The 16t Grain Trailer.
Sixteen tonnes, sprung drawbar, commercial axles and a working tarpaulin, which is rarer than it should be. £110 a day, machine only, collected from here.
The specification.
The machine
- Capacity
- 16 tonnes19 cubic metres struck
- Axles
- Twin, commercial, air-brakedNot oil-immersed. Air
- Brakes
- Air, with a hand valveYour tractor needs air. Many do not
- Tractor required
- 150 hpFor hills, more
In work
- Tarpaulin
- Roll-over, workingOperated from the ground, which is the point
- Tyres
- 560/60 R22.5Flotation, and they are new as of 2025
- Weight
- 5.6 tonnes emptyGross 21.6 tonnes
- Lighting and plating
- CurrentChecked annually, and the certificate travels with it
Figures are from the machine itself rather than from a brochure. Where the two disagree, the brochure is wrong.
What it fits.
A 150 hp tractor with air brakes. If your tractor has hydraulic brakes only, this trailer is not for you and we will say so on the phone.
If you are not certain your tractor will do it, ring before you hitch up rather than after. We have had two people arrive with the wrong linkage category and one with no air brakes, and all three of those were avoidable phone calls.
Who has actually used it.
Named because a machine with a history is easier to trust than a machine with a specification. Where somebody broke something, it says so.
Three arable neighbours
Every harvest, in a rota agreed in June
A contractor
Carting maize, which took a year off the tyres
A haulier
Once, for a straw job, and he brought it back cleaner than it went
What it is bad at. It is a harvest machine, so it is idle for eleven months and unobtainable for one. The rota is agreed in June and it still fails about one year in three, because harvest does not arrive in the order anybody planned. It is also too big for small yards — sixteen tonnes on a Cotswold farm track in the wet leaves ruts you will still be looking at in March, and two of our own gateways have been rebuilt because of it.
When it is free.
Half days are two thirds of the day rate, because the loading, the walk round and the clean take the same time either way.
Tuesday8 September
Thursday10 September
Monday15 September
Pick a time and we will hold it for ten minutes. Hold that day
This is a demonstration build. Nothing here books anything, no deposit is taken and no card details are collected at any point. Prices are indicative and are published so the arithmetic can be argued with.
The terms, in four lines.
£110 a day
Machine only. No fuel, no operator.
Your insurance
Hired-in plant cover, shown before it leaves.
Owner keeps first call
If it is our weather, it comes home.
Back clean and full
Or it comes back with an invoice.
The other seven.
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The 3m Topper
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The Bale Wrapper
A trailed round-bale wrapper. Nobody hires this because they want to. They hire it because the forecast changed.
The Post Knocker
A tractor-mounted post driver. The single most useful item on this list and the one most likely to hurt somebody.
The Subsoiler
A three-leg low-disturbance subsoiler. The most misused machine in British arable farming and we have misused it ourselves.
The Hedge Cutter
A six-and-a-half metre reach flail hedge cutter. Legally unusable for six months of the year, which is the most important…
Before you hire anything.
Insurance, briefings, and the two things we will not hire out at all.
