harvey123

Is it a 40k or 50k box Gav? (i don't remember you mentioning!)

Neighbours where at it the other week so i got some pics and put a vid/slide show on youtube!

Here's the link!

Hope you enjoy!

Well guys, my dads thinking about moving, some where a bit smaller to ours with about 50 acres or so, but we're in a debate, we're trying to figure out what the perfect tractor would be?

Now bear in mind that it will need to be able to pull an 8 ton excavator with a tri-axle low-loader and a 12 ton dump trailer, Now my dads thinking a ford 7840/8340 or a TS115A or maybe even a TS110A ?

But we're open to any suggestions! also around the 120 ish hp mark ? 

Ahh yeah, the 6270 was my tractor even though i never liked her, the boss thought it would be alright to not have suspension on it, hours yeah and then i spent 18 discing heavy land and then couldn't walk properly for 2 days afterwards, it was short wheelbase as well so it just seemed to feel the bumps more than our 6465 which was normal wheelbase, and i found myself having to fill up with diesel often, and i'm not sure whether it was bad fuel consumption or it was a small fuel tank, and then in the end it had a lot of fuel trouble, so that's when we bought the Claas Arion 640, got told by the boss it was going to be my tractor since it replaced my tractor, went in a few days later and i was told to go on the 6465 because the other lad had claimed the claas and was telling everybody it was his, that was one of the reasons i left, i'm starting to regret it now though because i'm really, really, really, REALLY starting to miss farming  \

You spent 18 hours discing?

your 14?

the most i've ever done is 14 hours drawing silage! 

Chopping silage at a farm today with drag chopper and as soon as school finished i went to cart for them, a tight gate way but i could negotiate it, then the boss came in with his 11 plate 7480 and took the gate stoop out, he then managed to get the gate stoop, DOn't think he'll here the end of it as it's the first accident this season (so far) 

Sat in isolation all day for abusing a teacher at the weekend  

Shouldn't come silaging if he cant handle the banter   

and also it wasn't me who was abusing him, i had no CB  :'(

I think I may take a ride up and get it mate.. then again  :D

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=160578690676&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT

Just won this MF702 transporter... never seen an MF one before... quite interestin really.... and about 'period' for Penny me thinks... only one problem... I've to get up to Preston to collect it  :'( :'(

Now Now Marky, if you want we might be able to bring it down to cambridge (cheffins) for you?

we're taking down 4 mf290/565's? not sure for definate if they're going down but if they are?

Yeah I agree with Jordan I have to say. A child should not be on a clamp, infact there are very few places on a farm that a child should be. It's all very well having someone 'supervise' but with a child going over the back of (what can be up to a 15ft) silage clamp, no supervisor can be close enough nor stop it. It's principle but sadly few people respect principles these days and too many people question them.

Well i can't disgree with what Tris is saying but i want to say this, Yes we are young, but most of us have been brought up around machinery and know the dangers, and we wouldn't be trusted with such a machine if we weren't capable enough would we?

also i do alot of jobs in the fields around the yard and i know the limits of the machine!

200 acres lifted fri-sat lunch time, and today i'm following the mower men because i have the wonderful job of tedding  \  Thank god for radio 1 and iPads 

Booms will be a fair width at 1mtr wide 

Working at a horse yard over half term, harrowing a school on a mf20 industrial and moving the electric fencing about, be worth it by the end of the week 

Even get a view while working (some nice rearends )

Thought it was good, half the people in the school didn't have a clue what it was though, they thought it was a boring science program so decided not to watch it  \

The banter on facebook and msn with the one and only Masseboy (cerin)

My dad before the construction days

yeh i guess i did drive past your farm! nice part of the world to live i must say!

It is but when summers here it's the worst, the road to Windermere will be grid locked from Ings onwards \

I'll ask a mate tomorrow for you

Ahh yeah thanks very much Mark! I am not sure but i think they call them utility vehicles which might be why there legal on the road!

I see , thanks!

Intresting Marky, thats one of the reason i want a gator or somthing as you can get a full cab on them!

Thanks everyone!

your right it's classed as an utility vehicle BUT  you can legally drive on the road in one if YOU'VE got a tractor licence was asking Ashley today and he said it's one of the many loop holes he always carrys around a bale of hay or something thought so if he does get stopped he's "just going to check the sheep" or he's taking some tools to fix a tractor somewhere

kirkstone pass (roughly translated as, if you look at the stunning scenery, you will crash and have time to phone home on your way off the edge....mind the cyclist)

Goon, don't suppose you came into Kendal at alll did you ? from staveley way ? if so you went passed our farm, just before a round about on the left hand side

if i'd of known you could of come and had a cuppa with us 

oh yeh, try going up kirkstone pass in winter with all the snow to tescue a stretched HUMMER limo

that looks awful and it just aint right

nick..........

  It's a pretty good looking model, you making these to sell ?

Work anywhere ?

if so pm me, there's a contractor near me looking for lads for spring/summer work

Right i am nearly 16 and will be able to go and do my tractor licence, but the thing is will i be allowed to drive a quad bike that's registered as an agricultural vehicle on the road?

From what i can see you have to be 17, but i know people who have been insured to drive them on the road at 16 and my employer said his insurance said they would aswell.

Another thing is would a John Deere gator ect be classed as an atv?

I hope some one can make this clear 

You can DEFFINATELY drive a JD Gator on the road at 16, it's classed as an atv i think, Ashley that works for my dad takes the gator home with him sometimes and he's 16

But i think you have to do a course with the atv's first though, not to sure i'll ask tomorrow for you Cerin 

Cheeers Jack 

There 3 in Cornwall now the driver was telling me, but not many others in England!

Yep Smallridge bros and Cornwall farm machinary have both taken over!

Every body seems to be sellling tractors theres all sorts of makes about everythings going a bit multi coloured as unlike before everything would of been green and yellow with the arabel boys

i know of atleast 4 maybe 5 824-828's in cumbria/north yorks and 3 of them a black 'uns 

john deeres everywhere today

first off a 3650 rolling then 2 brand new 6430's cartin rubble then a 6920s on slurry tanker and just now a john deere 2120 going up the fell with linkbox on

But there both 3 metres arent they ?   (width)

so why do they need to go on a trailer ?

good build all the same 

hubba hubba 

take it you can remove the back off of it if you want ?

like we could on our old one ?

please say it's got power drive though lord F ,(it's a button on the left of the steering wheel that has a P on it)