quality assurance - hope I am wrong
The docs are amazing. I can't help but wonder, now that the UK has left the EU I wonder how much more expensive these tractors are now. New Holland Basildon doesn't actually make the tractor they just assmble premade components. Everything is made in the EU....another consideration not taken. Sucks to be in the UK.
Ahh, so these is how Ukraine's overpowered weapon of war is made...
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@@Fired8914 yes?
I could have enjoyed this but, alas, too many contradictions in the commentary and at times sounding like it had been written by the PR dept. 2 million tractors sold, where, worldwide, europe? It goes on with incomplete facts.
Please add subtitles Indonesia..
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Aren’t any parts made in UK
It varies over time and models. For T6 and T7 the radiators, or some of the several on each tractor, may be made in the UK. Not sure about wiring looms. Some tyres. Not much really.
not since ford pulled out. i used to drive for brs collecting parts from around the midlands for delivery to basildon
@@steviespice3037
Ford pulled out or sold its tractor division to Fiat just before the launch of the 40 series, so that would be back in the very early 1990’s. However they still machined and assembled engines at Basildon, albeit with no forging facility, so blocks, cranks and other major parts were imported to be finished at Basildon, until the demise of the Powerstar or Genesis engine when the TM series and 40 Series were replaced. At that time, Iveco/CNH NEF engines were fitted. These are imported from Italy.
Is this only one model?
I miss ford tractors
these were the kinds of machines that we should focused on and build more of.. not war machines
Tell that to Americans not here
@@mzee5533 the Brits and the Russians are in on it to. Can't throw the Americans it with the UK they're like siblings.
I've worked in more than 5 different factory throughout the U.S.
I'd rather be in jail or prison than work in one ever again.
Okay go to prison in Mexico mate
@@mzee5533 mate?
Wasn’t this originally a Ford factory
Yes before the Fiat buy over of Ford.
see me ❤ from India
I work close to this can see from my cctv
These tractors are also suitable for hauling away Russian tanks littering the Ukrainian countryside.
Used to be Ford.
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315 HP isnt that much. What's important for a tractor is the engine torque and the torque at the wheels.
lol, it's a wireless system that follows wires
Are you kidding me?! That thing is tiny compared to the US and Canada!
I have been to Europe and the fields are much smaller than land in Canada or the USA.
As no doubt your girlfriend has reassured you 'Size isn't everything'.
If bigger tractors were needed they would be built. And these are exported to over 120 countries so they must be doing something right.
@@1chish My wife of 30 years is deceased thank you!
@@robertshaffner707 While I am sorry to hear that my comment deliberately had a humorous angle to lighten to mood.
And can I gently suggest that you Americans should sometimes think twice before bragging?
@@robertshaffner707 Oh and I said your girlfriend not your wife.
But whatever ....
Mainly nothing is made there it’s only assembly line .
What is new engine tractor 2022 ,as every country made new car 2020,2021,2022 .today Uk have not tractor inventor
She's not too smart. Bragging about 315hp. Put a 540hp Cummins in it.
What would you want to do that for? There's no brag, different machine different job, like in UK we generally don't use dual wheels anymore, just modern big tyres. Different jobs different machine. 300 hp is way bigger than what is used on most UK and many European farms.
@@bigteddy66 true that. But she seems to be trying to portray that 315hp is absolutely unbelievable hp. There is correct equipment used for specific applications and purposes agreed, but i didn't think she understands. We use 210hp draggers for our applications, and they are perfectly suitable
I think torque is more important than HP in this situation, but correct me if I'm wrong.
@@Apollo-333
Both are important. So is fuel economy and reliability. The CNH/Iveco NEF family of engines have been work-proven to be superb in every way.
Wonder how production has been impacted by Brexit and all that drama?
why do editing using that flash photo effect?
No it’s not the biggest T8 and T9
Wish they still made Fords there....
Most powerful army in the Ukraine is the farmers ....they just keep pulling russian scrap iron off their fields ....... too bad a tank is useless in a farm application.......but the scrap metal price is good lol
@ 6:43 "their quality checked" **8ANG** ;-)
Ukrainian's what to know if they have a Russian tank towing mode
your transition flashes are annoying. I would have viewed the whole video.
Must of made this before the war started ???
no, this was made in 2015, so after the war began
Those tractors are pretty medium sized lol. I work on much bigger ones all the time up in Alberta Canada. I do like the videos tho👍
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Longest advert in the universe. And the most pointless shopping background music.
Pitty the factory will be moving to the Eu thanks to Brexit
It was better when it was The Ford tractor factory
The people doing this are to much, can't watch.
These are garden tractors compared to Case and Deers biggest.
But there all going to be obsolete when we run out of crude oil in 50 years.
Um the New Holland T9 series wants to have a word with you
Actually, they don't compare very well..!!!
We've been running out of crude for the last few decade's 😅
Those workers need to bloody slow down and take some care in what they are doing! I certainly will never buy anything from this company!
Would be cool if NH tractors didn’t suck
John deer better
What a comedian.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤡
What a pity that after all that the end product is one of the worst on the planet along with an American red one.
Plenty around here that have done 15,000 hard hours. I have a Basildon assembled NH8360 tractor [an earlier version of TM155] that has just crossed 10,000 hours, mostly doing loader work and filling silage clamps with a large rear mounted buckrake. Very few issues. Main one being a synchromesh hub in the Range Command semi-powershift 18 forward 6 reverse transmission.
Guess you're a john deere fan boy?
Looted stuff