single pass mowing/baling

[Neddy flanders]

other than a front mounted mower and rear baler is there any single machine that will cut and clear stewardship residues?
must be versatile in tight corners.

single chop?
foreage trailer?
baler?
zero grazer??

any ideas. thanks

 

[Muddyroads]

I used my Orkel direct cut baler for several years primarily for local authority “wildflower meadows” where they wanted areas cut and cleared in the autumn. Produces standard 4’ round bales but has a heavy duty flail instead of a pickup on the front. Not quick compared to a modern round baler for baling out of a row but very good as a one pass machine.

 

[Neddy flanders]

thats the kiddy..

 

[Fendt516profi]

I used my Orkel direct cut baler for several years primarily for local authority “wildflower meadows” where they wanted areas cut and cleared in the autumn. Produces standard 4’ round bales but has a heavy duty flail instead of a pickup on the front. Not quick compared to a modern round baler for baling out of a row but very good as a one pass machine.View attachment 1007668

I've just been searching for that post to quote it. Knew I'd seen it but couldn't remember who posted it

 

[Muddyroads]

Pretty rare now I think. I have 1 good one and another for spares/repairs but never seen any others.
Open to offers if interested as I haven’t used them much since we took the farm on.

 

[fendtfiasco]

A Ryetec flail mower collector will do that, absolutely no knowledge off them other than than the website.

 

[Dave W]

A Ryetec flail mower collector will do that, absolutely no knowledge off them other than than the website.

There's a couple of those machines. Amazone make one and rytec (rebadged peruzzo).
Awesome tool in the right condition but they'll only really handle 6" of grass comfortably.

Major make (or did make) a bigger heavier duty trailer machine. I've had one and never seen another

 

[Muddyroads]

There's a couple of those machines. Amazone make one and rytec (rebadged peruzzo).
Awesome tool in the right condition but they'll only really handle 6" of grass comfortably.

Major make (or did make) a bigger heavier duty trailer machine. I've had one and never seen another

It would struggle to handle this lot then?

 

[Dave W]

It would struggle to handle this lot then?
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The major would stand half a chance but the rytec wouldn't even look at it

 

[Dave W]

The major would stand half a chance but the rytec wouldn't even look at it

Major MJ2000 is the model no.

 

[fendtfiasco]

Stewardship residue, bloody jungle more like
Had no idea thats what you are cutting, and they pay you to do that ?

 

[Fendt516profi]

Stewardship residue, bloody jungle more like
Had no idea thats what you are cutting, and they pay you to do that ?

Well I don't think he'd be buying it as a standing crop

 

[Muddyroads]

That last picture was an area run by a local community group who’d taken on some land for recreational and wildlife use. They asked if I could cut and clear it as it was just a mass of weeds, mostly thistles. Tractor kept growing a beard!

 

[Will2May]

Managed to get a green line combi trailer flail collector second hand at a sale but again a rare difficult machine to find. Heavy duty machine with a big capacity, with the smaller machines you'd be emptying every couple of minutes.
Cjhire.co.uk have one for hire
..

 

[Will2May]

There's a video of one on YouTube but can't get the link to attach on here.

Google parkland greenline combi trailer flail collector

 

[Netherfield]

That last picture was an area run by a local community group who’d taken on some land for recreational and wildlife use. They asked if I could cut and clear it as it was just a mass of weeds, mostly thistles. Tractor kept growing a beard!
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And then what happens to it?

 

[Muddyroads]

And then what happens to it?

That lot got dumped in a corner to rot down, couldn’t do anything else. All the stewardship and wildflower areas that I did got wrapped and fed to store bullocks.

 

[Ali_Maxxum]

The major would stand half a chance but the rytec wouldn't even look at it

We have a Ryetec/Peruzzo on a 60hp Alpine tractor and have pushed it through stuff very similar to that, might just want a quick 2nd pass. Soul destroying slow as you fill the box so quickly!

A flail collector would be most versatile as you could back it in the corners but the whole 'job/scheme' in my eyes is a disgusting waste of money, time and resources. Doing bits for wildlife and the like but chuffing all that co2 and burning diesel to have nothing of any use at the end. How it ever pays to be in these things rather than just growing a proper crop/grass is beyond me,

I'm only a little cranky about it as there is getting upwards of several hundred acres around us that are 'wild flower meadows' which are being and have been made so poor they can't give the grass away. Yet there's new entrants crying out for grazing ground and people wanting tidy grass for fodder.

The two can go hand in hand with the right management but after raising the issue with our local wildlife trust the response was basically ''We'll always have money/budget to throw at it so it doesn't really matter.....''

Rant, sorry

 

[puppet]

That last picture was an area run by a local community group who’d taken on some land for recreational and wildlife use. They asked if I could cut and clear it as it was just a mass of weeds, mostly thistles. Tractor kept growing a beard!
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This is the future of rewilding.
Annoys me when a 'community' group gets taxpayers money to buy some land with the idea that the big bad owner has not been looking after it better and they can do better. So instead of a few cattle keeping it in check it becomes a monoculture of thistles, killing everything else while needing fossil fuels to cut it
By the way, congratulations on a good job done. Hope the community has some cash left over to pay annually.

 

[ollie989898]

Absolute waste of diesel. Flail it off by all means, what odds it makes to remove the material I will never know.