Gav836

No problem Ben... we can do speed trials

Er... I mean - Not unless you can show me an RTITB licence young man 

I can though    Do NPTC, CITB and LANTRA ones count as well  :D

I found the best trick with a telescopic is to push the boom right out with a full bucket of corn while pushing up  in the barn just to demonstrate to the student hanging onto the cab steps that the machine cannot tip up no matter what you do as it will only hit the heap of corn. Never seen someones face lose its colour so quickly as his did when the back wheels came up 6 feet in the air  :D :D

Have to get the red paint out i reckon, looks like a giant spearmint Trebor softmint at the minute  :D

Looks a good little forklift, shame aboout the colour though  \ :D

thats whats used to cut whole crop or swath OSR i believe, is got a different head to the mower.......god where are the experts when you need them :D

That one is what they use for grass crops, the header is not big enough in height to get a crop of OSR through it without shattering all the pods on it

Forgot to ask that most important question - good man Gav 

How's yer crops looking Gav?

from what the barley looks like in the field, both the Fanfare and The Pearl winter barley look promising, i would guess that it'll average 2.25-2.5 t/acre which is good for our light heath type soil, hopefully all will make malting quality again this year

That certainly looks alot riper than what a lot of ours is. What variety of Barley is it and whats it yielding like?

Did you start cracking it with your teeth and spiting it out again yet... :D

Not yet, we have one of those nice little moisture meters with a grinder built in  :D

At least its better than paying > ?20 an acre for trying to control it. 

We'd rather just spray for wild oats as it would prove impossible for us to pull them with only 4 staff members on 3600 acres across a 25 mile area. We have about a 99% success rate as well so far with the spray 

blimey rainfed quite a bit down here,recon they are at least 2 weeks behind again now? not sure why,the field of barley i was in today working was more than ready,just wet

Its like that here as well, there's the odd bit fit here and there but there's alot more that isn't. We only have the aforementioned 80 acres or so fit, the remaing 5-600 acres is still green in the straw and in the ear in about 300 acres of it

because its raining our harvest ehre has been held back anothe 3 days or so 

We're still looking to cut the 80 acres that are fit on Wednesday or Thursday this week, so hope to get some pictures then from the driving seat of the Lexion 

1) All the straw chopper blade nuts and bolts being excessively tight on our Lexion 460, not the best place to have your spanner slip off, doesn't do your hands alot of good 

2) The thermostat and thermostat gasket going on my Renault 836  >

3) The PTO speed selector cable shearing on the Renault 816 due to the effects of liquid fertilizer  >

So all in all not a good first day back after our annual first week of July shut down  \

Bloody cheek... don't tell the lads how old I am Ben  - by my witty and modern posts they thought I was about 18 

+ VAT, tax and 25%  : :D

INteresting that a MF 7495 can lift more than one of them :D

Yes but when you think about it these big tractors aren't designed to lift great weights but more for the drawbar pull they have, the only thing they may have to lift is a semi mounted plough or a subsoiler i would guess

Hey baby do ya wanna dance??

Ricky steps up to the deere, gets down on one knee....

..........only to be nearly run over because James didn't see him when he drove off  : :D

Happy birthday Ben, have a good one!

Almost!

Smeone is yet to make a GT Bunning trailer though as far as i know 

didnt terex buy out the massey ferguson digger line up? the masseys were mainly a farmers digger and many of the aspects of the early terex backhoe loaders were very similar to the mfs. where i stayed in college i was living right next door to a terex backhoe dealer (former mf backhoe dealer) and he was shifting about an avaerage of one a week from what ive seen. there was always about 7-8 new ones in the yard at any time. in my opinion i think they were aimed at farmers but there are quite a few on building sites now too. a far nicer and stronger machine then the ol jcb sitemasters which are a soft piece of work

I think you're right there Alan. Fermec bought MF industrial but kept that name on the side to begin with before changing to the Fermec name, I believe that Terex then bought Fermec. I know that It was Fermec in the mid 90's when my late father sold the diggers, very good ones they were too 

Thats what I mean though Gav, if these newest Massey's go aswell as the Challengers I raced around Kansas in then MF stand a good chance of rebuilding the said tarnished reputation. Not over night of course but things may well be on the up. Let's face it, the tractor sales are showing a promising growth period for AGCO.

That i will agree on, the red numbers are slowly building up again, although Fendt are the stronger sellers here. If they get a combine to compete then i'm sure we would have one on demo, we'll try anything except JQ  :D

Well it certainly looks the business, if it goes like the Challenger 660 then MF maywell be heading for the forefront of combine sales, let's hope so eh?

Never, got to be yellow or green and grey  Seriously though MF unfortunately still don't have a big contractors machine to compete with the likes of the NH CR980 or Claas Lexion 580/600, until they can get up there with those models and rebuild their tarnished reputation, especially in this area they won't do it. What they once had with the older models the Droningberg models destroyed for them with their reliability record  \

Will be going there for about 2-3 weeks before we have to move to one of the other farms nearer Norwich, got until beginning of September though 

:D :D :D You're all confused again I see Marky...... you should know there is only one colour scheme for a combine and its lime green.

I might take you up on that offer Gavin, I know true claas when I see it. 

The offers there, should be going from mid week this week, but pleeeeeaaaassse no more bad puns like that one :D :D

Nope more of bugger i'm gonna be short staffed again :D did offer pay rise etc to keep me so cant help but feel sorry for him \ :'(

Blimey they really must be desperate for staff then  :D

Thanks Gavin... I'd rather hang from one ******** in the air for 4 hours  :D :D :D

Yuck they are the wrong colour... and it would only break down and you'd ask me to help fix it 

Think you mean if you got on the MF it would break down and you'd end up having to fix it 

Can arrange the first bit as well with some rope and the teleporter if you're into that sort of thing  :D

He did tell me... but I've forgotton... was going to try to get a ride on it when it starts work 

I know where you can get a ride on a Claas Lexion if you want one