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Pingu

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  1. Some you may find this interesting this is how were drilling our beans this year off our topdown after bit playing about but coulters on back of each leg with it being piped from the front tank mounted on challenger we have now got 2 distribution heads on back as there was too much back pressure in the system.

    Here is our normal drill 8m Vaddy with best day this year was 250acres in pouring rain so reckon could do 300 in 11hrs

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  2. I was then let loose on the Cat for a few hours till got rained off :'(  but it was first time I used GPS and can see benefits I could keep eye on what was being done not trying to keep it straight which on this ground was usefull as was easy to block culti-press and having 510hp it didnt know was there :D 

    Then what I've been doing a fair bit of which is spraying

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  3. First picture is of tractor on last field well full field till I went round all the headlands of last block of land as we'd roll and power harrow straght behind plough then do headlands as brought up less straw on first run headland and made it smoother for me.  Had the magnum on the power harrow which has now been chipped so never knew it was there so I was pushing my 75 hard on the plough drinking tank every 10-12 hours :'(

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  4. Well thought I would give this a little update well we managed to finish harvest with the help of a good friend and there axial flow and hired in a CX8090 with the NH really showing how slow straw walker machines are :D .  We have a since bought a ex demo Claas 580+ with 35ft header with GPS which will be fitted to my deere for rest year but only with lightbar guidence as i dont need full works just boom control on sprayer really.  Full works on combine though ;)

    Well as soon as we finished harvesting ended up starting our ploughing campaign with my 7530 boss start early with me taking over around 9ish and going till late managed just under 800 acres in around 3 weeks not bad going really I thought on a 6 furrow plough well here's some pictures

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  5. Nice update mart been keeping busy I see really but dont think your dump trailers will really start picking up till november as thats when farmers have finished flying round like headless chickens and start to think right lets sort those tracks outetc ready for next year;)

  6. Well I'm running on 24m on a 2500 acre farm so you can imagine at this point since combines stopped iv still done 1000's acres spraying  :D  and still learning big time with it all but im seriously interested in how people cope with the larger booms as i struggled like mad on cultivated ground to keep an even height and not having booms hit the ground and trying not to get too much drift

  7. ive ploughed with a metal tracked crawler and its the only way to plough in my opinion, i also think rubber tracks of any kind are a no whatever the job.

    Why we couldn't farm what we do without rubber tracks having as no other means of getting 500hp down to ground and still farming around 2500 acres with 20 miles between some our farms.  The thought of unhitching a drill putting tractor on low loader then moving drill seperatly fills me with dread we never struggle with traction only power and set track still lasts 3000+ hours

  8. Having done nigh on 800 acres on land ploughing this season I will NEVER look back if you cant grip on land shouldnt even be ploughing in first place as all slip is just transferred to furrow bottom and compaction is put even further down and also smearing it so causing water to struggle to get away if get alot wet weather.  I was using a 7530 on 6 furrows and never once struggled for grip only power.  So get a good onland plough I cant see any reason as to why a challenger cant pull one happily previous place I worked happily pulled one just struggled on lift capacity :D

  9. I'm still amazed at how quickly people trade kit in we've just bought a 60hour old Claas lexion 580+ with 35ft front and to make figures stack up it will have to be here 8 years we tryed it on a 3 year basis and means my tractor have to be here 10 years and 20,000 hours same with Claas so we're wondering how other figures stack up ??? ???

  10. Owned is wrong word there worked with is better there  :D

    But very true fact there tris but when Claas UK rep turns round and says there will be no problems with this machine its had all the mods been looked after by us (claas) since day 1 and always been good as gold. But turns out to be a complete pile of scrap and that was before the fire does knock you a bit on piece of kit that cost my bosses well into 6 figures :'(  And now having more problems with claas themselves with them now wanting us to pay stupid amount money to get out finance and maintenance schemes we were/are in unless buy another claas  >:(

  11. Think you just had a bad one Phill, those that have them round here have no complaints with them

    Might well have done but lost all faith in Claas thinking buying another 480 evo and sticking chip on it again that would average 75tph :D

  12. All well and good but having owned a 600 this season they need to get that right as they sing all there praises but output isn't that amazing and sample is shocking.  We even had engineers from germany with ours and they couldn't get it any better think they should get there current flagship right first!!

  13. Pah! Insurance fiddle to get your Case if ever I saw one! ;)

    Just messing with you. Looks bad mate but at least in that state she ain't going to cause you any havoc! How much have you left to harvest?

    :D :D well that be telling tris but were still unsure what to get next high chance Case or a 580+ Claas have to see ;)

    We finished yesterday morning after having a neighbour help us for 2 half days with his axial flow, hired in a NH CX8090 and had demo of a S690 JD lets just say wont be a JD combine on this farm :D  As combine went up sunday night

  14. What a pitty a lexion 600 to the scrap. :'(   How old is it.?

    She was 4 years old so one the very first but cant believe the problems we had with it and output was the same as our old chipped 480 >:(:D but bosses spent all day today looking at demo's as we finished combining this morning

  15. Nah we just use 10cm accuracy so standard satalite signal Ol  :) well he has 2000 acres spread between wheat, rape and barley mainly as break crops for onions and potatoes :D

    I didnt think so either but he seems to do extremly well from them

    But think these pictures do the talking started in engine bay somewhere but thank god that problem is dealt with was a bag of tat an embarresment to the name Claas

    last one is the good side...

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