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When I arrived at work today at 5am (month end tax bookings always on the 3rd) I was pleased to see the drive in about to Halliburton House and the car parks had been cleared. However much to my annoyance the digger driver had blocked "my space" with snow Anyway it was still snowing and was bitterly cold so I had to opt for another side space. Around 6am I was at the printer which overlooks the lower car park and I saw it had been cleared so I decided to brave the storm and shift my car and return my camera etc because I could not download any photos on works PC for whatever reason I do not know....maybe I need to download the DVD I got with the camera to which I did do on my home laptop

After that the day went well and I was able to get away at 1.30pm when i had done my hours....good to see it is now melting and was sunny but only around 4 degrees C

Hmm I got a sense of déjà vu reading this Bill

Starting to rain here now

Found a dog in the garden from gloucester!!! A good 40 miles away!!!

A case of "Incredible Journey", or something more sinister do you think Will?

Cutting and splitting logs

Bill it must be pretty warm where you are, apparently it's 23.4c in Aboyne just to your west! 8)

im only part time chris,and i think its a job that the full time staff would rather not do,but i dont mind,i like doing it

I suppose after the upteenth acre it would get a little repetative, but as with yourself I'd happily relieve them of their duties!

its a village called merton,i go from where i live,horrabridge to tavistock to okehampton,then hatherleigh then meeth and where the farm is, is merton,all fields near base today,its about 32 miles one way from where i live,bit of a trip,but you couldnt wish to work for a better boss,and the money is good to,it is a lovely area tris

I'm reading this green eyed, would have loved to be doing a bit of pasture rolling today (especially in Devon)

What a monster! Superb pictures despite the conditions.

Very tidy conversion. Is there anything that would be suitable for the flail heads?

The pretty young lady at the timber merchants giving me an arm full of timber dividers for free and reducing the price on wood screws.

And to stop the roofs blowing off! Not so much a problem with the metal roof on the Masseys (unless it's a rust bucket). The Fords though..... they can detach in the wind, also 600 and 3000 series have rear hinged roof hatches, they can rattle open at 56mph too

I was going to suggest that but it seemed a bit absurd! Well I never...

And here I be, beside the A11 and parked up for the night. Had a cracking drive around Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk to collect three and deliver one tractor. Suffolk is a beautiful county, where my second collection caused as much of a surprise to other road users as it did to me to get where I did near Boxford. Even Essex saw me drop the air to get under a 12ft 9in bridge!

Last of all was the 6610 at Brooke, although hand painted it did have a full set of brand new cab cladding.

Tris why do you need to strap down tractor cabs?

Bid farewell to the JCB today after another day of fork-lifting. Can't say I'm too sorry to see it go as it was crap; brakes squeeled under weight,, perm 4wd meant road speed of 15mph tops, engine lid banged open at speed, basic cab, basic everything. Good luck to the new owner.

In between I got on with a second raised bed.

Nice rear end, so much better than UH. Can you remove the 9 hole bar?

whilst walking round town today, there wa sa marque up for a "euro" food market and a collage / bussiness display/ event ,one of these was a series of fashion walks, with the music thumping away one started for a fancy dress shop, out comes snow white, followed by chewbacca, and a few other, then a ample young lady dressed in a heidi style outfit, as she dance round much to our amusment and a good few cheers to mind, she decided to "pop " out of the top of her outfit and belive me, we were all amazed it took that long, and that much effort to do it to , great way too make shopping more intresting mind

give her praise mind, after 20 seconds in the back after running off, she was back on and finihsed the dance, all be it with one hand holding the top up, and looking very red faced

A wardrobe malfunction, and no cameras to hand? Tsk..

got a job interview for tomorrow, not a farming one which is what I really want to do, but it's a job and I'll take every opportunity I get in this current financial climate, monies poor though (£6.20/hr ) but it's within walking distance of home so no need to use the car if I got it

Enjoy the employment but don't stop contacting farm employers, you never know!

Moving these:

With this:

Always had bother with the cogs on my Howard rotary manure spreader.I have a newer one that performs very well

Same here. The '80-87 orange one's tend to lock up and would require one to manually turn the wheels. Best for display only nowadays.

I just focus on the centre mark Chris, usually a good distance ahead of the tractor so I can allow for any side slopes or wiggles that need removing. I occassionally glance in a wing mirror to see what the join looks like to the previous bout or the rear view mirror to see there are no unusual marks behind me caused by jammed press wheels. There is no overlap as the drill runs 18 inches away from the previous bout.

Thanks for the detail, I'll take an experts advice whenever I can! So 18 inches is the spacing between each row?

Do you "tunnel vision" the centre marker line Gav, or also follow your drill edge on the left/right to see that it doesn't overlap?

10 Series Deere on weighted cambridge rolls.

It looks fantastic, very tidy. Is it for yourself or will you sell it?

Case MXU ?? with Amazone mounted spreader

I was hailed by a driver telling me my rear offside wheel was wobbling, and lo and behold it was (how I missed this I don't know). Got it back and jacked it up expecting to find the axle bearing loose, half-shaft bent or something similarly terrible. Neither seemed apparent so I tightened the nuts and decided to run it in to the local commercial garage, just to be sure. (Nothing). Turns out I solved the problem when I did up the nuts, so another wasted journey.