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Pingu

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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:
  16. Some fantastic points on here with everything, going smaller is a good way to get a broad range of skills. But often good large units will let you spread out your skills. For example I'm on 4000 acre farm now you do have set roles with mine covering all spraying and cultivation's in summer. But coming up to 3 years in the job I've done a bit of most things drilling combining etc. I came here straight from college (left college early to get the job but did all my work so still passed I'm only 22) But be prepared to work very hard in mean time there is only 2 of us employed here so during growing season work is intense with 100hr weeks common long before harvest and after. But be prepared to travel for the right job I'm well over 100 miles from home and 180+ from college. But now love the East and really would question moving away. My advice is never get a bad name with any employer as news travels fast, even if there rubbish employers they may still have a lot of local friends to you. But be prepared to travel if right job comes up not just 20 miles think 100+ if your prepared to. But you never stop learning, I've still got a lot to learn and still do everyday
  17. What size plough? If designed for capacity of a 69 both shouldn't have any problems with a 5 furrow if your using a normal JD toplink think you'll find a hydraulic top link one stronger. But you have to be covering serious acres for it to be worth the investment and in my experience and view point any less then 6 furrows your headlands should be neat enough without hydraulic top link unless your match ploughing
  18. Thank you for that one tris ;D But at the moment got a MF one in the kitchen and tempted to put the FHM one in my sprayer
  19. It is here with us putting 3350 acres through a 580+ but its an issue middle of the season we keep having of keeping drivers on the ball all season. Lost count amount times me (I have been driving down a field cultivating with all my lights blazing and beeping horn to get there attention and turn there CB and still not noticing..) and main combine driver and bosses were yelling down CB at carters to get shifting rather then reading a paper really frustrating when there only in field 10 mins > Its at the stage were strongly looking at a 30 ton chaser
  20. Very much depends on your carters and your workload. 60+tph going off the field you need lads that can think for themselves nothing more frustrating then being sat there with 100% tank and a trailer driver at wrong end the field But do recommend it to anyone I would love to spend more then few hours or day or 2 a season on one rather then chasing with a cultivator ;D
  21. Looks a fantastic model a definite must have as drive a 865 (A) for a living, now just need to find a 6m topdown and I'm getting there
  22. Suppose thats the trouble with running higher houred kit least there the reliable deere's gav so just age related not because there poorly built! :laugh:
  23. I play with settings all the time on it but I'm sorry having had all others on demo and they all seemed to work better together with their engine management. Driving fendt 820 few weeks back and dropping revs back to 1450 at 50k (even with 16ton maize behind) but no matter settings on 75 lowest will drop with revs unlimited is 1850 you have to tell it to drop revs on limiter to 1500 if want it at that on road. I admit at times I dont set it at most fuel economic at times because it is often working on its limits power wise especially when was on the plough so need as much torque and power it can give. I know the tanks are different sizes 330 odd on deere and 410 on NH but fuel used is metered from the tank. This is just my findings I had a 7930 last year and loved it and pulled better then this years T7060 and was good on fuel when being pushed. If looking for cultivation's tractor or any heavy hard graft don't look at 7530! They are designed to be an all rounder not a heavy work horse hence why we find fuel use high. But aside from that we dont mind extra fuel use (its small fry in what were using per day at that time of year) but it had constant niggles in first 2500hrs with it being back to dealers numerous times for large oil leaks etc which for most its hours its spent pulling sprayer, fert spreader, trailers and other general duties which its superb at
  24. Nice to see claas holding it again. Will add though the new Deere still hasn't caught up with the lexion the new s690i is a better match for the 760 but there getting there slowly
  25. Pingu

    your farm

    We are arable contractors on farm contracts with just over 3300 acres but also just taken operations over a local 600 acre farm! This year we have 1800 acres of Wheat 850 acres of OSR 650 acres of Spring Barley 50 acres of Linseed But depending on year we have can also have peas and beans in the mix. We also handle the contract farms setaside, various schemes and game covers etc
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