Gav836

Busy couple of days with the sprayer, made the most of today putting nearly 28,000 litres of liquid fertiliser on 220 acres of spring barley in around 12 hours. Works out to 10 fill ups of the sprayer to get it done, no bowser support today so a bit of travelling about involved. 

Second application of 27N SO3 liquid fertiliser going on wheat last week using the Bateman with their own AccuRate dribble bars fitted. Busy day that day until wind stopped play at 7pm, had around 100 hectares on three different farms by that time. Lots of running about to fill up too with it going on at 270 litres per hectare. 

It’s been a busy few weeks recently with a lot of spraying and liquid fertiliser application taking place with the Bateman. Between doing those I’ve also been drilling sugarbeet as and when conditions allow with the last ones finally being drilled on yesterday on a trial plot field. I also power harrowed the bulk of the last field as it’s been too windy to spray a lot of the time recently. 

First lot of liquid fertiliser is all on and cover crops are sprayed off. Waiting on the wind to drop so I can get the pre-emergence herbicide on the spring barley. Spent a couple of hours checking over the dribble bars on the sprayer again (washed out and with clean water) ready for the next fertiliser application too. 

Some of the ploughing for beet this year is going take some beating into submission if it dries out. Fields have been fairly tight too thanks to the amount of rain that’s fallen on them, fuel use has been interesting in some fields on the plough and Sumo!

Been a busy couple of weeks at work now the weather is improving with the last of our sugarbeet now finally harvested and taken away, ploughing for this years sugarbeet, spraying and liquid fertiliser application and now getting on with spring barley drilling. Been a few wet holes to contend with but I’ve not got stuck yet, had a few close calls with the Bateman and when beet carting though!

4 hours ago, Jd6320driver said:

It’s a intel i5 12400f 

Asus prime h610m-k motherboard 

16gb dd4 ram

1tb ssd 

nvidia rtx 4060 graphics card 

Corsair 550w power supply 

That should handle most things, mine is

Ryzen 7 5800X

Aorus Gaming 7 wi-fi board

32gb DDR4 RAM

Aorus Gaming Master 3070Ti GPU

1TB SSD

1TB HDD

540GB M.1 SSD

240GB SSD with back up operating system

Corsair 850w PSU

5 x Corsair ML fans with liquid cooling for CPU

On 2/22/2024 at 8:34 PM, Jd6320driver said:

Upgraded the computer from a laptop into an all singing and dancing gaming pc

Nice! Let’s have the specs then 🤓 I built my own a few years back and just keep upgrading internals now. 
 

Anyone would think it had been Valentine’s Day recently too by the card 😂

4 hours ago, smithy said:

where is the air fed from , is it from a pipe from unit around waist or is it a stand on the floor job and trailing pipe 

It’s fed from a belt mounted unit on the waist. 

We have two fields of wheat that will be ripped up in April to put another crop in, there just isn’t enough viable plant cover there to leave them. The others will hopefully pull together enough to leave. Will come back to what the other crop is we’re putting in nearer the time as it’s a bit different. 

Thanks to 80mm of rain in the past 10 days we’re off the land again so good chance to take the slug pelleter off the Bateman yesterday and start servicing it/checking grease points all work. It’s going to be busy once it dries up! 
 

Not looking forward to what the yellow weather warning for rain drops on us tonight!

As I’m back on the farm and in the workshop welding these days I’ve invested in an airfed helmet from R-Tech. It has good reviews and I’ve had no issues with the welders I’ve bought off them in the past. After a couple hours welding on the hedgecutter whilst still recovering from a 4 week long chest infection  I thought the time was right!

6 minutes ago, robbo said:

It shows how much things have changed Gav, you are working 750ha with 3 tractors, the last farm that I worked on in 1980 was 1500 acres and had 7 tractor drivers, none of the actual tractors were over 100hp although the biggest was a Fiat 1000DT so was just at that figure

It does indeed, when I left school in 1997 I worked on a 450 acre farm where there were 3 of us and 12 tractors. There’s now just the owner on that one but the same number of tractors. 

4 hours ago, phil phoenix said:

Sorry to hear it didn't work out at Case Gav.  I have no idea what local market share Case Nicholson's have around their area, but around Ely & district its single figures %wise.

I suspect that John Deere, Fendt & New Holland hold over 80% between the three of them, with the rest picking up a few sales each.

Good luck with the new job wherever it is.

Thanks Phil. It was nothing to do with market share as Case have a good following in the area. There were other reasons behind my decision that I’m not going to go into on here. 
 

New job is based between Wymondham and Attleborough so only 20 minutes from home. 

2 hours ago, smithy said:

Nice bit of hedge cutting there Gav 👍

Thanks, 8 years since l’d last done any so was quite pleased with that. 

It’s been a case of new year, new job for me. I left the world of machinery sales at the end of December 2023 and have gone back to working on the farm full time. I’m now working on a 750ha arable farm which is heavily involved in trials work partnering with several different organisations to do this. 
 

So far I’ve spent quite a bit of time in the workshop, ditching, sugarbeet carting, hedge cutting and most recently ploughing. There are three tractors on the farm, New Holland T7.225 & T7.270 plus a John Deere 7310R. Spraying is carried out with a Bateman RB26. 

7 hours ago, New Hollander said:

Backlog was caused by a 260 day! strike at the Racine plant but you're right that not everywhere it's green.

Indeed, been working as a salesman at a Case dealer for the past 7 months so could see what’s in the supply chain to a degree. Was trying not to go into detail over that strike

On 12/29/2023 at 8:29 PM, phil phoenix said:

CASE had high hopes for latest Magnum series but they have bombed!! Anyone wanting that category of tractor goes for Fendt 900, then JD 8R or RX and then a MF 8700S or maybe Valtra S.

Maybe be an idea to check your facts and not go by what you see with your eyes in your local area which let’s face it has some massive green and yellow users who wouldn’t even look at another brand 🙄

There’s a massive backlog of Magnum orders being worked through at the factory, so much so the order book was closed for a big percentage of 2023 to allow them to catch up! 

6 minutes ago, smithy said:

Very nice Gav , i will put it on my Christmas list 

It’s on a very special offer until the end of December too if Santa was feeling generous 😂

Nice, very rare we have SWB Puma’s in without a front linkage so makes a change to see one with a weight block. 
We do currently have a new one in stock with a block carrier and low profile roof though in saying that, certainly a bit different to the norm 

Taken this Pottinger V6000 wave disc drill out on demonstration with our Puma 240 CVX today drilling cover crops, perfect conditions for it. 

Nice photo’s Phil, glad to see you caught the Optum 340 on the Pottinger drill and the Puma 260 on the Bednar on our stand. You should have come and said hi to me and you could have had a go in them down the field. 

On 7/29/2023 at 7:42 AM, phil phoenix said:

its a bit late, both Claas & Deere have had their class11 combines available for three or four years now. I kid you not, but there are at least 11 (probably more) of the X9 1100's round here now (Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambs borders)  Waldersley's, Caley's, Eubrinks, Eastern Farms & Agriserves all have a pair and some also have one S790!!!  And a few 8900s around too.  Mind you New Holland have sold/ hired quite a few yellow ones out of my local Littleport branch this year so not all bad news.

You could look at it another way and say that CNH have given it a couple of years to evaluate what these machines are doing and where their weaknesses are to know what parts to focus on on their own machines. I know of a few people waiting to see what comes out of the CNH stable in the way of these big combines before upgrading their current models. 
Let’s face it, some of those farms you mentioned would buy a X9 just because it’s a John Deere and for no other reason

There is a new Case combine due in 2025 to fit in the same class as the Claas 8900 and John Deere X9

2 hours ago, Tractorman810 said:

will do you a few years gav, that german stuff just seems to go on and on 

Hopefully, it had both the NOX sensors changed before I picked it up as it had a fault in the adblue system. It’s just had the DPF temperature sensor changed under warranty too as that failed 3 days after I bought it. Hopefully it’ll be fine now, definitely happy with it