jordantaylor

the walford college 24hr ploughing marathon and tillage demonstration day was a great success. we had been set a target of ploughing 210 acres in 24 hours. we had a john deere 6930 premium with 5f greggior bessen plough and a massey ferguson 6490 with 5f kuhn plough. we ended up getting ahead of shedule as after 13 hours of ploughing we had already ploughed 140 acres. i was ploughing in the massey and was running her at about 9kmh in mainly loamy soil but with clay in places. here are some photos of some of the kit that was there

just found out we are starting ploughing tommorow at 4 in the afternoon, im ploughing from 4 friday morning till 8 and then the tillage demonstration is friday all day

the bonnet is slightly shorter and slanted a tad more so i did think i needed re decaling but wasnt honestly sure what model as i dont know my masseys as well as other makes

woops my mistake, its a 6290

the massey is 1/32 scale mate,based on a 1/32 valtra from universal hobbies

and the line-up of deeres

so ive changes the chassis round on the john deere models so the 6930 has the loader and the 7430 has the front linkage and rowcrops ready for the grimme spud harvester to go on. and the massey with loader is a conversion i bought but ive added a beacon to it and made it slightly dirty and there s much more to do yet

some setup, ow many acres do they cover, some farming business

john deere 7430 & loader grimme GT170 spud harvester

that is a super model, are you building them to sell by any chance??

i agree with you all i have done allot of work over the past 4 years and this past year has tought me allot, the big arable farms are not what they are cracked up to be. there a great place to work dont get me wrong but the risks are too high and you just get stuck doing the same job. this is what has made me want to go back into stock work as there is always something different to do. on the up side another dairy farmer has got back in touch with me and has said they are losing one of there workers soon as hes on a gap year and so need a replacment for him and so i could be a possible replacement as college is only up the road from the farm i think my problem before was i was contacting very small farms and businesses that dont need many workers and so thats why i wasnt getting anywhere. ill soon let you guys know if anything progresses, it just takes time and finding a farm needing a worker is like finding a needle in a haystack

you lot have been a great help in all honesty and im very gratefull. things have been looking up today. i have contacted a few farms out by minsterley, one of the farmers was not in so i left a message and he got back to me, he gave me his brothers number and he said he will have a word with his neibouring farms as a few are looking for work so i gave him my details. while i did that just to cover my own back i bought the local newspaper as its the main job night, there were plenty of jobs that i phoned about, unfortunatly most want full time staff although a dairy has taken my details just incase nobody else phones about the job. i then phoned a large modern pig and arable farm about 6 miles from where i live and they sounded very interested in me and are sending me an application form to fill in and send back, they can also cope with me being part time aswell as the job role would be flexible and so i would be at the heart of the business prepared to do any job be it on the pig or arable side of the business. i know this means i havnt got the job as of yet so i will keep trying elsewhere but its sounding promising. my main problem is people are looking for full time workers and i calnt do that due to college comitments

forgot to add when they could see we could drive tractors we did workshop work instead, learning how to maintain the kit, repair it ect... we have done all the work on the plough, tractors we service all the time, we serviced and repaired the muck spreaders. its all part of a good agriculture course, what other colleges are like i dont know but what i do know is students travel a hell of a distance to come and do the agriculture course at walford as its well rated. we have people from south wales come up just to do it, living on site. if im honest mate, do it if you think you need to, how do you feel behind the wheel, what have other people said about you behind the wheel it may also look good on a cv to future employers

never even heard of them mate, when i started college we were put on 2 rebuilt massey ferguson 230 tractors, we wre watched by our tutor as we were made to reverse dolly trailers, box trailers, hook up to different kit ploughs, trailers ect... then we were moved up onto a john deere 6230 premium and new holland T6020- we then as the year went by were using all of the farm kit doing all the field work, most of the yard work ect... we do all the scrapping out, bedding up, ploughing, muck spreading, silage, maize carting, grain carting. loader work is done when we get our certificates.

must say thanks to you lot, plenty of good advice there i have the trouble of not coming from a farming background so the only place i can get help, is on here, college or places of work. i did what college told me to do but then i go to work and its done completely different when i did my cv college said it was fine, then i gave it to Robin Griffiths when i worked there and he picked out the bad bits, i then put my trust into robin and amended it as its what the employer wanted to see. he didnt complain abot the length as it showed everything i had done, where and when i had done it. and when it comes to contacting farms i always explain who i am and what im doing at college ect... then i ask if they have an part time work, if they say yes or ask for more details i will give them the details they want. if i was doing it all wrong then i would not have got my previous jobs, i am looking around leicester and nuneaton way as there are many dairy/arable farms that way of good enough size to need a few workers, giving me more chance of finding a job if there are more places to fill

i have been told i have a short fuse and this is due to hearing the same things said all the time and i know im not the only one, some of my college mates are the same. silly, dont think, not up to the job, too young, not ready for this job or that job, calnt cope ect.... i am also a very trusting person and slighlty gullable at times like putting my number on the forum, mabee to trusting but thats me, and my cv is only done how college told me to do it, previous plces of work and what i have done at them, but its only long as ive bullet pointed it as if i write paragraphes i will babble and then its unreadable as for commitment and that, all i want to do is prove myself so i can keep a job and stop being a seasonal worker, i hope farmers will notice me and decide to keep me on after the harvest ect... but its the older staff they go for. i was talking to a driver for PDM the other day and he said they had a 23 year old working for them that didnt know how to use the link arms on a tractor purely becouse nobody had showed him. and he said its sad how they ask for experience but never teach the young lads like myself and then we get slated for not having a job. its another thing that gets too me, it doesnt take 2 seconds sometimes to show somebody what to do, its a matter of not being bothered too

haha good one mate, still somebody on here who people can have a laugh with and isnt all serious

well id like to think i could trust people on here, if i calnt i will leave the forum-FACT

cheers, my number is , i have a provisional (so i can drive a tractor on the road) and im 17 if you have any job enquireies for jordan, ask for his details via PM please

i personally calnt see how people can judge me when they dont really know me, this makes me angry and then makes me look a different person to who i am i dont think i know everything (people just assuming and judging) and when i look for a job i am as polite as can be, i explain who i am and what i do ect... and ask if there is any part time work and all i have called have been very gratefull for me calling and have been more than willing to help me out by giving me other contacts ect... i am enthusiastic, and its things like the crash which dont go in my favour and when it comes to people hearing about me, its a load of tosh, most farmers are too busy to talk to other farmers about their workers, they only hear about you when you contact them and they want a reference and as robbo said this is thread is for helping me find a job and not judging me , its people judging me that gives me a bad reputation, and i have a few of the forum lot on facebook (mostly my age) and we all seem to have the same problem, being judged and looked down on like kids. everybody is different so dont let the actions of one change you view on everybody. there are a few people on here that have made me wonder why i am on this forum in the first place, just getting slated over 1 misshap