Kverneland Group Ireland

"The Future of Farming Exibition"

Put a date in your 2012 Diary. Feb 15th and 16th 2012.

Free admission to the Farming Public on Wed afternoon and Thursday from 10am.

See the full Range of Kverneland and McConnel Equipment in one indoor location, at The Hub in Kilkenny.

Click here for THE HUB Website

Just Register on the day to be included in the Free Draw for a Twin Disc Vicon Fertiliser Spreader. Factory Experts and Dealer Personnel on Site. Refreshments will be served.

Matt Dempsey, Editor of the Irish Farmer's Journal will deliver an address at 7pm on Wed 15th..

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02/01/12

Kverneland Taarup Demo Days

Pat Fitzgerald, from Conna, feeds a mix of fodder beet with both pit and round bale silage along with supplements. We loaded the beet first in the horizontal auger type Taarup KD616 Feeder to get the beet chunks to just the right size. Then simply add the whole bales or grab of pit silage. A good mix was achieved.

To day most farmers prefer the tub machines and so we showed the twin tub Taarup Siloking 18 Cube Avant machine as well as the KD853 Bale Shredder.

Despite the cold morning we had a nice crowd to see all the machines in action.

Kverneland Taarup will be back in Cork in the New Year in another locality. Check your local paper or Lynch & McCarthy for details.

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McConnel PA7700T Hedge Cutter with New Revolution Control System.

This was my first opportunity to see the 2011 version of McConnel’s PA7700 Telescopic Hedge Cutter. This latest version is fitted with the Company’s new Revolution control system. It was also an opportunity to see one of the hedge cutter specialists at work. These long reach machines are usually sold to top line Contractors and this was to be the case with Seamus Coogan.

On approaching the locality where he was working, I was impressed by the condition of the newly cut and trimmed hedges.

Seamus Coogan has been in the Hedge Cutting business now for ten years. His first machine was also a high spec bracket mounted machine, the well respected McConnel PA5000. The PA5000 had the Mono Lever Hydraulic control system fitted –in its day, a great, easy to use, trouble free system, and had a five metre reach. To day’s new machine the PA7700T has an increased seven metre reach and has the new control system, called Revolution..

“So what’s different on the new machine” I asked Seamus? “The first thing I noticed” said Seamus “was that the new control box was programmable. I could select the function I wanted to make proportional, and I could also keep an accurate record of the hours worked on each job.

“What about the Proportional Hydraulics - how does that work” I asked. Seamus explained that the joy stick has two rollers at the top. The speed of the hydraulic function and the particular function you need most control of, can be selected by the driver, and by just rolling the roller you get very fine control of the function you need

The area of Ballymoon, named after Ballymoon Castle, the ruins of which are just up the road from Seamus’ house, is approx four miles east of Bagenalstown within sight of Mount Leinster. It’s a really nice part of the world on a clear winter’s day. Seamus can be contacted at 00 353 87 6969761.



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