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I wonder why as well after what you told me last Tuesday about the speed you acheived on the motorway :o :D

All things being well I should be able to have the first trailers available at Spalding, just need the wheels to turn up in time I was hoping to have the prototype Standen Enterprise there but thats very very unlikely at the minute \

I have an MC135 on spud carting and it is completely gutless under load, another person has an MTX140 carting and that is worse still, we both have identical trailers, the tractors just won't pull. The powershift on the MTX is abysmal with a delay between changes which means the harvester has to stop when he does change gear. The MTX where I used to work had the gearbox go bang at two years old. McCormick took what was a basic but good tractor and cheapened it. The dealer here, well one of them took on McCormick when they loct Case and pushed them hard, they are cheap and are worth very little a few years down the line. Build quality leaves a lot to be desired, the paint is already coming off parts of our MC at 1 year old \

The problem I think you will have Martin is the budget you have in relation to hours on a 40 series. If you could find one I think your best purchase would be a Fiat F/winner series or a 90 series as they are relatively bombproof and don't tend to command such a high value as the 40 series

I agree totally on these comments, although the gear problems tended to affect the earlier white roofed models, but the pick up hitches are a known weak point and could cost between ?500 and ?1000 to put right. For the money you are talking Mart (?10280 inc VAT) I think its a bit pricey all things considered, looked after or not 6900hrs is where you can expect faults to start occuring, if not with the mechanicals, the electrics could cause you headaches. I'm sure if you keep looking you will find one with lower hours on for less money or the same money

Not found one nearby yet but I'll definately keep looking for one, especially after a certain phonecall I had this morning...................

Yeah, as its dry the lorries can get onto the fields to be loaded, saves a lot of messing about

Cheers Mart, thought you would like them I would guess its for ease of handling Martin, the trailers unload themselves, probably looking at a 15-20 minute turn around whereas with bulk you have to sit around and wait as they go into the grader, boxes you need more labour for and a forklift to unload. These are loaded straight onto a curtainsider and go straight into the factory or short term storage by the customer

It could well be, think it would look good next to an Enterprise

The trailer is a hell of a bit of kit. The potato's are all sold on contract, believe they are for crisps from what I was told, the variety is Saturna

Please don't encourage him Colm, I have enough trouble with him now with his love of all things of soviet build :D

I've been out on hire today to a local potato contractor driving our MC135 on a Haith bagging trailer, Its not been a particularly good crop we lifeted today due to it being full of disease. I spent a lot of time sitting bout which in turn means lots of pictures for you guys on here Carting we had a McCormick MTX, our MC and a JD6810, all on identical trailers. The harvesters were an older Grimme GL on a JD6920s with a Standen topper windrowing and a JD 6830 Premium with a Grimme topper on a Grimme GT170S lifting. The way that we were doing it was to lift two rows and place them between the neighbouring two rows then lift those two rows along with the pre harvested crop so in effect 4 rows worth in one go. Enjoy the pics Harvesters first, very dry and dusty conditions The trailers MTX MC 6810 The Haith trailer Full and with new bags on ready to fill PTO power hydraulic system, has its own tank When full, the first thing to do is to pull onto level grond and lift the main buck up thus letting the potatos fall slowly into the bags hung on rails beneath Next is to drop the bags away from the buck allowing them to be pushed out Next the rails are pushed out sideways to allow the bags to become free of the floor The bags can then be lowered to the floor The tines can then be pulled free of the bags The control box for the trailer:- L-R Emergency stop, bag rail down/up buttons, bag rail out/in buttons, main lift down/up buttons New bags are placed back on the tines as soon as the full ones are off Thats it folks, any questions then please ask

Said member was not too impressed either >

Nice pics Think you ought to have told him his front furrow was set too deep, the ploughs nose diving slightly :D :D

Been discing today with the TM175 on the Solo as the 8770 is in the workshop, had to move our 360 first thing though with the TSA and lowloader. Off spud carting tomorrow with one of those fancy bulk bagging trailers, will try to get you's lot some pics

Cheers guys Yes they are the standard ones, will be looking at fitting wider ones to another one as well

Cheers guys What can I say, its stress, well that and my keyboard is full of resin and does silly things at times :D

Seeing how it was mentioned a couple of times and I had been thinking of doing it anyway...........Heres a conversion of the UH Triathlon into a Bunning Lowlander. Just had a change of paint and all the bed slats and beater blades have been chromed. Just need to get the decals sorted out, luckily we have 2 of these at work so I'll get photo's off them to make them with. Hope you like it With it's trailer stablemate

I'd follow Wills advice myself Martin, start with checking the fuses and then the earths to all the switches. Get yourself a simple wiring tester, something like a small bulb and two bits of wire is a good way, if the bulb lights you know power is getting to the switch. If you know any independant engineers around your way, ask their advice as they will tell you things a main dealer won't, I learnt a long while ago not to ring the main dealer first for that reason on older kit, they will also want to charge ?60+ an hour to do any work on it

I probably get more work done than you do in the course of a day :D Rolled about 60-70 acres on 3 fields between 9am and 2.30pm yesterday so not too bad

Cheers Nick, its not very heavy, 100kg or so maybe as its a box. We now have two so one goes on the baling tractor to carry twine rolls or harrowing one to carry seed bags and parts, the other goes on the spraying tractor to carry chemicals

Here are some pictures of the rolling I was doing yesterday, before anyone comments on the overlap of the rolls it was deliberate as I had to keep to 6m as I was marking the tramlines for the boss as he needed to spray the fields within 3 days of drilling The rolls are Cousins Sidewinder and somewhere around 6.3 or 6.5m wide

That does make a nice job on there, it will still be ploughed but as we needed it disced to get the wheat to chit and subsoiled as well the Solo was the quickest way to do it. On the OSR ground we have just done it had 2 passes of the Solo, followed by the power harrow and then the drill as the land is so heavy there.

Our neighbour has a smaller Claydon drill that he uses on the back of a JD 7530, looks to do a good job in stubble. They are made by a farmer in Suffolk, this is the website....... http://www.claydondrill.com/

Theres some here Bazza and there's a few more earlier in the same topic http://www.farmtoysforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=13603.345