East Anglia-based auctioneer Cheffins is to oversee the sale of more than 150 lots on behalf of Oxfordshire contractor RC Baker.

The sale comprises the machinery of former NAAC chairman and 2009 winner of Farmers Weekly’s Contractor of the Year Charles Baker, who has amassed an impressive range of equipment since he began contracting in 1974 with a Ford 4000.

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A fleet of seven John Deere tractors, each under four years old, will be a particular highlight of the auction. Models include 6215R, 6250R and 7R330 series, with prices estimated to range from £80,000 to £180,000.

Other items in the sale include a 2020 Claas Xerion 5000 slurry tanker and gooseneck Kaweco combination, which is set to fetch in excess of £550,000, and a 2017 Vredo 7028/3 self-propelled spreader estimated at £450,000.

Also up for grabs are a John Deere 9700i forager and Claas Lexion 780 combine, as well as a collection of drills, cultivators, trailers, tankers and muckspreaders.

A viewing day will take place on Wednesday 15 December at Spring Hill Farm near Banbury, in Oxfordshire, with the lots going under the hammer the following day.