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Machinery Photo/Discussion Thread II

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  • Registered Users Posts: 24,449 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    wrangler wrote: »
    Lads do it on lorries all the time even without a loader, I was in the west of Ireland last weeek and saw a couple of bodies up on ''stilts'' The guy in france seemed to like making things, his low loader was capable of carrying three tractors

    Yeah but the lorries are rigid.


  • Registered Users Posts: 24,449 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Reggie, Are you referring to the A&W trailer in particular here, or to other makes.

    What I liked about the A&W trailer, from reading the article was :
    "According to A&W Engineering, the unit can be attached and removed with “ease”. When not in use, the livestock body sits on special legs. To mount the unit, the low-loader can simply be reversed in underneath – and then secured using the twist locks.

    To remove the unit, the legs must first be re-attached. The bed of the trailer can then drop – to create 150mm of clearance (enabling the trailer to be driven away)".

    I just think in theory it works but trying to get the twist locks lined up might be a challenge. Uneven ground and that. You could do it first time or be at it an hour

    As far as I'm aware theres no guides for them as they come down


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,165 ✭✭✭✭wrangler


    Reggie. wrote: »
    Yeah but the lorries are rigid.

    What difference in a rigid lorry
    I doubt that there's a loader used here, if you dropped the hitch on an ordinary trailer the back would rise enough to put in the stilts, this one is probably on air anyway and you'd do what you'd like with it.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdfRF0J_WgE


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,245 ✭✭✭funkey_monkey


    Panch18 wrote: »
    For what length?

    According to their Facebook page 24ft, 28ft & 32ft. With 30ft made to order.

    Jesus, there is some amount of pure rubbish written in the comments on these Facebook sites.


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,130 ✭✭✭davidk1394


    Panch18 wrote: »
    For what length?

    32ft, air brakes


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,471 ✭✭✭Panch18


    davidk1394 wrote: »
    32ft, air brakes

    Some money for a bale trailer!!

    But I’d say we’ll see more and more of this trailers going forward

    I see scully trailers in Kerry are doing them now as well


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,165 ✭✭✭✭wrangler


    Panch18 wrote: »
    Some money for a bale trailer!!

    But I’d say we’ll see more and more of this trailers going forward

    I see scully trailers in Kerry are doing them now as well

    We;re on the road from meath and Killdare to a couple of beef factories and the trailers that pass here are unreal.
    There must be be more than me praying to Brussels for subsidies


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,174 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    There's a lad over in England that l follow on YouTube that has that trailer setup. He calls it a cattle float. Up on jacks or stilts as u say and just reverse in and drop it down. "Olly's Farm"

    That Irish lad in France made his first one of those about 25 ago for the back of a flat bed rigid he had at the time. Used to put up sheds and could use lorry for that and to haul cattle.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,435 ✭✭✭Waffletraktor


    davidk1394 wrote: »
    The slurrykat bale trailer with hydraulic sides is 20k + vat

    Does hydraulic sides mean the nordic style rails that lift up and down avoiding strapping down or platforms that fold out for leveling spud boxes:confused:


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,264 ✭✭✭visatorro


    Muckit wrote: »
    There's a lad over in England that l follow on YouTube that has that trailer setup. He calls it a cattle float. Up on jacks or stilts as u say and just reverse in and drop it down. "Olly's Farm"

    That Irish lad in France made his first one of those about 25 ago for the back of a flat bed rigid he had at the time. Used to put up sheds and could use lorry for that and to haul cattle.

    Dunno about the trailer, I'd say it's a bolox to get lined up to put Back on.

    I didn't mind watching that fella either until he came out with the gym gear on and I just thought gob****e!


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  • Registered Users Posts: 11,581 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    Right I'm definitely putting the cheque book under lock and key ..this time.
    New purchase.. a Ford 6640 and a Kuhn mower.

    20190921-134243.jpg


  • Registered Users Posts: 29,595 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Right I'm definitely putting the cheque book under lock and key ..this time.
    New purchase.. a Ford 6640 and a Kuhn mower.

    20190921-134243.jpg

    Dont let glanbia see them photos, they'll say they're paying you too much for your milk and drop the price next month


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,581 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    whelan2 wrote: »
    Dont let glanbia see them photos, they'll say they're paying you too much for your milk and drop the price next month

    Ha! I'll tell em I've been saving my communion money for this. :D

    They were bought at a clearance sale of a deceased gentleman farmer in his ninties who had the tidiest farm in the country.
    The total of the two lots, a 94 reg tractor
    6100hrs and an 08 heavy duty Kuhn mower with not much work done came to with commission and vat on commission €14,500.
    The tractor seems perfect to me.
    It was a rob as far as I'm concerned.


  • Registered Users Posts: 24,449 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Ha! I'll tell em I've been saving my communion money for this. :D

    They were bought at a clearance sale of a deceased gentleman farmer in his ninties who had the tidiest farm in the country.
    The total of the two lots, a 94 reg tractor
    6100hrs and an 08 heavy duty Kuhn mower with not much work done came to with commission and vat on commission €14,500.
    The tractor seems perfect to me.
    It was a rob as far as I'm concerned.

    Well wear


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,581 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    Reggie. wrote: »
    Well wear

    Thanks.


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,632 ✭✭✭White Clover


    Right I'm definitely putting the cheque book under lock and key ..this time.
    New purchase.. a Ford 6640 and a Kuhn mower.

    20190921-134243.jpg

    Well wear. Will she go on the muck spreader?


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,581 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    Well wear. Will she go on the muck spreader?

    Thanks!
    Ah I don't think so.. Maybe but I'd say it might be a bit too much.
    I might find out next week. By right she'd want to be reshod on wider rims and new tyres. It'll do all my lighter jobs.


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,014 ✭✭✭GrasstoMilk


    Ha! I'll tell em I've been saving my communion money for this. :D

    They were bought at a clearance sale of a deceased gentleman farmer in his ninties who had the tidiest farm in the country.
    The total of the two lots, a 94 reg tractor
    6100hrs and an 08 heavy duty Kuhn mower with not much work done came to with commission and vat on commission €14,500.
    The tractor seems perfect to me.
    It was a rob as far as I'm concerned.

    Any idea what the small unpainted tipper trailer made? I was wanting to buy it for drawing dung and sticks etc, we didnt get to the auction in the end.
    Well wear!


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,581 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    Any idea what the small unpainted tipper trailer made? I was wanting to buy it for drawing dung and sticks etc, we didnt get to the auction in the end.
    Well wear!

    No sorry I didn't pay much attention to the rest of the lots bar the ones I was interested in.
    There was a big crowd at it. There must have been 300 at it.
    Thanks.


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,632 ✭✭✭White Clover


    Thanks!
    Ah I don't think so.. Maybe but I'd say it might be a bit too much.
    I might find out next week. By right she'd want to be reshod on wider rims and new tyres. It'll do all my lighter jobs.

    Twas an Abbey you said I think? A 2090?
    They're well done in fairness.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 11,581 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    Twas an Abbey you said I think? A 2090?
    They're well done in fairness.

    It's a bit bigger than a 2090.

    I'll put pics up here Monday when I get it in the yard.


  • Registered Users Posts: 24,449 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    It's a bit bigger than a 2090.

    I'll put pics up here Monday when I get it in the yard.

    While it's all shiney


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,427 ✭✭✭hopeso


    Thanks!
    Ah I don't think so.. Maybe but I'd say it might be a bit too much.
    I might find out next week. By right she'd want to be reshod on wider rims and new tyres. It'll do all my lighter jobs.

    Well wear! Sure a Ford like that is an investment, and the mower looks like new... Is she on 30" wheels? They look small in the photo....


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,581 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    hopeso wrote: »
    Well wear! Sure a Ford like that is an investment, and the mower looks like new... Is she on 30" wheels? They look small in the photo....

    Thanks.

    They are 34"
    I'd like to try a 38" and maybe a 18.4 tyre.
    The owner had it as a sprayer and hedgecutting tractor.


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,498 ✭✭✭Markcheese


    On the mini zero grazer, would it be possible to stick a small mower on front of a round baler?
    Or if You have front links...
    I suppose if youve got to go out and get a tractor with front links and pto, then get the baler and mower, then put floatation tyres on everything the mini zero grazer might start looking cheap...

    Slava ukraini 🇺🇦



  • Registered Users Posts: 5,135 ✭✭✭zetecescort


    Single chop harvesters will soon be back in fashion


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,968 ✭✭✭cute geoge



    Top drawer operation!!!
    There based in Lincolnshire ,would this be mainly a tillage area .Would love to travel around Uk some day .What other parts of UK would be big tillage farms???


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,245 ✭✭✭funkey_monkey


    Right I'm definitely putting the cheque book under lock and key ..this time.
    New purchase.. a Ford 6640 and a Kuhn mower.


    Good luck with it. Tidy bit of kit.


    I hope the rear light clusters are visible :pac:


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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,435 ✭✭✭Waffletraktor


    cute geoge wrote: »
    Top drawer operation!!!
    There based in Lincolnshire ,would this be mainly a tillage area .Would love to travel around Uk some day .What other parts of UK would be big tillage farms???

    Cambridgeshire/Lincolnshire is where most the big combinables operations are, go out into Fen country and Norfolk/Suffolk for Veg.
    You'll have Dyson(ad-plants) and Munks up in Bourns country, a little further south. They'll own very little land just a big version of a contractor contract farming(farm for a set price and share any profits).


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