User review: Balancing age risks and cost rewards with classic JCB Fastrac tractors

Getting a contracting business up and running is not without its challenges. For Jake Clover of Swineshead-based Clover Farm Services, Lincolnshire, those challenges have included buying the right tractors to help the business grow.

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User review: Balancing age risks and cost rewards with classic JCB Fastrac tractors

Looking for depreciation-proof tractor power, one Lincolnshire contractor has invested in a 21,000-hour, 12-year-old JCB Fastrac for trailer work. It has since been joined by a younger 3230 with 17,000...

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