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Posted: 19 February 2020
Changing make of combine in 2017 to a LEXION 660 TERRA TRAC has proved a wise investment for the Marmion family, giving them the ability to make the most of available weather windows. Brian and Ronan Marmion are now the fifth generation of the Marmion family on their farm at Ashbourne in County Meath, where the whole farm is down to cereals.
In addition to TERRA TRACS, the LEXION 660 was specified with a VARIO 770 cutterbar. It also has the optional 3XL spout so as to avoid trailers driving on the swath and damaging the straw, which with no livestock on the farm (other that three dogs) is all baled and sold for bedding or mushroom compost.
Thanks to the APS system the flow through the combine is far smoother and we get none of the ‘woofing’ or surging that we used to with our previous combine.
Our harvest is well spread out, and the Irish weather at times doesn’t help. With LEINSTER FARM MACHINES we know they will be straight out if there is a problem.
This was the LEXION 660’s third harvest and it has now done over 850 hours, but we have never had to touch it. Overall it gives us the capacity to comfortably clear 24ha a day. The LEXION is easy to set up and operate, lack of power is never an issue and the fuel consumption is better, with a tank lasting at least 40ha in the right conditions.
Ronan Marmion
J & M Marmion
