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Agricultural Contracting
Agricultural contracting began in 2000 with the acquisition of a second-hand Grimme variant potato harvester, which was powered by one of father’s two John Deere tractors. The need to be able to plant and harvest the farm's potatoes at the correct time, field conditions permitting, saw the addition of some planting gear in 2001. The opportunity to take on more potato work in Herefordshire and summer work stacking and hauling bales in Lincolnshire saw a rapid increase in the contracting operation with the first John Deere tractor being bought in spring 2002. With our work dominated by potato and transport duties a Fendt vario was tried in early 2003. This was eventually purchased and the current fleet includes, amongst other machinery, three Fendt varios and two John Deeres. Farming and contracting near home has grown to an extent where we are now sadly unable to go to north for our summer hoildays.
Operations Undertaken
- Machinery transport (32 foot tri axle with hydraulic ramps carry 20t)
- Bale stacking
- Bale hauling
- Mucking out cattle buildings
- Potato planting (ridging, bed tilling, destoning and planting)
- Potato weeding (covering hood and opico rotary weeder)
- Haulm removal (front or rear topper)
- Haulm pulling (with front topper)
- Potato harvesting (two machines available DL1700 & GZ DLS with wheel drive)
- Potato hauling (3x14t root trailers)
- Potato grading (screening and grading into boxes)
- Potato box hire and repairs
- Potato grading and bagging (dry brushing and 1.0-25.0-1000.0kg bagging)
- JCB loadall hire with driver. (c/w various attachments)
- Mowing (Option of grouper)
- Raking grass or hay
- Direct drilling
- 360 digger work (14tonne machine c/w various buckets)
- Mini digger hire / work (3 tonne c/w 3 buckets and breaker)
- Hedge cutting
- Muck spreading
- Power harrowing/Combination Drilling
- Ploughing (5f vari width & auto reset)
- Concrete mixing (pan type mixer 0.75cu per mix)
- Stone/Rubble/Soil haulage with 14t dump trailer
- Vaccum tanking tandem axle 2500 gallon tanker with sludgegator
Other Services Available
- Poultry litter
- Bioganix compost
- Post knocking (Protec contractor for front of JCB)
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| Potato planting |
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| Bale stacking |
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| Bales being stacked inside |
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| Hauling bales |
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| Destoning 06 |
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