Gav836

After a few weeks off sick I have now decided to give up my current job on health grounds. This morning I have managed to land a job on self employed terms with a 1000 acre family farm which also does some contracting, especially midi hesston baling using Welgar machines. My jobs would be spraying, baling, ploughing, drilling and muck spreading along with maintainence jobs. Machinery fleet that I know of at the minute consists of NH TM175, TSA135, there is another NH or two but not sure what, also one McCormick, combine is a NH TX66 20'. As soon as I get a chance I shall get pictures for you all to see

Sounds good Gavvers, you've got my E-mail address send them over, or when i'm on MSN i'll be obliged to accept!

No probs, I'll scan them sometime tomorrow for you

That last Sanderson sounds the part, not many hours either. I've heard quite positive things about Sandersons too.

If you want a leaflet on them let me know as I still have most of Dads selection here, I know there's several TL ones in among them

what you got planned :D

Not sure but I'll think of something Never say you have money round me or I'll try and find a way to relieve you of the burden :D

damn theres goes more money! >. :D

You mean I haven't taken it all yet? Have to try harder I reckon.......... :D

I used to use a Matbro TS280, a great machine but for the amount of hub trouble it gave us, it has since burnt out due to an electrical fault. I have to say i'm biased on older telehandlers as my Dad sold Sandersons from 1987 up till his death in 1997. The last range that they had out, the TL6 and TL7 were a very popular machine about here and are now quite affordable, there never seemed to be a lot of warranty trouble with them and unlike the previous models no longer used the unreliable ford engines, if its pivot steer then there was the GX525 which having used i can say was a nice machine. Last TL7 I for sale was a 1997 model with 2500hrs on it and was up for ?9k. TL7 lifting to 7m, TL6 to 6m

I ask this because we desperately want one on the farm back home, myself and my boss's son are all up for it, but he's stuck in his old ways, saying "We've managed all this time without one alright, why waste unecsassary money" But we need to bring him round to the fact that'll everything will be done so much quicker and more efficient and that they are so handy in summer time for loading bales etc, The old JCB's like that would be in the price range i'd imagine second hand 5-6000 hours ?8k sort of figure. I'm working on it!

We used to run a 1990 525-67 where I worked before, she would carry 2.5 tons at a push and had a 7m reach. The old thing had done 7500hrs and was still in good working order, the only repairs were general wear and tear like ram seals and brakes, ok so it lacked air con and joystick controls but iI always found it a nice machine to use as long as they are blown out and washed down regularly you won't get a lot of trouble, one thing to look for if it's going to get a lot of prolonged use is one thats had the cooloing system upgrade with a bigger radiator as the standard models will overheat on road runs or during heavy use

We didn't want one of our valued members getting electrocuted :D

Yeah there certainly is No one on here knows about the................................... 

Ooooh look at you Mr Smartypants!!!!!!!!! Where has all this time come from you seem to have found for your conversions and now, scratchbuilds Does that secret model shop in town sell spare time aswell 

I have to say Marcus As much as it annoys me, begrudgingly, regrettably, through gritted teeth. . .. this little pasture care set looks fantastic!!! I love it, you seem to be making a lot of things we have all missed. Gav is coming round to 'the way' now and has a few smaller/older impliments in his mind to do and what with this little lot you have done lately, old is best 

Good work mate. Shame you don't come to the dairy (not for you I am sure mind!!) so I could see these in the flesh. Good excuse for a visit when I am home though, pop a few cold ones in the fridge 

That was supposed to be our little secret : :D :D

Grand job Will and Gav, another Forum success of members helping eachother. Been a fair bit of that lately and it is encouraging for us all to see.

Back to the chain harrows, Will. . .. you've cracked it. There was some confusion in your last Topic over my comments, me forgetting to put a key word in thus making the reply negative wen it should have been positive  [ [ Make no mistake now mate, your on to a winner and these first images show a lot of work, not to mention the time you have put into these. Great to see Gav taking them on for your mass production run. Good bloke he is.

Maybe we will see the larger model coming soon, with the verticle ram in the middle attached to the wings via cables for folding them up?

[ [ You've made me go red now   I'm only too pleased to be able to help out, if we can't help each other out on here then its a poor state of affairs really

Think we'd better get the waterproof keyboard and sponge on standby here :D :D

Stop teasing Gav I want I want! :o :o

You'll have it soon enough, in the meantime I'll keep teasing you :D

Hoping that the rams will come tomorrow then I can get the deck finished and crossed off the list, that just leaves the blower then

is the valve on the inside on it  \ as it could be for acces to the valve  \

They definately weren't on the Renaults as they were a good 6 inches in from the rim, I doubt they are on the MF either as the holes are not usually big enough to get your hands through

Story of my life really not to worry, worth a try thanks

A nice pair of tractors even if they are Massey's Martin :D

Nice 'beast' Mart.

Just OT for a minute, why do solid wheels have those two holes? Is it just for handling in the factory? 

I noticed that on my old Renault 836 and the 816, the only reason that we could think of was for stress relief, don't know if thats right or not \

looking go so far mate, and siku resin hitches to, are they pretty stong?? as with the chain on there will be some weight on them in the upright position

I have them in front of me at the minute Sean and I've been trying to break them as a test by twisting and pressing on them but haven't managed as yet

Out of the Manitou and the Claas i'd pick the Claas, from speaking to fitters and local farmers about handlers a few months back those that have the later Targo's speak highly of them, the fitters said they are a good machine but steer clear of the early ones, the Manitou people told a different story, my old bosses cousin won't even use the Manitou dealer for anything anymore because of the sheer amount of trouble the machine has been and the poor service, our engineer when i was there maintained it and he was fed up with having to go out to it so much for so many different problems, sadly his isn't the only one. Most people about here run JCB's now and the odd one or two Merlo's and Claas's.

So this is the project you've been telling me about then, looks very good to me

Well if he's going to do it that way why bother to put them in an auction listing, its not going to make what he thinks it should every time

ebay seller who insists on just adding together the postage charges on individuak items instead of combining the postage like most normal people, leaving me with a ?5.50 postage bill for two A4 sheets!!

There should be rules against that sort of activity, shouldn't be more than ?2.00 really \

Thanks for the comments guys, still got to make and fit the beaters and rams but its as good as finished now

I think the chrome paint really sets it off nicely, let me know what you think

The deck has now had a coat of red paint, a reasonable match for NH red to match the accompanying blower. The slats in the bed have had a coat of chrome paint to make it look like lifelike

Gandy boxes on silage harvesters are for sugar application

What would you use them for on a potato planter though? The only thing I can think of seeing on them is the Horstine Farmery type pesticide applicators \