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We went into a field of maize yesterday and this these boys were working over the hedge from us so due to a brief stoppage we had i was able to take some pictures. The Case on the Standen Status harvester is a CVX1155 and the NH on the trailer is a TM125, also carting was an 8360. Pictures were taken near to RAF Marham, more annoying though was the fact that 3 fields away there were 3 Fendts working on Grimme harvesters with a fleet of JQ's carting away from them, may have to go out there this weekend for another look

Hells bells :o Someones got money to burn!

Looks to me like a Vicon reciprocating bar power harrow, in simple terms the bars move left to right at speed slicing and knocking the clods about, think they were quite a good machine

Just under 300 hrs opn the 836 since we started doing the maize 5 or 6 weeks ago, can't remember the exact date, hardly known what day it is most of the time

I have bad memories of an identical tank as that that we had on hire from them. First day on the new job i cooked the pump on it, i really wasn't impressed with it at all. They just tried to charge us ?600 for 2 days hire when it was out of action most of the time because it wasn't up to the job \

yes it is engine noise and revs we drive it by, i'll see if i can get you some pictures of the controls but its not so easy as i don't drive it very often

Already spoken for, still paying the garage for my Land Rovers engine rebuild from earlier this year \

yes i am, don't get time to breath hardly with how quick we're getting a load thats one of the bigger ones we've done, the biggest being 90 acres, most are around 15-30 acres not too much left now Tris, only about 5-6 days work its not had time to yet, it'll be when we stop that i think i'll feel it more

Yes, and you can lft the whole spout up and down and side to side to leve, fill the trailer. The maize leaves the harvester at 150mph so has plenty of force behind it

Thanks Martin It will take it at anything between 5kph in a heavy crop (few and far between this year) and 16kph in a crap short crop like we were in today, most of the time we go between 7 and 10kph

thought i'd get some night time shots as well, took them 3 weeks ago but not had time to post them up with doing 98 hrs a week

We cleared the 63 acre field in these shots between 9am and 7pm with a 1.5 hr break during the day in total, not bad going

stripping off short work to top up a trailer after putting roadways through

Took some pictures at work of us doing some maize, i'll get some more pictures as time allows but with 3 16 ton trailers and a Jaguar 900 with 6 metre header i don't get a lot of time to do it. First up opening up the field with the 900 towing a trailer, always easier if there is a grass margin so we don't have to do it this way

I for one definately think that they are worth it going by the pictures that we have all seen on here and would be interested in buying one

Best make a note of that hey Martin and remind him when he starts to run them down again

It looks very much like a Fiat 100-90 to me, great little tractors

Harvesting maize again, started off carting till mid morning when i took over on the Jaguar 900 again to gain more experience before i go it alone on Saturday with it. Had to weigh a trailerful today, came in at 32000kg loaded and 15000kg unladen, bit overweight i think :

Thanks guys, worked far too hard for my birthday, 6am till 8pm again. But i did get a Claas Cougar and some money which should help boost funds after Sundays spending spree! No cake though, if there was i'd have eaten it all :D

Martin, be very careful about that as a lot of farmers will always say that sort of thing but when it comes down to it and actually having the offer of another tractor they won't take any action on it, they are a funny breed! Don't just rely on that one farmer, take a good look around locally and if you have one approach the local machinery ring to see what the chances of getting work through them could be, don't forget insurances either, as many people will tell you on here they are not cheap at all \

Maize harvesting again, only this time it was my turn on the Jaguar 900, my first few hours operating it as i have to be fully able to next week when the main driver has a day off. Great to use, can't wait to have another play

well after the 3 inches of rain that fell today :o no maize harvesting but myself and another chap plus someone with a 360 digger had to pull one of our lorries out off a field where he was tipping turkey muck, the farmer assured him it was a dry field when he went on there but he dropped in 18 inches and it took 5 hours to get him out

There was more dust than ever coming off the wheat. The 2 460's could get between the fields ok but the CR had to take the header off everytime. The trailer boys didn't hold us up too much as we had four of them on the go