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Whats one of them? :D In the 5 years I worked for my last boss I never even saw a contract of employment :D Definately worth knowing all of the above though

I guess the only downside here is that if the tractor goes over the distance from base restriction on red diesel or is dedicated to haulage then it too has to run on white diesel.......these laws may have just been changed though as thye red diesel usage regulations have just been modified and re written

Some of you will have seen this one before but this was taken not long after the Renault came home, she was pulling hard up a steep incline on long term setaside when she started to scrap and burried herself in a deep bunny hole. I was told later by the game keeper that they had to dig 5 feet down in that spot the previous year to get out a ferret so that shows how deep they are up there. The MX150 soon had her out but she had to come out backwards in the end as each time we tried forwards she went in deeper

Not yet, still exempt from them as far as I'm aware :D

Thats the easy way, there's no challenge in that :D I always used to put a small heap at the front level to the bottom of the mesh grill in the front of the trailer to keep some weight on the drawbar then pull forward and put a heap the similar size all the way down the trailer starting at the back, once it was level filled to this point I would start at the back once more filling the trailer right up and working all the way down to the front, the only time the chopper driver had to do anything was to fill a hole in the back if I hadn't managed to do it and to keep the end of the chute adjusted to the right place in the trailer

ECE were originally a firm local to me here in Norfolk until they were aquired by the MAS group. They are basically a rip off of the Bunnings Lowlander machine (hence the Lowline name), a member of Bunnings senior team went and worked for them and basically copied Bunnings designs. They aren't a bad spreader but they do not have the build quality of the Bunnings originals and use cheaper gearboxes which are prone to failure, they were cheaper to purchase than a Bunnings too. On average one a week out of the 6 where I worked would go down with some sort of mechanical problem. There are still several about and it is because of the cost and the ability to spread everything that they were popular, Richard Western spreaders are not as good as certain types of muck hang up in them, the two Westerns where I worked were kept as back ups more often than not, due to the reliability (or lack of) of the ECE ones there was usually one of them out in the field. The contractor in question spreads half a million tonnes of turkey litter a year plus general manure as well, usually just through the 6 spreaders.

40 kph is 25 mph, 50 kph is 30mph Mart Beacons only have to be used on vehicles travelling under 25mph, and then it is only a suggestion and not law unless you are on a dual carriageway The trailer is loaded evenly by a mixture of the skill and speed matching of the driver and the forager driver altering the chute position Over here the maximum train weight of a tractor and implement is a fraction over 24 tonnes, unfortunately with the size of the silage trailers these days and the tractors used on them it is impossible to stay beneath that. The Renault 836 and 16 ton capacity trailer I used weighed 15 tonnes empty and a shade over 30 tonnes fully laden so I would have been in it up to my neck if I'd been pulled by the authorities Any tractor/trailer combination that travels faster than 30kph is actually supposed to have air brakes on it now, although mostly its the ones above 40kph that have them fitted, not a very well known fact but one that I was informed of by a traffic cop whos a self confessed expert on agricultural vehicles, he's hated by farmers on his patch..... :D

Nice pictures Cerin What you have to remember is its not just what the ploughs actual weight is, its also affected by the amount of overhang beyond the back of the tractor. My old 6 furrow mounted Lemken weighed 1.9 tons but the actual weight exerted on the lift pins of the tractor was 6 tons when we had it on the lap top to calibrate the hydraulics and draft control. I had about 1500kg of front ballast on the tractor to keep it down and balanced

Some nice work there Chris I do believe they are CJ's models Luke.......

I hid it up after I saw it yesterday

These ones are Matt Green and not Metallic Green, thats about it

Currently giving my gun a clean ready for this afternoons fun

....and the reason you like them so much...they're Russian :D

Bits of flat bed trailers, beet harvesters including the new ones prototype, bits of a spud planter prototype, and now loads of bits from a Claas Liner

What makes you think myself and my two mates are any easier to control :D

I use a scalpel/hobby knife for the straight cuts but on the more awkward ones with angles in I use a Proxxon hot wire cutter then just file afterwards

Just been invited out roost shooting feathered rats and tree rats tomorrow afternoon ;D ;D About time Mr Franchi had a workout

He's a member on here Graeme http://www.farmtoysforum.com/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=830

Best keep your eyes peeled then :D

Its not just the price Blake, they've messed with the case quantities again as well I ordered them at a price where selling them at ?21 would be possible...just, but now I can't even buy them for that \

Lets just say the Claas Liners are good but the price isn't anymore

Accurate Diecast > >

Nice work Stephen by the looks of that flat bed in the background of one of the pictures you could be planning to do a few of them :D

Nice work Blake, you beat me to it, got a case of them here awaiting conversion into twin and single rotor rakes

If you hadn't have altered it then tried to make it look like it was me at fault I'd have let you off :D