jordantaylor

Its in the slurry tower, we only have a small pump pumping out the rainwater but it not clearing it fast enough and the sudden downpours we keep having are just filling the tower up again, too much liquid and nowhere for it to go. we dot want to spread loads of slurry on the fields as the rain is washing it straight off again

extremely dragged out, ive seen multiple fields of barley ready for harvest between shropshire and buckinghamshire but its just too wet to get combines out to the fields. quite a few fields of rape are what i would say about a week off but ive spoken to some lads at velcourt farms and they dont want to spray the rape off yet as they are not sure if they will be able to combine them when they are ready. as for the straw crops available from wheat and barley this year it looks like there will plenty of bales available. and i think we will keep away from the potato crops for now. suckleys have already loast around 200 acres worth due to rivers overflowing and just washing crops away. and a few farms are trying to lift spuds already to save more rotting I myself have got around 250 tonnes of muck to spread over the coming weeks aswell as a full slurry store that i need to get to very soon, the boss said we might have to hire in a bigger tanker or an umbilical setup to get it down faster as the rain will just cause it to overflow soon. we have still got 2nd cut to get mowed and picked up but calnt see it being done anytime soon

yeah its a fantastic job, im able to get on with work and dont have people breathing down my neck checking on me 24/7. i can just get on with a job stress free. im also able to take on things ive learnt at other farms and put them into practice and use them to my benefit. i have just bought a whiteboard for in the workshop and ive got all the tractors and loaders written down on it and i have told everybody if they do any work on any of the kit to right it down on the board including the machine, what they have done, the date and who did the work. this is then being put into a spreadsheet by myself so we can keep track of what machinery is being worked on and when and it can also show up if any machine has got constant problems say for example id a loader is constantly being filled with hydraulic oil we can take a closer look and take up further action if required i.e. get dealer out or replace the machine. I have also got plans to put up new shelving so we can sort all of the tools out so they afre not spread over the benches all the time. im also going to give the workshop a thorough clear out as i can while this bad weather is in as i calnt get into the fields. it gives me a chance to see what parts are available to us already and what we could do with stocking up on ect... i am also getting the main road and field work tractors and im going to make them brackets so they can each have a grease gun and various essential tools on the machine at all times so if in the field if anything breaks they dont always have to return to the yard. some would say things like this is unnesacery but its what i feel works well and ive seen it work well.

hes got 2 sets of discs, a 5 leg cousins subsoiler and a 4m power harrow. most of his arable is done by contractors now. hes got all his own silage kit and slurry and muck kit. he did have a krone big pack last year but didnt do enough bales with it to make it worth keeping and pay for itself.

there is plenty more machinery to photograph yet such as the third loader, new forage wagon and new kuhn baler but these are all under lock and ket at the other farm so i will get photos when i can, we are however taking delivery of a new 9 tonne marshall rear discharge spreader this week the 5465 is now efectivly my main tractor and the 6465 is the bosses main tractor and the 168 is main farm run around. the 65 and 188 are just there for when they are needed such as raking and the 188 goes on the bale wrapper and the second slurry tanker every now and again. he has around 7 bales trailer for when carting after harvest. he gets thousands of round straw bales and so all the farm staff get on the carting with a tractor each being it a new or an old machine

well as i said some photos will be up and here are a few The first 2 photos show the main farm and the smaller farm we have. on the main farm we have also now got a huge cattle shed the full lenght of the machinery shed behind the machinery shed. And various other photos from around the farm

Cheers guys, yeah it is a cracking job, It is good for me as this farmer has put plenty of trust in me and he is letting me operate each machine just around the yard to get a feel for them all, and I've had a few on muck and slurry and gfd already. He is also letting me spend time with the equipment in the workshop getting used to fixing and maintain each machine. And I'm going to look for the local yfc I think it's aylesbury yfc as me and the other lad are going to join just to make some new friends in the area Photos should be on in the coming days,

Yeah it's great too be working again and a full time job now, the part time days are over, it's real world farming now. And don't worry I will get plenty of photos up. The 135 has had a custom made bonnet due to being treated badly as it's a scraper tractor. It also has no brakes but works well enough. The farmer has got rid of a few heavy handed workers and unreliable workers due to damaging kit and not saying owt. I know come the end of harvest we have got a huge job sorting out all the fences around the cattle paddocks and we have also got the cattle tracks to sort out when we eventually get some dry weather (haha). The cows are currently being kept in overnight as the cattle tracks are that thick with muck we struggle to get the land rover down them and they were coming into the parlour covered in muck from the fields. It's not been easy on the filter and we have had the spend more time cleaning the teets than we want to really as it delays milking.

Well as many of you know I have finished college and been struggling to find work. But I have found a job. I came and did a trial weekend on a dairy and arable farm in aylesbury, buckinghamshire. It's around 750 acres, milking 220 cows keeping them in straw yards. They grow wheat, barley, osr and maize. The farmer is a huge Massey man and currently runs a 135,65,168,188,3085,6265,5465,6465. He also has David brown 880 on the slurry pump. He runs 3 old JCB loaders the newest being an 03 plate. I have moved 122 miles for this job and it's looking to be fantastic. The farmer is training me up to take over all the machinery work so he can retire and he is training up another lad I went to college with to take over the dairy when he retires. It's good that I can work with a college friend but it's opening new opportunities up for me. I will get a chance to operate a variety of equipment and maintain it. He has just bought a new pottinger Faro silagewagon for me to learn how to use and a new Marshall 9 ton muck spreader coming next week. I will get straight to work with this as we have a few large straw yards to clean out I will soon post photos and share more about the farm with you

looks fantastic mate, youve got a great space to work with

well as per usual i have been let down on the farm work front by Suckley's. they promised me work, accomodation and a good wage but it has all fallen through. Every time i phone them they keep putting me off and trying to delay me and then when they said they would phone me back i heard nothing. and yet again i phoned and the boss has said hes got to talk to his brother. well ive heard it too many times and seen as i was supposed to start 2 weeks ago im just going to look for another job as i calnt keep going without work. i mean its not as if the weather is going to affect the work i was supposed to be doing ( picking oats, cleaning grain stores ect...) I have family down in st ives and camborne in cornwall and they have said to me why not look around there for work and move down there. well thats what i am doing and so i was just wondering if anybody on here lived down that end of the country? and if they knew of anybody looking for staff. there are fruit and veg farms down there but again they are a few weeks of harvesting due to the weather delay. i have phoned some of the dairy farms but they are fully staffed and some of them only have anywhere between 80-130 cows. so i am prepared to do any work so if anybody does know of any jobs going please let me know. i will pick fruit/veg and work on the graders and picking tables. i will work with dairy, sheep arable Jordan

wow wow wow, that combine looks the business. and so do all these implements. and to think i was just about to have some time off collecting models, i think that combine has certainly changed my mind

ay yeah, wild oat picking is an awfull job but someone has got to do it and id rather keep myself busy than doing nothing. i think 2600 acres is enough to keep me busy. from what ive seen of their fields so far there are a few patches coming up so ive got a few days work ahead. yeah the wet days are terrible, full waterproofs and somehow i still seem to get soaked through. ill keep everybody updated though as to how i get on and how busy they keep me

well im hoping to be offered a more permanent placement working there. I can work around the spud stores as ive done store managment before and wouldnt mind undergoing some more training to allow me to put it on my CV. i can also do grading work when the stores are being emptied (done plenty of this at JRO Griffiths & Sons). i can also take on maintainance jobs such as fencing, hedge laying, strimming, weed killing, store cleaning ect... this would keep me occupied through the winter up to the spud plant which is easily a months full time work then it would be yard work, irrigaation, harvest preps ect... if this is not possible i am going to find another livestock job to keep me occupied from when i finish about november through the winter

Thanks guys, im really hoping this works well for me. i nearly got there last year and this year i will complete a full harvest & cultivations inc spud work. i met up with a load of the drivers from suckleys at the cereals event and they are looking foward to having a young lad about the place again. i think they enjoyed last year teaching me certain skills and showing me how they work. its good for them as they can pass there own skills on to new workers i will keep you all updated as to how i get on. i always keep a harvest diary so i will be able to relay to you guys what i get up to as i do it

its definatly grown on me, i can see my collection gaining another red, ive only got one massey and the 5430 but i think this one can take up a place on my shelf

dont worry i will do, we do plenty of travelling around the sites so im sure im bound too see her as well as many of the others

thanks, i dont mean to say everybody is like it, just the few that think they are better than everybody else, and for us younger generation it does knock the confidence every now and again( i know this from talking to other younger forum member and they have similar views). i do hope it turns into more than a harvest job. I really dont mind what work i get this from them and i have even said i will work all potato harvest on the graders if i need to and thats at least 1 1/2 months work there.

i am sorry, its just there was a topic opened on here after the accident aimed mostly at me and many of the members were just being very spiteful and ripping into me and other young farmers. i am sad to say its changed my view on older farm workers and im afraid to say the actions of those makes the majority look like they have no respect for the younger generation and just treat us like toddlers with no excuse for it what so ever. i understand not everybody is out to pick at us young farmers but for the minority that do it is not nice. im sure you can understand though i am extremely sorry

well even though i believe this to be a sarcastic comment i will have the decency to reply to you question. i left last year due to being involved in an accident that was proven by the police and the insurance companies that it was not my fault. I also took that oppertunity to leave and find a job for after the harvest that fitted in around my college course of which started again just a week and a half after the accident. now as much as i know you guys want to rip into me about this again as i know you all love doing i feel that you might just be grown up for once and be quite happy for me that i have actually got a job. becouse unfortunatly this is the only harvest job i have been offered and i am leaving college in a matter of days and i dont want to be another government statistic on the dol. im sure you can all understand where i am coming from. i dont expect a reply to this as you all think i am an arogant teenager that think he knows everything and just wants to drive tractors and hasnt worked his way up from the broom to the pressure washer ect.... but at least im trying and doing something about the work front as i know many others are not. just too be clear i am not saying everybody is spitefull on here, i can name many a member that is a pleasure to talk to and dosnt want to just get involved in arguments and winge about the young generation of farmers. other than that thanks for the reply

thanks, i think this summer will go well, ive just got too put the same ammount of effort in last summer. unfortunatly 4 of my friends were turned down for this job as they were not willing to go and do certain jobs such as wild oat picking, strimming and store cleaning. they just wanted machinery jobs. i think i got the job as they already know i will do the hard manual jobs and i never really complain. so as long i get on with the job i should be just fine

well good news i supose i will be working agin for JC & MW Suckleys this summer after being unemployed for 3 months. they have offered me a similar job to the one i had last year. again i will be wild oat picking over the 2600 acres of wheat and barley, cleaning their grainstores and plenty of yard work. i am going to request that this year i go onto cultivations instead of the carting side of the business. but plenty of pics will start to appear on here from july onwards

just a few photos from the shropshire show. some of the machinery, the two classic tractors on the yfc floats were in mint condition. also on the yfc floats - NH T7050, T6080, TM155, claas arion 640, MF 5480, MF 5475. the highway massey belongs to my uncle who recently had it restored and it still works on the farm and the grey fergie is rated at 165HP- it sounds great and goes like stink

a few more photos i have to say i was really impressed on the number of young kids helping to show the stock. i mean there were kids as young as 5 leading calves around. its very promising for shows like this, its good to see the young generation are interested