One of the largest silage harvesting outfits I’ve ever encountered on my travels around the countryside of Cumbria and although I filmed this on the 10th of May, I’ve just got round to publishing the finished video now due to having so much footage to edit. Harvesting a 330 acre first cut crop for a large dairy farm are contractor S. Mchales team supported by a number of the farms own machines. Raking up ahead of the forager is a JD 6R 155 and Pottinger TOP 1252c 4-rotor rake followed by a JD 8600i forage harvester with trailer support provided by a MF 6S.165, MF 7S.180, NH T7.210 and JD 6140M. At the busy clamp(s) are a pair of JD 6R 185 tractors with Albut buckrakes plus the farms Manitou MLT 630-115 telehandler also giving a hand. Lookout for the Tafe 35Di scraper tractor near the end of the video!
Filmed in Cumbria, 10th May 2024
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