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Nope no new ones compared to way back in this topic. I only done it for the one morning just to refresh my mates memory of how it all works as he's going to be doing the bulk of it this year thankfully

We started irrigating last Monday and stopped again yesterday morning, since then we've had 25mm of rain so we'll be looking at next Wednesday/Thursday before we start again now unless we have anymore rain in the meantime.

Yeah it is Chris, especially when you've been told to check them daily due to weeping oil seals anyway

I have no objection of students who listen to and do as they are asked by people in charge of them. What however does annoy me about students, and this particularly applies to ag students, is that many of them think that because they have done a days ploughing here or an hours drilling there they are experienced in it and won't accept the fact that they are not and have only just played at it. I've come across some real arrogant know it all little sods with a massive ego and chip on their shoulder who think they know the lot and are unprepared to listen when people try to offer them advice and instead will just rant and rave about how unfair things are for them because they think older farm workers are picking on them, these are usually the same ones who have a list of employers as long as your arm by the age of 25. Sadly its this sort that give the good, honest keen to learn students (of which I am aware that there are a good number of) a bad name and make things harder for them in the long run.

Not sure where he abouts he was from Sean but I know he covers a large area with it. Not been much going on lately at work but I have a few pictures here. I went into our oil store the other day to be greeted by the sight below, my boss is good at putting batteries on charge and forgetting about them, this is the result......just glad that no one was in there at the time My mate is back working with us now for harvest and the autumn, he went to use the topper yesterday and called me to say it was shaking the tractor, upon further inspection the bearings had an escessive amount of play in them and were on the verge of complete failure. Luckily we've caught them before that happened or it may have been a complete new gearbox needed instead of just bearings and seals. I think the final starw on the bearings was last years student running the boxes dry of oil for two days due to being to idle to check them.........

My mate at work ringing me to say the McConnel topper was juddering so much that the whole tractor was shaking............got beneath it when he got it back to the yard to find oil running out of the bottom of both gearboxes and that the bearings had gone in both of them. Now I know this isn't from the 5 minutes he used it as its had a slight oil leak for a while and a mild vibration when the stockman went to use it back in April, I now know full well that it must have been like this when he finished with it and he hadn't told anyone :

In my case I have at least two of every size of metric spanner as its not always possible to get an adjustable in somewhere, in the case of Britool they do a standard length, long length and extra long length of spanner, the latter is very handy for tight nuts or ones buried in chassis rails. If I take a basic tool kit on a machine it consists of: combination pliers side cutters 8-24mm spanners (varies as to which ones I take with the machine in question) 12" adjustable spanner screw drivers punch chisel hammer wire brush One thing you will find is that the bigger the tool chest you buy, the quicker you seem to fill it and need to upgrade it!!

Having to leave Buster at the vets to be sedated for a scan and needle test on a lump I found on his neck :( Hoping that its just a foriegn object causing it as he does and will eat anything, particularly wood

95% of my tools are Britool, all have been got through ebay over the past 10 years. I do have a few Halfords Professional ones but they aren't really up to heavy usage (as my twisted breaker bar will testify to!!) and a couple of Elora ones that I've picked up over the years. I only have one set of cheapo spanners and they are an oversize set of 33mm, 36mm, 41mm, 46mm and 50mm that tend not to get a lot of use, the same goes for a 24" adjustable and 36" stilsons other than those few I stick to Britool as I've never broken, bent or damaged any of them other than a 2mm pin punch and 3mm 1/4" drive hex bit, the latter when giving a grub screw in a bearing the "biggun" ;D

The builders merchants sending the wrong gravel out to me this morning, I ordered pea shingle and instead a bag of 20mm gravel turned up meaning I couldn't get on until they came out and changed it at 3pm. All done now though and looking much better

No I didn't Chris as I'd have needed to remove every bit of existing gravel first and the cost would have been quite high to do it that way.

Mine arrived as well today, think I may have to get the rest of the Britains Case International tractors now to go with it though

Doing some more landscaping in the garden. I "aquired" nearly three tons of pea shingle last week which has managed to recover my large front path and some of the back gardens original gravel area into which I've now inset some paving slabs as stepping stones that have been laying about the garden since I moved in. Unfortunately I'm about a ton short of what I need so I've ordered that today for delivery tomorrow and been laying the remaining four slabs that will be in that area along with raking off the remaining large gravel to redistribute elsewhere. I'm not a big fan of gravel (especially as Buster eats it!!) but as its such a large garden its better that it remains graveled in that part between the house and out buildings

The New Holland CR9090 is due out at around the end of October with an RRP of £98

Our neighbour had a chap in leveling his tracks off so my boss asked if he could do our two worst ones as well while he was in the area. The 7480 is on a 12 plate, the trailed grader is made from the business end of an old Aveling Barford grader. He also has a vibrating roller but the low loader its on blew a hose as he went to leave the neighbors so I don't have any pictures of that.

The Polish guys from Omnivent finished the inside off at lunchtime today as well. There's still some green sheeting to go above the plywood on the centre partition yet. The air intake fans in the tunnel at the back of the shed

Well the sheeting boys have finally finished the exterior of the shed for now, there's still a few ducts to be fitted but they aren't on site yet.

A second hand display cabinet off ebay for the grand sum of £25, only 12 miles down the road so already got it and filled it!!

Two tickets to the Cereals show next week, need to get some more NROSO points

Britains Ford 6600 and 7600 from Udimore, no dribble stains on the boxes from him either, he must be getting better ;D

That one was listed first thing in the morning on the day after you sent me the message mate, think I got it more or less as soon as it was listed

Definately Polish Niels, nothing Dutch about them other than the name on the van. They got told that they couldn't use any of their power tools on site as they were 240v and not 110v so had to go shopping They wouldn't have bothered moving it if it wasn't for the new barn though. We've been told that £16k is cheap for what they are doing too.

Managed to aquire a few Salmon/Armer/Armer Salmon brochures this week off ebay.......Sean got to the above one before I could

UK Power Networks have also been out today installing a new transformer and housing along with installing underground cabling as the main feed for 3 villages passes across the front of the new shad so they want to move it and the transformer and poles we have in the yard at the moment, it is costing us £16k though.

A few more updates on the new store now. The cladding boys have been here all week sheeting it in again, they just have the front to finish now along with all the flashings, trim and guttering. The venting company, Omnivent, also started work today, all Polish guys, not an Englishman amongst them