- Location
- Co antrim
Too wide for our road and not enough width in the field
Krone big M
- Thread starter Hilly
- Start date
Gerbert
Member
- Location
- Dutch biblebelt
Maybe because outside the US the fronthitch and pto was invented. And being limited to one mower kind of limits you to a bit over 3 meter in most places.
- Location
- The North
Same thing again, its whole other machine to insure service and maintain when a tractor can do that and loads of other jobs…
Even if speedys fendt is slower than a big m it’s makes more sense to me, rest of the year he’s girt a tractor for other jobs, even if it’s on the haybob!!
Even if speedys fendt is slower than a big m it’s makes more sense to me, rest of the year he’s girt a tractor for other jobs, even if it’s on the haybob!!
M-J-G
Member
Drain it to where?
Lots of folks over there with cattle back inside and struggling to get slurry out.
Speedstar
Member
- Location
- Scottish Borders
take trip to holland land below sea level is drained , if the land is that wet then maybe its time to rethink how you farm
Dutch gov drained the polders the department of environment will not maintain the drainage channels here
Party Pete
Member
How long a day is that ?
Speedstar
Member
- Location
- Scottish Borders
will do 30acres per hour ok cutting, depends on how much road work there is to how long 300 acres takes
M-J-G
Member
I'd be happy to go back to Holland to visit some of the folks I met during the 3 months that I worked there.
The land being below sea level isn't generally the issue across the Irish Sea, but I'm sure the folks farming over there will be interested in your ideas.
Speedstar
Member
- Location
- Scottish Borders
We have farmed in the past on some very wet land & you have to farm to make the most of your land, If making a duck pound or a wild bird area makes more money than keeping cattle then that is the thing to do
M-J-G
Member
Are you pro rewilding?
- Location
- Very Southern NSW Australia
Slow on the road- I'm told difficult to drive, and even over here they don't work with the road rules (too wide with the front on) and same issues with the Big M, 300k AUD plus tied up in a machine that only mows and windrows.
They work great in states where they can run 20ft down the road with no problems and escorts. A bloke near me had a 15/16 ft machine and it's a beast on the road, he technically needs an escort and plus it's slow.
ollie989898
Member
I don't think these have anything like the power required to cut a serious British/Irish grass crop. You put triples on a tractor in the UK and 300hp knows about it in heavy crops.
They look nimble and handy for what they are but they don't offer much over a 6m combi unit front and rear, I suppose the cab will be nicer and better vision. In the also ran category [from profi https://www.profi.co.uk/test-centre/mowers-tedders-rakes/vicon-red-bull-self-propelled-mower]. I can't think of ever seeing anyone with a set of Vicon mowers, Kvernland were rare enough. This thing can't have made it far past the prototype stage:
- Location
- Very Southern NSW Australia
You be surprised. I have seen them take some heavy 4ft plus crops of oats.
- Location
- LINCOLNSHIRE/KENYA
I ran them in the Sudan and they were extremely good machines. Actually they are very easy to drive and very manoueverable. We had sickle bar headers but with a rotary cutter bar they fly. However they are wide on the road.
ollie989898
Member
Is there a conditioner element in their header thingy?
- Location
- Very Southern NSW Australia
Yeah most if not all have roller conditioners. The Massey mowers can be ordered with a 5 roller conditioner (most have just the 2 interlocking rollers) The mower and conditioner are all viable speed drives. I have seen blokes cutting Lucerne at 30 kph (19mph) with them.
- Location
- Co antrim
What is lucerne? Can it be grown in damp climates like we have in ireland
davidroberts30
Member
- Location
- pembrokeshire
alfalfa .if the soil is sitting wet in the winter then no ,you would be better off with red clover
- Location
- Very Southern NSW Australia
High protein perennial legume. Needs free draining soils. I have seen two place Ireland growing Lucerne now. There was a large dairy featured on grassmens that was growing it. Also the the family on the carsehall series on Farmflix were growing it.