jdc

Good line up of machinery, Gav - thanks for the photos. Ol would like that ground - seagull's footprints!

What plough is it to be then?

Didn't bung her up again then John :D

Poor old Graeme - I bet he was bitterly disappointed to get the Renault - maybe you should give him the 35 :D

4t/ac is a fine yield especially if at 20% mc - most will be doing well to get 3.5t/ac over here and spring barley is only doing about 2.75t/ac unless there is a lot of dung/slurry gone on

No sign of fusarium then

He likes the Renault!!

Looks like its about 4.5 average on second wheats. (at 14%)  No fusarium, Colm, low risk (in spite of rainfall) and a bloomin' good head spray. 

Big boy had to play with his new toy  :D

Looks like a great job there John - did your neighbour lose the whole field then - must have given you a bit of a fright :D

Lost about 1/3 of it plus 44 bales - baler was OK just needed a new wiring loom. I was two fields away and phoned for the fire brigade who did a good job of stopping it spreading. 

We had a demo of a 3.5meter trio with air seeder on top,

behind a 300hp challenger!

Trio and seeder about £20,000 mark!

Looked at those seeders, outrageous price for what they are.......

They are very nice tractors - my neighbour has two, both chipped a 'wee bit'. Advance or Hi-Tec?

What a great paint job! I like the headstock details too. 

How about a bit of 'frosted' glass smooth side up with some Christmas aerosol 'ice' on the rough underside and perhaps a smattering on top. 

That's embarrassing - only 450 hrs. 

Tidy machine though.

Still about 80% of the wheat to cut locally and a couple still with some winter barley and OSR to cut   No one has turned a wheel for 11 days. 

I 'only' have 95 cares left to cut.

Most round here would just like to cut something...anything!

Wet straw is difficult to cut and doesn't slip through drum and beaters - greater load on these parts, heavier on straw walkers and v. v. difficult to chop. Wet grain doesn't separate well and is difficult to move through grain side and get out of tank! Basically the whole system is overloaded.

Drying is expensive this year with gas/oil prices where they are. Over 20%, wheat takes a disproportionate amount a fuel to dry.

Most damage up here is caused by pulling combines out of wet holes. Latest (true) tale near here is guy with Lex 600+ (tracks) gets well bogged, takes his two Cats to pull it out and apparently it's now a 600 + about 9 inches......

Isn't that a Beautiful South song?

Yup 

Well, it's still raining...............

Lovely few days, but heavens opened at about 14.00 - 11mm so far. 

What classy trusses on that shed. 

thanks mrs tt lovely pics

how many tonnes to the acre jdc

It just scraped over the 4 tonnes - but I hope it's the worst!

Driving over a pheasant's nest with the combine - never saw it   One egg survived and is under a broody hen now.  

TT managed to take some photos today as we started the wheat - this is the first day of combining that the combine hasn't had rain on her!

First field was a second wheat with a bit of take-all - yielded quite well though. Graeme is doing a good job on the Renault. He got some mud on the NH so has been relegated 

Started combining wheat........... ;D

Looks like a real good shed with plenty of light getting in!

Nice looking implerment John.

First thing that I noticed was the burnt stubble.

Paddock going into winter OSR next?

It's getting late but will try and drill some OSR this week. Normally it's all drilled rolled and sprayed by 22nd! Thought about a Terracast or Einbock seeder for it but they are quite expensive.

I've heard a lot of great reports on the sumo kit John. Seems to make a decent job wherever. Bit cheaper than Vaderstad too I bet??

I thought it was the best out there at the moment. Cheaper than Vaderstad & Simba.

Heavy bit of kit isn't it John?! That Claas 826 in my pics topic bounced quite merrily when he heaved it up out of the ground. What kind of depth can you get it down to before it get's too much?

It bloomin' is! Need about a tonne on front to balance it - been told it's about 3.25t but quite long - built like a brick toilet. Sumo suggest you don't use a 'hook end' cat 3 top link but enclosed eye

tidy combination john what sort of depth does that work at ?

Can go to about 400 mm with subsoil legs but just running at about 250 mm for now and discs I guess around 125 mm.

Bet that takes one hell of a pull JDC as our partners tryed one on there Case MX170 and it knew it was there to the point it would just spin. How do you rate it overall? Is it a demo or is it another new purchase

I suppose you can kill any tractor with any machine...it's not so much wheelgrip with NH but power - although it was going up a fair steep hill at 8k and down as fast as you like! Optimum speed is around 10k. Only done 1 day with it in the wet and not much else would have left as good a finish as it did, but I like the design. It's bought and paid for. 

Digging holes..........with a combine.

Got stuck at the same place every bout.

This arrived yesterday and as there wasn't much else I was able to do I had a wee shot at some barley stubble. It was waaay too wet but made a surprisingly good job.    Takes a lot of pulling and lifting!

Finished job.

Before someone asks, my neighbour bought the field of straw but his baler caught fire and he lost most of it. Makes it nice and easy to till. 

Cultivating some wet ground, then combining some wet barley. 

Little bit of sunshine today but raining tonight again.

I can just imagine Mrs. F's face as you pulled off the ferry and headed for the nearest MF dealer.......

Wouldn't fancy 'Leroy' all over my tractor either.

Anyway... never mind that Mr Cranberry... what's that warning light on below the GPS  :o

Just the PTO indicator - it's actually amber. 

Was you using it for spraying then? Whats it like to set up?

I was spraying on tramlines but running it to see how it works. Dead easy to setup, and I'm overlaying the maps from here onto my mapping program and they are spot on. Going to use it for just about everything from now on. 

I'm sure I'm not the only one on here using GPS but here's a pic of the display from the other evening.

The covered area is yellow, red lines are previous passes, blue lines those to come.

LEDs at top indicate offline - three greens in centre means dead on, 12 reds to each side indicating how far off mark.

It does a whole lot more too - a great bit of kit.