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Absolutely amazing!!! You make such fine buildings, everything looks perfectly made and so precise.

Wow, some very precise work there on the buildings. Just the sort of thing I like

Travelling between Cheffins and home today and everywhere I looked there ws either a cloud of dust or a combine in view. Lexions and CR's mainly with a CX, AFX, 2388, JD 2256, Dommy 106 and also aLexion 750 on the road, first new'un I have seen.

^ What he said!

Nice photos, Ol. Saw a 580TT starting in a field of OSR on my way home from work this afternoon. Don't know how he got on but it has been a bit showery today.

Zia has taken to the water....

TW-25 gen 1 fof Christmas please Traci

I'm the one in the middle.....!

All on stop here, moved the first load of straw to Devon today though. 76 Welger D4004 bales.

Go to your first post, click edit and you should be able to edit the title there.

Cultivations have started across Wiltshire and Berkshire. Saw a New Holland T8 pulling a Simba tool near Devizes among the New Holland CR's cutting rape and a Challenger 800 series working down barley stubble near Hungerford. A lot of stubble about now on the lighter ground.

Budgie smugglers a bit tight, Pullover?! :D

Bit of DIY today after a long week. 12,000 conventional bales in the barn, the last 1000 odd two of us stacked last night finishing at midnight. Still got 70 acres to do..... No idea where it will all go!! Some will be loaded directly ok to the artic for me to take to Wales I expect. Big crop, Barry. Been a good year for grass. Where is the new job goibt to take you then chap?

Tedding again today after starting a 6am for the second TB test on the store cattle. Yesterday the two claas balers kicked out 5000 bales between them! Last year that would have been half the crop!

I'll keep an eye if I head up to Ipswich again in the near future!

Today as with the last two days, I'll be shaking out hay. We've thirty odds acres in the barn, 50ish cut and of that about thirty shaken out. That will be shaken out once more today by me, then rowed up by another chap for the balers. While I go on shaking out tomorrows work twice. In all, 200ac to do but this week we'll aim to bale up until tomorrow and then look at the weather as it is mean't to change. Fleet this year is: 6180 mowing. 390 shaking out. 399 on haybob. 698 and 6160 baling. 165 Farmhand loading. 590, 290 x2, 390 trailering. JCB 531-70 on a 12 plate unloading at the barn.

Sorry to hear that, Scott. What a shame it will come to a close for you and I wish you all the best after September. Shall I send the lowloader up?

Don't know, Rich but David White is also on the move in hes penultimate year at Lavington.

Three combines moving locally, all in barley. One near Amesbury, one near Devizes, one just up the road from the yard. NH, Claas and JD in that order. Driving through Suffolk, Lincolnshire and Yorkshire this week there was a lot of rape swathed and drying out nicely.

In a word Ol, no. I don't care what anyone says, telehandlers are crap for clamp work. No ground clearance, no driving power, no cooling power..... If you've got all day to do very little or are a small farm with small gear then anything will do. Silage is made in the clamp as much as in the field and with todays machinery bringing in the crop you have little time to get the crop in, spread and consolidated so you need power, speed and wieght. Tractor buckrakes and pivot steer loaders rule the roost around me. Tractors are 180hp minimum and up to 360hp. Loaders are predominantly JCB 414, 416 and 434 machines. Of course, all this is only ever as good as the man in the seat. So in truth, an experienced telehandler driver could do a better job than some collar up kiddy I'm a 434 in suited conditions to either machine!

Mmmmm I disagree with that. If you throw a ball for example and send your dog to retrieve the ball, come back and give it to you, that is under control in my book. A dog which is loose and not adhering to commands given by its owner is out of control. See here: http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Environmentandgreenerliving/Greenertravel/Enjoyingthecountryside/DG_187728 Especially: Keeping your dog on a lead You don’t have to put your dog on a lead on public paths, as long as it’s under close control. However, you should keep your dog on a short lead: if you can’t rely on it obeying you on most areas of open country and common land or open access land between 1 March and 31 July always near farm animals if there are signs asking you to do so If a farm animal chases you and your dog, it’s safer to let your dog off the lead. Don’t risk getting hurt by trying to protect it. Open access to the countryside Protecting sheep and birds from dogs Take care your dog doesn’t scare sheep and lambs or wander where it might alarm birds nesting on the ground. Eggs and young will soon die without protection from their parents. By law, farmers are entitled to destroy a dog that injures or worries their animals. Cleaning up dog mess Dog mess is unpleasant and can cause infections, so clean up after your dog and get rid of the mess responsibly. Making sure your dog is wormed regularly will protect it, other animals and people.

Some nice updates here, reckon that JCB driver has stiff arms after all those three point turns on the clamp though!! The RW trailer is nice, Dan does a fine job with those.

This really is an outstanding layout. You have a very high standard of work, there is so much realism added to your farm. Scenery and accessories, the people, animals. . . It is all excellent!!

Phew!! Thought you'd dropped a booger then! :D Which chassis did you choose to use this time then?

Nice topic me old mate, you got a nice load of photos in that lot.