The company which was founded by farmer’s son Sean Blaney, back in 1993, has traded as Blaney or Quad-X in different markets.

More recently, Sean Blaney has formed a new company Blaney Gears from the purchase of the plant and assets of Limavady Gear Company.

For the future, the tractor machinery wing of the company will be branded as Blaney Agri Solutions, while the ATV range will be branded as Quad-X. While initially it was seen as an ATV attachment maker, Quad-X has broadened its range of machines to include machines for use behind farm tractors.

The Blaney tractor machinery range now includes hedgecutters, toppers and weedlickers and Blaney aims to offer a wider range of silage feeding machines. And there was a host of new machinery ideas unveiled at the press day.

New for this year will be a bale unroller that can be used with twin spreading discs to spread hay, silage or straw across the width of the machine. This is a simple add-on device for the company’s existing Forager X10 bale unroller.

Blaney will have a new self-loading version of its bale shredder this year’s silage feeding season. This machine comes with wheels and can be used to chop/shred and blow hay, silage and straw from bales into feed areas or for straw spreading when a 1,000rpm pto speed is used.

The company is also planning to develop a new trailed grassland aerator. This will give the machine a 6m working width as against the 2m, 3m and 4.5m wide mounted units already available.

Blaney has developed a new tractor operated Splitfire log splitter with a device for holding bags on each side so that the split logs fall into the bag automatically.

The table on the splitter can be clipped to a lower position to allow for splitting longer logs. It is fitted with two handles as a safety feature and can only be operated with two hands attached.

Other new developments include a new topper with six blades, which Blaney claims will give a lower power requirement and faster working rate. There will be two working width options, either 3.6 metres or 4.5 metres, and both are hydraulic folding units.

The company’s existing flail mower rage has been improved to give an even finer chop in heavy rush conditions. The company claims that its Dynacut range is 30% more effective in chopping the rushes than the economy models due to more flails, while the Hypercut version gives 45% better chopping.

Blaney has a new and wider range of weedlickers on the way. There is a new tractor mounted 8.5m-wide unit soon to be available and the company will also offer a butterfly type weedlicker option for even greater coverage for its contra-rotating fibre roller weedlicker system.