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Our estate is located in Champagne, near Ch\u00e2teau-Thierry. We produce our Champagnes from Pinot meunier, Chardonnay and Pinot noir grapes. <\/p>\n
We’ve been using Balligand cloverleaf mowers for several years, and recently bought two new ones. We mow about two or three times a year, on fairly tall grass, going over one row at a time with a straddle mower. We use them mainly on plantations that are a few years old, averaging 7 to 8 years, and sometimes in between plantations with 2 or 3 stakes. <\/p>\n
We are planted at a height of one meter by one meter on different types of terrain, from stone and small pebbles to clay and silt. We sometimes work on slopes of 30 or 35%. The mowing surface is around 3 hectares. <\/p>\n
We turned to inter-row mowers as an alternative to tillage. Soil tillage has its limits, and with these mowers we can recover what we couldn’t do with mechanical tillage. <\/p>\n
We first tried them via another grower who lent them to us after we saw the advert on the vine.<\/p>\n
Parts replacement is very fast, the company is reactive, and we receive parts within 48 hours, so there’s no time wasted. It’s also a tool that’s easy to repair. Generally speaking, it doesn’t need much maintenance; it’s mostly wear parts. There’s also a desire to improve every year, because between the first machines I bought and the latest ones, there have been innovations. <\/p>\n
It’s a very easy tool to use, and in a few minutes you can start mowing, and in general respecting the vines, it’s rare to have a problem.<\/p>\n
We had the opportunity to visit the site, and the company is very serious with a really available boss.<\/p>\n
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Our estate is located in Champagne, near Ch\u00e2teau-Thierry. We produce our Champagnes from Pinot meunier, Chardonnay and Pinot noir grapes. How long have you been using MGV-Balligand cloverleaf mowers? We’ve been using Balligand cloverleaf mowers for several years, and recently bought two new ones. We mow about two or three times a year, on fairly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8081,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-testimonials"],"yoast_head":"\n