Machinery for a 'smaller' farm?!

diesel1

Member
Location
North Yorkshire
150 acre of cereals every year worked by the following machinery
2002 Caterpillar 765
2011 Massey Ferguson 6499
5 leg subsoiler
6m powerharrow
6f dowdeswell DP1 plough
trailed sumo trio
24m SP Sprayer
Massey Ferguson 36RS combine
Massey Ferguson 31 combine
Vicon LB12200 120x70 baler
grain trailers ect

Life is sweet, lots of spare time for my hobbies.
 

Tomr10

Member
Hmm let's see
Mf 135 loader not fitted and Perry
Leyland 472
JD 2650 with loader
Mx100 with loader
Xtx 165
Volvo ec140 excavator
28ft low loader
20 ft bale trailer
10t tipper
4t tipper
Welger ap630 baler
Lely mower conditioner
Lely 6 roter Turner
Class rake
Mcspreader
Hedge trimmer
Log splitter
Flat 8
Flat 8 sledge
Tri axle ifor flat bed
Sheep box
Fert spreader
Chain heroes
Topper
Wood chipper
Buckets, grabs, concrete block lifter
Roller
Post bashers

All for .....
.......





About 40 achers
 

Flat 10

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Fen Edge
150 acre of cereals every year worked by the following machinery
2002 Caterpillar 765
2011 Massey Ferguson 6499
5 leg subsoiler
6m powerharrow
6f dowdeswell DP1 plough
trailed sumo trio
24m SP Sprayer
Massey Ferguson 36RS combine
Massey Ferguson 31 combine
Vicon LB12200 120x70 baler
grain trailers ect

Life is sweet, lots of spare time for my hobbies.
Is not the 150acres your hobby with machinery like that? Very impressive, I’m very jealous sounds enough for 1500....
 

Boohoo

Member
Location
Newtownabbey
Darent post what I’ve got
Nick...
You posted on page 1!
200 arable acres and plant hire business. and 100 acres hls/conservation stuff
1 tractor jd6620
kuhn 4 furrow reversable
amazone combi disc drill 3m
8.3m cousins rolls
front 3m press
hedge cutter
krm spreader.
contractors do spraying and combining and beet lifting
will add stuff as and when,either home built or second hand stuff
nick...........
 

Boohoo

Member
Location
Newtownabbey
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.
Update for 2019.

Now farming 9 acres, the haybob and the trailer have gone, a McHale 995lm small bale wrapper has joined the fleet and a Herron 9 ton dropside trailer is on order. Could do with another tractor....
 

DRC

Member
NH T7200
Deutz 6140
Manitou 735 ( muck grab, two buckets, mc Hale bale squeeze , flat 8 type grab for big bales, man cage .
Ford Ranger
TX63 combine
Masters 12 ton drier
12 ton Richard western trailer
12 ton Bailey trailer
12 ton west traiker
8 ton Dragon trailer
24ft bale trailer
5 f Kuhn plough
3 m KV flatliner
3m KV power Harrow / disc drill combi
3m front press with paddle boards
12m folding rollers
18m Amazone sprayer
Amazone fert spreader
Terex digger
Ifor Williams stock trailer and flat bed trailer
Topper
KV 4 rotor Tedder
KV single rotor rake
400 acres, mostly arable.
No staff. Me and mrs
 

DrWazzock

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lincolnshire
Still got the small scale potato kit, all the beet production kit, haymaking, silage and combinable crops kit.
Last week we added a 5 furrow plough and 4m power harrow and a mint MF30 that was too good to turn down.
Also couldn't resist a tidy Standen Cyclone Mk4.

Need to build yet another shed to hold it all.
I like machinery. Well some of the time. Storing crops and housing livestock and farming generally is just a nuisance that gets in the way of a good machinery collection.
 
Approximately 200 acres arable ( wheat, spring barley, peas and sugar beet) and 100 acres of grass ( suckler cows, sheep and hay) spread over 25 miles and some contracting

2009 mf 5480 with loader (6000hrs)
Case IH 956xl turbo (9000hrs)
John Deere 2140 (12000hrs)
Ford 4000 with loader (7300hrs)
Sanderson 622 teleporter (8000hrs)
International 1440 combine (3200hrs)
Agribuggy 3D (5700hrs)

Lemken 5 furrow plough and press
Kuhn 3 metre powerharrow with Accord drill
Kuhn 3.5 metre powerharrow
Knight 18m trailed sprayer
Krm spreader
John Deere 545 round baler
New Holland 376 baler with Cooks sledge
2X 8 tonne Marston grain trailers
plus various harrows, mower, haybob, hedge cutter, toppers etc.

All comes from the last century apart from the Massey and the plough

Contractors used for beet drilling and harvesting.
 
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Cowcorn

Member
Mixed Farmer
Approximately 200 acres arable ( wheat, spring barley, peas and sugar beet) and 100 acres of grass ( suckler cows, sheep and hay) spread over 25 miles and some contracting

2009 mf 5480 with loader (6000hrs)
Case IH 956xl turbo (9000hrs)
John Deere 2140 (12000hrs)
Ford 4000 with loader (7300hrs)
Sanderson 622 teleporter (8000hrs)
International 1440 combine (3200hrs)
Agribuggy 3D (5700hrs)

Lemken 5 furrow plough and press
Kuhn 3 metre powerharrow with Accord drill
Kuhn 3.5 metre powerharrow
Knight 18m trailed sprayer
Krm spreader
John Deere 545 round baler
New Holland 376 baler with Cooks sledge
2X 8 tonne Marston grain trailers
plus various harrows, mower, haybob, hedge cutter, toppers etc.

All comes from the last century apart from the Massey and the plough

Contractors used for beet drilling and harvesting.
Ah i think you are a classic tractor columnist ?
 

Spanish

Member
Taking advantage of this topic, I am going to count my farm machinery. an average exploitation of the Castilian plateau in Spain
For 460 acres planted in direct sowing
JD 6810 purchased used in France
JD 6510 SE with charger
JD 1174 combine
Seeder SD Solá Ceres 2612 4m
Seeder trisem Solá 3m
4-plow Keverneland
Safer Anfer 16 m
LLorente 13 ton trailer
LLorente 8 ton trailer
Chisel LLorente 3 m
Cultivator LLorente 4.2 m
Disk harrow Gascón 3 m
Aguirre fertilizer 1.5 kg
Gaspardo MT 5 bodies monograno seeder
5.5m Hibema Roller
 
Had one it just kept going and going took it to nearly 13000 hrs alongside a 3050 which got to more hrs but can't remember how many . Sold them both at auction and they are still going strong .
6400 was going to be replaced with a 6420 but dealer was bit lazy getting back to my uncle with price so he went with mf 5460 instead, really a shame on dealers part if acted quicker he could got a sale!
 

New Puritan

Member
Location
East Sussex
Still got the small scale potato kit, all the beet production kit, haymaking, silage and combinable crops kit.
Last week we added a 5 furrow plough and 4m power harrow and a mint MF30 that was too good to turn down.
Also couldn't resist a tidy Standen Cyclone Mk4.

Need to build yet another shed to hold it all.
I like machinery. Well some of the time. Storing crops and housing livestock and farming generally is just a nuisance that gets in the way of a good machinery collection.


Arf a mo, @DrWazzock - didn't you start a thread about 'rationalisation'?

Though I'm impressed with your new equipment. Purely out of nosiness, if you felt like taking some pictures of your machinery and putting them on here I'd be quite pleased.
 

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