Machinery for a 'smaller' farm?!

Shutesy · Dec 17, 2018

holywell farmer said:
Has fleet changed much ?

Don't work there anymore. Moved on to much better things. From what I know they swapped the McCormick for a 85hp NH, bought a 2nd hand Knight 12m mounted sprayer, a 2nd hand 8t grain trailer and a new bale trailer is all they have bought in the last 5 years.

DrWazzock · Dec 17, 2018

Lightweights! 100 acres arable and 100 acres sheep/grass sometimes cattle.

MF135
MF565
Lamborghini 105
Case IH 4240 loader tractor
Case 1494
Renault Temis 630z
John Deere 1085 combine
Standen Cyclone beet harvester
John Deere 550 round baler
Sipma Huzar round baler
Internstional 445d small baler
Cooks flat eight sledge
Watveare 40 small bale grab
Bateman Hi Lo sprayer
JCB 806 excavator
AS Marston 10 ton grain trailer
AS Marston 8 ton Ag dump trailer
Moore Unidrill
Kverneland 6 row beet drill
Lely cultiterra power Harrow
Dowdeswell 4 furrow DP8
Johnson single row potafo Hoover
Sanderson forklift with grain bucket
Manitou MLT626T tele-handler with various attachments
Lister Blackstone bale elevator
Parmiter mobile grain elevator
Sheep/cattle trailer
Bomford Superflow drag
30 foot bale trailer
20 foot bale trailer
12 foot grassland roller
3 gang Cambridge rolls.
Spaldings tined weeder
Paraplow
Ransomes subsoiler
Lely Lotus hay tedded
Haybob
Claas wm165 drum mower
Pottinger Novocat disc mower
Triffit 8 ton muckspreader
Bredal B48 lime-spreader
Circular sawbench
PTO driven cement mixer
Potafo planter
Potato ridger
Potato inter row cultivator
Tractor mounted beet hoe
Amazone fertiliser spreader
Alvan Blanche grass seed brush drill
Parmiter seed harrows
Parmiter heavy harrows
Round bale wrapper
Rolmako terradisc cultivator
2 X 4 ton grain trailers
2 X wooden 3 ton grain trailers
Tong potato grader/riddle/bagger.
Bomford B458 hedgecutter
Browns straw chopper/pasture topper
Teagle topper.
Almet Grain drier
Vacuum tanker.
MF single rotor rake.
Drain jetter

That's just the stuff I can remember. None of this kit was particularly expensive, most is high houred and over 20 years old but all does something every year and works when needed usually.

I am always trying to reduce the fleet but there isn't one thing I could sell without then being unable to do something essential and none of it is worth much to sell anyway.

I had been looking for a cheap cleaner loader for the beet but decided I had to draw the line somewhere.

CORK · Dec 17, 2018

Flat 10 said:
Can you explain roughly or give a link to the Irish grant system that allows you to buy a sprayer like that? Here that sort of sprayer would be bought by someone with minimum 4 times if not 5 x your acreage! Very jealous.

Standard grant on a new sprayer (or a range of other items) is 40%. If you qualify as a young farmer, it increases to 60%. Hoping to change the spreader next year.

https://www.agriculture.gov.ie/farmerschemespayments/tams/tillagecapitalinvestmentscheme/

Flat 10 · Dec 17, 2018

CORK said:
Standard grant on a new sprayer (or a range of other items) is 40%. If you qualify as a young farmer, it increases to 60%. Hoping to change the spreader next year.

https://www.agriculture.gov.ie/farmerschemespayments/tams/tillagecapitalinvestmentscheme/

You jammy gits

Drillman · Dec 17, 2018

DrWazzock said:
Lightweights! 100 acres arable and 100 acres sheep/grass sometimes cattle.

MF135
MF565
Lamborghini 105
Case IH 4240 loader tractor
Case 1494
Renault Temis 630z
John Deere 1085 combine
Standen Cyclone beet harvester
John Deere 550 round baler
Sipma Huzar round baler
Internstional 445d small baler
Cooks flat eight sledge
Watveare 40 small bale grab
Bateman Hi Lo sprayer
JCB 806 excavator
AS Marston 10 ton grain trailer
AS Marston 8 ton Ag dump trailer
Moore Unidrill
Kverneland 6 row beet drill
Lely cultiterra power Harrow
Dowdeswell 4 furrow DP8
Johnson single row potafo Hoover
Sanderson forklift with grain bucket
Manitou MLT626T tele-handler with various attachments
Lister Blackstone bale elevator
Parmiter mobile grain elevator
Sheep/cattle trailer
Bomford Superflow drag
30 foot bale trailer
20 foot bale trailer
12 foot grassland roller
3 gang Cambridge rolls.
Spaldings tined weeder
Paraplow
Ransomes subsoiler
Lely Lotus hay tedded
Haybob
Claas wm165 drum mower
Pottinger Novocat disc mower
Triffit 8 ton muckspreader
Bredal B48 lime-spreader
Circular sawbench
PTO driven cement mixer
Potafo planter
Potato ridger
Potato inter row cultivator
Tractor mounted beet hoe
Amazone fertiliser spreader
Alvan Blanche grass seed brush drill
Parmiter seed harrows
Parmiter heavy harrows
Round bale wrapper
Rolmako terradisc cultivator
2 X 4 ton grain trailers
2 X wooden 3 ton grain trailers
Tong potato grader/riddle/bagger.
Bomford B458 hedgecutter
Browns straw chopper/pasture topper
Teagle topper.
Almet Grain drier
Vacuum tanker.
MF single rotor rake.
Drain jetter

That's just the stuff I can remember. None of this kit was particularly expensive, most is high houred and over 20 years old but all does something every year and works when needed usually.

I am always trying to reduce the fleet but there isn't one thing I could sell without then being unable to do something essential and none of it is worth much to sell anyway.

I had been looking for a cheap cleaner loader for the beet but decided I had to draw the line somewhere.

We have a winner

Boohoo · Dec 17, 2018

Plenty of big farms on this thread!

24 acres owned and 7.5 farmed, although going up to 9 acres next year.

David Brown 996 with loader, various attachments and a backactor.
Case 844 with a TB turbo kit
Marshall 6.5 ton dropside silage trailer with 4ft bale extension
Lely lotus 460
Class liner 330s
PZ hay bob
MF 124 baler
Vicon 1154 fertiliser spreader
Taarup 43" single chop forage harvester
Zagroda potato digger
Ferguson potato ridger
2 DB ploughs and 1 other, homemade "hedging" plough
8ft flat roller
Tractor mounted concrete mixer
Bale lifters, bale spike, link box, pin harrows etc

The trailer is due a change, could do with a bale sledge and grab and looking for a wrapper for idiot bricks.

Thomas5060 · Dec 18, 2018

84 acres owned, hill sheep farm. With a bit of contracting

Ford 7740 - 1000-1500 hrs/year
Ford 7600 4wd - 3/400 hrs/year
MF265 with MF80 loader- 2/300 hrs/year
MF124 Baler
KV 3 furrow conventional plough
7ft Nicholson discs
SIP 5ft6 drum mower(due a change to bigger)
Bamford farm trim hedgecutter
10ton Kane dropside trailer with grain and silage side and bale extension
8.5ton Woods dropside trailer converted to a dump trailer
6ft LSM topper (due a change to bigger)
Amazon 1/2 ton disc feet spreader
10ton MCM low loader
Ifor 10x6 low loader
Ifor 10x5 cattle trailer (due a change to bigger)
Honda 250 2wd quad
Hitachi EX60-5
Hitachi EX30-2
Sold our haybob this summer so need a fresher one or possible a 4 rotor Tedder and rake
Wish list:
Limespreader
New MX loader for 7740
3furrow reversible 12/14inch

Flat 10 · Dec 18, 2018

CORK said:
Standard grant on a new sprayer (or a range of other items) is 40%. If you qualify as a young farmer, it increases to 60%. Hoping to change the spreader next year.

https://www.agriculture.gov.ie/farmerschemespayments/tams/tillagecapitalinvestmentscheme/

Thinking about it, even with a 60% grant I imagine that sprayer is still a big wodge of cash and probably 4x what I paid for a 24m knight to run on a bigger acreage.........

CORK · Dec 18, 2018

Flat 10 said:
Thinking about it, even with a 60% grant I imagine that sprayer is still a big wodge of cash and probably 4x what I paid for a 24m knight to run on a bigger acreage.........

We had a second hand similar size Knight for 10yrs before that. It had come at a really good price and depreciated very little over the years. This was sold privately here. The cost to go to the new one was really quite modest.
We were going to have to change it at some point in the coming years so it was a great opportunity to future proof in terms of technology and reliability.
Both my brother and I have full time jobs so spraying is something we want to do quickly and promptly.

Boohoo · Dec 18, 2018

Thomas5060 said:
84 acres owned, hill sheep farm. With a bit of contracting

Ford 7740 - 1000-1500 hrs/year
Ford 7600 4wd - 3/400 hrs/year
MF265 with MF80 loader- 2/300 hrs/year
MF124 Baler
KV 3 furrow conventional plough
7ft Nicholson discs
SIP 5ft6 drum mower(due a change to bigger)
Bamford farm trim hedgecutter
10ton Kane dropside trailer with grain and silage side and bale extension
8.5ton Woods dropside trailer converted to a dump trailer
6ft LSM topper (due a change to bigger)
Amazon 1/2 ton disc feet spreader
10ton MCM low loader
Ifor 10x6 low loader
Ifor 10x5 cattle trailer (due a change to bigger)
Honda 250 2wd quad
Hitachi EX60-5
Hitachi EX30-2
Sold our haybob this summer so need a fresher one or possible a 4 rotor Tedder and rake
Wish list:
Limespreader
New MX loader for 7740
3furrow reversible 12/14inch

Definitely go for a tedder and rake rather than another haybob. This was our first year with a tedder and we bought the rake that we've been borrowing for a few years, the haybob didn't make it out of the shed.

Flat 10 · Dec 18, 2018

CORK said:
We had a second hand similar size Knight for 10yrs before that. It had come at a really good price and depreciated very little over the years. This was sold privately here. The cost to go to the new one was really quite modest.
We were going to have to change it at some point in the coming years so it was a great opportunity to future proof in terms of technology and reliability.
Both my brother and I have full time jobs so spraying is something we want to do quickly and promptly.

Nice

Thomas5060 · Dec 18, 2018

Boohoo said:
Definitely go for a tedder and rake rather than another haybob. This was our first year with a tedder and we bought the rake that we've been borrowing for a few years, the haybob didn't make it out of the shed.

Will a single rotor rake pull in two 8fts?

Boohoo · Dec 18, 2018

Thomas5060 said:
Will a single rotor rake pull in two 8fts?

I've never followed an 8ft mower. I've put two 10fts together with it, but we spread everything now. Really depends on the size of the rake, our 330 is about as small as you can get

fiat 9090 · Dec 18, 2018

Thomas5060 said:
84 acres owned, hill sheep farm. With a bit of contracting

Ford 7740 - 1000-1500 hrs/year
Ford 7600 4wd - 3/400 hrs/year
MF265 with MF80 loader- 2/300 hrs/year
MF124 Baler
KV 3 furrow conventional plough
7ft Nicholson discs
SIP 5ft6 drum mower(due a change to bigger)
Bamford farm trim hedgecutter
10ton Kane dropside trailer with grain and silage side and bale extension
8.5ton Woods dropside trailer converted to a dump trailer
6ft LSM topper (due a change to bigger)
Amazon 1/2 ton disc feet spreader
10ton MCM low loader
Ifor 10x6 low loader
Ifor 10x5 cattle trailer (due a change to bigger)
Honda 250 2wd quad
Hitachi EX60-5
Hitachi EX30-2
Sold our haybob this summer so need a fresher one or possible a 4 rotor Tedder and rake
Wish list:
Limespreader
New MX loader for 7740
3furrow reversible 12/14inch

do you not have a new holland i thought from one of your pevious posts you had

SMID · Dec 18, 2018

200 acres inluding rough grazing 165 ploughable 65 grain bit of contracting 6613 5470 362 3075 total hrs 37,500 hrs . 65 and FE35 semi retired JCB loadall JD 985 combine 39 yo Class Jag 800 24 yo 4 furrow dowdeswell rev 3 furrow dowswell rev Khun 4 m one pass Sulky 24m spinner Tecmnoma 24m mounted sprayer Tecnoma 18 m trailed sprayer Class 46 baler Khun mower Class rake Class tedder ECE rear discharge spreader NC 1500 tanker, Bomsmid hedge cutter am not going to bore folk to tears with all the small stuff

4seasons · Dec 18, 2018

Flat 10 said:
Looks a lot for 124 acres to me, especially the handler but if you can afford it and it makes you happy go for it

Quite a bit of the gear I have was bought requiring repairs so was bought cheaper, the telehandler is most likely over spec for what I currently need, but I'd rather invest a bit more in newer machine that hopefully shouldn't let me down especially on something as important as the telehandler, its probably the most important bit of kit for me.

Here’s the hedge cutter I bought with a broken arm, I have repaired the arm fitted new hoses & a new lever control cable

V__7D27 (1) by Steven Leeson, on Flickr

The Marston 10 ton trailer body was rust rotten when I bought it……

WP_20180714_002 (1) by Steven Leeson, on Flickr

….so I have chopped off the rotten body ready to replace it with new

WP_20180714_006 (1) by Steven Leeson, on Flickr

Flat 10 · Dec 18, 2018

4seasons said:
Quite a bit of the gear I have was bought requiring repairs so was bought cheaper, the telehandler is most likely over spec for what I currently need, but I'd rather invest a bit more in newer machine that hopefully shouldn't let me down especially on something as important as the telehandler, its probably the most important bit of kit for me.

Here’s the hedge cutter I bought with a broken arm, I have repaired the arm fitted new hoses & a new lever control cable

V__7D27 (1) by Steven Leeson, on Flickr

The Marston 10 ton trailer body was rust rotten when I bought it……

WP_20180714_002 (1) by Steven Leeson, on Flickr

….so I have chopped off the rotten body ready to replace it with new

WP_20180714_006 (1) by Steven Leeson, on Flickr

Good effort.

dannewhouse · Dec 18, 2018

4seasons said:
Quite a bit of the gear I have was bought requiring repairs so was bought cheaper, the telehandler is most likely over spec for what I currently need, but I'd rather invest a bit more in newer machine that hopefully shouldn't let me down especially on something as important as the telehandler, its probably the most important bit of kit for me.

Here’s the hedge cutter I bought with a broken arm, I have repaired the arm fitted new hoses & a new lever control cable

V__7D27 (1) by Steven Leeson, on Flickr

The Marston 10 ton trailer body was rust rotten when I bought it……

WP_20180714_002 (1) by Steven Leeson, on Flickr

….so I have chopped off the rotten body ready to replace it with new

WP_20180714_006 (1) by Steven Leeson, on Flickr

its a fare job, done one myself we have said next time we will just make a new tipper chassis and literally pull the 2 ram pins and the 2 tipper pins the extra cost of steel will be more than made up for with time saved, not easy cutting rotten steel with gas. and all the grinding …

holywell farmer · Dec 18, 2018

DrWazzock said:
Lightweights! 100 acres arable and 100 acres sheep/grass sometimes cattle.

MF135
MF565
Lamborghini 105
Case IH 4240 loader tractor
Case 1494
Renault Temis 630z
John Deere 1085 combine
Standen Cyclone beet harvester
John Deere 550 round baler
Sipma Huzar round baler
Internstional 445d small baler
Cooks flat eight sledge
Watveare 40 small bale grab
Bateman Hi Lo sprayer
JCB 806 excavator
AS Marston 10 ton grain trailer
AS Marston 8 ton Ag dump trailer
Moore Unidrill
Kverneland 6 row beet drill
Lely cultiterra power Harrow
Dowdeswell 4 furrow DP8
Johnson single row potafo Hoover
Sanderson forklift with grain bucket
Manitou MLT626T tele-handler with various attachments
Lister Blackstone bale elevator
Parmiter mobile grain elevator
Sheep/cattle trailer
Bomford Superflow drag
30 foot bale trailer
20 foot bale trailer
12 foot grassland roller
3 gang Cambridge rolls.
Spaldings tined weeder
Paraplow
Ransomes subsoiler
Lely Lotus hay tedded
Haybob
Claas wm165 drum mower
Pottinger Novocat disc mower
Triffit 8 ton muckspreader
Bredal B48 lime-spreader
Circular sawbench
PTO driven cement mixer
Potafo planter
Potato ridger
Potato inter row cultivator
Tractor mounted beet hoe
Amazone fertiliser spreader
Alvan Blanche grass seed brush drill
Parmiter seed harrows
Parmiter heavy harrows
Round bale wrapper
Rolmako terradisc cultivator
2 X 4 ton grain trailers
2 X wooden 3 ton grain trailers
Tong potato grader/riddle/bagger.
Bomford B458 hedgecutter
Browns straw chopper/pasture topper
Teagle topper.
Almet Grain drier
Vacuum tanker.
MF single rotor rake.
Drain jetter

That's just the stuff I can remember. None of this kit was particularly expensive, most is high houred and over 20 years old but all does something every year and works when needed usually.

I am always trying to reduce the fleet but there isn't one thing I could sell without then being unable to do something essential and none of it is worth much to sell anyway.

I had been looking for a cheap cleaner loader for the beet but decided I had to draw the line somewhere.

You must have a huge shed

holywell farmer · Dec 18, 2018

Chae1 said:
Think we might be worst! About 550 acres arable, 440 breeding cows. Normally around 1100 cattle including followers. Do a bit of contract baling and spraying. Sprayer is same age as 1135 they were bought new together. Have a 2011 v660 and a mf190 for baling. Share the combine on another 350 acres.
2017 NH t7 260
2011 NH t7050
2015 t7 200 with loader
2009 m620 deutz
2004 mf 6480
1997 JCB fastrac 1135
2011 JCB fastrac 2170
2009 634 manitou
2018 733 manitou
2005 570M lexion.

Should probably sell some! But they all come in handy. 7050 would be 1 to go, but did come in handy last springtime after wet winter for ploughing at same time as drilling.

Do have mixer wagon to feed cows with chae?

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