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    Contractor Profiles DVD

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoyise9xtFs In this the first edition of Contractor Profiles we visit two large contracting fleets in southern Ireland,Ronnie Lenihan in Cork and Eddie Walsh in Kerry. Ronnie and sons run an impressive fleet of customised John Deere tractors from their base...
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    Grass silage in Ireland

    Yes all custom operators,farmers tend to run trailed choppers with some larger operators running older self propelled units,typically 10years+ old. A good acreage for larger contracting grass silage crews is 4-5000 acres/year. The operators in both videos above would be cutting approx...
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    Grass silage in Ireland

    The pile or pit as we call it is covered in a heavy gauge sheet of polythene,sometimes 2 sheets to keep it airtight,then old car/truck tyres are put on top both to compress the top layer of silage and anchor the plastic from high winds
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    Grass silage in Ireland

    Unfortunetly changeable weather means the chopper is never more than a day behind the mower and very often they are working in the same field. Not great for silage quality but sometimes getting it mowed down when its dry is as good as it gets in rainy Ireland
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    Grass silage in Ireland

    Stop me when this gets boring :o This is the crew I work for operating in a less than ideal farm yard :Pointhead YouTube - Eddie Walsh:Volvo L110F
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    Grass silage in Ireland

    I take it you work for POD?? Are you based in Dublin or Cork or is there a Galway depot
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    Grass silage in Ireland

    The roads are a constant struggle here when moving equipment but to be fair when on the really narrow country roads the motorists we meet expect to encounter large machinery during the summer and for the most part are very accomodating but when on the larger national roads quite often we meet...
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    Grass silage in Ireland

    As CTS explained the rake folds to within the machines width for transport. The rake in the video is a 12ft but 14ft are the most common size in Ireland with a few choosing the massive 16ft but very few loaders can handle it when dealing with wet grass.
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    Grass silage in Ireland

    Silage cut in south west Ireland in June 2010 YouTube - Ronnie Lenihan 2010
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    Volvo in a rush

    Stock I'm quietly confident you will get over the shock of me doing such an inexcusable act and go on to enjoy the rest of your night.:rolleyes:
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    Volvo in a rush

    It is a wheel loader :beatsme
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    Volvo in a rush

    A typical day for our team this summer YouTube - The Pits 2010
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    Newbie from Ireland

    Hello folks, Great forum here and glad to have found it. I'm 29yrs old and an equipment operator from south west Ireland. Have been driving wheel loaders since I was 9 and excavators since 15. I work with an agri contractor during the summer months driving a Volvo L110F making grass silage...
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    How Did You Find Us?

    Did a bit of googling and this came up,just whaat I was looking for :notworthy
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