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Been busy mowing and baling last week making the most of the sun. Out mowing on Saturday and there were a couple of people with drones messing about. had a chat with them and got them to send me some footage. 

Was working close to home so wife and boy came out to see me.

Quite pleased with the video I was sent!

Just a bit of bale carting and stacking

8 hours ago, Tractorman810 said:

First i have seen down this way . Jd ? and vicon baler(other side of the valley ) on fresh cut stuff 

Looks far better than the S**t I baled in surrey yesterday!

2 hours ago, mrbritains said:

Krone Benac balenwagen - Landbouwminiaturen Forum

 

Thank you!

22 hours ago, britainsfan78 said:

Maybe you are member of the FB group Britains Models - Down On The Farm?: There was a post last week: https://www.facebook.com/groups/449492203228490/permalink/548195523358157/ 

 

That's the one thank you, although I had to join the group to view the post so not sure where I saw it originally.....

A couple of weeks ago there was a post about the Britains Benac bale trailer which included an image of the real machine from a brochure. I can't find the original post, can anyone point me in the right direction. 

Thanks in advance. 

Nice to finally have some dust coming off baler again after 3 weeks of no sun! 

7 hours ago, mb86 said:

Nice photos there, is some of what you are baling council land? Verges and parks etc.

Yes, we do a lot of 'environmental' cut and clear work that is supposed to promote wild flower meadows. We cover an area with radius of about 25 miles with traffic being the biggest enemy!

Photos in the above post (forgot to add this text to the post!) are not from today, but have been sorting through photos and added a selection from this summer. Some dry baling, some very wet baling, some awkward baling and some nice views.

Seems a long time ago now although only did last bit of baling in the middle of November.

Not today (a bit wet again) but a few from the last couple of weeks.

Quality of the photos is just because of a fancy new phone! I'm impressed as well!

Stacking haylage.....

33 minutes ago, 844john said:

Knocking some grass down today, and a spot of tedding

We hope to do the same at the end of the week, more rain forecast for tomorrow though. Looks like your mowers have got under the grass well considering how flat it looks. 

Most of our grass was still standing until a week ago before a day of torrential rain.

We use front and rear krone 3.2m mowers without conditioners and the same tedder and Krone rakes. They seem to be virtually indestructible (tree stumps and manholes exempted!)What do you think of the Krone kit? 

19 minutes ago, mb86 said:

Yes it was a good crop, it baled up at 11 bales to the acre, was a nice drying breeze today. 

Not a bad crop then. I have memories of using an older John Deere belt baler as the first round baler I used. Great in hay and straw but awful in silage, grass would get wrapped round roller too easily. Yours obviously doesn't behave like that.

Now use a new JD F440 baler which will bale anything in any condition!

On holiday near Berwick this week with the wife and 6 year old boy. Skinny dipping in the sea followed by haggis and chips. Does this make us proper Northerners? 

Came across this advert in an old copy of Scottish Farmer that was lying around.

24 minutes ago, Tractorman810 said:

the first pics in royal william yard, other side of the carpark . sits on the bit of land between milbay docks and the tamar entrance.it was a old stores yard for the navy. mostly fancy resturants and flats at present, but 2 hotels going in soon apparently .and thats only half of it done, we go down on the first sunday of each month(and prob a few inbetween for other stuff food wise) for a local farmers market, get all of our meat,plus other stuff for the momth of a farmer/butcher there.

The buildings that have been converted looked really smart, we didn't stop for any food as we'd had breakfast in the cafe that overlooks the lido about an hour earlier.

5 hours ago, Tractorman810 said:

Wasnt a bad view back at the carpark either

Wife and I were there two weeks ago. We are walking the South West Coast Path a bit each year having started in Poole a few years ago. This trip started at Bigbury and ended 4 days later at Looe, we had similar weather to your photographs. 

The day into Plymouth was a long one, 15miles done by Mount Batten and still had another 5 to go to get to the other side of the water where we were staying for the night.

Such a varied walk. Is your first picture taken from around the old dock yard?

Mowing 14 hours yesterday and 10 hours today. Had my boy with me for a while, he enjoyed himself. Cant believe he's starting school in a weeks time! Where did 4 and a half years go?

A picture from 4 years ago to finish off with! 

Baling tomorrow, for as long as the weather holds.

On a separate point I was pleased to receive my Schco Dutra tractor in the post today - thought I had missed out on getting one however after some searching found one for sale in Belgium.

16 minutes ago, Deere-est said:

Is that the boss man? I only met one chap who was there unblocking the auger between the feeder and the digestion tank. A piece of wood was jammed in there.

Yes, Fred or Edward Eames. Small world, you delivering to the digester!

3 hours ago, Deere-est said:

Did one load down to Chard his morning and tipped apple pomace at Snowdon Energy's anaerobic digester, not a million miles from Frogmary Farm. .. which I'd only heard of since reading about it on here! Sundays we can fit a longer trip in while the cider mill cleaner their lines. It's been a bit slow the last few days as the evaporator isn't getting the water/steam out of the pressed juice fast enough so the presses are running at half speed. Just now, this old 143 450 came in genuine 450k on the clock and with the stacks, she sounded blimmin' lovely!

Did you meet mr Eames by any chance?

2 hours ago, Tractorman810 said:

just found out i have to go to croydon at the start of december for a 1 day course, means driving up on the sunday afternoon , wasting half of my day,on flat rate travel, so less than a normal days rate let alone ot, spending 1 day there till 5pm, then driving back on the m25 etc at rush hour as we can not stay a second night, course finishes at 17.00 . 3 of us going, but got to take the vans , not a hire car, all because they allowed something to expire despite us saying it needed doing . could have done it via a online computer course for free if they listened, oh well its cost them as i could only mysteriously book us i to the hilton, and they only had executive rooms left  as well ??  

Pole climbing by any chance? Often drive past BT's yard off Hannibal way, all you can see is a lot of poles stuck up in the air.

Croydon is one of the boroughs that we do all of the mowing and baling conservation work, hedge cutting and verge mowing for. Keep an eye out for a JD and give us a wave.