Yea seeing allot move here in the past week too. This could week and another one potentially at the end of the month will give an appetite to everything and used up allot of reserves.
NH had a quicke on board but I can't remember the number, massey had a massey loader again don't know the number but it would have been a red quicke.
The back end leaving the ground was the masseys problem.
what weight roughly would that slat weight ?
1.3 tonnes according to the drumderry concrete data sheet.
Most modern tractors have them these days
Needed my magnifying glass to see em.
Well it is cold outside
Box outside be as handy I find, those of us where its wet most of the time might find it cleaner!
Lovely tractor. What are claas's like? Don't see many round my area but they look good.
Never happens, 😳😬😂
Never leave without your balls.
We need more than one set of balls. That R clip on the MF is the wrong way round. Tail board clip would work better.
Biggest contractor in our area selling out in a few weeks with Doyle auctions. That's the 2 largest lads with self propelled outfits in a few weeks gone. Some gear included in the sale. If I was making pit silage I'd be slightly worried for next year to get someone at the time I'd want.
Something has to give.
The business model of grass pit silage in Ireland is ridiculous.
3 quarters of a million euros of assets active for about 1 month of the year & said contractor offering credit to customers at 0% interest.
Think the contractors with 10 year old gear is the sweet spot
Getting and keeping staff is the biggest issue
I'm not so sure.
A 10 year old harvester is going to have enormous pre season overhaul bills.
The tractors maybe, but a 10 year old 150hp tractor is still going to cost upwards of €50,000 and have over 10,000 hours on it if it's being worked accordingly.
It's the contractor that is using the gear for something else for the other 11 months if the year that is the sweet spot.
I've often said this but I reckon the future is smaller more specialised contractors say like myself that concentrate on say slurry and reseeding only. Another could be baling and hedgecutting and do on. We come together to do big jobs. It's kinda happening around here already.
The days of the one large one size fits all contractor could be coming to an end. You'll still have one or two of them but not as many overall I think.
If a sp outfit hasnt got a decent wholecrop and maize side then it is down to maybe 3 weeks work in the year and ironically its the big Ms ,harvester and loader that are killing things.all 3 have to be maintained fresh and of high capacity because each hour is critical for those 2 weeks end of may and the replacement cost is gone out of control.the rest of the year these machines bring in very little.bales are now very close to the cost of pit silage if you allow for the captital cost of the pit.it has to be said that pit has now become predomitnatly dairy farmer based and they can be very demanding custumers.add in the labour problem and the lack of decent infrastructure at farm levell for the scale of the machinery nowadays and you can quickly see thats it a comeplete non runner.maybe if there was more 3 cut silage but even with that the later work tends to diszppear into bales/zerograzing.more and more grass is going into bales and i see that continuing
On the three cut issue. I'm noticing a few big dairy farmers around here starting to push the idea of only being charged say 80 an acre rather than 120 due to cutting the grass while it's lighter and more often. That's one way of speeding up the retirement sale of the contractor.
Few individuals won't be happy till there's very few lads left doing the work and then there will be some crying.
Seeing it here myself as I'm getting busier every year. If it's others pulling back or whatnot I've no idea but it's definitely happening.
A digging contractor here years ago made a statement to me about how to charge for work and I’ve never forgot it because over the years and the more dealings I’ve had with people it’s more and more true.
He says for the majority of customers it doesn’t matter what you charge them so long as they think you’re making nothing for yourself out of it and then they’re happy. He reckoned you could charge a man €40 per hour and if you told him the digger is costing €5 per hour and the diesel €10 and the other €25 is for yourself there’s no way he’ll want to pay you that. But equally you could charge the same man €60 per hour and if you can justify that cost to make it look like you’re earning very little, say digger depreciation €10 per hour, diesel €10 per hour, wages €15 insurance €3, maintenance €5, tax €8, overheads €3 etc and now it looks like you’ve only a few euro for yourself that same man will more than happily pay the €60 as he thinks he’s screwing you!
Same happening around my area Reggie. My raking and baling is done by 2 different contractors.
170 -180 an acre seems to be the run around here past year.grant it this is hard country for sp,small fields,hills,tight roads and smaller yards and heavy cuts.alot of 100 cow farmers going all bale around here,bale shear has really helped push fellas over the edge
New baby arrived in yesterday!
Big baby
Thats a big yoke with a loader. What work do you plan for it?
TBH she'll have an easy life with me, probably a bit of light low loader work. Needs new (replacement) rear tyres and small cosmetic tidying.
French?
Dutch.
