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I went and helped one of my neighbours by drilling 20 acres for him as his own tractor a CLAAS ARES 656 RZ has broken it crown wheel and pinion in its back axle also standing in his yard was his RENAULT 90-34 TRACFOR .The CLAAS 620 ARION was a hire tractor to cart his sugar beet into Bury St Edmunds beet factory

my two mates had a drink or two but I stayed on the soft drinks as I was also the driver,

I have been helping my mates at BARKING ENGINEERING we had to fit a liner inside a chimney then fit a double sided wood burner so it would heat both the bar and dining area .Working in a pub for two days was great fun cherry picker outside to reach top of chimney was not so good as it was raining and bit windy

Thank you I don't always keep it that straight but that field is in full view to my neighbours that have got GPS so had to stay awake on that field

spent Saturday pressing the 26 acres I had ploughed on Friday with a 3-5meter Edlington Press and MTX155 MCcormick

I normally just do the local farms but have done some of the distance farms in the past.When he is away lifting beet and his father needs a hand in his yard I go over and help load FIBROPHOS FERTILISER as he stores and blends it on the farm

Yes he covers about 2000 acres but it does depend on the weather and how long the campaign lasts this year Bury St Edmunds factory opens on the 15th September so he plans to start lifting on the 10th as the factory likes to how there is a stock pile of beet ready for processing

No baler worked fine now an again sledge plays up if you are following a tramline .

Yes he did not tell me what he paid but he said he could have bought a real big house for the same money

my neighbour that I help with sugar beet lifting took delivery of his new HOLMER T4 beet harvester on Friday and parked next to it is his HOLMER chaser

Been spreading LIME X on next years beet land at 3 tons to the acre or 7.5 tons hectare also put some on a field going into barley spread 120 tons today

whoops pictures for some reason come out wrong way round sorry

I have been cutting my last field of wheat today moisture got down to 16% so got going and finished

the John Deere planting my rape belongs to Guy Hitchcock he farms next door to me I often go over his to help when he needs a extra driver

the discs make a nice tilth for the seeds which are spread behind where the six legs are which are in the ground about 10 inches or 25cm the second press helps to push it all down to save the moisture in the ground also having it pressed down helps to stop the slugs eating to much as you can see its all done in one pass so its quicker in the end

these two are from about 2 weeks ago I was cutting oil seed rape will get some more pictures hopefully a bit closer in next few days as I still have 3 fields of wheat to cut. Combine is a NEW HOLLAND TX 34

bit late with these photos as it was previous weekend I put my son Wayne on the baler the wife Julie was on the tractor and trailer carting and I was on the flat eight loading we started at 12pm and by 9pm we had baled and carted 900 bales

we have been planting oil seed rape the last two days it was a bit wet Monday morning as we had 36mm of rain over weekend had to drop the press off for first two fields as the soil would not go though but the sun was out so it soon dried out so put press back on

Yes the 1130 and the Steiger also the dexter is his fathers

Went to the OLD NEWTON fun day and road run I think there was 26 tractors on the road run and 6 on static display we had one heavy shower whilst on the run but a good day out for all that took part

Most of my bags are agricultural related and don't take up much room like you say but I have got at least 3 draws full . I also got pens with agri names on ,them things you can squeeze with agri names on (stress balls) a few tax discs from tractors we have owned in the past and one or two other nick-nack items

Clad to see i:m not the only one to collect carrier bags BC ,allow the wife thinks i:m strange here is a picture of 5 bags my mate gave to me over the weekend he was going to put them in the bin

Thanks for the comments Sean but did you recognize the person pretending to have a pitchfork attached to his arm ?

Yes we got a flat 8 grab but we was the wrong side of the rail line in Needham market and the bridge is only 8 feet high and its 10 miles to go round so used smaller transport to get under and some where sold to horsey people so did small loads.Did you recognize one of my helpers?

With a bit of help today(Friday) we baled and carted 1020 small bales from 4 fields which was good as its now just passed midnight and its raining