I’m back from USA and into the silage. Today mowing with our taarup and john deere 10ft....... Don’t forget to follow me on Instagram Snapchat and Facebook just search gerry6420
Hope you had a good time in America, we have our silage in thankfully. Just wondering how much land you own and how many cows because you seem like a decent size farm?
J McConnell yea we own 70 acres and rent quite a bit, farm 380 acres in total . 60 suckler cows. Run about 250 cattle over summer and 380 over last winter. Beefing 200. Have about 80 acres in tillage. 60 acres of hay. That’s about the run of it.
On the mowers... l thought twas 2 linkage mowers ye had Gerry? Did ye borrow that deere w grouper? Does the dew bother ya, suppose b half the day waiting for it to lift this time of year?
Bambinohead1 no the dew wasn’t a issue. It went in in very nice order for the time of year. Got a loan of the trailer mower for group the rows. Plan is to sell the older of the taarup mounted mowers and buy a trailer with a grouper. On the look out for one 2/3 years old that’s not done much. There hard to come by. Most are contractor mowers
gerry6420 I've been told cows do better on wagon grass for some reason and if you get like a pottenger toro or a jumbo your 6930 should be able to power it and pottenger has one of the best reps for not shearing pins and bolts. Great vid
James O Brien our 3rd cut is 40 acres just cause we cut early start of May and that was 320 acres had one field burn out and add on the 100 acres of maize
James O Brien it’ll all be wanted this year. We’ve good few bales to make too. All the hay ground is there ready. Gonna pit some of it too. Hopeful we get a dry spell to get it all finished up
David E you’d only do that for a self propelled or in light stuff. With a trailer harvester or baler you’d pull your hair out trying to lift a big 30ft
Patrick Mcmanus jf900 not really made to lift heavy 20 foot rows.A1050or1060 no problem or the big 1260 will lift 30 foot if ya had 300 plus horses to drive it
drumdy we were effected very badly with the drought in June and July. 6 weeks after the 1st cut had been done, the ground still was yellow like it had been cut a few days only. A lot of second cuts aren’t even done round here yet.
