Gav836

Have you got any photos of the McCormick with the loader on Gav? As that's just what we're looking to change our Maxxum for, if I can get my Dad to put some more money into the farm, just it can't support much new machinary anymore. :'(

I'll try to get you a picture next time we have it fitted, don't have it on much at the moment as we have the Loadall about all the time. Do yourself a favour though get an MTX, not an MC as the tractors fairly gutless when it comes to road work, depends what you want to use it for

Lovely photo that first one of the sprayer Gav, really caught that right.  Still all going good for you then chap?

Thanks Tris, certainly all seems to be going well at the moment, I'm much happier now than I was before with the other lot

After yesterdays little problem I finally got to the other farm today with the flail topper to do the game cover plots. Could be yet another livery change for the Siku Kuhn topper here

The plots then needed sub soiling, originally we were going to use the TM175 but we decided the McCormick needed some hard work as it's never had any yet so it would do it good. Put a 3 leg Taylor Gent flat lift on it with a cousins crumbler, sunk it in a good 15 inches deep, the Mc pulled it at 3mph grudgingly in the heavy clay soil but think it's done it some good as it was as gutless as hell \

Have now been disced, no pics this time but will get some when i do them a second time

Boss was spraying the wheat in the field i was working on with the 7840 and 24m Rau D3 mounted sprayer so managed to get a couple of pics

The damage to the topper from yesterday, just a little scratched paint work

I'll bl@@dy sign it >, its in aid of Magpus isnt it??, so anyone gathering money should be welcome,.....wonder if i can use Dads Landy, and i can follow you :D , how old is the old R reg

Turn up with a donation, that will shut em up!

yeah then say "oh sorry, i'm not allowed to join in so you won't be wanting that" then see what happens : :

Great photo's Gav, some very nice looking steaks in those photo's. I expect you have told me but what is the head count on the farm mate, a big concern or just a bit of work to keep busy in the winter?

No idea what he has on there, we only do the arable land for him along with the baling and grassland work, the cattle are still in house. it's an all year round concern though

trouble is your old 3000 won't lift 3 Welger d4006 bales in one hit, its bad enough with the McCormick, need to have 4wd in or its a bit slow manouvring : :D

Indeed - but how long will they last  ;D

Not as long as the old cable controls will I bet :D

Very, very, very nice, yet another top class Ford conversion by yourself :)

It presses the stones in out of the way of mowers, tedders and balers, also out of the way of wrapped bales as they can split the wrapping. Can help iron out some bumps as well

No, the claas tractors use deere engines and so do the leibherr loading ag shovels. Not heard of any with head gasket problems?

Thats what I said above about Claas/Renault tractors, Deere Power Systems is the part of JD that provides engines to other companies, look in the Renault Claas leaflets and handbooks and it says DPS. It's the pre 2003 models that were prone to head gasket failure, seemed to be less of a problem from tier II onwards

Looking good Nick

If your Dad isn't happy about the strip in the grass I can't imagine what he'll say when he see's the holes you've cut in his shed and fence to get the sawdust :D :D

Yeah you can see the '99 team in them, i think were going to upset AC Milan, Chelsea will slip up in the premiership and we'll win the FA Cup ( hopefully ) 

Who cares, it's only a bunch of guys kicking a bag of wind round some grass : :

Very nice Paul, 'Mogs look at home with a baler on

oh i thought some had jd engines in them

DPS = Deere Power Systems

Very nice! 

Will you be fitting decals to it

just wondering what make of engine is in the 800 series renults/claas 

I never said anything about the DPS engines although I'll be the first to admit they are prone to head gasket failure

I'm sure you will never find a range of tractors that hasn't had a serious problem. I admit that there was alot of problems, but none that havent been sorted and 9 times out of 10 they are fixed rapid. You all forget that a farmer wants his machine fixing yesterday and is not willing to wait or normally pay anything towrads a repair?

Still think that JD is the best............... ;D ;D

I know a good doctor who should be able to help you with that problem :D :D

Theres a lack of fire in these pictures, you've got plenty of smoke mind you

How do you transport a 4m drill on the roads?

I know but we thought judging by the smoke the JD wouldn't be long before fire consumed it

The drill folds up to under 3m wide for transport making it fit down the roads easier

only a baby compared to my old 836 and the 816 we also had then. Do miss my Renaults, the NH's are nice but the Renault was nicer :'(

indeed, thought it was always locked??.....just off to get some Grapes, anyone want some Apples \

bet it was a certain group, the copper chopper was out and about last night and today >

And they say pigs can't fly : :D :D

Good pictures mate got to love the old 400's   Why are the grain tank lids shut in one of the pictures or is he on headland run with low trees

I dont know of a JD 7*20 that hasnt had something major go wrong with it so not a well liked range so could see JD falling down the ranks which i wont moan about

A- Hes on the headland run and B- It was the old boss and knowing him he forgot to open them : :D :D

strange you should say that gav, my unclwe works for a jd dealer(pj tuckwells at worlingwoth) been there since he left school, and he said last vist i made, they wernt selling half as much as they used to, maily due to problems with reliaillity?? how true that is i dont know, but i guess he should know,

I don't know how general it is but about here the 20 series have done a lot to damage JD's reputation for reliability, the 7*20 series have had gearbox faults and the 6*20 series have had engine problems amongst other things so I don't doubt it \

when you get something on demo and it go's rong it do dont give you much confidence on whats on demo

Thats exactly what we were saying before they picked it up and on the cb's while we had it there, the question we asked each other was "why would you bring a machine to someone who could be customer if its faulty?" As it is locally JD combines have a bad reputation and the tractors are not helping matters

must have had something wrong with it, havnt ever seen a jd smoke like that unless its on the proffi site ablaze in the disatster bit

Or McMad has beeen near it :D :D

We did hear of an intercooler blowing up on one locally around that time last year

The combine was a demonstrator, we were less than impressed with it, horrendous fuel consumption compared to the 460 which done 10am till 12 am on 400 litres of diesel, the JD done from 3.30pm till 12 am on 450 litres :o The dealer wasn't impressed when we told him we'd ran out of coal to put in it, said something about a possible intercooler fault \