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Deere-est

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  1. Back online! Parked up near Southampton after leaving the yard at 4 this morning to collect Hesston wheat near Ashford and deliver it near Dorchester. Back up Kent in the morning for another load for Yeovil direction I think. Still clearing a farm fof last years straw, seen a lot of barley stubble but we haven't baled anything just yet as far as I know. I collected this last week, hell of a bit of kit! Gradually been getting round the old girl with the polish too but I think she may be off to a new home after harvest
  2. One of them weeks this week. All started with Brigg power station rejecting my load as over length, on Monday. I had to take the bales to Crowle to a storage area instead which meant I could not get reloaded Monday night like I normally do until Tuesday morning. Leaving at 8.30am instead of 4.00am like I normally do, to head back south. So the whole week I've been delayed. Then after tipping and reloading for the power station at Snetterton, I was rejected Wednesday morning again as I wasn't supposed to be there! Got sent to a stockpile at Thetford instead which is where I should have been anyway, so my reload which was a 20min run from Snetterton, was an hour from Thetford now. So I didn't get home Wednesday night as planned, it was 8pm Thursday night. She was not happy!! On the plus side, I got papped in the 164 480 on the M1 which went up on Facebook and on Friday I was in the 15 plate 580 V8 and got papped again near Ringwood in Hampshire but I haven't found that photo yet.
  3. Couple of days, Friday and Monday, on the bulk. Here, loading a feed blending at Grimsdyke Granary near Salisbury and later, tipping near Langport. Interesting tip, had to try and let a moist blend do a controlled exit from the trailer, all 29t of it, so the farmer could push it into a small shed.
  4. Last week's round up. Monday I had off as the job was cancelled and as I worked Saturday past, I used Monday to reset my driving hours. Tuesday was an empty run up to Newtown in Powys to pick up 3CX and then down to Neath for a little New Holland. Wednesday morning I unloaded these at a customers yard and then collected 96 D4000 bales of hay for the yard, then took a loaded flat to another customer to unload which had come down from Castle Bromwich Land Rover plant. Thursday another empty run up to Hixton in Staffs to collect an accident damaged Hino for another customer and Friday, in the rigid up to the site at Castle Bromwich to pick up some stuff from the new multi-storey car park site.
  5. She's a cracking motor, James. I'd like to do a model of her really but time isn't on my side any more really. Under 600 genuine KMs on the clock, it was bought second hand with just over 200k on the clock. I forget how long it's been with the Crofts but although not a front line truck, she earns her keep. Oh and the 480 badge is original but the horsepower produced, isn't As for a cab cookery show, if I had my own truck full time and all the kit, I'd definitely give it a go but it has been done by Luke Vernon on his lorry-driver.com website. A lot of people now have slow cookers in their cabs these days and some of the food on the Facebook pages look bloody amazing!
  6. And a couple of meals cooked on the little gas hob I have with me if I'm away for a couple of nights. Got to eat well and keep it healthy! Salmon with stir fry veg which was cooked in white wine vinegar and soy sauce and a rump steak with asparagus, boiled spuds and tomatoes. I'll post this week's photos later, been a varied but slightly quieter compared to last week's trunking north to Brigg and back every day. Next week Im back on micanthus to Brigg again.
  7. Photos are in a relative order of loading and tipping. Just a shame there's none of the power station.
  8. No power station photos I'm afraid as cameras and phones are prohibited. Smart operation though. Lorries have to be loaded a certain way, which is bales in line with the lorry bed, three high, 12 on a layer and no more than 36. Artic or lorry and drag doesn't matter. A gantry crane comes down from overhead and grips an entire layer by either side, lifts it, weighs it and takes the moisture level then disappears down the big shed and stacks them the other side of a large, steel mesh fence while you enter details into a touch screen and roll up your straps. So I was loading near Warminster in Wiltshire, tipping at the power station just outside Brigg. The reloading Hesston again but wheat for the return journey. The first and third loads to Devon/Somerset border for veg cover and the second load to a customer who grinds it up for feed ration. Here's some photos, anyway.
  9. Getting up at 4 am. Getting to a building site in Castle Bromwich bang on time, to collect a rigid load of something or other, to be told to go away for at least 2hrs! The gate man let four lowloaders in to deliver tarmac kit and now they're in there, they can't turn round! I've only got about twelve lifts to go on!
  10. A week for the saw mill this week just running timber to Keynsham where there is a tanalising plant and back loading treated timber. Next week, I'm on for Crofts again and as far as I know, running micanthus straw up to Scunthorpe power station and back loading wheat straw to customers around Somerset. So expect photos!
  11. Got a Friday artic job again after being on the rigids all week. Helping a company relocate to Warminster from Westbury. They sell matting. All sorts for all applications, changing rooms, offices, domestic, factories, schools, health care... just about everywhere. If you could see the green matting and coir matting that is being skipped, you guys would have a fit. Acres of the stuff!!! Still. Got me some rolls of different stuff to take home for the dogs. Also, it means I get this for a day even if it's only going to be three loads!!
  12. Good to hear about you, Ben. I'm also back from an FTF sabbatical! I did the harvest in 2003, remember it like yesterday but it a a long time ago, now!!
  13. Had four days doing local pallet deliveries and collections in a 6 wheel Scania P320 this week and yesterday some local stock deliveries to local factories in this. It had a wash when I finished with it for the day, mind! Pallet deliveries again next week.
  14. It says something when the owner would rather put me on than one of his own drivers, as he can't be trusted! No confirmation until probably July but just to get the nod at this stage is something. Thankfully, I've never had to struggle too much for work but like you, when you're only working a few weeks ahead, you can get a bit shakey! Be handy for you if there is a client base that needs serving
  15. It would be fab to have it on a scenic baseboard at least. I could even stand on the back tipping in a sack of seed
  16. The prospect of a ten week booking through Oct/Nov next year. Now that's advance bookings for you! Albeit in the cider pulp which doesn't require much but it's guaranteed 12hrs/day, 5 days a week, home every night.
  17. Bet you can't wait until the spring to try it out on some over wintered plough ground! it looks incredible.
  18. On Thursday I driving for a local saw mill just ferrying stock between their two sites and a treatment plant in Keynsham. I did however, have to pop to Ramsbury to pick up 22 bags of hardwood logs. I knew where I was going and I knew what to expect. A hand full of working classics. I love the one of the John Deere because it could easily be an image from one of Graham Hubbard farms
  19. I officially, love this topic! Your dioramas are brilliant. The one of tea fertiliser going on and then the muck, a couple of pages back, they look absolutely perfect. The Dads Tractors plough is pretty smart too, the marker poles were a nice touch. The 8210 mowing and then foraging is almost an exact replica of the scenes I grew up watching when the local contractor of the time, now no longer going, Clement Bowyer and Son ran a few foraging gangs. He was a big contractor in Wiltshire back in the day.
  20. Posted out my first sale of my collection thin down today. Driving for a local saw mill tomorrow so yesterday and today have been my weekend. Smoke alarms up, co2 alarms up, 6 m2 of paving delivered and moved ready for laying, with another 4 m2 coming tomorrow. Hopefully get that down before Christmas. Best go and start a For Sale post on here now!
  21. I had exactly the same. Posted, Sean quoted me and then I couldn't reply for the rest of the night but all seems okay now.
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