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Rome Tractors Ready To Show Their Stuff
If you're in the market for a large 4wheel drive tractor, you may want to add the name "Rome" to your shopping list. The one-time Woods and Copeland tractor, now under new ownership and sporting a new name, stands ready to show its stuff against all comers.
Since purchasing Woods and Copeland, of Wharton, Texas,
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Rome Tractors Ready To Show Their Stuff TRACTORS New Tractors 3-5-7 If you're in the market for a large 4wheel drive tractor, you may want to add the name "Rome" to your shopping list. The one-time Woods and Copeland tractor, now under new ownership and sporting a new name, stands ready to show its stuff against all comers.
Since purchasing Woods and Copeland, of Wharton, Texas, two years ago, Rome Industries has been "tooling up" to provide a line of matching tillage and land forming equipment for the company's Rome line of articulated-steering, 4-wheel drive tractors. To stress the concept of matched capabilities, Rome uses the name "Rome Group Ag System".
"We believe it's the first realistic approach to efficient use of higher horsepower, 4-wheel drive tractors," says Kent Angel, marketing director for Rome, Industries, headquartered in Cedartown, Ga. "We've designed tools to match these large tractors' capabilities at their most effective speeds. That gives the farmer highest usable power at the drawbar and tools designed to do his work efficiently."
The company currently offers three Rome tractors rated at 375, 450 and 475 fly-wheel hp., respectively. An Allison powershift transmission, which features a torque converter and direct lockup, is standard equipment in each tractor. If draft load increases, the transmission automatically shifts down. When engine speed and ground speed are matched, the automatic lockup provides direct drive for maximum operating efficiency. There are 12 speeds forward (seven from 2.5 to 8.3 mph.) and 2 in reverse. Top speed is 24.8 mph.
Rome tillage tools and other implements designed to match Rome tractors are rated by operating width, as well as suggested range of drawbar pounds pull (DBPP). DBPP varies according to soil conditions, operating depth and weight added to the implement. Disk harrows are equipped with shallow-concavity blades to permit high speed operation. Heavy, box-beam frames on disks, chisel plows and other implements are designed for high horsepower.
For more details, contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Rome Industries, Cedartown, Ga. 30125 (ph. 404 7484450).
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