Machinery for a 'smaller' farm?!

[bumkin]

thats right draper pick up header from when we grew rape and a one tonne alvan blanch mill and mix and i also forgot shelbourn hedge cutter

i also forgot the straw chopper blower

 

[DrWazzock]

@New Puritan

The 1494 on its LGP wheels. The main light cultivation, rolling, top dressing tractor.



Presently awaiting a recon hydrashift unit but fine if the job needs 10K, 4K or 1K.
Saved from export and we reconditioned the final drives.
Also runs on 13.6's for tramline work. A hardy old bus that has served us well.

The Lambo 105 formula powerspeed 40K and with creeper box. Owned from new in 1995.



Cylinders went porous 4 years ago. Replaced cylinders and pots. Presently in the process of a strip down to locate a transmission problem. Main draught tractor up until recently pulling a 4 furrow DP7.

Never short of a job running old kit.

 

[4seasons]

I‘ve enjoyed reading this, its been interesting, so here’s my list.
Arable = 124 acres of which around 20 acres are rented out for carrots & my other 5 acres are grass/yard
Almost all of my machinery has been gathered up in the last couple of years & I’d like to think I’ll get to where I can do everything myself eventually as currently contractors did the straw/grass baling/wrapping & I hired a combine for the harvesting
Machines:
04 reg John Deere 6820 Tractor c/w front links & Stocks dual wheels front & back
61 reg JCB 536-60 Telehandler
J reg (91) SAM 2000 24m sprayer c/w a set of 4 floatation wheels
Implements:
Simba 4m folding Free-Flow Drill
4 furrow Vogel & Noot plough
27’ Parmiter folding Zig-Zag Harrows
3m Cousins pig-tail Drag with a double coil Franquet press fitted to the back
6m Twose rollers
John Deere 1360 Mower
Fransgard RV390 Rake
Bomford hedge-cutter
Wilder Flail Mower
1 AS Marston 10 ton trailer (undergoing complete refurbishment)
1 ETC 10 ton trailer
Hiab trailer (Iveco truck with front/cab cut off)
And finally a brand spanking new Stocks slug spreader

Since I put this post up a few things have arrived in my stack yard, I still have all of the above machinery at the moment, but I thought I'd do an update! :

12 reg Massey Ferguson 6485 with lugs for the Stocks dual wheels
P reg (96) New Holland TX36 Combine
Massey Ferguson 4160v RB Baler
Refurbished Gas Opico/GT Grain Drier
5 furrow Dowdeswell plough
4m Cousins Harrow
a couple of flat Trailers & a bale squeezer

 

[Flat 10]

Since I put this post up a few things have arrived in my stack yard, I still have all of the above machinery at the moment, but I thought I'd do an update! :

12 reg Massey Ferguson 6485 with lugs for the Stocks dual wheels
P reg (96) New Holland TX36 Combine
Massey Ferguson 4160v RB Baler
Refurbished Gas Opico/GT Grain Drier
5 furrow Dowdeswell plough
4m Cousins Harrow
a couple of flat Trailers & a bale squeezer

Plenty of gear on your acreage, don’t know how you justify it/afford it very jealous! Good effort.

 

[Adeptandy]

Plenty of gear on your acreage, don’t know how you justify it/afford it very jealous! Good effort.

I've gone the other way, 3 drills and the Cousins Patriot gone, 1 drill in

 

[Flat 10]

I've gone the other way, 3 drills and the Cousins Patriot gone, 1 drill in

All zero till now?

 

[Adeptandy]

All zero till now?

Yes, for a mix of reasons, time being the big one and if it is better for the environment that's a help. Its not a cheap drill but has been balanced out quite a bit by the sale of the 3 drills & Patriot. Just hope it works now, another testing year to start it off

 

[holywell farmer]

@New Puritan

The 1494 on its LGP wheels. The main light cultivation, rolling, top dressing tractor.

View attachment 834895

Presently awaiting a recon hydrashift unit but fine if the job needs 10K, 4K or 1K.
Saved from export and we reconditioned the final drives.
Also runs on 13.6's for tramline work. A hardy old bus that has served us well.

The Lambo 105 formula powerspeed 40K and with creeper box. Owned from new in 1995.

View attachment 834896
Cylinders went porous 4 years ago. Replaced cylinders and pots. Presently in the process of a strip down to locate a transmission problem. Main draught tractor up until recently pulling a 4 furrow DP7.

Never short of a job running old kit.

Many hours on the Lamborghini?

 

[Foxcover]

Since I put this post up a few things have arrived in my stack yard, I still have all of the above machinery at the moment, but I thought I'd do an update! :

12 reg Massey Ferguson 6485 with lugs for the Stocks dual wheels
P reg (96) New Holland TX36 Combine
Massey Ferguson 4160v RB Baler
Refurbished Gas Opico/GT Grain Drier
5 furrow Dowdeswell plough
4m Cousins Harrow
a couple of flat Trailers & a bale squeezer

That must be one of the last TX36’s to be made?
Can cut all your corn in 2 days!!

 

[DrWazzock]

Many hours on the Lamborghini?

4000 ish

 

[Boohoo]

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....

Update for 2020...
Still farming 9 acres...
The 9 ton Herron arrived in December 2019 and included a bale extension and front bale rack or whatever you call it in your part of the world.
The 3rd tractor arrived in the form of another 996 and it has gained a loader because you can never have too many..
Plan for 2021 is an extension on the shed and an 880 if the right one turns up.

 

[4seasons]

That must be one of the last TX36’s to be made?
Can cut all your corn in 2 days!!

Yes apparently the chap I bought it from a couple of weeks ago told me it is one of the last ones made & the reason I bought one of my own was because I was sick of waiting for the hire combines to arrive when they were needed (I got really badly let down this year)

 

[Renaultman]

Yes apparently the chap I bought it from a couple of weeks ago told me it is one of the last ones made & the reason I bought one of my own was because I was sick of waiting for the hire combines to arrive when they were needed (I got really badly let down this year)

They are a bloody good combine. Keep a good eye on the sieve rubbers.

 

[Hesstondriver]

150 acres all combinables
17' combine
24m sprayer
3m combi
100hp & 114hp 4wd
overspecced but do work for others as well or spend time with family.

this is the best reason to have overcapacity ( or justification to your OH)

 

[Renaultman]

this is the best reason to have overcapacity ( or justification to your OH)

Mine just asks why I want to spend more money .

 

[DevonianRedneck]

10ish acres owned, 8 acres in one block, 2 and a bit acres in another, up to 20 acres rented at any one time locally.
make horse hay, keep some sheep, rear calves, and dabble in a spot of market gardening.

current fleet:

Tractors:
Leyland 272 syncro, main workhorse.
Massey ferguson 135.
Ferguson tef20,
Wheelhorse c120, ( dont laugh, its fitted with a rotavator and is used on the market gardening side of things)

Implements and trailers:
Weeks 4-tonne double drop side
Pz haybob
Fahr centipede
An old eastern european made drum mower
International b47 baler
Twose linkbox
Mcconnel hy-reach hedgetrimmer
a Perry grab
Denning of chard sawbench
Howard rotaspreader

Other
Komatsu pc20-3 digger
A 2wd Benford Dumper
Isuzu tfs pickup
Honda 200s atc (used for stock check/and moving sheep)

 

[Hesstondriver]

Mine just asks why I want to spend more money .

Quote the reason above and thank me

 

[Renaultman]

Quote the reason above and thank me

Believe me I've tried, but she knows I just take more work on. There are few secrets after 35 years together.

 

[Kiwi Pete]

4000 ish

Good for another 10k hours yet! They only need a mechanically minded owner, good tub