“On any given day our CMATIC tractors will cover around 5% more ground than those with a mechanical gearbox, but will still use the same amount of fuel. Effectively we’re burning 5% less diesel for every acre."
The number of machines and implements with HAMBLYS stickers on, bears witness to the excellent relationship Kevin has with his local CLAAS dealer HAMBLYS.
With up to 1,000 tonnes of compost to handle each week, Nigel Baker’s TORION 1511 is never idle, but has also given him the capacity to cope with a doubling
workload in the last 6 months.
With 1,000 hungry mouths to feed it’s unsurprising a CLAAS 736 SCORPION has clocked up 4,000hrs in two years fulfilling its duties at Heanton Barton,
Petrockstowe, Devon, which is an AHDB Strategic dairy farm.
After starting out small, Josh and Helen Collins’ contracting operation, based near Truro in Cornwall, grew massively and quickly after they took over the goodwill and some machinery following another local contractor’s retirement.
Barry Vickery from Cornwall borrowed a CLAAS VOLTO 55 to ted his grass to make
haylage, and was so impressed with the results he bought his own machine