BIG Changes at Kevin Meade Agri Contracting

We called back to Kevin Meade and some things have changed since our last visit. A new black Massey 8740S with the BIGGEST mowers in Ireland but does Kevin prefer them over the Big M? A John Deere harvester has entered the fleet. And A & W Trailers' Terra Ferma 24 triaxle trailer is out on demo. Let's see how the team get on with their new toys!
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[@jascollinscork]

Jesus WHAT A SETUP 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼 from mowers to chopper to trailers 🤯🤯🤯 BUT grassmen there is a Class Cougar AND a Big M500 in Ireland also! We need to see them please 🙏 😊

[@AgriLifeIreland]

Where in Ireland is the cougar?

[@TommyBaby2023]

An older woman I hope 😅

[@Grassmen]

Totally agree.

[@roadrash1282]

@@AgriLifeIrelandWestmeath

[@jascollinscork]

@@roadrash1282 thanks 👌🏻 I wasn’t sure what county but knew it was Midlands

[@damienhughes3168]

Mighty set up, Black 8740 some beast 👌👌👌👍👍👍

[@stephenmeehan9961]

Great video and Conor is a natural.. Long way that from the finger had mower..... Crazy money involved to run these contracting crews..

[@DeltaSigma]

Nice bits of machinery there. I wish there were subtitles because I cannot really understand what Kevin is saying.

[@kitbuilder123]

Well able to keep them mowers full with no gps. Conor is a great interviewer as well. Great video, 👍

[@user-tw5se8ho7s]

She looks like a fine set of mowers i have only ever seen one 8740 in person she was some beast

[@mikereekie4948]

Awesome selection of machinery.

[@marksheridan7754]

Nice bit of tidy mowing,farmer phil can't drive his tractor out of the yard without gps,nice to see you mowing straight lines without it

[@rikleith]

Some of us old lads never had such things. For spreading fertiliser we pa ed the field out and put empty 50kg feed bags down as markers to aim for

[@SimonKL11]

That are some cool mowers😄👍 the black massey looks amazing😁👍

[@r61501]

Great to see the salute at 20.08 mins

[@68diggerman]

Well done, great interview guys

[@CENTRIX4]

Bog Oak -- Ground Penetrating Radar To Scan For Bog Oak Near The Surface Bog Oak could potentially damage the mowers resulting in very expensive repairs. If the fields were scanned with ground penetrating radar before being mowed and any Bog Oak near the surface is removed it would save what could potentially be very very expensive repairs to the mowers when cutting silage. This applies to all crops not just silage fields. Possible reduction in insurance payments if fields are scanned for Bog Oak with ground penetrating radar before the mowers cut the grass. Above is a very simple straight forward procedure that could potentially save very very expensive repairs to mowers and other farm machinery.

[@daneenmurf1043]

Bog oak is only found in wet acidic conditions _ that doesnt apply in every land type

[@user-zu6qn9ux9n]

Big M will out preform that setup all day. Just more nimble!

[@Grassmen]

Well Kevin will be the man to ask at the end of the season.

[@rikleith]

Big M is an expensive ornament 9 months of the year though

[@barrymallon9373]

Really great vid today

[@Grassmen]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@adamwatson6384]

Looks to take some turning at the ends.

[@teresahopkins7535]

can u work each mower individualley same as big m

[@wallm1206]

Kuhn have the best mowers on the market atm

[@jongunnareide3606]

I got a fc 302g from 2000. Still going strong

[@user-mw1pl2ul5d]

Probably have been for 40+ years the time John Deere been using the cutter bar ect.

[@jongunnareide3606]

@@user-mw1pl2ul5d JF used the cutter bar before. Now i believe they use comer cutter bar in kongskilde

[@g-sailing4427]

That Newry man has half a Meath accent now 😎

[@MrT79shakeshake]

…and wearing a galway jersey……😅

[@nigelhales874]

Narrow lanes but yer doing well with big machines ..plenty of grass especially with all the rain .. the polo shirt looks pink yuc lol

[@leslierobertsmith]

Some braw yokes in this video,

[@HP-Agri]

Knuckle

[@luvelyjubely]

Why don’t they use the merger on the mower?

[@AgriLifeIreland]

Farmer wanted it to dry id say

[@hughmarcus1]

I’d imagine the crop was too wet. Merging that width would result in some pile of grass.

[@sdgmrs]

Ex meath man now in oz.. mighty sward for first cut especially after all the wet and cold

[@johnreddington3646]

they would be all least out over time

[@68diggerman]

Just wondering how long he keeps the tractor for as they all seem to give gear box problem around 7000 hrs that seem all tractors these days

[@noahmurphy5366]

Contractors must be very easygoing in that part of the country. None of the lads around here would tolerate a field gap like that one at 8mins. It's ridiculous to find at this stage.

[@emmett1739]

Throttle happy minimum wage no brainers will be happy to navigate any gap, unreal to think that the majority gulpins actually think this machinery is bought outright and can pay for itself .seriously the attitude of these young drivers on the road is appalling

[@gt3911]

Right... DISCLAIMER: I'm just a farm simulator idiot. Can someone tell me what I'm missing. These forage harvesters like the Krone cost - a lot. You don't tedder the grass after mowing, it looks like you mow, windrow, pickup dump at bunker. If I was doing that on farm sim, i'd have a front mower and a forage harvester trailer. The front mower is only as wide as the tractor and is a perfect width for the pickup on the trailer. It's way cheaper on machinary, uses less men, and you do less passes on the field. This video: Tractor with big mower. Tractor with windrower. Forage harvester emptying into multiple Tractor trailers. 3 stages. Lots of kit Me: 3.1m front mower, Strautmann Magon pickup, tractor. 2x, 3x this and it's less stages. The mower is smaller but you skip the windrowing and the very expensive krone overall it's similar time just way way cheaper. Now, I know that sounds like me saying 'i know better...' But really I'm curious why in the real world this doesn't seem to be true? Or use a DISCO 9700 RC AUTO SWATHER. to at least skip windrowing.

[@jodyquirke2628]

For all the world 😂

[@ihenderson2480]

Why did he leave farmflix?

[@davk6059]

I was wondering the same

[@hughmarcus1]

More money. 😉

[@michaelmaree8947]

MF 8740 S 💪💪💪

[@Grassmen]

Some yoke

[@hijixxy7790]

Fist

[@garyscott7933]

£400,000 and the man has no gps??

[@Grassmen]

He has now lol

[@user-nt2xt4wc6m]

tats wat u call a outfit

[@stakman78]

Ah he doesn't like Deeres and wears pink shirt's... I get it. That guy is missing a shitload of strips.

[@user-mw1pl2ul5d]

Trailers far too big,there's going to be some serious field damage in wetter ground conditions.

[@patrick-rt8py]

dude there is no way machinery like this can pay for itself at the price of it,how do these contractors sleep at night with worry,there is a massive cloud chasing agri contractors ,and its called debt!

[@emmett1739]

I agree , hp by the hundred stands for Hire Purchase £€$s per week

[@greengrass6340]

I'm glad someone is buying them or we wouldn't get our winter feed

[@emmett1739]

@@greengrass6340 makes the wonder how we did it for generations , real men and woman , with hard skinned hands , strong backs and sheer will power , ah these machines have so many brains now because this generation have none

[@hughmarcus1]

A lot of these contractors are doing other stuff alongside silage. It’s said some of them make their money off slurry.