Do Velcourt run any Claas combines?

[Pilatus]

I ask the above as a(machinery geek!!) this evening I saw a Claas 8900 on a lorry pulling out from a Velcourt managed estate, where they currently have a CNH 1090 as their current combine.

 

[The Son]

I was loading straw at Down Ampney the other week and i was told that was a velcourt farm, two claas combines on tracks there.

 

[Andy26]

Yes, they run two Lexions at Stamford, which iirc replaced NH's which replaced three Axial Flows.

 

[Andy26]

@MX7 here you go the Claas' at Stamford pictured by @Dave Franciosy

Post in thread '2015 Photos From Farming Photography' https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index...s-from-farming-photography.44706/post-1443372

 

[Pilatus]

Thanks all for the info

 

[Brisel]

They have had Lexions at Fonthill (south Wilts) for years

 

[sahara]

They were Axial flows when I was there, (1996) although when visiting in about 2008 ish I gather they had a NH machine.
They used to be all Case for Tractors and Combines, so are they Class for Tractors as well?

 

[bluegreen]

They had a Claas 780 at their Kings lynn farm but thankfully swapped back to two yellow ones last year.................well Velcourt are traditionally NH combines & Case tractors arent they. Im guessing that they got extra discount if they bought a yellow one in the past, which priced the other brands out of a deal, but doesnt seem to apply anymore. Maybe its cheaper to run two 8900s instead of three 10-90s, but in a season like this one where ive never seen so much uncut wheat in the fens in September its probably best to have more machines.

 

[bluegreen]

Ive seen JDs and Fendts on Velcourt farms, but there is always a red tractor of two.

 

[Pilatus]

They had a Claas 780 at their Kings lynn farm but thankfully swapped back to two yellow ones last year.................well Velcourt are traditionally NH combines & Case tractors arent they. Im guessing that they got extra discount if they bought a yellow one in the past, which priced the other brands out of a deal, but doesnt seem to apply anymore. Maybe its cheaper to run two 8900s instead of three 10-90s, but in a season like this one where ive never seen so much uncut wheat in the fens in September its probably best to have more machines.

Many thanks,it is certainly a changing world we live in!!!