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Thats what I was told earlier this week by the same person who told me the other information, they do own quite a large share of UH

Here's some pictures of the wrapping operation taking place today

This is a load of rubbish and nothing but malicious rumours, I have been told as much by someone at Accurate Die-cast this week. The persons responsible for starting it should be getting a nice surprise in the post soon enough if they haven't already :

No, they were still in boxes, the full time operator was on the Weidemann and has been using them for years so knows all the little problems We worked out what it was in the end, the arms were going to quick for the film to cope with, his boss had it last and he thinks he may off speeded it up so we went under the panels and slowed it down again, seemed to cure the problem

Thanks Ben I knew someone would post before I'd finished with the pictures so I had to :D

Some of haylage baling from the previous day now. First pics are ones that I took of me tedding the grass with the MC135 and Lotus 600 rake. The ones of my bosses rowing up with the Lely rake and Baling , along with the larger wrapping one are courtesy of Belarusfan, feel free to add some more if you want to Chris The MTX 135 and McHale 998 belong to a neighbour and it is the same wrapper that we were using for silage bales. I then cleared up the bales with our JCB 530-70 and squeeze

Took some pictures of us doing some silage baling at work yesterday, haylage ones will come after these. The Case 5140 and Krone rake belong to the farm we were doing it for out near Hunstanton, The TS135A and Welger D4000 are ours, the baler is a 2003 model. Wrapping was taking place off the field using a McHale 998 being fed with our JCB 530-70 and the bales being removed with a Weidemann 1090 D/P, no pictures of this taking place as I was operating the wrapper's remote control and due to the film problems with it I daren't take my eyes off it \

Where to start......having to take a lowloader with bale wrap and a Wiedemann loader on behind the teleporter 35 miles across Norfolk, managed to keep it just above 5mph uphill Finding the 40ft artic trailer they wanted me to use silage bale carting wouldn't fit off the road and up the track without turning over > The bale wrap on the McHale 998 that kept splitting on every bale at least once tonight causing lost time and much swearing > and to finish it off getting wet whilst wrapping the last 24 bales tonight > >

As soon as I get some spare time I'll post some up here, maybe tomorrow as its raining now so will be too wet for silage baling \

It arrived today, certainly worth the ?2 it cost

Is it : : Think I'll give you one instead for not getting your facts right before trying to get me one

GH Contracting started their first cut today, starting mowing with a Renault Ares 836 on a JD 535 and a Renault Celtis 456 on a Kuhn FC 303 Rowing up behind them was another Ares 836 on a twin rotor Deutz_Fahr rake, putting the 2 swaths into one Picking it up was a new Claas Jaguar 900 speedstar with a Claas Ares 657 and matching trailer Over view of the whole operation also showing the Claas Ares 566 and loader with matching trailer arriving on the field The clamping operation was taking place too far away from the field for me to get to for pictures to be taken :

None of the ones that I've seen so far have or do \

Painting up more bits of beet harvesters, had a bit of a birthday BBQ for Mum as well

What happened to your crafty bidding tactics........not that I mind of course Will post up some picturse of it when it arrives

Thats different to what the 2 local farms running them on clay soils have said, the minute it turns wet they have to take off the track assemblies and put the wheels back on as they can't move with them otherwise

They may as well have the bonnet to go with the cab, rear end styling and guts of the machine already present :D

I'd say that its one of the new restyled CVX's at a guess

Very nice Andy Thought my ears were burning :D

Cheers Ben, you know how it is when you haven't seen someone for a while, had to catch up on all the local gossip as well as the picture taking :D

Someone's speaking out of their rear end there, the 697 is only 140hp, It's one of their mid range tractors, the 836 like I used to have is the one thats just short of 200hp They are nice with the gears on the hand throttle, the only fault I found was there not being a clutch button on it which after driving an 836 for 3 years seemed strange as I'd got used to using the one on the gear stick at junctions \ Once you've been in a Renault/Claas it comes hard going back to any other make as I belive they have the best suspension of all the conventional tractors Incidently the 600 series is still a Renault, it was already designed and on the shop floor before Claas bought them out, the Axion is the first tractor wholey designed by Claas

I know McConnel used to make something along those lines called the "Bale Slave", never seen one in use though

They are a nice tractor, we had one on loan where I used to work when one of the Renaults went down. The handy thing is that the auto box can be switched back to manual if desired with them unless they have changed it. The Hexa shift is a vast improvement on the old Quadrishift box they had in the previous models

Nice pic's Nick Looks almost as if they are laid out ready for an auction to me \

I'll keep trying to catch the 955, saw it yesterday while passing a different field but couldn't stop and he'd gone by the time I came back. I would have tried tomorrow but he told me today that they aren't going to chop over the weekends anymore. The 955 is better when you can hear it as well