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Pingu

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  • Birthday 10/06/1989

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  1. By all accounts yes the unknown bit is if will fit variogrip, but there will be a 727 and a 730 on a larger chassis with 724 being updated bonnet etc and MAN engine. The 800 series is very unreliable by all accounts I don’t know any on original engine’s locally
  2. Very fair point, no I manage a farm further towards the sea and changed a high hour B for it as even chandlers said avoid an E if you can. We went for a 410 I won’t bad mouth other brands but the CNH rowtrac have a horrendous reliability record with a neighbour swapping one for an RX at 2 years old and loosing 2/3rds it value as couldn’t cope with breakdowns and another neighbour says there E series Cat is more reliable!! So we didn’t even look that route, the Fendt twin trac was lovely but used value of twin track machines is going off a cliff as headlands are ruined by them and can’t work in wet. Claas well was awesome would happily run one. But I will confirm this farm won’t be all green the 3 Bavarians will stop that especially when 730 is released later in the year. On 9RX front I agree I don’t get the fuss I worked with 3 in previous life and erm yer quad is far far nicer and more reliable just a certain dealer is erm interesting
  3. I’m sorry Phil there is nothing else in the RX category the rest are half tracks and poor in comparison in grip and turning so think the JD will start making ground we just bought one to replace a CAT and we are a Fendt farm we tried them all and the RX was a no brainier sadly the nearest was the axion but that will slip it’s track in the wet and still not as powerful in field for grip Fantastic photos though
  4. I get that, I’ve been Fendt since my first tractor was a 818 which at 17 was unreal and they’ve stuck since, spec levels and now as a manager it’s all about weight there 3 ton lighter then the rest! But we have blues in the fleet and Deere’s so not brand biased personally more dealer based. Farm not far from Wisbech at a well know farm previously owned by a super market/ I suppose banking firm....
  5. What a fantastic thread!!! I grew up in the era of 6200-8200 MF’s and still love them to this day and learning to drive on a early T plate 8240 and still have a soft spot for them despite being a definite Fendt man now just to annoy you haha! Then second reason is my other half is a farmers daughter from Newmarket/Haverhill area with her dad working for same farm his whole career in ag around the area plus her family farm backing onto vestys so fantastic to see the history of the area and picture the kit in there stories! And see some from pics from the fens as now helping manage a fen farm so it’s just a thank you from me for posting
  6. I'm part of it because I'm covering well over 30k acres a year spraying so for farm assurance I'm part of. It is a nice refresher now and again but some of the things that are suggested on course are rubbish and been invented by someone behind a desk and not someone with thousand's of acres to clear in a short window. But if learning the corses are good.
  7. We farm from near gt bardfield (580+ is here) to near Sudbury where 480 evo is and I'm near Braintree in cat so were well spread ha ha!, nah we haven't moved for 2 days either and isn't looking good this week either
  8. Weve been going since last tues done about 500 acres of rape and 100 acres of barley not great going with 2 combines but been very stop start due to weather etc but the 580+ is going well and 480 evo is finding its feet now gremlins are being sorted. I will start on our cat tomo turning rape stumbles brown
  9. Was a terrible story with the old manager and it's amazing how many people we met that knew him well so must be sorely missed, but it's amazing how small a world it is.
  10. That most certainly is Chris we've farmed that for a couple of years now having turned it around! Got park hall and Great Lodge there all being the same farm
  11. Nope I work for Bradshaws, been totaling up the areas for people locally and it's amazing how many are the 3k mark and the differences in kit
  12. Yup, and as far as I can gather were bigger now then philpots individual farms (not the whole family as a whole though) but there's a few rumors spreading at the moment with them
  13. Some bigger kit just outside of braintree chris
  14. Fantastic pics always good looking at times before i was farming full time Think that's a little unjustified still a lot skill and new skills involved in it setting kit up adapting to conditions. And I'd like to see anything smaller then 150hp pull 12.5m rolls and 18ton trailer of wheat
  15. I'm from and based just outside Colchester but farm from Gt Barfield to just outside Sudbury so from fair bit of the county :laugh:
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