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Gareth Fowler-Simmons, owner at Lakeside Landscapes

A continuing shift to replacing a blue and green grounds maintenance machinery fleet with red Massey Ferguson tractors has continued with the addition of two MF 1M.25 models, which are two of the first machines to leave the production line. 

After several decades using a variety of red and green telehandlers, 2025 saw a changing of the guard at Narraton Farm in Devon, with the first Massey Ferguson branded material handler, with the latest MF CT transmission, carrying out the heavy lifting. 

The telehandler was also the first UK delivered MF TH machine, fitted with the continuously variable two range, CT transmission, which was launched to the market last year. Farm owner Adrian King, and newly appointed farm manager, Marcus Hayes, chose the MF TH 7038 CT model over some of the established market leaders, as Marcus explains.

“We tried the MF TH at the MF eXperience roadshow in Exeter last year and we were immediately impressed with how stable it was moving around the yard and loading at height. Its centre of gravity and overall height is lower than our previous handler and we’ve noticed how sure-footed this makes the machine when loading sheer grabs of silage into the mixer wagon.”

Narraton Farm is a 200-strong high-yielding dairy unit milking via robots for the past three years. Based near Okehampton, Devon, the farm carries out the majority of farm and field work in-house, with the telehandler loading a feeder wagon two or three times a day for the indoor housed herd. A change was prompted when maintenance backup became an issue with their previous machine.

Adrian says: “We suffered some reliability issues with the old handler and we’re disappointed with the service level we received. This prompted us to talk with Alan Lake, who has supplied us with several Massey Ferguson tractors over the years, and we’ve always been impressed with the backup received from Rundle Agri.

“I’ve never been totally sure on tractor manufacturers producing telehandlers, but I was impressed after trying it. The biggest attraction was that it would be serviced by a dealer we know and trust.”

Following a move from a farm near Lincoln in Lincolnshire, to a grassland farm in Newton Stewart, Scotland, the Lawson family set about turning the permanent pasture into an arable operation.