Tommy Gough

At college this morning some of us did a practise ploughing match ready for our first one tomorrow (eek), then I spent the afternoon helping the others that are doing the match clean and polish the college tractors that they are using.

Yeah, deadline is the 11th of November.

Britains JCB 310s Ros Brendal K165 HLT water trough, atcost & fertilizer stickers PDC front weights x 2 & Strimech stickers David Pullen book- Pocket guide to Britains tractors 1998-2008 And as a late birthday present a PDC New Holland TM155

Had some late silage baled yesterday and spent the evening carting most of them in. One load was left until this morning (in the mist). Now getting ready to hit the road to toytrac.

Nice pictures of the ploughing match, you got a lot more pictures than me. Did you get any of the horses and the steam engines?

8th and 9th of October 2011 Bishops Lydeard, near Taunton, Somerset Heavey Horses Ploughing Harvesting through the ages Vintage Tractors at work Modern Tractors Champion Ploughmen & Women Trade Stands Machinery Demonstrations Country crafts www.ploughmen.co.uk

My copy arrived on monday and i have already read most of it. Another great edition. I especially enjoyed the article on selling County tractors in Zimbabwe. I also paid close attention to the page about the Universal Hobbies new Massey releases.

The description on this item http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/180726587776#ht_4293wt_922

Bit of ploughing yesterday (sorry, no pictures), college today and a trip to tillage tomorrow.

Cheers Mike

Modelfarmer push off buckrake and Pottinger forager

I am currently making a display and am trying to decide what tractors to have on it. One of the buildings is the small britains one and I would like to know two things 1. Does the JCB 310 fit under the shed? 2. If the answer to the first question is no, can you tell me the height of the model from the ground to the top of the cab? Any help will be appreciated. Tommy

NH TM190 x2 NH TS115 FORD 7840 sle Case MXM190 JD 6800 MF 135 x2 MF 230 x2 MF 6465 NH 8160 Claas Arion 610 Valtra N121? Valtra N90? MF 6490 Fendt 716 MF 390 MF 265 MF 595 Ford 4000 Zetor something or other Merlo telehandler Sanderson teleporter JCB telehandler x2

The new sheds are on the website now http://www.brushwoodtoys.co.uk/whatsnew.asp You need to scroll down a bit to see them

I believe that there are around 85 being milked at the moment. Nearly all ai now but we used to have an aberbeen angus stock bull to serve the heifers for the first time.

Two pictures from the milkers that I took before the camera battery died

I finally got round to taking some pictures to put here. If you have any questions i will try to answer them but it may take some time for me to find out answers. Most of the pictures are of the young stock. I will get some of the milkers when I get a chance.

Im not gonna say its the best but I heard a Valtra pulling a loaded silage trailer up quite a steep hill earlier in the year and it sounded brilliant.

Went to a college induction day on thursday and me were shown round some of the crops, one of which was their maize. The man leading us round told us that it was about three weeks away from harvesting.

Dog lead Cattle diveter Calving a cow

Well done on your results Pat. Same thing pleased me today but made better after my visit to college where my place was confirmed.

Cheers Tris. We were hauling from Beckhampton.

It rides quite well actually but i think the 25 foot trailers have the wheels nearer the back as they dont seem to travel quite as well.

I think the field is about a mile long and that combined with a good amount of straw equaled quite a few days hauling. I wish I had seen and heard the Quadtrac going but there was a lot of work for him away from the field we were in.

For the journey we were doing we had them roped/straped on, which is a bit of a pain with that way of stacking because there aren't enough hooks for the ropes/straps. If they were to be turned through 90 degrees you could use two straps front to back but the downside for that is that our loader wont reach high enough to unload them properly.