Gav836

OUCH that's sods law for you 

Yeah, do everything the way you think is safest and still they find a way to get you \

Will you need to put slug bait out on the beet paddocks once the beets are coming up Gav?

Probably not on those ones although the two my boss just drilled on a contract farm may do as its heavy slug filled clay soil \

Taking the dual wheels off the TS135A, Put a tine of the JCB inside the rim to take the weight when I released the last clamp, only for the wheel to drop straight out of the tractor rim ( a rare occurance with duals ) slide along the tine a bit and bang me on the head :'(

Thanks Ol

We were drilling grass seed which we were double drilling at right angles

We were rolling after the drill mainly cause its going after grass so trying to get it as level as poss and to conserve moisture as its so dry at the moment just by amount of dust on my and on the Fendt summed it up really had good bit all over the pannels really especially rear

And usually to press any stones into the ground

She is ineed ...

I was following a picture i found on farm photo of a 98s .. but don't have a clue about decals. Was rather depending on you guys  I had a chat with Gav about it and he said there are dominator decals in 1/64 but none in 1/32  \

No I didn't. I said that they were 1/50 scale that I could get, but I can get 1/32 Mega and Claas decals

Nice pics Phill but why on earth have you got all those weights on the tractor for rolling \

cheeky git  > >

nice pics though anyway :D

Seconded, especially as I'm not a member of the Massey Massive, not now nor will I ever be

Really nice pics though, shame about the big green blot in all of them

now thats a proper ben style tip, saving money as well as farming help :D

I can even give you the name of a good mail order supplier too, down in Devon so not that far from you either Sean :D

Another tip on the mustard seed.... try getting it from a garden centre or seed merchant as its used by gardeners as a green manure crop (farmers too), also used in game cover crops and is only around ?2 a kilo or less usually

So what you really mean is you've got a dogge mot and you land rover's not fit for the road  :D

Oh its fit for the road, I never use the transmission brake anyway and the chassis rot is minor. Gonna waxoyl it next month

Nothing a bit of weld won't sort out . What else they fell it on  :D

They didn't fail it Mum knows the guy so he passed it on the condition I got it welded up and the transmission brake adjusted, booked in for monday. The garage owner from where I usually go turned up just as i was about to leave the MOT place so all sorted

well you will buy these land rover's wanna hire my nissan for a week  :D

No chance!! I don't suppose one very small hole is too bad on a 10 year old vehicle \

Oops! Read the Farmers Weekly on Landrovers yet?

Not yet John, is my blood pressure going to rise

The MOT testers hammers making a hole in the chassis on my Defender > > >

Wow never seen tires that wide before...is that common over there...must be due to the wet??

Fairly common, not so much due to the wet but they make the tractor tread very lightly, that one ways about 7 tonnes with a full fertiliser spreader yet I struggled to see where he had been with  it in the fields, hardly a wheel mark there

What do they run for the grass and have you got any pictures? 

Lely Splendimo mounted mower, Lely Hibiscus tedders, Weger D4000 and D4600 large square balers and a JD 550 round baler. No pictures as yet, give me a few weeks then there might be

Wonderfull pictures mate.

Cheers Oli

Nice pictures mate, how many acres do they do? And i do agree you need some green tractors either Fendt or Claas :D

Those links dont look very level on wide tyred 7840 ???

Well considering that it goes on a mounted sprayer I can assure you that they are, its just the way they are sitting

They farm 1000 acres in total with contract beet harvesting and baling as well as a haylage business as well

Have you thought about using this stuff instead Ben?

http://www.ema-models.co.uk/shop/catpages/page-DA.html

Holy smokes Gav I want it...... :P :P

Tough, you can't have it :D

I'd love to put that beside another 7840 to do the same job and watch the owners face when it leaves them for dead :

A very light treading tractor on these tyres, the back ones are appros 3'6" wide and the front ones approx 2'6". Bit of a beast on the road though :D

The front box is a chemical safe

Heres a few pics of our other 7840, this one is a year older and has done 7600 hrs. Took this today just before we changed the wheels back to 16 inch ones. This tractor does most of the spraying and top dressing as it has ground speed readout being an SLE model (i think) and the other one doesn't

Green Green Green, you need some green machines!!!

Quite agree a Claas tractor would be nice but I'd never ask for one of those JD things, myself and my Bosses have got better taste

he's got the right right colour, dont need to ruin a perfect picture. the 7840's just seem to keep on going

Too right, this one has just clocked 5800hrs, not bad for a tweaked machine and I think the other one which is a year older has clocked 7000ish, it has had the engine rebuilt once at 4000ish hours, something to do with it being 160hp ish i believe :D

The second pic here is for ruskigman's benefit (and anyone else whos interested) and shows the gear set up fitted to the tractor. Closest lever is hand throttle, then forward-reverse selector, next is the main gear lever, in backwards position it gives u 4 electronic gears for faster field operations and in the forward position gives you another four for road travel, theses are doubled giving you another 8 slower gears by using the final lever, in the forwards position it gives you the previously mentioned speeds (hare range) pull it backwards it gives you another 8 gears  in tortoise range

As promised yesterday, here are some pics from today drilling sugarbeet with the 7840 and Accord Monopil in the workshop pictures the other day