Gav836

Great pics, hope that the HSE officer doesn't see that PTO shaft on the pump :o

Still better than gears falling out of an MF gearbox :D

Just think if someone gave you one free Martin you could sell it and just about be able to buy your TW-15 or 8210 with the proceeds, might just make enough : :D Nice picture anyway!

It was nigh on knackered before they got at it. It's top quality Belarus build after all :D :D

Problems aren't in it! All the control guages were nicked, the battery and they had been taking pot shots at the diesel tank with an air rifle, good job it didn't puncture as there would have been 200 litres of diesel in the river!

It's on the Fiat F140 which has finished all other duties so will stay with the irrigator until the end of the season now Its the same pump, the reel has no pump on it just a turbine and gearbox. I didn't go down to our pump so i have no pictures of it. We have one on loan (soon to be 2) this year as the pikeys nicked anything of any value off the old one

........which slots into this female end with seal and retaining notch in theory, doesn't always work to well and they have been known to blow apart once water pressure builds up

The pipes slot into one another, this being the male end with locking clamp......

more of the pipes

Now for the aluminium pipes, we've spent the rest of the day laying out these 'little' pipes on our contracted out carrots. Each one is approx 9m long and 5 inches in diameter

Close up of the rain gun for those who are interested

Water pressure is up at 12 bar while we are operating the drum so if you get a pipe blow you soon know about it! This pic shows the flexi pipe connection between the aluminium pipes and the filter on the reel

close up of the gearbox and turbine housing on the side. The water drives the turbine which operates the gearbox which in turn pulls in the pipe, we can alter it to put anything from a few mm on to a few inches

another of the reel

One of the reel now which is a Wright Rain Touraine 2 110/420, 11o being the pipe diameter in mm and 420 being the length of pipe on the reel in metres, today's pull was about 390m long and will take about 16hrs to pull in while putting 1 inch of water on

Had to help set up our irrigator today which actually decided to work properly first time for once, small miracle First picture is looking out the back window of the tractor whilst pulling the gun out at a nice steady 1kph so we don't overheat the gearbox on the reel

I don't know the things people drag up to get out of things, the old sick friend routine this time hey :D :D

I would imagine its so they can get more in a tank than we can due to the bigger fields involved over the pond, may be wrong though.......

Sorry as well Mart but the first trailer has completely different axles and chassis to the one with silage sides, you can tell the chassis is different just by looking at the back of the trailer, it finishes level on the 2nd one but is underneath on the first \

don't think outrageous is the word for it! Wonder if the chap who bought Seans baler has seen it, he likes spending alot on all things red :D

:o is this guy mad, can't be worth that surely http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/OBSOLETE-Britains-Massey-Ferguson-MF-130-Seed-Drill-MIB_W0QQitemZ7019932015QQcategoryZ117196QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

That was gone quicker than i am when it's my round! :D

Definately to do with root crops, thats a cleaning turbine like you get on sugar beet harvesters and the like

2 admissions in a day, you must be ill :D :D

You feeling ok Phill, thats twice in one day you've admitted that you're annoying :D