These are the agricultural services offered by Robert Tuckwell Contractors. Please use the online enquiry form or call Daniel Tuckwell for details on any of the following:
Baling: There are eight Massey Ferguson balers for making high quality silage, haylage, hay and straw bales. This gives the choice of 4-string bales (4-8ft) or 6-string bales (4-8ft).
Bale wrapping: There are three bale wrapping machines available. McHale and Kuhn wrappers are used for wrapping round and square bales.
Bale Band-IT: Conventional bales with Bale Band-IT in packs of 21.
Grass silaging: Triple mowers, tedders, rakes, 10×16 ton trailers, and a self-propelled forager with a yield monitor. JCB434 for clamping.
Whole crop silaging: Direct disc header, processing mill.
Maize silaging: Corn cracker, 10 row maize header.
Muck Spreading: Heaps, yards and slurry lagoons. For muck spreading, our 4 x 18 tonne KTwo Spreaders are fitted with weight cells and variable rate controllers, 12m or 24m spreading. Loading is done by a standard loader, loading shovel or 360 digger.
Slurry Tanker: For high output slurry tankering, a Samson slurry tanker with a 24 metre dribble bar is used. This is usually pulled by a 360 horsepower Fendt tractor.
Spraying: Amazone Pantera Sprayer with full GPS technology with steering and auto shut off is used.
Combining: A 35 foot terra track combine is used for high output harvesting. Corn cart service is available with 16 ton trailers kitted up with weight cells.
Ploughing: 2 x 6 furrow ploughs are available.
Cultivating: 3 metre Sumo trailed cultivator with 300hp tractor;
Flat lifting
Vaderstad carrier cultivator
Sub soiling; Power harrowing; Moleing; Drilling
Maize Drilling: Our Horsch 16 row precision maize drill, offering big bag fertiliser and micro-granular. Assisted by GPS guidance for individual seeder unit shut off.
Cereal Drilling: Vaderstad 6 metre rapid drill
Sward lifting
Harrowing
Flat rolling
Topping
Overseeding
Construction:
13 tonne 360 digger
3 tonne mini digger
3 tonne vibrating roller
Dumpers