They are a Silvercut 300 Front Mount and a Silvercut 380 Back Mount and can be operated independently.
"They are simple, heavily built and easy to drive," says station manager, Murray Kennedy.
The station covers 3300ha, 1800ha effective and carries 18500 stock units. They crop 100ha for winter feed, 70ha of silage and top the rest of the farm.
The biggest change is going from the previous mowers' 3m cut to a mower cutting 6.7m.
"This set up with the front and a rear mower makes short work of a paddock," says Jedburgh's tractor driver Gavin Richardson.
He says with the centre pivot and hydraulic float system it makes it easy to drive and they are getting a tidy job even on real "gnarly" paddocks.
They are using a Valtra 191 tractor, 200hp, which has been an eye opener to Kennedy as they formerly used a 110hp tractor so the hours are well down and they are using a lot less diesel.
"It just goes to show that with technology in the new tractor and mower, while the initial cost is high we can save a huge amount in mowing and operating costs."
This is the first SIP mower imported into New Zealand by Webbline and while at present not well known here according to sales manager of Webbline, Glen Malcolm, this will change.
"The company is based in Slovenia, part of the old Yugoslavia and is already a major player in the European harvesting scene."
They export 85% of their production and produce some models of hay handling equipment which are re-branded for several well known European brands some already here in New Zealand. They manufacture drum and disc mowers 1.65m to 8.5m, tedders 4.0m to 8.15m and rotary rakes up to 7.6m.
They also manufacture maize harvesting and manure spreading equipment.
"All SIP products are covered by a two season factory backed warranty, which gives assurance given the tough working conditions here in New Zealand," says Malcolm.
