Gav836

Mud Potato harvesting all day, need about 3 more days to get finished now, very slow going with how sticky the soil is on this field when its wet

It's our 6420s that spends most of its life hooked onto the sprayer. Think the plan is to cultivate the ruts out then plough it if the weather allows. We have had a 6820 on loan for a short while while our 6910 was having its head gasket and injectors changed but no pictures of that.

Finally managed to get some more potatoes out of the ground again today, the field is going to need some serious remedial work though when we've finished to get it leveled out

Weaning the cattle today so now its rather noisy in the village, sure to be some complaints again as if we don't have enough to contend with at work at the moment

I was trying to be kind to our resident hobbit there but you had to go and spoil it didn't you :D

Ha ha, that has been a real head scratcher, I've got the catch made, just the mechanism to do (might have to cheat, i.e miss it off!!!!)

You don't want to do that to much, you only have to look at Tris's hair style to see what happens when you scratch your head alot :D

Nice work Barry, you just have the small ram to make for the catch now........good luck

For Sean's benefit, this is the real thing bolted in place on my plough

Not just the mud Tris..........

As per the title, I could do with some info from a member in this area of Kent (Tenterden, Rolvenden, Smallhythe), not going to post the reason why in public though but no one is in trouble or going to get a visit from "The Boys"

I'm liking the look of that Rolland grain trailer....... could have an idea for one or a couple of those , Anyone know when they being released??

That was under my insistance after he got stuck the first time although this time we had to drag him backwards due to there being a large wet patch just to the front of where he's sitting. People are struggling here too at the moment but no where near as much as up your way.

Centre section was fine amazingly, his pride has taken a battering as there's a certain two employs with evil senses of humour who keep winding him up about it

So should he have called a halt a bit earlier with a lighter load, noticing he was starting to spin?

Exactly but he just can't realise that as he's in a dream world some of the time. He has a light load on the trailer, its not even half full as the back of the trailer is empty.

fair bit of soil infront of the trailer wheels to, so that wont have helped, almost like a wheel chock. you got much more to get up then gav??

We have about 20 acres left to do now so around 4 days but its a race against the weather now.

Deep enough for the tractor and trailer drawbar to be bottomed out thats the problem Paul

After not lifting any potatoes since last Friday we tried to do a couple of loads this afternoon, the same driver as last time however managed to get himself bogged down again and we had to tug him out backwards this time. He reckons he can't watch to see if he is starting to spin out as he has to much to watch with the elevator in the trailer as it is.......patience is wearing thin.....very thin with him, its like talking to a brick wall telling him what to do/how to do something properly and I've given up now before I make myself ill again like I did with last years student >

Work....getting fed up going round behind somene fixing their breakages and sorting out his mishaps. He has no interest in working on the farm, just there for the money, not listening to what he's told and suffering from a lack of common sense. Things are going to come to a head soon, either the other 3 of us are going to walk out or one of my workmates is going to knock him on his ass >

Luckily he's the main person who uses it so all the damage to it other than the boom is down to him as well. I've not been on it since March 2010, not to unhappy about that either. Its now had a new ram and a new boom section under warranty, we thing that the reason the boom bent instead of the ram on the left hand side is down to the fact that he done a similar trick on a hedge back in the spring when spraying headlands and bent that ram so the local hydraulic firm made up a new rod for it, we're sure that its of a higher grade rod than standard hence the boom bending first before the ram did.

Talking of the boss and the sprayer.........he found out what happens when you forget to fold the booms up and try to drive past a straw stack when leaving the field

I've also outgrown my existing tool box so when I saw Halfords had an offer on where if you bought the 5 drawer roller cabinet then you got the 7 drawer top chest for £14, I already had the mid section so seemed a good time to update

Still trying to lift potatoes as and when the weather conditions allow us, our young trailer driver had a slight incident Friday though.......

He'd already nearly got stuck once through just sitting beside the harvester with all four wheels spinning until I "advised" him via cb to put his foot on the clutch

This is what happens when the boss misses a strip with the sprayer as well.....

Sounds like you have a load of jumped up jobsworths there Sean, our regular Postman here is as good as gold, he'll either leave stuff in a safe place here or take it down the yard at work and leave it in my truck, even signing for recorded items. His young relief is not so clever and will return stuff to the depot 6 miles away rather than leaving them in the safe place

UH Bauer E21 irrigator

Nothing wrong with good quality remoulds and the Insa ones are the best out there meeting all the required standards. Avoid Bridgestone 4x4 tyres though as they are very soft and wear quickly.

I'd consider looking at something like the General Grabber All Terrain tyre, They're cheaper than the Goodrich alternative and just as good. I have a set of the AT2's on my Discovery and have been very happy with them, no problems in the ice, snow, rain or mud so far with them. Alternatively if you aren't doing a lot of miles take a look at the Insa Turbo range of tyres, they are remoulds but very good quality, the Traction Track is a direct repacement for the old and well respected Goodrich Track Edge.

What size tyres do you have fitted to it Chris and what sort of miles and driving (% on/off road) are you doing over the course of the year? Will help to narrow down the choices.

Just a couple from today showing just what I'm pushing through the harvester at the moment, soil is still very wet so doesn't drop through the webs very easily but at least I can carry it right through the machine to try and prevent tuber bruising.

We have a very sick JD 6910 at work, its been breathing heavily for the past couple of days then it boiled up on the last load of potatoes of the day today, its looking like the head gasket may have gone........I know, shock horror, a JD head gasket going.....NOT!!!!