Just bought the manitou, had her for a week,
deutz engine they say is one of the best.
Wel built
Awesome transmission
Loads of power on yard, slightly lacking when doing 40k on the road, not big deal really
Cab needs improvements!!
Dashboard is crap
Climate control is a faff
At the end of the...
Currently have an 2006 TM300 with 6500hrs. Hardly missed a beat to be fair, brilliant machine! 1000-2000 hr second hand would be the ideal choice, not many second hand manitou's about. Andy mellor seems to have loads of jcb's on his yard. Having a demo manitou in january.
Riverlea are good!
Considering one of these machines, just wandering on other peoples experiences with them? The dealership for manitou has far better service and backup than jcb in our area!! Don't know much about the manitou but I hear many complaints about ad blue problems from jcb owners.
Many Thanks!
Looking for an assistant herdsman on an autumn block calving dairy farm in the Eglwyswrw area of North Pembrokeshire. 150 milking cows, 16/32 herringbone parlour. Milking, livestock rearing, tractor work etc. Experience in the sector would be an advantage. Competitive rates of pay, flexible...
Maris kestrel, drill towards end of may and it's hungry for potash. I like to drill it into ploughed seedbed personally but have seen people do a good job of direct drilling it aswel. I drill 2kg/ac with einbock but would up the rate for direct drilling. Biggest mistake you can do is drill it to...
Going in to dairying and plan on starting milking around august time. Plan is to establish an autumn block calving herd of friesian type cow, nothing holsteiny. Need to get up to about 130 head. Ideally a herd dispersal would be good but am open to options. Any interest call me on 07974234933...
I feel they doo better on loose house straw and tidy food instead of leaving them with the cows in the cubicles over winter. Used to do that and they were worse for coughing aswell
Have a mchale, good chopper, tried feeding clamp silage through it and it was fine, just thought it was a mega faff because i had to do three trips, so went back to dropping blocks of silage back in front of them
T7 where I work had that problem with all the lights on the front of the bonet, shook the loom between the cab and the bonet where the bonet hinges and the lights came back to work. Slightly different issue to yours maybe but it might help??
Hi, haven't been on for a while. Going autumn block calving, got a contract supplying glanbia llangefni, currently looking for friesian bulling heifers which I'm struggling to find, started with work on the parlour building. Got hold of a secondhand fulwood 16/32 auto id and all the mod cons...
My thinking is that dairying would be better financially (if done the right way obviously) and would secure a better future for the farm than sucklers! The old man used to milk the conventional way up until 2004. I seem to spend a lot of time working on the farm and having various cary on that...
I would probably outwinter heifers but would probably keep the cows inside due to sacrificing to much ground out of grass.
We already outwinter suklers and its the best thing ever! Far healthier for them and much better for their feet than concrete
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