Major will also be demonstrating two tankers and slurry application systems at this year’s FTMTA Grass & Muck – a Major 2600LGP with 7.5m Mastek dribble bar and a Major 3500 tandem-axle tanker with a 7m trailing shoe. The Major tandem axle tankers are fitted with steering axles as standard. This allows them to travel safely on narrow roads and prevent damage to the soil by avoiding tyre scrubbing, allowing tighter turning circles.

The trailing shoe sits close to the rear of the tanker for better weight distribution and is designed to fit any size tanker. It is available in two working widths – 6.4m and 7.0m.

The high-tensile springs use the high-carbon steel coulters to split the grass, allowing the slurry to run on to the ground. The benefits of this system include reduced phosphorus run-off, a wider window of opportunity to apply slurry, reduced tainting of the grazing sward and reduced smell from slurry spreading. Major Equipment Intl Ltd also offer a custom design service to ensure that the tanker ordered is the right one for the customer’s specific circumstances.

Cyclone mowers

According to Major, its range of Cyclone mowers are strong, rugged and robust. They have been specifically designed for use in set-aside, forestry margin management and sensitive environmental scrubland control. In an agricultural setting, this would include conventional topping of grass, weeds and rushes – typical work for a conventional topper.

But the cyclone is not a conventional topper. Major says its range of Cyclone Mowers has been designed to do the work of a flail mower while requiring a fraction of the power and fuel that a flail mower would consume. Flail mowers would typically be used for heavy-duty management of rushes, gorse, shrub, saplings and brush. Stuff that is a bit too tough for sustained hacking with a conventional topper. There are four models currently available in the Major Cyclone range. These include 2m, 2.5m, 3m and 5.5m-wide versions. The 2m model has a side shift function of 400mm and it, like the 3m models, can be front- or rear-mounted.

The Cyclone appears to bridge the gap between toppers and flail mowers. Martin Walsh from Major Equipment explains: “In heavy conditions, a 2.5m flail mower could require as much as 120hp to drive it. Ground speed in gorse would typically be 1mph to 2mph with a flail mower, whereas it would be between 5mph and 8mph in heavy going with the Cyclone.”

Work rate is not the only plus, according to Martin: “With Cyclone versus the flail mower in heavy going, you are looking at potential fuel savings of 30% to 35%.”

Major Equipment Intl Ltd, Ballyhaunis, Co Mayo.

Tel: +353 (0) 949630572

Email: info@major-equipment.com

Web: www.major-equipment.com

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