“This would be the third one-pass we’ve had, and they’ve all been Amazone, but this one is on another level altogether.”

“What I like about these Krone mowers is they clean the ground well.”

“I’ve had various demos over the years out of the Krone machines and the six feed rollers is a brilliant job.”

“This is my first Krone rake, I did look at other rakes but I just thought the Krone was stronger built and more versatile.”

“I probably have 30–40% more output with the Pantera… because I can hold a better forward speed.”

“The Krone grouper works really well leaving a lovely even row and it’s better than any rake would leave it.”

“I wouldn’t go back to driving a 3m, this is so much handier. It looks big, but it’s very easy to move around, it’s a tidy and compact drill.”

“I suppose when we got the demonstrator that sealed it really, we were well impressed with it and I think we put in an order for one the next day or the day after it to be honest.”

100% confidence in its accuracy: David Jameson tells all about his Amazone ZA-V 2000

“I’ve had various demos over the years out of the Krone machines and the six feed rollers is a brilliant job.”

“I would be extremely leaning towards any farmer to change over to Krone or if they wanted a new mower to go to Krone, I would recommend them highly”

“if any farmer I bale for comes to me and says I am thinking of buying a mower what would you recommend ? I will always tell them to buy a Krone”

“The accuracy of the spreader is brilliant, it’s unbelievable,” Richard explains “I find it very hard to look past the Amazone spreader they’re just so simple to use and they do the job so effectively.”

“We’ve been using Amazone spreaders here for the past 15 to 20 years, we’ve always found them very reliable and very accurate. Every year we spread between 80 and 100 tonnes of fertiliser.” Jim explains, “This is our first season with this machine; the ZA-V and so far we’re very happy with it.” 

“I like the way the tedder goes around the headland and when I turn the ram it blows the grass out into the field,” Dan explains, “It doesn’t put grass into the ditch and it turns nicely on the headlands going around the corners, it does a nice job.”

“Ground conditions would be good in general; we do a lot of reseeding using the tine harrow and it’s working well.” TJ explains “It takes a lot of dead grass out and opens up the ground.”

“It does exactly what it says its supposed to do, that’s what I like about it and with how costly fertiliser is you want to be 100% happy with your spread pattern and get the use out of your fertiliser.”

“When we’re drawing bales we’d be drawing with the tractor, loader and 24ft bale trailer,” explains Aidan “It’s a very compact unit for getting in and out of tight yards, small gateways and small fields.”

“In the really stony places we don’t plough, just give maybe two runs with the disc harrow and then in with this and it still covers the seed to perfection.”

“One run of a grubber and one pass of the Cayena drill, is a very cost effective method of establishing a crop with a total of 8l per acre of diesel used.”

“When you are turning over the plough the wheel drops after the plough is fully turned over and that’s a way better job than other brands”

“The BiG X is well able to handle the tough Irish conditions and heavy lumpy grass way better than any other machine we have had, it is just way ahead of the rest”

Our usage rate of fertiliser has dropped on average of 4-5% since starting to use GPS with proper section control where the spread pattern is narrowing and as you enter gearoigs or short ground.

“In west Cork the land is variable, you have small fields and big fields, and you have a lot of fields with corners, so you need to be able to operate in an agile fashion in terms of being able to shut on and off,”

“It did come with its own GPS and joystick system but I wanted to spread a bit of fertiliser and the guys were gone mowing silage so I said I’d just plug it in to another ISOBUS tractor and away it went.”

“If the BiG M goes we’re going out of silage, we wouldn’t operate without a BiG M anymore, or even consider it!”

“We’d seen the first model and we could see a lot of the parts were refined in the BiG M II and obviously we knew all the benefits of having a self-propelled so we took the jump then, in 2007 we bought the BiG M II and haven’t looked back since!”

“We do both pit silage and bales,” continued Leon. “The good thing I like about the Krone rakes is we can adjust how many swathes we bring in; for the pit silage we bring in 30ft (three 10ft swathes) and when we’re baling we only bring in 20ft and it’s easier on the baler – we couldn’t do that with our previous machine.”

“We had two other brands previous to this mower, which have worked well, but from speaking to everyone the Krone seems to be the number one choice for contractors and farmers, so we went with the Krone ECTS 320CV trailed mower.”

“The ZA-V is not a small investment but a simple calculation shows that they can pay themselves off over a few years in saved fertiliser.”

“I don’t think there is another machine on the market that can handle lumps as good as this one.

“The BiG X handles lumps a lot better. I’ve never, ever choked it with grass; generally, whatever goes in the front of the reel goes on through.”

“Because the 2019 planting was so wet we felt we needed to look at different options that would work in those trickier conditions”

“We had another brand of harvester but we got a demo of the Krone and we were so happy with it that it just never left”

“This is a big benefit, from the cab I can see the 18 numbered green lights to say that all my coulters are working perfectly and the seed is being put out at the correct rate”

“Once you get used to the setup, it makes the job very simple and definitely takes the stress out of the job,”

“It has soft drive on the loader so roadwork is very smooth – there is no bouncing. This also works very well out in the field, especially when you’re going over tramlines,” 

Michael Leamy from Co. Tipperary, a dairy and beef farmer, has a Quicke Q970 loader purchased from Tim Gleeson Machinery over 20 years ago.

“This is our second season with these two rakes and we’ve never had a stop with roughly 5000 acres a year done”

“We moved from another brand into the Krone mowers and initially we were a bit hesitant to swap but today we would definitely go back and buy another set of Krone.”

“Overall, I am really happy with the mowers; I think they’re a great combination – we can fly through grass,”

“Like all Krone wagons previously this one is built extremely strong; that is a hallmark of Krone. Its gear is built to last and built to do the job that it’s designed to do.”

“We’d seen the first model and we could see a lot of the parts were refined in the BiG M II and obviously we knew all the benefits of having a self-propelled so we took the jump then, in 2007 we bought the BiG M II and haven’t looked back since!”