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Today, we ripped up some new ground for fields in the spring. Hopefully if all goes well, we will be adding manure to this field in two weeks.

Driving down the main road from the center of town to the farm with the tracked tractor and ripper. We are bringing the tractor back from it's servicing at the local John Deere dealer at around 1pm when there are no cars about:

Arriving at the field:

Ripping up the field:

Parking the tractor at the end of the field. We will finish the field tomorrow when there is more light:

Hate to say it, but that's all for this week folks!

what was it then

30% / 100% 

No one listens!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You can post up the link then chap, god know what will happen if I snitch out one more person! 

Happy belated birthday Ol and happy birthday Steve 

Can anyone tell me if this has the same wheels and tyres as the Claas quantum forage wagon?

Happy belated birthday Ricky 

Numpty for smish!!!!

*cough cough*

I didn't say anything! 

Looks great as usual mate, your shots of the tarmac and machinery at work are incredibly realistic. Nice work as usual mate. 

ok, if Snitchie agrees i will post it up :D :D

Must....resist.....the urge to.....cough cough cough NUMPTY!! cough cough...... 

Numpty for Wee Nash please  :D

Now the forage harvester, I'll have to agree with Martin's opinion. One of the most unusual designed pieces of farm machinery I have seen, surely there must be some logic to help machine performance though? 

Getting a new all time low score on my geometry test! 

Like in most situations, the weather before a large storm is usually better than normal. This week before the large snow storm, we experienced this situation, in which the temperature rose to nearly 20 degrees. While the weather was nice, we could only do so much on the farm, as half of the ground was still frozen, and the other half mud. As we are expecting out excavator to return from the Caterpillar dealer within the next week, we decided to do a few jobs around the pond that could not be done with the excavator. Now that these jobs are done, it will be much easier to finish digging the pond when the excavator comes back from service and repair. Below are some pictures of how me made use of our warm spring day.

In order to expand the pond more towards the grass field, Martin moved the pile of dirt over to the larger pile:

Driving towards the pile:

Dumping the dirt into the pile:

Meanwhile, Dave is filling in some of the corners of the pond with the IH backhoe. Last May, the pond filled up from all of the rain showers, and flooded parts of the grass field. Before the middle of April roles in, the goal of the farm is to make sure that the pond will not flood when the spring rain starts:

Dumping a load of dirt into the corners of the pond:

After Martin finished moving the dirt pile, he pushed back the dirt pile several feet towards the woods, making it easier for larger vehicles to drive on the road to the right of the pond. Marky is grading down the area recently drove on by the skid steer:

Finishing a pass:

Meanwhile, the evil Bazza is beginning to pay off his large debt to the farm by cleaning up the piles of dirt that Marky graded off to the side. The farm owner and several police have been monitoring the evil Bazza all day:

Dumping the dirt into a pile:

The farm managed to finish all of their tasks by 6pm. They parked the farm machinery off to the side of the pond for the night, knowing that they would most likely be using it again the next day before the snow began:

Hate to say it, but that's all for this week folks!

nice work again Tim!!!

;D ;D ;D

Cheers Ben! 

Dull and overcast, occasional light snow at times today.

Once again Tim a great read, the pigs look happy like that Massey is it Ertl?

Cheers Garret, aye the Massey is made by Ertl. 

Excellent mate......Really enjoyed reading that......Sorry it took me a bit to get around to reading it...... ;)

Glad you liked it mate 

Snow shoveling 

Saw the local woodcutter's mid-sized JQ with loader/snowplough driving down the street today coming back from snowplowing. The chap driving it turned around in the road and cleaned the bottom of the driveway off when he saw me snow shoveling. 

I can't get a numpty because I do not have a section for scale models or spec cast!!!!!  I only have the ertl 1/16/1/64 section..so shaddup "snitchy" >

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, so close!  :D

:D :D :D You are supoosed to be having quite the storm there Tim It's nice and sunny here although a tad cold and windy about 38F currently and no snow lalalalalalalalalala 

You know how to rub it in, don't you! 

Aye it is quite the storm, it's currently half past 10 in the evening and still snowing! That's 11 hours straight of snow! 

Ertl will be releasing a New Holland T7000 and Case IH Puma in 1/64th scale around March/April 2007.

More news and photos of upcoming releases can be found by visiting Toy Tractor Show

http://www.toytractorshow.com/articles/164th-case-ih-puma-and-new-holland-t7000-series-by-ertl

Ertl will be releasing a New Holland T7000 and Case IH puma in 1/16th scale in September/October 2007

More news and photos of upcoming releases can be found by visiting Toy Tractor Show

New Holland T7000:

Case IH Puma:

Oh and better add it's 1/16 aswell as 6030 and a 50.  Anyone know owt? 

I am pretty sure that they are all out, or are due out very soon Will. 

Raised this issue before but wondered if anyone beside old big konk will get one of these.........MF/Olivers

I'll be getting one this summer most likely, I think it will be around the $70 price mark. 

Sorry chap, but I'm going to have to recommend you for a numpty. This is going to be made by Spec Cast, not Ertl.  :D  

By the way, I have this quoted in case you try to weasel your way out of it.  :D

Sorry mate, that cab won't work for Fanny. You're going to have to find one that has a crank out front window, should give you a place to stick your nose while driving.  :D

Snow! 

Still want it Martin?  :D