a new class OF CLAAS

On a recent South Island road trip, I caught up with the busy team at Carrfields Contracting. Based in Ashburton, the long-established business (dating back to the early 1970s) offers an impressively full range of services to farmers across the Canterbury region. Although, early on, the business specialised in hay and straw baling, these days the team is widely regarded as experts in all things relating to sourcing and providing new feed preservation techniques and machinery.

CLAAS MOWERS

While in the past Carrfields have run a set of Claas 9200 triple mowers on a Claas 850 tractor, they felt it was slightly underpowered for the task, so purchased a new Claas Axion 870, which at a max 295 horsepower (220kW) should be just the machine for the job.

This is the first 870 they have added to their constantly growing fleet of Claas machines, and while it’s lined up to run their triple mowers initially, later in the season may see it on a baler or a large chaser bin; hence the need for a high horsepower