massey man Posted August 22, 2011 Posted August 22, 2011 as titled whats your model farm fleet,ballymorran farms rely on a fleet of mainly modern classics to carry out a range of work on a busy mixed farm,contractors look after silage harvesting and baling work but the rest we do ourselves,first up is the farms case 1056xl,spends most of its time cutting hedges with a mcconell hedge trimmer when off the hedge cutter it can be found often rolling cereals with a set of cambridge rolls a 2wd ford 7740 spends the winter either on the farms keenan diet feeder or mixing and pumping slurry with a redrock slurry pump a slopey nosed dx deutz carries out all the farms spraying with a hardi mounted sprayer and harvests around 50 acres of potatoes a year with a superfaun harvester,the row crop wheels are never off this tractor Quote
massey man Posted August 22, 2011 Author Posted August 22, 2011 the first of 3 loaders on the farm the jcb 414 is kept busy on a wide range of tasks,in winter its mostly used with a redrock alligator sheargrab to fill the keenan returning from loading dung into a hired bunning rear discharge spreader powered by the farms 7810 johndeere the jcb 526 is another machine that performs many tasks in the yard and a mf 6270 with mf loader kept as an all rounder bought new in 02 and now showing 4500 hours on the clock Quote
massey man Posted August 22, 2011 Author Posted August 22, 2011 a case mxu125 spends a lot of the summer sowing fertilliser,with so much outlying ground many a load of fertilliser is brought to the lelly centerliner 2 ton spinner and loaded with the farms 6270 the farms tm140 new holland ford now showing 6700 hours on the clock geting a fill of diesel before heading away to mow grass in front of the self propelled with the johndeere 1360 mower conditioner this tractor works at anything in the yard another mf,a 6480 tier 2 dyanshift bought new in 08 and now showing 4500 hours,this tractor will likely be changed this year for the newer tier 3 dyna6 model,ploughing with a four furrow revirsible kevernland plough also an all rounder in the yard,seen here pulling the farms 2500 herron slurry tanker Quote
massey man Posted August 22, 2011 Author Posted August 22, 2011 and now the big deere,a 7810 responsible for sowing all the cereals on farm plus some contract work with a 3 meter amazon/accord one pass drill the claas dominator 108 combine still going strong a recent demo tractor,claas arion 640 fleet line up Quote
massey man Posted August 22, 2011 Author Posted August 22, 2011 nice set up you have there masseyman thanks lad Quote
justy 46 Posted August 22, 2011 Posted August 22, 2011 Fine mix of tractor brands on that farm! Id love to do my uncles farm in a diorma but id have to do a few conversions for his 4 tractors. A NH 7740,Fiat 85-90, Ford 4600 Fritz cab & a 4000. Quote
NewHollandKane Posted October 5, 2011 Posted October 5, 2011 I have a renault that has a few too many miles! I also have a tm135s that should have seazed up a long time ago from drawing sand from our gravel pit with the little old britains dump/silage trailer. Quote
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