Monthly Summary: June

The monthly round-up.

Read up on the monthly insights into SW Machinery Hire Ltd.

After a busy June preparing machinery for Cereals and Glastonbury Music Festival, the team are looking forward to harvest preparations as we move into July.

The most notable event during June was our attendance at Cereals 2024. After a successful debut at the show in 2023, we expanded our plot size for the 2024 site in Hertfordshire. Despite the rain showers on day 1 and the unfavourably cold weather, we had a great number of enquiries from new prospective customers. Attending shows also gives us the opportunity to meet our existing customers, many of whom we have delt with for numerous years, but never had the opportunity to meet them in person.

With interest in grain trailers over harvest, ranging from 14 to 20 tonne with optional rollover sheets, we had a lot of discussions about additional trailers and tractors for relief over this harvest in addition to 2025 planning.

To get a further insight into the machinery we exhibited and our time at Cereals 2024, click here.

Off the back of Cereals, two of our machines headed straight from site to Suffolk, to support Suffolk YFC with their Muck Move Event. Over three days the team managed to move 3,600 tonnes, raising £9,000 to put back into their county pot! The 532-70 and 14t trailer were returned sparkling clean.

Our Managing Director Simon took undertook some maintenance work around the main road junction, clearing the overgrown verge with the McConnel PA6567 Hedgecutter. With a 6.5m telescopic reach, the flail-head hedgecutters are a great and versatile option for trimming both verges and hedges; with an extendable arm and rotating head, they can access trickier areas than a standard topper.

Some of the machinery that’s been out on hire this month:

• 2,600 tanker with dribble bar
• 32ft flatbed
• 542-70 JCB telehandler
• 6R130 with turf tyres to Somerset
• Brand new John Deere TE Electric Gator to Cornwall
• 14m Manitou
• JCB telehandler spotted at Thruxton race circuit

New machinery:

• Major 2600 tanker – Supplied by Halse South West
• 12 tonne Rear Discharge Bunning Muckspreader supplied by Halse South West. Collected from Bunning, PDI checked in the yard and sent straight to Cereals event in Hertforshire.
• Two new Bailey 30ft flatbed trailers with bale ladders, supplied by Tuckwells

• JCB 538-60 AgriSuper telehandler supplied by RECO JCB
• Two 30ft Bailey Potato Flatbed trailers supplied by RJ and KD McLean – heading out on a long term hire
• JCB buck rake supplied by Haynes Agri
• JPM 16 tonne half-pipe Dump Trailer supplied by RJ and KD McLean

• HPX815E Gator x2 – supplied by Hunt Forest Group (one headed straight up to Cereals Event)
• John Deere TE Electric Gator supplied by Hunt Forest Group
• New 6R 155 John Deere – supplied by Hunt Forest Group
• 10x Grain/Silage trailers of various sizes.

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