- Location
- Hampshire
We cut 800 to 1000 acres of silage a year. We have plenty of labour, regular and family, and are currently running a 1998 Claas 850. She is in good nick, on about 5500 hours, but we do have regular breakdowns, which involve 6 or 7 blokes watching and scratching their arses as it is mended.
I don't want to rely on a contractor, as with the current mad weather patterns I want to go when I want to.
With the current favourable tax thing, I have looked at new machines.
I have looked at trailed foragers, but our biggest tractors are 150 HP, so we just wouldn't get the output, and wholecrop would be difficult/impossible.
Is there a smaller, simpler, farmer-friendly SPFH made? I enquired about the smallest Krone and that is something like £220,000 with a header.
Then perhaps an arable farmer would justify a combine of that value on a similar acreage?
I don't want to rely on a contractor, as with the current mad weather patterns I want to go when I want to.
With the current favourable tax thing, I have looked at new machines.
I have looked at trailed foragers, but our biggest tractors are 150 HP, so we just wouldn't get the output, and wholecrop would be difficult/impossible.
Is there a smaller, simpler, farmer-friendly SPFH made? I enquired about the smallest Krone and that is something like £220,000 with a header.
Then perhaps an arable farmer would justify a combine of that value on a similar acreage?