Reco sh 40

[Friesianfan]

http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&alt=web&id=262269842361&globalID=EBAY-GB
Saw this on eBay. Any good. I currently run a jf 955 and am fed up with bearings going etc.
Would this be less trouble?

 

[D C]

Should be, it'll take abit more driving tho

 

[Joe S]

there good choppers my uncle has one the had it on a tuned up case 956xl when he got it and last year he had it on a case puma 225 cvx its just seems to work with out to much trouble

 

[Kevtherev]

Red guards so prob be a twelve blader not the later 10 blade.
Need plenty of hosses up front and take more driving than a Jf but will cope better with raked and Tedder stuff.

 

[Friesianfan]

150 up ok?

Red guards so prob be a twelve blader not the later 10 blade.
Need plenty of hosses up front and take more driving than a Jf but will cope better with raked and Tedder stuff.

 

[Friesianfan]

Is 12 better than 10?

 

[Kevtherev]

Is 12 better than 10?

Older machine and shorter chop length harder driving.
Later ones in newer colours were mostly all 10 blade

 

[Kevtherev]

Later ones with newer colours go well and more metal in them than a jf

 

[Still Farming]

Lely storm or Massey something now called maybe ???

 

[Friesianfan]

Massey?

 

[Kevtherev]

Lely now make the sh40
The Massey was a badged pottinger I think

 

[6480]

Is 12 better than 10?[/QUOTE
Have a five blade machine and it gives a great long chop for our dairy herd . great harvester to get through acres ,helped a fellow out with a new jf 1060 and he could not get over the output of the mengele

 

[RCW Farm Services]

Depending what chop length you need the 12 blade can be run as a 6, worked with 210 hp into a 10 blade and we had a few issues but most foragers do.....

 

[Manney]

http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&alt=web&id=262269842361&globalID=EBAY-GB
Saw this on eBay. Any good. I currently run a jf 955 and am fed up with bearings going etc.
Would this be less trouble?

Duchy college used to have two of them. Those where the days! Used to run them on a NH TS115 and Case MX130.

 

[Holsteinfriesian90]

You want a Pottinger Mex 6.

 

[Farmer mk1]

We have a lely storm 130p and it failed on one bearing last year but did the shaft. It was the lower front Feed roller with the metal detector inside but within 2 hours we was chopping again. Plus it runs rings round the jf and build quality is a lot better. We now grease everything on it with high speed grease as it stays in the bearings better and haven't had the issues since

 

[alan6430]

does anybody round our area buy new trailed machines any more?

 

[st piran]

does anybody round our area buy new trailed machines any more?

I know a dealer in Devon that has sold four new jf's this winter mainly to farmers who are going away from contractors.

 

[Holsteinfriesian90]

Wonder how much a new one would be.30 grand plus I bet.

 

[Farmer mk1]

A new lely 130p likes ours is around 36 37k. We got ours a year old and paid 22 for it. But think we just dropped on ours to be fair. I think the big jf 1460 and 1260 will become more popular as they cost around 50k but have the output of a small jag and can still have a big tractor with the remainder of the money. You can shove 360hp or 400 plus down the shaft of the big 1460 and it eats grass.