Tommy Gough

Over the last week:

New Hollands-2x T6080's, 2x TM155's, 1x TM140, 1x TM165, 2x 7740 & 1x T7040 Autocommand

Valtra-1x Nsomething or other

Massey Ferguson-1x 165, 1x 398

Ford-5610

Yes deal    everything is so dry with us we are struggling to keep grass growth

Done. A lot of the maize around us could do with a good few days with sun and no wind.

As for today: a german exam in the morning, followed by some cleaning out of troughs when i got home. Some more scheduled for tomorrow i believe.

My dad trying to use his Ipad

How much rain have you had over there Blake? and could you send some to us? we are 3 weeks off 2nd cut and grass is looking terrible  \

You can have our rain if you want. Its madde up for the early spring but could do without if now.

Channel 4's comedy gala

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrbLR17QHuQ&feature=hp_SLN&list=SL&oref=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2F&has_verified=1

but mainly Lee evans at 40 minutes. :D

well the brakes didnt seem too bad when we were silaging so something seems to have been changed. the only thing i know about them really is that when we were hauling some of last years silage one of nicks drivers went on a detour to a weighbridge in Calne and the trailer held 10.5 tons easily with the silage sides fitted. the floatation wheels are also good and the difference could be seen compared to the 'super singles' on the other trailer when we were silaging

I think there was one fitted but i will try and find out for sure

Blimey, only just discovered this topic. Theses trailers are brilliant, really well built and good at coping with most things that get thrown at it. this is a picture of one of the new ones.

There were also 2 bale trailers madde when this one and its partener were built but I dont think any others were built.

Last week really but only just got a chance to put them up:

There will be more soon (tomorrow hopefully) in my Forest Farm topic.

Just passed Tommys dad out mowing at Forest Farm Unless a contractor does it of course. Nice bit of grass up by the road.

Wrong im afraid Tris. If you saw a New Holland with a Kuhn mower it was a contractor. If you saw a Ford with a Taarup it was my uncle. My dad hasnt been mowing for about 15 years and that was only because my uncle was busy.

A little teaser while i have a bit of time

According to Model Tractor magazine, they should be avalible by the end of June.

Local machine Tommy?

We got it from the Knockdown branch of T H Whites so i think it was fairly local.

Nice one Tommy,......how old,..many hours....

Its a 55 plate so somewhen between sept 05 and march 06 but not sure exactly. Only about 2700 hours on it as it was used by some bloke who put a topper on the front to cut minimal amounts of grass.

Wow! How many paper rounds paid for that?

Ok maybe i should say the farms latest purchase 

This beauty:

Do my eyes decieve me or are there some Marshall trailers in some of the pictures?

It was a real pain Tommy, then my boss offered to swap tractors and it wouldnt engage gear when he got in  \  something wrong with the computer we reckon

Thats the trouble with all of these new electrics in tractors. they may make them easier and better to drive but their fiddly and complicated. Thats why i like our main tractor (ford 7610). It may have a gearbox that can be awquward sometimes but thats just if you need to get a good speed in the field. That said it does have an electrical problem in that the dashboard doesnt work but thats no big deal as it doesnt affect the day to day workings of it.

And for what annoyed me today? A comfirmation that there will be no nice shiny masseys doing our silaging this year. 

Tractor bringing up error codes when muck spreading, had to keep stopping    at least it wasnt on the road

sounds like a right pain in the backside. reminds me of a NHT6070 we had on hire one year. It was traded in by the owner so the new one came straight to our farm from the factory. we went for a bit of a drive and it decided it didnt like top gear and went into neutral. it turned out it hadnt been calibrated properly in the factory.

In this picture the lugs are outlined for you

They were introduced on the later versions of the Fordson super major ready for the trailers release in1963. They were also included on later tractors. When the trailer was dropped in1996 the points remained on some tractors but any new castings would not include the points.

I thought so, go past there pretty regular and they have a lot of stuff in there don't they?

For what seems like quite a small area they do seem to have a lot of kit about. judging by the number of 11 plate tractors around they also have quite a good amount of trade going on.

Were you down at Hunts or passing by then?

I was at Hunts, Tris.My uncle was looking at the 6920.

One contractor close to use has cut some but it was just a few bales to keep the farmers cattle happy. The farmer also wanted to plough the ground up for maize and didnt want to plough up too much grass.

Im sure many of you farmers on here know that new fuel regulations have recently been introduced and farm diesel now has a higher biofuel content.

What i want to know is has anyone had any problems with fuel leaks after the change over? All three of our tractors have and they are all of different ages and I dont think it can be put down to general wear on all of them.

Also got some Amazone ones

Cenius

Cartos

complete product range

At a JD dealer today so i picked up a few brochures

JD 6030 premium series

JD 8R series

JD 740A & 750A drills

JD349, 359 & 459 conventional balers

JD mower conditioners

JD 7030 premium series

John Deere 6920s

John Deere 7530

John Deere 6830

John Deere 3200

John Deere 840i sprayer

4x brand new John Deere combines

Claas Lexion 580 terra trac

John Deere mowers

Amazone fertiliser spreaders

Case Quadtrac ploughing with a 10 furrow plough, complete with furrow crackers