JoshParkinson

Mmmmmm :P :P

It comes with detachable mirrors that just slot in, you choose whether you want them on or not.

Has this lad actually ever done any farm work before or is he just naturally useless?

Vodafone. My new phone arrived today, and it was in red. I specifically ordered blue and they said at the time that was fine. So anyway we rang up preferably to arrange an exchange (ooh that rhymed!) and they said they didn't have the blue in stock, so rather than saying sorry, we don't have that phone in stock when we first ordered it they decided they would just send me a red one and hope i wouldn't say anything, nice one.

Well all 4 of British Sugar's beet factories opened today and it already looks as if farmers are going at it to try and prevent a repeat of last year, it's only the first day and already on the way to and from college i've seen 3 beet harvesters all working, 7 lorries either loaded or getting loaded, and a loading shovel with a beet cleaner on the back, hopefully what happened last year won't happen again, but i think farmers are just trying to play it safe this year and also trying to take advantage of what seem to be perfect harvesting conditions, i'm sure i read in farmers weekly last years losses were mounting up to somewhere around £15 million, as the factories just couldn't get it through. I think Newark was the worst, i remember my boss having to cart some of our beet to Newark rather than Wissington, because farmers in that area couldn't get it out of the ground, and even if they could it would be no good as it was already rotting in the ground leaving the Newark factory with nothing to process. And also a few spuds being lifted, about 4 challengers (one of which was pulling a set of cambridge rolls?) a Case Quadtrac, JD 9530, and a big old artic ford pulling what looked like a simba cultivator, making a fair bit of black smoke. Oh and also 2 New Holland combines cutting beans. Not forgetting a cabless crawler! Looked quite funny working in a field next to a Vervaet 617 beet harvester and a Claas Arion 640

Depends whether you're making a 20 series or a 30 series, 20 series then it would be a 6920s, 30 series it would be a 7530, perhaps with a PDC cast roof so it doesn't have that steering knob on the roof. Or a 00/10 series you would probably be better off with either a Britains MX135 or UH McCormick MTX175 cab and floorplan with an Ertl 6410 roof and i'm not really sure about the bonnet.

Never read it, we've been doing Of Mice And Men, which isn't too bad because it's about 2 blokes in america in the 1930s who were travelling from farm to farm looking for work, so there's a bit of a farming theme in it

WICKED! And Farmers Weekly would be a bit pointless, as i would be too busy looking through the machinery section trying to find a bargain and looking at the grain prices for my multi-million pound farming enterprise that's yet to exist.

Noob? Do you play runescape by any chance? I have a friend at school who swears by runescape and he's always saying that

Did you ever get this one finished mate? It would be interesting to see as i want to have a go at our Tong Peal Caretaker at some point after seeing this.

The farm my mate works on that just spent a ridiculous amount of money on a New Holland T7040 to pull the drill. And then i noticed today they had a John Deere 7930 on hire, on the drill? Rang this lad up and apparently the T7040 can't hack it, so the 7930 has had to be hired back in, the 7040 has been relegated to the 5 furrow plough

Better be considering it weighs 3 tonne more than it's blue equivalent!

She doesn't like me anyway and i don't like her so i couldn't give a flying....pig (quick thinking there) whether she catches me out or not, she told us all it was a new year so a fresh start last lesson, then 5 minutes later everybody was talking, yet she only accused me of talking just because i had my back to her! When I was actually watching a 6480 going past on a sprayer but she clearly has a problem with me. cheers for the advice though

French homework. Google translate you absolute beauty.

Looking excellent as usual Paul, I knew you were up to something as you kept asking things about the 7930 I should be a detective to be honest. Have you thought about swapping the beacon for a more realistic one? Like keep the stalk and then just swap the beacon? Although i'm not sure what you'd take it off but it's just a thought.

The cab i reckon is a modified siku 5455 one with a 6200 series roof put on it. Looks awesome though!

I'll be there again with 2 mates from Herefordshire and another lad who i went to primary school with.

Thanks Joe!

By the way, can you tell me what colour the running gear is on that one? I'm just thinking if it's JD green then i'll have the bottom half JD green like the bumper is, then have white above it for the cab

Yeah, I'm getting inspiration from convo's R620 he did and that was in the colours you've mentioned. i would like to do my local dealers truck, but that would be difficult as rather than having a standard paint job, it has 7810s and all sorts of John Deere machinery painted on the side, looks class, and the other thing is it's a topline 4 series \ Unless they've upgraded to an R series now, find out at some point, need to gather the paint up first, got twin stacks and air horns to put on it as well, and perhaps a bar beacon if i can get one in 1/50 scale

HAHA. Oh well.

Looks alright that, i can't work out whether the rear linkage would look better sprayed silver or not And i would put one of PDC's weight blocks on, just spray it silver and it'd be alright then.

My pathetic excuse of a school. We aren't allowed to take our blazers off, so that when it's boiling hot we're just going to have to sit there and sweat like a fat man in a bakery? Not to mention they aren't comfortable! Only allowed to wear black socks and nothing else otherwise we get a detention, not even allowed white or grey socks? They spent several thousand pounds on an obstacle course last year that you aren't even allowed to sit on letalone use even though there is a bench right next to it, so if you're sitting on there watching tractors whilst eating your dinner you get a strike, 2 strikes and it's a lunchtime detention, 3 and it's an afterschool, FOR SITTING ON A BENCH?! They call it your 'lunch hour', it says in your planner it's 40 minutes, and in reality it's actually 35 minutes. They spent another load of thousand pounds on a state of the art fitness suite that we never get to use. They have forced me to take French, even though i have been planning for the last 3 years to drop French, so i am now under acheiving in French due to the fact i thought i was meant to be dropping it, not to mention the teacher has a dislike for me. Half of my teachers are supply teachers that means we're living out of textbooks. We're meant to bring reading books to read in form, thankfully i had a word with my form tutor and i'm allowed to read Farmers Weekly, highlight of my school year. I could go on, but i think you have the general idea.

Well i was at college today and going to and from i noticed there were a lot of beans uncut and the odd bit of linseed around too, didn't see any wheat left, although there is still a bit of straw around yet to be shifted.

Cheers, the 6620 isn't too bad actually! Got a nice grunt to it for a tractor of it's size, and tops out at about 28mph which is slightly faster than my 6820 \ Nahh the T7050 is great, it's a 59 and actually came from somerset with about 600 hours on it, it's all top spec with leather seats etc, and considering the size of it, if you put your foot down it just goes, being CVT helps of course, but it just goes like hell, and Andrew who usually drives it said he's never seen anything pull like it except when he had a T7070 on demo this time last year, but yeah i like it, really looking forward to having a go at carting spuds this year with the 6820, i was carting beet in the evenings/weekends/a week in october last year and that became my favourite job, but we'll see how i get on carting potatoes. But yeah about the T7050 i would recommend Auto Command anyday, i prefer using the auto command gearbox to the autopowr gearbox on our 6920s. Mind you we're in the fens so it's nice and flat, but i've heard they're not so good on hills, so power command would probably be better in hilly areas.