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Reminiscent of the safety film from the 60s of the 135 and vicon spreader that they had to load up with front weights to get it to roll on a hill. 

Wild oats can be controlled in barley and wheat - it's easier and cheaper in wheat. Rogueing is OK for low populations, but if you are doing less than 2 acres/hr spraying is more cost effective. Rogueing large populations destroys a lot of crop and is never 100%.

To get on top of wild oats you need to kill more than 95% every year for about 10 years. The newer 'oaticides' are targeted at blackgrass but do an excellent (100%) job on WO if applied at the right time/weather conditions. Post emergence herbicides like IPU (banned now) are good at reducing the population to spray in spring.

Min till gets rid of the seeds in the top few inches eventually, but if you plough, the dormant ones from deep down will appear.

I took on some land 20 years ago and it had a big WO infestation, but is now easily rogueable after about 15 years of spraying, but there are always a few. 

One video for you from today, should start drilling the spring barley tomorrow so will try to get some pictures for you all

Blimey, that must be dry! There's still guys up here sort of ploughing with 2 furrows taken off. 

That's going to look the business when it's all assembled. 

today i put on the floor on the new bale trailer that i converted from a new ray trailer, its now a 30 ft. also put bale creals on it, just have to paint it now.

also put a new floor on the britains twin axle trailer and put bale creals on it it also has to be painted,

Need some pics of those. 

I've just had my 6 monthly haircut.  :D

very nice work john , will you also be making the removeable grill guard come loader stand to go with it as well ?

Er, yes Marcus      Here it is finally finished, loading one of Dad's Tractors rather nice Pettits.

With bucket.

and fork.

Really smart Sean. You always seem to work faster on the reds. 

Looks a cracker in those pics, but at €450, I hope the exchange rate improves drastically. 

Did NH changed your model?

Not yet. But they say they haven't forgotten........

Surely dividing a dimension by 32 on a bog standard steam powered calculator is still the easiest way of converting something from 1:1 into 1:32  

Yes, but.....if you pick up the ruler length with dividers on the pic, you can then measure all the bits you forgot to measure when you were at the machine. e.g. 3.5 steps of dividers = 35mm to cut. 

Just a wee tip I found useful - when taking pics of a full size machine take an old fashioned 12" ruler and lay it so that it appears in each pic. The total length is roughly 320mm which scales to 10mm. Unless your camera lens is really wide or narrow this gives pretty good accuracy and saves some conversion. 

Never broken a KV share and mine gets dropped on the concrete occasionally.  But I do put a rail under the share and landslide when it'll sit for a long time.  Mine's auto reset so there's give in the legs, too.

The broken share looks like it's wearing thinner near the bolthole    Are they genuine KV?

Looked well before, but the paint and finishing touches just make it 'right'. 

Some nice machinery, Marcus, but some ugly sods too. 

Only one problem Damien - it's just too bloomin' perfect. Nowhere looks that good! 

My FTF scratch build project.... pics tomorrow if the glue dries ok  :D

C'mon then, it's now tomorrow. 

That looks rather superb.  

That looks very tidy. The header makes a big difference, too. 

Breakfast on the patio - really nice day here - first time this year! Big walk with the dogs, might sneak into the workshop later.......

Cracking day here - like spring! 10.5 C and really sunny.

Upbeat if yours looks okay I bet :D

Let me guess he was a guy selling fert or spray hence why he was upbeat :D

Mine looks like DooDoo 

Agronomist cum economist type fella - more into biofuels and digesters though. 

Been to a 'seminar' on Oilseed Rape. Very upbeat, surprisingly. 

These little booties.

They look a bit nice PR  I'll ask the stupid question....'Who made them?' 

Bit of a Beasty. Was that at Lamma? The one there had that hitch on it.

That 3060 looks quite tidy apart from no steps