Mark Lynskey
Well-Known Member
honestly would love to get a fendt favorit 900 series with reverse drive for buckraking. be some animal for climbing the pit
Seen your post and reminded me of this beast.
honestly would love to get a fendt favorit 900 series with reverse drive for buckraking. be some animal for climbing the pit
looks a beast of a machine right enough its a pity they didnt show it working hard, a tractor half that size could have done thatSeen your post and reminded me of this beast.
looks a beast of a machine right enough its a pity they didnt show it working hard, a tractor half that size could have done that
Think the stacks holding the lights is stronger than some buckrakes out therePossibly but better to have plenty in reserve I say, that's a serious bit of a buck rake, they must have seen an Albutt one time and though..'Hold my beer...' The spot lamps on the posts are a great touch.
The Kverneland s are mowing wellMowed 70ac of 3rd cut today. Not bad for grass only seeded down in April this year. Lovely ground to mow travelling up to speeds of 21km. Averaged 15ac an hour.
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The Kverneland s are mowing well
would you have a preference for trailed rear over mounted?
Is the swarther used much? Or is it all raked anywayMowing well. Good strong mower imo. That back mower is on its 7th season. Front is either on its 6th or 5th. Not entirely sure. That outfit mows around 2000ac a year and they still going good.
Much prefer trailed mower. We had a krone and a claas side mounted mower this year but much rather my trailer mower. Just very used to it.
Is the swarther used much? Or is it all raked anyway
Just curious do lads take the up and down swaths first then finish from the innermost headland out ? I’d imagine doing headlands first your making a balls of the headland swarts doing the straight runs every time you’d cross over. Asking as I’ve never ran a rake, just mown a bit.A few years ago we would have grouped the most of the silage. In the last few years I say it could be back a nice bit but still a lot of farmers who do one cut just group and pick up 20ft. I say I could group 6 or 700ac a year. Also if I was mowing for the rake I would mow 90ft of a headland but group in the last 10ft so when your lifting and dropping the mowers your not dropping them into the headland swath causing lumps for the rake and then the harvester.
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Just curious do lads take the up and down swaths first then finish from the innermost headland out ? I’d imagine doing headlands first your making a balls of the headland swarts doing the straight runs every time you’d cross over. Asking as I’ve never ran a rake, just mown a bit.
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Last of 3rd cut.left the deere and other 5500 to drier ground.no business bringing a deere to damper groundView attachment 82443
Serious artillery on the back of the Lambo.
There's a lad a mile away from here with a pair of 6 cyl Lambos of that type and age.
Would it be running on those tyres all the time ?
I'd always be of the opinion that if the ground isn't fit for tankers on low ground pressure tyres and decent tractors it's not fit to be taking the slurry in the first place.
Councils are going around checking septic tanks but giving planning permission for slatted houses where the only place where the slurry can be spread is in swamps and flood plains of the Shannon.
I would be a bit biased on the tank versus pipes though.
A mile wouldnt be a big issue if its fairly flat.just mean 2 sets of pipes and 2 pumping tractors thats all.easier way is few tankers ferrying to the pipes or better still if you can accomodate an articPiping slurry must be a great job , for poor ground conditions such as you are enduring there.
Not a concept that has taken on locally.
Mainly , because most people try to return the slurry to the land where the silage was produced to make that slurry .
In my own case only around 1/2 of my 1st cut silage was produced from my own land , and that from the more distant . The rest from rented land , and I am lucky in the regard that the rented land is all within 1 mile of me.
Youd want a long pipe all the same
See farmer phil on you tube gave us a few dry ones on his video on his pottinger experience with the mowers and big tedder last week in wexford.some weapon of a tedder .myself and their warrenty man was just laughing about it yesterday afternoon.
Not a good job to offend the warrenty man
Farmer Phil is a social media influence to get to that gig! I need to do Tom Pememberton on it to get a new tractor and mower
Farmer Phil is a social media influence to get to that gig! I need to do Tom Pememberton on it to get a new tractor and mower