Silage 2024. First outing of the season! Claas Jaguar 860, JCB 419S shovel & MF trailer team.

My first footage of the 2024 silage harvest season filmed not in Cumbria but over the border in Dumfries & Galloway. A very early cut for this area (10th May). I would normally see at least one classic tractor helping out at this busy time of year but on this occasion it was a full complement of modern machines, not one over 3 years old and some still fresh out of the box!
Chopping the grass on the day was a 24-reg Claas Jaguar 860 owned by Auldgirth contractor James Rodan on only it’s 2nd day out in the fields so was a test run for both the machine and it’s operator who kindly let me have a cab ride round the fields with him.
Three of the latest range Massey Fergusons on trailer duties, a pair of MF 7S.180 and a MF 8S.245 pulling Redrock, Brougham & Kane 14-16T trailers.
Back at the farmyard a JCB 419S loading shovel and MDE folding buckrake (also owned by J. Rodan) was easily keeping up with the trailer team as it pushed up the grass into the undercover clamp.
For the eagle eyed among you (blink and you’ll miss it) there was also a MF 1755E parked up in the yard and again being less than a year old was quite easily the newest scraper tractor I’ve ever seen.
Filmed in Southern Scotland, May 2024

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