New combine cost

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Never Forgotten
Honorary Member
You are only talking about labour efficiency.
What about financial efficiency?
Perhsps if land was declining back to £1000 per acre then spending half a mill on the shiniest ridiculous toy wont be quite so attractive.
For the smaller farmer a modernised trailed combine would make a lot of sense.
Kidd saw that 30yr ago but kv shut it down
Didn't JF make one in the early 90's ?
Obviously never took off.
Quite fancy one for my eerrrrrmmm..........eerrrrrrr 40 acres.:sorry:
 

David.

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Mixed Farmer
Location
J11 M40
£4.50 per ac worked, or per Claas notional combine capacity acre?
We all know that most of them are capable of 3000ac :rolleyes: , which on that basis makes annual service £13.5k:eek:.
 

glasshouse

Member
Location
lothians
10500 acres, minus a few AHA tenant farms, minus a lot of woodland, a lot of permanent grass river meadows let for grazing, a lot of land let for root veg cropping and even more for maize and rye for AD and a little bit for pigs leaves some for their own cropping of cereals and sugar beet.
So who runs three lexion 770 over that way?
 
I thought there was an article in the farming press about it being bespoke made for them…..
I’ve also read about their new 30m set of rolls…..
I can’t see how he can run much well depreciated on that scale
I’m sure it was all used stuff and then adapted. Combines are all well used.
 

Norfolk Olly

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
norfolk
I thought that they'd cut back from two to one at Elveden. Ian has been over there helping them out since Euston finished.
Of course they do have other farms now so could well have three in their overall operation.
Yes they've a 8900, did have 2 770s at Thetford and one at coldham, don't think Ian was too pleased, went for 2days was still there a week later 😂😂
 

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