The Landini Trekker belongs to the crawler side of the company’s range, the tracked tractors that the Fabbrico firm began to build in 1959 with the C35 and in which it became the market leader. The machine in this collection is a Trekker 105 working in the field.
Landini Trekker at a glance
| Maker | Landini, Fabbrico, Emilia-Romagna |
|---|---|
| Type | crawler (tracked) farm tractor |
| Model in this collection | Trekker 105, filmed at work in the field |
| First Landini crawler | C35, presented in 1959 |
| Position in that market | market leader in crawler tractors |
| Plant of the period | Fabbrico, with Aprilia opened in 1968 for earthmoving machines |
| Specialist tractors from 1982 | orchard and vineyard models, later the Rex range |
| Company founded | 1884, by Giovanni Landini |
No Wikipedia article covers the Trekker. This page uses the Italian and French company histories for the crawler tradition and says nothing about the individual model that the sources do not state.
History of the Landini Trekker
1959 and the first crawler
Landini had built wheeled tractors since the 1920s, but tracked machines came late in its history. In 1959, the same year in which the firm passed under the control of Massey Ferguson, it presented the C35, its first crawler tractor. The Italian company history notes that Landini went on to become the leader in that type of machine, as it would later become the leader in specialist orchard tractors.
Crawlers and earthmoving
The crawler experience led the company into a related field. From 1968 the Fabbrico firm entered the high-power earthmoving machinery segment with the opening of a plant at Aprilia, south of Rome. On the agricultural side the crawler remained part of the catalogue alongside wheeled tractors, and the Trekker is the modern expression of that line, sold with the same kind of general-purpose and specialist duties in mind as the wheeled range.
The range around the Trekker
The Trekker belongs to the broad catalogue of the years after the company’s return to independence in 1989 and its move into the Argo group in 1994. In those years Landini was selling medium-power tractors, big machines of the Large series and specialist orchard models, and the tracked machines served farms where grip and low ground pressure mattered. The tractor in the video is shown working in the field, the setting in which crawlers are normally seen.
Design and features
- Tracks, not wheels: the crawler layout that Landini has offered since the C35 of 1959.
- A leader’s heritage: the company became the market leader in crawler tractors after its first tracked model.
- Field work: the Trekker 105 in the video is demonstrated in the field, the normal setting for tracked machines.
- Part of a wide catalogue: sold alongside the wheeled ranges, from utility tractors to the specialist Rex.
Landini Trekker versions
- Trekker 105: the model shown in the video on this page.
- Other Trekker models: the range covered several sizes; the company histories used here do not list them.
- C35 of 1959: the first Landini crawler, the origin of the tracked line.
- Wheeled alternatives: the PowerFarm and the specialist Rex.
The tracked line began with the C35 of 1959, in the years of the L series; its wheeled stablemates today are the utility PowerFarm and the specialist Rex. More Landini machines are in the Landini collection.
Video: Prove in campo Landini Trekker 105
Video on YouTube.
Sources
- Landini (azienda), Italian Wikipedia: C35 of 1959, leadership in crawlers, Aprilia plant
- Landini, French Wikipedia: first crawler, Massey Ferguson period, specialist tractors
