Peter O'Sullivan stitching into existing grassland with his PTR 3000s multipurpose drill.
Peter O’Sullivan farms with his father at the foot of the Wicklow Mountains, near Blessington.
They also run a small contracting business carrying out the services of baling, plant hire and, in more recent years, reseeding, which led Peter to set up Bullseye Engineering.
Having struggled with ploughing due to the rocky Wicklow surroundings, Peter made the decision to ditch the plough and try his hand at building a machine for low-disturbance grassland reseeding.
“I bought a plough and found myself selling it a year later. It was too hard to keep going due to the amount of stones in our land. Ploughing around here raises a lot of stones. We tried power harrowing, but it wasn’t much better.