Deere-est Posted May 31, 2011 Share Posted May 31, 2011 Could be the same one then, Paul. Tried Google maps for any obvious looking large fields but no joy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pingu Posted May 31, 2011 Share Posted May 31, 2011 Our biggest field is 190 acres (headland alone is 40 acres) and if wasnt for a grass track going down the middle it would be a 280 acres, we have 4 more 100 acre plus fields dream for output Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deere-est Posted May 31, 2011 Share Posted May 31, 2011 Blimey, just remembered the two 150ac I worked in on grain cart and later on for spraying down near Hindon. Paul and Mark may even know the two I mean. First two fields on the left from the traffic lights on the A350 towards Hindon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jdeere6910 Posted June 1, 2011 Share Posted June 1, 2011 Just at the other end of the scale, we bought a combine from a farm in aberdeenshire that farmed 600 acres in fields that were no bigger than 10 acres how that farm would long for your 200ac fields Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schw84 Posted June 1, 2011 Share Posted June 1, 2011 Largest we have is in the middle of the airfield and 85-90 acres, but next door have one which they claim is 50 acres between each set of telegraph poles and theres 5 of them so would assume its about 250 acres, I know tannington group have a field near worlingworth in Suffolk which is about 450acres in one field but I'd say that was about the biggest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tractorman810 Posted June 1, 2011 Share Posted June 1, 2011 Largest we have is in the middle of the airfield and 85-90 acres, but next door have one which they claim is 50 acres between each set of telegraph poles and theres 5 of them so would assume its about 250 acres, I know tannington group have a field near worlingworth in Suffolk which is about 450acres in one field but I'd say that was about the biggest. i have a feeling that may be a myth, will check with my uncle, if its the one i think it is, it was owned by tuckwells till they sold some land off , they used to own a good porportion of land round there , so unless they have opened out more ditchs and stuff, i doubt anywhere round there could accomodate a 450 acre filed with all the roads ect , Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schw84 Posted June 1, 2011 Share Posted June 1, 2011 Just looked on google earth there are 2 massive fields surrounding tannington hall I'm about 7 miles north of them and the field I'm thinking of is about 5x the size of our largest.. Or it appears to b anyway... You can see they have removed the ditches etc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tractorman810 Posted June 1, 2011 Share Posted June 1, 2011 biggest i know of round worlingworth way i have walked round, and thats about 8 km permieter wise , going to have to google earth the ones at tannington as i really can not remember anything that big Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tractorman810 Posted June 1, 2011 Share Posted June 1, 2011 do you mean this one mate??? http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ll=52.27461,1.2936487&z=14&t=h&hl=en-GB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlexMF Posted June 1, 2011 Share Posted June 1, 2011 flipping heck that's big! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tractorman810 Posted June 1, 2011 Share Posted June 1, 2011 the one to the rights a fair old size to alex :laugh: been past these many a time, can get pics in a fewdays to, pretty sure that used to be tuckwells land, so i can find out what size they are for sure soon with luck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
valtra130 Posted June 1, 2011 Share Posted June 1, 2011 Average field size for us is 4.5 acres !! biggest on farm is 13 acres and that used to be 4 fields until we removed the hedges !! Self propelled forager doesnt take long do a field when its only 2 acres !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Palmer Posted June 1, 2011 Author Share Posted June 1, 2011 the one to the rights a fair old size to alex :laugh: been past these many a time, can get pictures in a fewdays to, pretty sure that used to be tuckwells land, so i can find out what size they are for sure soon with luck that will be interesting sean Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schw84 Posted June 1, 2011 Share Posted June 1, 2011 yes thats the one.... I'm sure its the Harveys who own it, but im not 100% It is by far the largest field around here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnDeereMan Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 we have a 150 acre Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Palmer Posted June 5, 2011 Author Share Posted June 5, 2011 Average field size for us is 4.5 acres !! biggest on farm is 13 acres and that used to be 4 fields until we removed the hedges !! Self propelled forager doesnt take long do a field when its only 2 acres !! thanks for the reply valtra,a 2 acre field with a spfh,how long does it take? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
masseyjack590 Posted June 5, 2011 Share Posted June 5, 2011 a fair few 100ac plus fields round here i think my granddad said there was a 400ac field somewhere in lincolnshire Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Palmer Posted June 5, 2011 Author Share Posted June 5, 2011 a fair few 100ac plus fields round here i think my granddad said there was a 400ac field somewhere in lincolnshire 400 acres,bloody hell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jdeere6910 Posted June 5, 2011 Share Posted June 5, 2011 400 acres,bloody hell :of Exactly my response as well paul, that field must be like a warzone, just empty and flat its like putting all our arable and some half of our grassland into one field Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoshParkinson Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 The biggest field we had was 90 acres, half a mile long, took me a week to plough it with a 4 furrow plough, starting at 7:30am finishing at about 10 at night although if we filled in the dyke between the other 2 fields next to it the field would be 172 acres, smallest field was barely an acre, took two and a half rounds with the combine, spent more time manouvering in and out of the field than in there cutting, next smallest was 2 acres, that was just a pain moving the combine 4 miles down the road to do a 2 and a 4 acre field Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tractorman810 Posted June 15, 2011 Share Posted June 15, 2011 Well after a bit of asking round I have some info on those fields the biggest is indeed 453 and 1\4 acres was sold by tuckwells in 1991 to tannington group but was the 2 x 200 odds acres fields and. 1 x 50 acres layout , it's not unusal to see 3 rented combines in there in summer cutting it and the other larger one to the right as that comes in at 397 acres as their own combines can't keep up , can also usally see 3 case quadtracs working it to two ploughing and one seeding , rumor has it the group are the only in the uk to be running great plains cultivation kit , the big stuff usally seen in the USA or eastern euro on the big plains fields , out that way later so will try to get a pic or two but it is supposidly the biggest and 2 nd biggest fields in the uk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CX820Joe Posted June 15, 2011 Share Posted June 15, 2011 There was a pretty big field on the outskirts of Shrewsbury, which was supposed to have been the biggest in Shropshire, but it was split down the middle when they built the bypass. Not sure what the acreage was. I can remember what seemed like a very big field near Rednal, for the fact that it took their John Deere 955 combine ages to go around the headland! It probably wasn't all that massive though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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