Whats your machinery line up.

[Yale]

Deutz m620
Valtra n121
Valtra n103.3
Valmet 465
DB1394
JCB 526
3CX
Defender
Isuzu D max
Kramer 212E

Every other thing you need to go on the back,lime spreader,hedgecutter,forage wagon,round baler.

But importantly in the future I can’t see how this level of equipment can be replaced and to be honest I can’t see any future in owning equipment.

 

[Spud]

Six tractors in the working fleet between 95&200hp, and 5 & 25 yrs old. 44000hrs between them
4 tractors and a 1969 landrover in the project fleet
Three telehandlers with 30,000hrs between them
20odd forklift attatchments
7 tipping trailers
5 flat trailers
4 drills
1 combine 16yo
1 dryer 28yo
1 dresser
1 shunter wagon 29000hrs
3 ploughs
7 cultivators
1 set folding rollers
1 disc/press
1 (poor mans)cultipress
3 destoners
5 tillers
1 taty planter
3 fert applicators
3 irrigators
4 mobile pipelines
4 pumps
3 generators
2 taty harvesters
3 toppers
2 graders
2 charge hoppers
umpteen elevators, conveyors, sizers cleaners and screeners
1 good taty wash plant, one virtual scrap wash plant
2 balers (1948 & 1996!)
2 tedders
1 rake
1 mower
2 beet cleaners
2 beet drills
2 sprayers
2 water bowsers
2 fuel bowsers
1 tanker
1 snowplough
1 gritter
2 pickups (with 21yrs & 230,000miles between them)

There's probably other stuff too.....

It seems we have lots of duplicates - many of them are back up or occasionally used machines, but lots regularly used too.

0.96hp/acre over the arable area - about a quarter of the total is potatoes, the rest cereals, pulses and beet. Contractor lifts beet and cuts hedges, muck spreader hired, otherwise fully in house.
Annual workload of tractors and telehandlers is about 6500/yr
General philosophy of don't change machines just for shiny paint, only to gain efficiencies / quality of work, or make things easier to do. About half bought new, half second hand. Some kept forever, some gone in less than 10yrs.

 

[traineefarmer]

Deep breath....

In active service:
DB 880
DB 990
JD 6420s
JD 6400
JD 3140
JD 2130
JD 2040
JD 1140
JCB 530-70
JCB 320s
JD 1075 Combine
Bateman HiLo 2001
Allis Chalmers B with underslung beet hoes
Whitlock digger.

Highest hours 1140 29600. Lowest 3140 5600 (on it's 2nd clock! )

Not allowed to get dirty:
Field Marshall
E27N P6

Plus an ever growing fleet of towable and mounted scrap to somehow scrape a living from 110ha producing cereals, beet, spuds, beef and eggs without using contractors and only hiring a muck spreader once a year.

The farm sale should things ever come to that will take a fortnight....

 

[davedb]

This was a few years ago, the 265 isn’t ours unfortunately View attachment 871450

Nice 8240? want to sell it

 

[Pukekohe_Grower]

Kubota mx95
Kubota mx95
JD 1640
JD 6410
JD 6920s
JD 6430p
JD 6430p
JD 6630p
JD 6120r
JD 6150r
JD 8430t
JD 1640 sprayer
JD 6520 sprayer
JD 6140m sprayer

 

[Pukekohe_Grower]

Kubota mx95
Kubota mx95
JD 1640
JD 6410
JD 6920s
JD 6430p
JD 6430p
JD 6630p
JD 6120r
JD 6150r
JD 8430t
JD 1640 sprayer
JD 6520 sprayer
JD 6140m sprayer

oops forgot too include JD 6230

 

[yellowbelly]

Hmmm, very interesting thread.

Our list (although not quite accurate), in comparison, feels a bit like this...........

2 17hh Shire mares
Ransomes single furrow plough
Set of zig-zag harrows
Fiddle drill
8' Cambridge roll
Lincolnshire cart
Trailed Cook finger bar mower
2 muck forks (wooden shafts)
4 pitch forks

 

[Nearly]

Running at 4hp per acre and I don't care.

 

[nick...]

JD 7710
JD6620
Kubota 2201
Kubota2210
Fordson super dexta
JCB 531/70
JDx584
Kuhn 123 multimaster
Proforge 5m trailed inverta
Amazone 3m combination drill
Cousins 8.3 sidewinder rolls
Cousins 3 leg v form
Home made 3m front press
Home made 3m front mounted spring tine
Twose 580 hedge cutter
KRM L 2 fertiliser spreader
Alpego flail mower
Thwaites 3ton dumper
Volvo ecr25d
2 x Ifir Williams trailers
NC 14 muck shifting trailer
Various attachments for Kubotas
7 Attachment’s for telehandler
Spraying and combining done by contractors
Everything owned
Massivly over mechanised for farm size but I run farm alongside doing digger work and no help.

Nick...

 

[FG.]

Its probably sad to say, but I love all my old classic kit.
This is just a few pix of some of the stuff I run.
I occasionally spoil myself with something newer like a JD3800 to join my Matbro, but that was bought cheap and involved a full restoration.
The 218 bought last yr, is totally ridiculous for what I'm cutting, but I sold my previous bus for very good money and this was silly cheap.
Hp/ac 3.8

 

[nick...]

Its probably sad to say, but I love all my old classic kit.
This is just a few pix of some of the stuff I run.
I occasionally spoil myself with something newer like a JD3800 to join my Matbro, but that was bought cheap and involved a full restoration.
The 218 bought last yr, is totally ridiculous for what I'm cutting, but I sold my previous bus for very good money and this was silly cheap.View attachment 871556View attachment 871551View attachment 871552

I’m with you on this.id love a newer tractor but can’t justify it and the expense either.older stuff is not too expensive to keep going.had a fan resistor and a couple of cab fans in my big tractor recently and last problem on smaller one was a pipe leak under cab spraying a very fine mist out the back.dealer done that and had a bill for £900 which was outrageous in my opinion.apart from routine servicing and oil changes we are lucky really with minimal problems on a 23 and 17 year old tractors.ontop of that I could sell either for more than I paid for them 14 and 5 years ago
Nick...

 

[Tomr10]

Running at 4hp per acre and I don't care.
View attachment 871550

About 18 hp per acre here lol

 

[willy]

I used to run all new machinery, but the depreciation, the unreliability I had with 2 machines, made me change my strategy.

I now run good older machines looked after by local mechanic who went on his own £35 per hour, parts from Nick young tractor parts or John conaty (seriously good value), but touch wood not too much need.

where as new had to be serviced by dealer and that was no cheap ordeal. So I sold it all and went for the best (in my view jd) and have no payments on any of them.

 

[yellowbelly]

About 18 hp per acre here lol

You can't beat a bit of horsepower - you've always got enough to 'power through' the wet bits .........

 

[Tomr10]

You can't beat a bit of horsepower - you've always got enough to 'power through' the wet bits .........
View attachment 871591

It's not so much the horse power more lack of land lol it's only a hobbie

Got a mf 135
Leyland 472
JD 260 loader on it
McCormick cx 100 loader on it
McCormick xtx165
Volvo ec140 excavator


The only reason for the xtx is to pull the excavator really

 

[Finn farmer]

100 'ish cows (including heifers) and a milking robot. 200 hectares (494 acres) of silage grass.

Jd 6630 with Isme 180B loader
Case Maxxum 135Cvx with Trima loader
McHale Fusion 2
Fliegl manure spreader
Pöttinger 307 towed moco
Kuhn 3,2m mounted mower
Kuhn MultiMaster 121 4f reversible plough
He-Va 6.3m cambridge roller with seeder
Väderstad 4,7m mounted S-tine harrow
Elho chain mower
Hitachi 13,5 ton digger

Slurry is done by a contractor.

0,627 horsepower/acre.

 

[Spud]

Running at 4hp per acre and I don't care.
View attachment 871550

There's at least one missing....

 

[Digester Man]

Fendt 415
Fendt 718 S4
Agquip umbilical outfit 1800m + 15m dribble bar
Sumo GLS
Amazone ZA TS 3200 Profis Hydro
Silopactor 4ton roller
Redrock 2750G Tanker
Herron H2 16T Silage Trailer
McCauley 12T Dump Trailer
Volvo L70F with Trioliet shear grab
Merlo P55.9CS
Cat 308CCR Excavator

500kw digester and 470 acres grass and crops

 

[Clever Dic]

Had this taken aout 4 years ago but been investing recently.

Most non blue have now been replaced with blue.
Current line up
T7 315
T7 270
T7 250
T7 210
T7 200
T6 150
T6 145
McCorrmick 185
McCorrmick 150
2 x Merlo
Pottinger Triple mower
Pottinger 4 row rake
Pottinger 2 row rake
Kubota 2 row 2 rotor rake
1 x15m Lely tedder
2x 10m Lely tedder
4 x Welgar 830
3 x Arcusin C14 packers
4 x McHale 988 wrappers
1 NH 80x 70 baler
1 NH 120x 70 baler
1 Claas 80x 50 bale
6m KV combi drill
4m Moore drill
5.5 m Xpress
Sumo Trio
12m Cousins rolls
8.5m Batwing topper..

Bloody hell stopping now ...I have a metal addiction and all to make horse hay..?

 

[Nearly]

There's at least one missing....

8200 and 8100 are camera shy.
Major and Super Major are agoraphobic.