jordantaylor

thats exactly what i was hoping to do, im not expecting long shifts on machinery just long enough opperating it to get the grip of it and know how to opperate it. obviously id start with the more simple kit and work my way up but i do want to keep working around the yard aswell.

very true, i was only hauling seed potatoes and it was in a fendt 718 not a 300hp tractor (not sure who said that) and i was accompanied!!!

im not saying that, ive done all of the cleaning business and weed pulling and working on a grader 15 hours a day for weeks on end sorting spuds, i just want to get into the field, i dont think i have the skills to handle big kit i just want to learn how to opperate it to gain experience for later on in life. i work my ass to the bone and all my previous employers will tell you that and thats how i get good references, i just feel that i need to gain this experience before i make any decisions on what direction to go after college. i can then go to my employer and say yes i can and have opperated this kit or yes i can and have opperated the store fans and computers ect... im sure you guys would prefer to take on an experienced worker to save you the time and hassel of training them up i am one of these people that feels it best to get first hand experience than just sitting infront of a white board and somebody saying this is how you do it, good luck

very true tris, its not that though, and as mjb1 says us younguns not being ungreatfull its just we want to show what we can do, i have worked in agriculture for about 5 years and for at least 4 of that ive been a brush boy and i just want to do something different to cleaning. my jobs for the summer are cleaning the stores yes thats it, pressure washing potato stores, enough to send anybody up the wall when there are 16 to do and they take about 1 1/2 days to do. im happy to do it but i want to do other jobs this summer aswell not just store cleaning

they just wont give me the oppertunity to show them what i can do and how much of an asset i can be, i just feel like im being used i would stay on £3.60 hour if they improved the work i was doing but they just are not doing that

i dont know how much more i can prove myself after 7 months on the broom and shovel. even the other guys that work there have said for the hours i work and the work i do i should be on more than i am. its like i went from being at the top straight to the bottom as where i previously worked i was even left in charge of the farm for 2 days straight when the manager had to go up to nantwich to see family in hospital. i did everything from milking and moving cattle and setting paddocks up to loading lorries with grain and hauling bales through the harvest on a 40ft dolly setup

ahh now there is the difference, griffiths are expecting to keep me on £3.60 hour until im 18, thats another year yet and now i have a car and my lessons coming up and insurance to pay and travel ontop of that is a bit of a mickey taker, im not doing the work i want either, all ive really done since october is store work which is rather tedious as i explained when i went for the job that i wanted to try my hand at everything both on the yard and in the field

i was acompanied by somebody most of the time esspecially on the road so i wasnt on my own really

the contractor paid that, im on £3.60 hour working for griffiths on apprentaship rates so working for the contractor was like i was earning gold and to be fair the tractor was only running when on the road and when i was tipping up and loading the planters in the field so i was on an average of £6.50 a day a massive improvment from griffiths. to most of you boys £6.50 is probably nothing but to me it was a superb wage when doing anywhere from 10-15 hour days

basically we get paid enough to cover our fuel costs. becouse he doesnt own all the tractors and doesnt have enough fuel tank room for 35 odd tractors working 24/7 we have to pay for our fuel and take our own fuel bowsers. remember im only 16 and i dont fully undersand it either, as long as im earning money and not losing it im happy

see you there then, i was talking to kuhn machinery's photographer the other day as he is going to be there for them. he has been working at griffiths over the spud period and ive been working alot with him

just thought id post this to see who else was going. i am going with college, think we are going for the 2 days but not entirley sure its at stonleigh park, warwickshire

happy birthday tris, have a gudun

superb conversion, how about a silver wiking john deere, is it possible and what would you say it would cost?? pm me with a quote please

so would you do a wiking model? ive a john deere i wouldnt mind having spruced up a little

all in all i was on about £15 hour take out fuel costs and evrything else

its these tractor companies, they just release so many new models that the modern ones are only modern for at most a year

nice, ive never driven the old 8000 series but i was ploughing with the contractor a few weeks ago with his new 8320R and a 7f plough, it was a hell of a machine

hows this for you

wooops my bad

so far this year about 400, it hasnt been run much until the past 4 weeks, just general work around the owners site

cheers mate its only afteri uploaded it to my laptop that i realised how well iy had turned out

i do but i wanted to work for one of the contractors for the week and they said yes and so they paid me the going rates, but as said i had to pay for the fuel i used

what a great model, very detailed and an appropriate slogan on the door

thanks tris, i have shown my boss and he has already asked me to get some of the photos blown up so he can have some of them in poster form around the offices. he has also paid me to have all of them downloaded onto a memory stick for him to have a digital set of the photos. onto my jobs, i was based at the main site organising the seed coming in and going out, unloading it as it came in on the lorries and loading the trailers as they came in. i also had to keep ontop of tuber counts so the planter knew what spacing to plant them at. i did have a few days in the fields checking spacing and depths of the planters as we were changing seed variety and size quite frequently due to what we had in store. i did have a week on the seed trailers in a fendt 718 which i enjoyed, i was alover the place loading the planters