Gav836

Nice pics Nick. It is a bed former but not to the same pattern as one for potatoes would be. What you have there is a combined bed tiller and former hence all the blades underneath it

Drilling sugar beet for 11 hours, 50 acres in now, another day on it tomorrow and ours will be in. Will get some pics tomorrow

Blimey... what a beauty... As stated... LOOK AT THEM WHEELS  :o - How ever much does a rear tyre cost in that size 

To give you an idea Marky the 800/65R32's that go on the front of a Lexion combine are ?1200 each for a budget brand so those ones won't be much less or even more than that

You could slightly bend the metal part of the ram, best place is right on the end of it, will make it very tight, the more you bend it the tighter the ram will move in the plastic tube

No need to worry about us being gentle Nick, you're doing a cracking job there, looks just like the real thing. After building mine i can tell you that the legs will be the hardest part, or at least the fiddliest

very nice job you've done there, well done!!

Cheers Noel......

Always good to hear of success stories from the farm......

I'm really enjoying myself and what's best is I'm getting paid to do something that I enjoy rather than stacking shelves in Tesco...... 

And it's all good experience which will all help as I (hopefully) progress in the world of agriculture......

Steady Martin you'll ruffle Pingu's feathers  :D :D

not called gav is he mate :D :D

Oi! Your beet harvester price may go up with comments like that : :D

you sure gav as i had a black pipe version with the hollow drum type reel , long gone now though 

Sure I'm sure :D

maybe the siku one would be better for this project, as the base model has solid sides to the reel , the britains one doesn't

http://www.farmtoysforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=8965.0

The later version of the Britains one did have solid sides to the reel as well Marcus, got 5 of them sitting here. It was the early one with the yellow pipe that didn't. Picked mine up for between ?4 and ?10 MIB on ebay

There's a few English peeps on here could do with some too....... :D

I can think of one not too far away from me, not heard from him lately but been no reports of explosions or fires on the news so he must be ok  : :D :D

Erm been muck spreading all week and today i've done nothing really my kind of day then tomo work :'(

You forgot trying to incite another colour war in my topic you naughty bird :D :D

no tractor wars please, stop now before it goes today!!!!!!!!

He started it, always the penguins fault :D :D

Yer cause then you really will make the JD look bad, no offence but we have yet to find a tractor more reliable then Fendts overall and especially with JD's resent reliability issues :D

Looks like a ncie tractor all the same though and has been a long time in the making

I should have sorted my car out soon pete is it ok to pop up sometime

Need I mention your Fendt where you work : :

I do like that 3650, spent a few weeks subsoiling in one of them, pulled like a train. Did have a minor electro hydraulic problem with it when i was driving it, wouldn't lift the subsoiler at the end of the field :

Just watching one of these daytime tv program, cash in the attic, car boot sale things and the woman on there was talking about her house which is a barn conversion and former hayloft with round windows, she said they were round as the bales were round first before the (small) square ones came along : : :

My bed looks like a flippin wigwam now!!!!!!!

That is one cracking looking model. .. .. go on son make the other three of them in the name of realisation 

: : What are you like :D :D

Now that is a real trailer!

I've always been amazed by how few tonnes UK farmers put behind their tractors - Thriplow Farms running 12 tonners behind 7*10 series John Qs for example - compared to the tonnage the Irish and the French put behind theirs.

30 Tonnes (gross) of sugar beet going into Carlow behind 120hp would have been normal. 150hp would have pulled a triple axle Dooley or Twomey with a gross weight of 40 tonnes.

I recall drawing 16 tonnes (gross) of oats into Connolly's of Goresbridge with a 72hp DB1210 (at age 15, but we won't mention that  )

Here's a pic of Ray's 95hp Ford 7740 SLE hauling 22 tonnes (gross) into Wallace's of Wellingtonbridge (only because his 94hp 7600Q had a broken pick-up hitch) at her leisure.

The trouble is we have a legal limit of just over 24 tonnes for a tractor and trailer and on the remote chance that you are caught I believe its a fime of ?1000 a tonne for every tonne that you are over that, no doubt someone will correct me if I'm wrong. Personally I can't remember the last time i hauled a load on the road that fell into the underweight limit category. Whilst doing maize silage last year my Renault 836 and 16 tonne Richard Western trailer weighed in at 15 tonnes empty and 32 tonnes loaded : This is an area that urgently needs reviewing by the muppets at Westminister \

Erm your calling a fendt not a proper tractor you ok mate :D :D

Perfectly ok penguin boy :D

looks like narrow wheels on the back of the tractor \, farms round here are still running on floatation tyres and duels as the land is still soft. all s/prop sprayers are on floats still

There are a few people on row crops wheels about here now, especially those farmers who have OSR as a crop as its now getting between 12 and 24 inches tall so standard wheels are no longer an option in it with out running too much down

Nice pics Martin

Seems strange that you'd want to mount a spreader on a chassis to use it on a TM \

Very very very nice gav... That looks great for a coat of paint mate 

Cheers Marky, bit more than that, I completely rebuilt it by shortening it in length as well, didn't look right before to me. Will give it another coat of paint tomorrow

very nice gav , the right colour , just put it in the post please ;D

Hope to finish it tomorrow, will just leave the sub soiler then

Looks well built Gav, nice bit of machinery you've made yourself. . .. .an a few others all being well!! 

Thanks Tris, hoping to get some more things put on the website soon, not updated it for a while

ah couldnt tell from the pics ,think the  farm had one sat in the bushes from memory but only 3m or so wide,

I'll get to that bit, going to be time consuming though \

looking good gav

have you fitted any bars on the underside, as i saw one like that the other day, and they had 4" rods welded on the under side of the frame? prob 10/15 to each bar

Thanks Sean

I've still got that left to do yet