
In Contract & Farm 5, we spend a few months with Murphy Brothers Contractors based in Portlaw, Co.Waterford. In this DVD we talk to the dealers about the machines that they supply Murphy’s & get their perspective.
Murphy’s fleet of tractors consist of Fendt & New Holland along with Claas, Case & John Deere. We follow them ploughing with Overum ploughs & drilling with a Lemken one pass along with tilling, bedforming and planting potatoes. They spread fertilizer with a Bogballe spreader & slurry with a Joskin tanker.
Silage is cut with a reverse drive Fendt 828 and rear Claas triples and harvested with a Claas 900 forager and hauled with Dooley trailers. They also have a 2nd crew with 4 Pottinger wagons backed up by 2 JCB 435 loaders. Murphy’s run a number of Hitachi excavators that we see working on different jobs.
The cereal harvest is completed with a Claas Lexion 620 & NH TX34 and as Autumn comes, we move to the maize and potato harvest. We follow the crew at some ploughing & drilling and get them spreading dung with a Richard Western. We finish up looking at Murphy’s covering carrots with a Jones Engineering straw layer.
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