Gav836

Cool

Congratulations

Oh no - full time or just till the weather picks up again

Sorry for your toubles mate 

Permanent as of end of August, packing up contracting due to lack of funds, surplus machinery being sold and one of our contract farms is taking on all of the existing contracts hence the new kit. Only 3 blokes are needed and i'm the youngest and will be the one who finds it easier to get another job its me whos gone

Sorry to hear that.  :( :'(

What you gonna do then

I don't know yet, going to make a few phonecalls about going back self employed for various people, i needed this like a hole in the head at the minute :'(

Being made redundant :( :( :'( :'( :'(

NH TM155 with NH combine header on trailer went past - got camera ready to snap photo of the combine I thought would be following close behind...but no sign of it!

I'm good at doing that to people as well, i'll take the header trailer into a field one way then slip the combine in by a different road :D

What the hell is that then Scotch Mist

Nope but could be Dorset Mist, in the absense of Marky someone had to say it : :D

Poor old Gav then!!!

I know absolutly nothing about these tractors........but I'd go for the one in the best condition/lowest hours, a great design is nothing if it is worn out

Now you can't honestly say that these tractors don't look and sound the part. Might be rather dated but bugger can't they pull!

http://www.startintractors.co.uk/machinery/database/2521.pdf

Was she able to handle that big load  :D

He hasn't shown the next pic where it halts abruptly with cogs flying from the gearbox :D

Are they TM rims you have on her John - never seen those on a 60 series before 

Our 8560 has them fitted as well, she's on a P plate 

Reminds me of my neighbour sidefilling on Saturday - the string of expletives from the combine driver could not be repeated anywhere ang he must have worn out the horn with all the beeping  :D

If i use expletives near this guy he just sulks and doesn't speak or gets upset as he doesn't like swearing. Ignored the boss the other week when he called him a womans genitalia on his voicemail, i mean all he'd done was set the cultivator on fire putting in a fire break by getting to close to the flames :D :D

I do too! But at 40k on a farm track..........

:o Hells bells!!! You let him keep the job after that happened? He would have been sacked on the spot if he'd worked for us

Thanks to Gav for the extra pics and measurements. 

Glad to be of assistance. Looking really good so far Jason. Would definately be interested in one if you were to make any more

My grain carting 'muppet' is doing OK this year (so far)..........last year he rolled a full trailer into a 8ft deep ditch - lucky the tractor stayed upright. He was texting 

Now i have to admit to texting while driving the combine but i've always got one eye on whats going on, and can usually text without looking at the keys believe it or not

IS my offer for ploughing still open gavin ;D

You haven't offered me any but my offer of ploughing training is still open : :D

As far as i know it is an actual John Deere built drill, not a rebadged effort. Certainly drier with you than it is here, the only thing you could have drilled hhere today would have been rice \

Nice pictures though

will do!

however the deal is officially off if you issue another numpty with my name on it :D

yeah, all fields near me are now brown from ploughing etc :D

I'll see what i can do, are weekends ok?

Yeah, we're doing 7 day weeks at the moment (weather permitting) so as long as its dry we should be going somewhere in our 30 mile operating area. PM for more info or nearer the time 

nice pics John, had a bad year with harvest pics

There's still time yet Ben and you still have the offer of a combine ride in the next 2 weeks if you so wish

What me  :D

I set-up a bebo account really to keep in contact with alot of people up here really easier then msn etc but i dont do any of crappy blogs whats the point no one cares

I set up a Bebo account so i could annoy you on there as well as on here :D

Holy Cow!  Isn't there someone in Germany flogging them for about 12 quid buy it now?

Yes there is but they are also charging ?12 postage on top of that

you get paid for your rain days off you lucky git  :D :D

No i don't, but weekends are all overtime anyway so if i don't work on a saturday or sunday they don't count as losing a day. If its wet during the week i'm still at work doing other jobs

But how many days pay you lost because you've had days off gavin :

Your averaging the same output a day we are with the 570 \

Haven't lost any pay actually, so haven't got a clue what you're talking about Phill \

It is starting to sound that we are living identical lives at the moment!

I know, maybe there's a bug which effects trailer drivers during harvest, which ever way if i can find another job at the minute i'd take it! I have had enough of the pair of them, other muppet inparticular!

And i thought i was the only one with a muppet (the boss ) on a trailer who does silly things! They want to take a full trailer so i try to load it for them by slowing down and speeding up as required to get a good load, however 2 of them, boss + other muppet deside they ought to slowdown and speed up with me then wonder why i growl at them on the cb when there's grain pouring over the side and back of a trailer. Tell 'other muppet' to go forward and he goes backwards, swear he just does it as he's an ar$ehole

I want to bale behind you ;D Was behind a numpty in an Axial Flow the other day who kept blocking up, just like my baler : :

Problem is this year everytime i've suggested chopping the inner round the farm owner has said no and then that they want all the straw that they can get. Cutting the scoots with a 25' combine is no joy when i keep having to wind a swath through it every time i lift up Although thinking about the order did come from a woman :D

Bloody combine drivers, you've got a one track mind. You stop and leave great mountains of straw when you block it up, dump straw in great tramlines and merge your last headland swath with the swaths from the middle strips (my baler really hates that :'() :D ;)

Rant over, oh and nice pics CTS ;) :D

I'm a considerate combine driver like that, i back up when i have to stop so it spreads the straw back out along the swath, and if and when the boss allows will chop the inside headland round to make both my life easier and the baler guys easier