May 2021

We called down to Tanco in Carlow to meet Adrian Lacey and have a chat with him about what they do, their market and also a walk around their manufacturing factory.

In this video we visited Farmworks Machinery in Dublin, to get a new front PTO fitted onto our Fendt 820. Eoghan chats with Brian Duane about Farmworks, who they are and what they do as well as a look at the front PTO being fitted to our Fendt 820.

It's been a tough start to the silage season due to the broken weather but we managed to catch up with DJ McKay & Son as they got stuck into some first cut grass before the rain really hit. We got talking to James McKay as he tested his new Volvo L90 on the pit, and chatted about what he thought of their John Deere R series and whether they'd take a notion to upgrade the harvester to a 9900i next time round...

We called out to see a familiar face, James Campbell, after he added a Strautmann Giga-Vitesse 3601 to his growing wagon outfit. As we'd gone to collect it on the John Deere 7310R, we thought it'd be rude not to take it for a spin and go draw a few loads of silage for his pit!

We happened to be passing Ballyboughal so decided to call into Farmworks Machinery to check out Thomas collecting Country Crest's new Gen 6 Fendt 724 & Rogator 355.

We visited Alex Orr on the Scottish borders as he was out destoning in his Fendt 415 ahead of the leek drill, and he told us all about how he was starting out with his new contracting business alongside the livestock farming at home.

While we were in Dorset, England, we caught up with Matt Shine from Samco as he was visiting Bartletts out working with their 71HD 3-in-1 maize drill. We got chatting to him about how they came to manufacture the 3-in-1 machine and the different varieties of film they produce.

Foster Care Fortnight? Monday 10th May 2021 launched Foster Care Fortnight - "Each one of us can make a difference, together we can make a change". We, at GRASSMEN, care about fostering because every kid is only one caring adult away from success! Gareth talks about the current issues surrounding children currently and we ask for your support for the work that the fantastic carers do. If you want to find out more information about fostering or care you can contact the Northern Ireland Adoption and Foster Careline on 0800 0720 137.

It was a big day for Donkey and Gazza who were collecting our JCB Fastrac 4220 from JH Milnes Ltd. We worked alongside Harvey and his team to make it GRASSMEN spec, so check out the video to see all of the mod's that we carried out to make it our own!

Donkey's pickup, the Volkswagen Amarok, is in for a service as she's just hit 54k miles! After her MOT got postponed, she was due in for a look round and service. We also take a walkaround our trailed harvesters that are needing a service and some TLC!

We had a trip out to England this week to collect the newest addition to our fleet, a JCB Fastrac 4220! Of course we gave it our own touches with the help of JH Milnes LTD and we also went for an interesting tyre choice with custom black rims and Nokian Tyres! ??

We paid a visit to see Paul and Marco from Pottinger to talk to them about their Pottinger One pass precision drill with maize planting option, the Aerosem 3002 ADD. This machine uniquely combines the drilling of cereals and maize, giving you the perfect placement of seeds.