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it looks level enough but 72F's sits lower than mine did

have you got enough to go all the way round france marky :D

hmm.., back end looks to high ?

wow they look good :) agri-castrol green & white or texaco black & red universal oil or even shell yellow & white how much F-P ?

thought you might :D

i managed to keep the tim fitting in the bonnet by drilling a hole through the deutz chassis

my convo skills arn't up to much but havn't worked out how to fix the cab end to the chassis without butchering it , & part of me doesn't want to wreck the deutz chassis i've had it since a kid & i think sentiment is getting in the way \ i'll post this & then attatch a pic if i can

i managed to fit the tims 42 body onto the deutz chassis like 72 did but i'm not over happy with it so will keep it on the tims chassis for the time being.

the 8100 are soon to be the next big conservation tractor because they were assembled by county :)

sticky is the word i would expect fp \

maybe the TM 155 is a bit big for martin so he may want to have a practice with one of these

i see that container isn't full height, but all those wheels must give a fair bit of resistance to being pulled along freshly dug ground.

the back problem is a compressed & protruding disk but is better due to exercise ,& i no longer have any pain in my leg but that is really down to the quarterzone ? injection , but the doctors did say the injection isn't a cure so i still have to be carefull what i do ,but i recon the days throwing small bales around like i used to has long gone would i go back when the kids are older ? no , technology is passing me by at a rate of knots mate .If i were to sit in a fergie or a NH now i'd have trouble finding me ass from me elbow i spect as for fendt vario , i'm clueless ,blimey i was having enough trouble with the 3090 datatronic \ i like levers that can be pushed & pulled & hit with a hammer if required :D . farming has changed quite quickly, i had my 1494 loading dung spreaders a few years back & left it to the lads spreading to load themselves,one c0ckydriver of a TM 165 was only 16 & he slated my tractor for being small & underpowered :o then i told him that when i was 16 i'd be lucky to get to drive a 1494 as it was a big tractor then & was usually the head drivers tractor ! i did say before that i wish i had access to some regular tractor work but time & money dictate i'm afraid .

nice pics jdc , deer-est is right we see a fair few loads heading cornwall way but loads of round balesare getting more & more scarce i think the biggest haulier round my way would be Michael Pidsley ,he runs 6 volvo FH 12 6wheeler & drags & 2 FH12 artics out from honiton . 72 bales eh ? thats good going as my old set up only had 64 all up,but i never had an over cab frame . were those kept back for winter sale ? do you do any small bales jdc ?

that going to be a hellish weight on those 2wd axles david , they all look good though

good web site mate ,i bet that container takes some pulling when it's full in the field

24-2-06 new mft & abbey tanker unloading from a low loader 2 JD6610 dung spreading & jcb 525 loading MF 64** ? slurry tanking JD 6610 hedgetrimming CASE mx135 & dump trailer hauling waste concrete from our yard loaded by a 3CX NH175TM & feed tanker 2 TS100 hauling dung

it was a labour of love for me as well, but like the saying goes love doesn,t pay the rent i've said it before if i had the chance i'd be back at it like a shot but that's no longer a realistic choice . one of the last farms i worked for there was 2 part time manual workers & another tractor driver & myself . the boss decided to make mike redundant & bought me a bigger tractor & implements, so i was now effectively doing twice as much work for the same money , it soon gets to the stage where one man finds it hard to cope with that sort of workload , & that man was me , instead of a 3mtrs i now had a 6mtr,folding cultivator but i still had to sub-soil & plough it on my own before i could use it whereas mike would follow the plough behind me . the fact was instead of me & mike both hitting it about in 8 hrs i'd be out there for 16 hrs on my own ,it was crap, my first son was only about 5 months old & weekend work was the norm because of the veg picking for the monday delivery, i missed out on a great deal of familly life which i now have .& i wouldn't want to change it now.

very nice work there marky ,very nice indeed :) :)

look forward to seeing that

two very smart tractors there F699 never seem to see any white roof convo's about though \

wish i still had regular access to a tractor fp but i don't think i'd want to go full time on a farm again ,years ago i'd be out all hours, but since driving lorrys i do apreciate the home life, i can earn in a standard week now what took me all week +overtimke back on the farm , do i miss tractor work ? ,yes very very much, do i miss the hours i used to put in ? ,not really.

i put some pics up here a while back ben in the topic harvester hunting (potatoes) in real vehicles i can send you some via e-mail if you want

AAAAAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH !!!!! sean I myself were only talking last night about building a grader :o & now you've done a pre-emptive strike on me marky \ more of a picking table really i spose isn't it & true to form, of all the people working there it's the woman doing the work : oh yeah , nice work (he says begrudgingly) \ \ :) :) :)

i wondered why you were SHOUTING :D :D