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Here, here Blake. Eye for an eye and all that in my book. Sick.

Very nice, I especially like the Same 200 on the narrower wheels. She is a great looking tractor.

Please tell me you videoed the MF1135?!!! I bet she sounded sweet with that forager on the back. Lovely couple of days for you to get out and have a play. Will this be an annual event.. .. I'd love to come along and see these machines working.

How sad and what an uncomfortable way for a grand old fellow to have to feel. Hope the family are all coping mate.

Blimey Sean that's sudden. Hope the diagnosis is not too definite for him and he has a little longer to enjoy.

Going back, there is no TX36... I mistook the last photo of the TX32. Does anyone know what the panel is covering at the front of the machine to the drivers right side?

Nice photos, Erik. Pleasure to see some updates from you. The contractor/farmer has some nice machinery. I like that saw head on the Valtra, you could do some damage with that!! The Deutz wins it for me, smart looking bit of kit that one. Also, a credit to the driver of the older NH T60 which looks every bit as clean and shiny as the newer T7!! Plenty of combine action too and nice to see a TX32 and a TX36 in the same set of photos. Doesn't seem so long ago they were the mainstay of many cereal farming enterprises here in the UK and now the likes of the John Deere tower over them!

Camera facing me, havn't seen the letter yet as it is in the office but so say I am smiling quite happily as I chug along! 50mph single carriageway but that's still a 40mph farsicle speed limit for HGV's. First three points since I was 17.

Wow, spot on, Dale. Very interesting and definitely a first on FTF for marine engineering. You must see some nice sights .... if you ever get above deck and away from these CAT lumps!! So, when you say Chief Engineer on a yacht; how big is this thing? I assume it isn't a little weekend cruising yacht and that it a true ocean fairer?

Joe, I don't need that App. ... .. Oxfordshire Constabulary have informed me of my speed and whereabouts at 7.30am, Aug 4th. ... 48mph in the lowloader..... As for Tes. . .. Tesc. . .. T. . ... Ben. Disgusting. I definitely won't be needing that one either!!!

It seems the Smart Phone, in its number of guises would be the norm nowadays. I for one use my HTC to access the internet on mobile as well as at home on Wi-Fi more than any other means. I know many of you people do now too. So, what about Apps? I've been a bit slow on the uptake of installing and using Apps. I only had one downloaded App unroll recently, a tachgraph hours runtime calculator. Yesterday on the recommendation of a mate of mine, I downloaded WhatsApp. It's a communication aid which is free, a bit like Skype with email, messenger, text/mms and voice calls all for free. It's very easy to use and it appears many people already use it as ait syncs with your phone contacts, thus showing you who you know who uses What's App. What about you boys and girls, what do use? What does it do? And how do you find it?.

Now, this may seem a little crazy.... Even for your neck of the woods. Maybe, he may have more that one field!

I went on a Army Cadet summer camp there, man is that bleak! I can imagine the sight that greeted you on a wet day, Paul! Very wet here today. Had to stop getting the round hay in yesterday as it came in heavy. About 70 baled still out.

Dry and sunny. after busting our balls to get everything done before the expected heavy rain fell

And after all that and getting home at 8pm..... It was back to work to wrap the haulage ourselves with the contractors 998 as he had all his chaps out elsewhere doing 160ac of big bale silage! Just got in, back to work at 7am to finish off.

:D Anyways, Richards. What are you making?

Ooooooof!!! Mummy? \

Oh I see what you mean. A very odd scale indeed. Well I hope also, if their detail is that good it is put to good use in 'our' scale too.

Fendt...... Colour change......... Fendt........ Dual wheels...... Yaaaaaaaaaawn.............

Why did you hope it was incorrect, Joe? Just curious.

As with the Deutz, that little Fendt won't be joining my collection but I can't help but recognise what truly draw dropping models they both are.

And the carting tractor of choice?

Got to have plan! Look forward to tasting it at a show sometime Or if I up your neck of the woods again, best bud......... Top man...... No1 Yorkshireman........ Master Cider Presser ....... Enough now?! Anyhoooow ....... For me today, already been to the local MVF mill to pick up 6t of finishing meal. Now its back to spreading hay as I have done for the two previous days. This weather is a nightmare for it. 50ac on the deck and now its a mixture of conventional, round and big square hay and also some big bale haylage. Quality dictating what will become what. Haylage is being raked and baked now by the contractor with his Class 2900 on TM150 and a Welger D4004 on a Fendt 720. Once the rake man has done his bit he'll go back for the 998 and the baler will move into what will be big bale hay. Little baler will get going later in the day and somewhere along the lone the round baler will bale the damper areas and someone has to go and stack a few hundred wheat straw bales on a farm where 60ac of standing straw were bought. Oh and we'll have to get the hay bales in too......

Stuck up git. I hope you cut your bloody fingers off with it! The extendable bench top is also a nice addition to this I think too

Not a vast amount of experience other than direct drilling grass seed with a John Dale Zero-Till drill. This uses Canadian 'Seedhawk' coulters which are now available fitted to the Vaderstad Seedhawk drill. Moore Unidrills were a popular drill around here for direct drilling turnips into stubble. Bettison were a big name back in the day too when direct drilling was the in thing. It's a fad for most. A few have stuck to it for decades, others always have a 'better' idea and go back to the plough, or min till.... Or both!! Certainly around my area if Wiltshire and Somerset you see very little. A small amount of people go straight into some stubbles with a Vaderstad cultivator drill or similar but this is NOT direct drilling.