Dutch contractors grass kit

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[smallclaas]

Nice kit there Texas, like the shed.

[texas]

This contractor drives fendt, volvo loaders and claas harvesters. In the summer for grass silage this contractor has 5 teams on the road. 2 with the claas harvester and 3 teams with the strautmann gigant silagewagon. Also has this contractor much work with liquid manure. He has 3 trucks for transporting and 5 veenhuis sullry tankers.

Texas

[Pingu]

What fendts is he running any idea texas?

Great pictures by the way

[texas]

I didn't look that well at the fendt's is not my tractor but i have seen a fendt 818 and a 926.

Texas

[NCC]

Excellent pics Texas ;)

Those forage wagons don't half dwarf that JD :o

[Lord Ferguson]

Nice pics Texas thank for sharing them with us all - man those Forage wagons are huge arn't they  - Are they all as big as that - I didn't realise how big they were - now I understand why you need some many horses up front 

[Powerstarâ„¢]

I love silage pictures and those 3 Veenhuis wagons are smart, why post them F-P stop teasing me, first cut is still another 2 months  :'(

[JC]

I love silage pictures and those 3 Veenhuis wagons are smart, why post them F-P stop teasing me, first cut is still another 2 months  :'(

I thought I would give you something to think about while your laid in bed tonight Powerstar!  :o

[Powerstarâ„¢]

:P :P Veenhuis    :D

[civilpek]

lovely pics texas, loks like hes running an expensive fleet there, those veehuis trailers lok the job

[FB]

Nice pics Texas, more please  ;D

[Deere-est]

The Dutch do like their machinery don't they? We did a study tour which took in a suger beet contractor but sadly I havnt many 35mm photo's. He ran 5 SP beet harvesters supported by a fleet of 8x6 Daf hookloaders which also had grain bins and slurry tank attachments.

Those silage trailers look immense, more so with the little Deere sat in the corner. Looking at the construction could EMA cladding be used to make one? Bet F-P has already thought of that. Those forage trailers are something else too, never seen anything like that round here, only a couple of 8t Reco Manglers!!!

[texas]

I have been in texas they only use claas or john deere harversters for grass silage. Never seen a grass forage trailer like the strautmann on the picture.

Texas

[civilpek]

theres a few machinery suppliers situated right next to me, one of them had too strautmann forage wagons in his yard just before last summer one of them was actually bought by a contractor in Kerry have actually seen it working a few times he got 4 in total but the rest are profi, they worked out very well for him in his first year based on that he bought the strautmann but i know he lost a lot of acres again ilast summer. one of the big problems farmers here claim that its nearly imposible to get the grass out of the pit from the wagons because its not chopped enough, one guy said he went through about so many shear bolts on his silage grab that he lost count!!!

[Guest Fendt pwr]

Nice picture texas,the vicon mowers look neat.

[texas]

I don't understand way it is hard toget the grass out off the pit. Wenn they have problem toget it out off the pit it means the grass is very well packed. wenn a pit is good packed then you have a better quality grass to feed. Also the contractors overhere use loaders on the pit.

Texas

[JohnP]

right then - daft question time

(prepare for a Numpty award ?)

I've often wondered about the huge bank loans that farmers must have for big items of kit that lay idle for 9-10 months of the year.

Is it really cost effective to have a these huge self-propelled forage harvesters & specialist trailers rather than towed bits of kit & standard trailers with side extensions ?  What sort of acreage do you need to make them pay ??

This goes for other big bits of equipment too; bigger and bigger Combines, potato harvesters etc. (my Dad is very opinionated about this).

[JC]

Good question John, I often think the same.