CMB

Spent most of the day treating 3/4 herd for worms & resultant pathogens.  Fun chasing after cattle to seperate them but gets boring after 3 hours and the calfs were a pain to identify & catch. To add to my discomfort I got kicked twice, once in the thigh then once more painfully in the shin, and frequently gobbed at

A load of spares and two packs of self-assembly paper Maize plants by FR Green Line.

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Brown and green are the common ones, yellow is uncommon and red is definately rare. I've seen red ones go on Ebay for upwards of £50!

Ah a 70's thing CMB...have you got a "kipper" tie to go along with them ;D ;D

Too young to know what one of them is Bill!

My 'waterproof' trousers have virtually disintegrated on one leg, having barely lasted a week. It looks like I'm wearing green flares

TB test part 2 and all pass. I'm amazed at the vets's ability to spot the lump from a distance and when the animals are going through the run at speed.  They all behaved very well today and we were able to seperate then into their correct barns/pens for the winter with the minimum of faff.

Are you thinking of making any more to sell?

TB testing on the farm today so lots of moving cattle along roads in the pouring rain. The sun came out later but by then we were working indoors.

Clearing the yard and setting up gates, hurdles and crushes in the barn for a TB test on Monday. Oh and also weeding the machinery shed 

I opened the door to my wall cabinet and one of the little vintage Britains men smoking a pipe fell out and his foot came off.

Valtra Valmet 115 City MIMB

Yellow County 1884

Dinky David Brown 990

Shawnee Poole rear dump in box

Grey Britains/Herald driver with pipe (missing pipe)

boxed Atcost farm shed with hurdles

Timpo farm lady with pail

Old Britains rabbit hutch

Looking tidy Paul! How many of these machines are on the farm where you work?

Getting a phone call from the staff nurse just as we were about to leave to visit dad in hospital saying he was being discharged tonight. He as pleased as punch and is now home in his own house and probably could supply the local pharmacy in Kemnay with drugs if they become short ;) ...never mind he is alive and kicking ;D

Happy to hear this, he sounds like a top bloke.

been asked to work for a local farm 3 days a week as well as working  full time \ ...and work for them after i finish milking in the morning, tractors are 8560,ts110 7610 111,7610 11,4000,new holland telehandler newish, matbro telehandler newish

Yikes that puts my little placement in perspective Don't overwork youself though tractorbob your body may not forgive you in later years!

funny you say  that cmb ,but the peco backgrounds i use have a patent from seaton/beer

The one you're using there certainly looks more Devon-like than the other Peco scene backgrounds I've seen. I didn't know they had a link to south Devon.

Now all you need are some nice Devon backdrops!

:D   .. oh unk.. you do make I laugh  :D

The wax stuff... more 'a spreader' than 'a wiper'  :D

Ick! I remember that stuff decorating school bog walls.

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Very impressive Barry, I bought one of these a month or two back from Dave Towse for 30-odd quid and I've already drilled two holes in it and pulled the cab off!

nope, they were resin cast ones not the crappy not stackable ones by RC2 ;D !!!

You can stack those RC2 ones. They don't look very good mind.

same size as the woods ones, well worth it if you can get them!! ;) ;D

I'll keep my peepers peeled.

Fingers in quite a few pasties, I should think?!!  :laugh:

Firewood?!!! Ohhhhhh get off my paaaatch!!!  :laugh:

Heh much smaller scale I'm guessing but they do have a FMV-type log crane/trailer (Farmer C6,OD my camera says) + (?)Posch Leibnitz vertical splitter alongside other bits and bobs.

Gah I want your life Tris, when will you be selling it on Ebay?

Are you sure it isn't 6087.9hrs, Chris?  \  What jobs will you be doing then, any stock or anything on the farm?

Eh could be, 60000 did seem rather a lot for a 20 year old tractor I just quickly read the dial.

I think I recal about 20-odd beef cows, 1 bull, not sure how many 'followers'. I'll find out on Friday when we're bringing them in in preparation for a TB test the following week. They also maintain about 40 ewes, 1 ram, numerous ponies & horses. They make pasties on site, sell firewood and sheepskin rugs as well as run horseriding & pony lessons for kids. Fingers in quite a few pies I think! Good variety of things to do at least.

Blimey.. that's an old topic... I was trying to forget those blasted spud boxes... I made so many I now count them instead of sheep before I go to bed.. Ahhhhhhhhhh  :of :of

I found a whole box of resin cast ones in my garage the other day if anyone wants to make me an offer for them sometime  \

Do you mean the Britains ones Marky?

Great photo with the half buried drill in the background and your discs and following gulls in the mirror.

First day of my farm placement on a small 80-acre farm/smallholding where I'll be doing about 20 hours a week. Not ideal as there's no paid work at the end but good experience all the same. Only 1 main tractor really a Case International 885XL with 60879 hours on the clock! Used it today for the morning feed. Also have a Kubota KX151-2 360 excavator for ditching and muck loading and an old ?Fordson being restored. No telehandler, or use of pesticide/herbicides so the course I'm doing tomorrow will be of no use on this farm!