smithy

9 minutes ago, Tractorman810 said:

hows the new toys doing then smithy?? combine easier to use? is the wife keeping up with you dragging her new trailer 😀

So far its going good ,yes lot easier to drive and adjust from the seat ,not as yet mastered the stubble height setting in auto but i will next time ,yes she was keeping up carting the barley ,allow on the second day of carting i had 2 drivers as a mate asked if he could have ago . Julie struggles to push the grain up with JCB ,she gets there but needs 5 pushes when 2or3 might have done it ,Granddaughter Jasmine can do it and did on some of the barley but she is off on holiday next week so think i might have to give the wife a few more lessons . The 12 ton trailor she said rode well on road but because from seat you cant quite see over the top to reverse into barn which she also needs a bit of practice on ,i get in doorway myself than tip it a bit and look underneath .  Tested wheat today it was 18.2% needs to be 15%

Cutting winter barley last week 

Also picked these up from G&M 

Picked these up from G&M on sunday .Chartes show models 

Item i bought while up at JCB the other week ,and 2 more bags to add to my collection , the multi-tool was a freebie 

On 7/13/2022 at 9:03 AM, robbo said:

Passing Ben Burgess yesterday and quite surprised to see this still in stock, last one they had so it came home with me. 😁😜

 

If that was the Newmarket branch next to A14 i saw that the other week 

Got given this whilst on the JCB trip 

On 7/13/2022 at 11:37 AM, Kirely said:

Thanks for your pictures of your visit to JCB.  I was especially taken with the ones of the Bamford trailer.  Did Britain’s model their early #9550 trailer on it?  Is there anywhere I could get dimensions of it as I would like to attempt a model of it?

 

I nipped over to G&M FARM MODELS sunday afternoon to pick up some models and they had this ,its pre-owned ,i now Nigel said Joal did it i am not sure on that but in my jcb photos there is this model in there museum and i thought U/H had done this confirms it ,it is 1/16. Yes that is the price sticker in the trailor  

While out and about i got offered a good price for my JCB 530-70 was not planning on selling it allow i have had a few niggle problems of late which i fixed but also got shown a photo of a 541-70 ,did not have time to go and look so took a gamble and bought it then sold mine , it turned up the other day and so far its going well , its quick on the road and air-con is good so we can keep door closed and keep the dust out  

On 7/13/2022 at 11:37 AM, Kirely said:

Thanks for your pictures of your visit to JCB.  I was especially taken with the ones of the Bamford trailer.  Did Britain’s model their early #9550 trailer on it?  Is there anywhere I could get dimensions of it as I would like to attempt a model of it?

 

No problem on photos , not sure on getting dimensions ,but like Nigel Ford has said it has been done 

Been going down sugar beet field early mornings when its cooler and pulling up the weed beet ,normally we get a few but this year we seem to have more ,some pull up ok some you really have to tug at ground is so hard at the moment .The weed beet dont have much sugar content so need pulling as they all have loads of seeds that will grow into weed beet in future years ,got a bit more to do but it wont be Monday/Tuesday in the heat .    

Its not expensive if they have what you need ,used to be a place near me BLOOMFIELDS they used to have a load of spares for older new holland combines and balers but they closed up several years ago  

Maybe not in right section but it is what i been doing ,bought the wife another trailer so she might be able to keep up with the combine 😁

Theo sorting out a couple of wheel problems for me 😂

A part load of hay ,and the hay all stacked in shed 

I cut this bit and have the hay ,field is my mates spud ,its part of his back garden ,i cut it he turns it i bale it and he carts it up to mine for me , 

Turning hay ,got my granddaughter to drive on some while i had my dinner 👍

This is me cutting grass with my new mower that i bought of Collins Brothers ,it cuts nicely 

This is me and granddaughter moving a container/box that i used to keep all things in that might be handy one day 🤔 took a lot of it to scrape yard ,might use box for a chicken shed not sure as yet

Not me but my grandson Theo nows about fast cars and pulling the birds ,will have to keep a eye on him 🤣

thought this was funny 

I did get a few JCB models the other day will get photos shortly ,but got my grandson one to play with as its one of his favourite machines on the farm . 

Hope you are ok Mike ,thanks for the photos and thank your Daughter for taking them 

They did take us right though the factory where the cut ,bend and weld ,paint and assemble the wheeled diggers and telescopic loaders but was not allowed to take photos , i think they said in a 8hr to 10hr shift there is a machine come of the line every 13 minutes , they work 24hrs on the cutting, bending and welding and painting of the parts so they have the parts for the 8/10hr day shifts , think they said there is 3500 workers on that site ,they have other sites just a few miles away making fastrac"s and cabs .as we left a helicopter left the site and we stopped at the ice cream van  

Some more from the VIP JCB 2 day event