Do you know anyone with a Xerion?

Claas has been selling its Xerion tractor in Europe for a few years now and had an official launch in North America a year or two ago. I got an email recently with this photo, taken at the Farm Progress Show in Decatur, Illinois earlier this month. The email writer included this short text: "The cab completely separates from the frame and spins to face the other direction. It has PTO shafts on both ends. Thought my farmer friends would appreciate this."

I dug up a few more details at the Claas website. Claas built Xerion to "do precisely those jobs that pose a serious problem for standard 300 hp machines without additional ballasting and dual tires."

Xerion 3300 and 3800 TRAC models have a mounting area behind the cab, for a fertilizer spreader perhaps. On VC models, the cab rotates 180 degrees. It isn't articulated, but has all-wheel steering for a 20-foot turning radius.

If I can find a farmer in Canada who has one of these machines, I'll do a feature on the tractor and the farmer in Grainews. Do you know anyone who has one? If yes, please email me. I've asked the folks at Claas to help me out, too.