Gav836

I know most mounted on up and over linkages are box drills but i have seen an Accord pneumatic mounted in such a way using a hydraulic motor to drive the fan, not very common but it has been done

i don't know if they are still in the ground or not, don't go over to that farm very often. They are grown on contract, all we have to do is the ploughing and the irritation. oops! i mean irrigation, anyone who's done it will know what i mean :D

Some drills mount straight onto the power harrow like the Amazone one in my Drilling spring barley topic, others are mounted to the power harrow via a linkage of some description so they can be lifted up seperately, handy on heavy land that needs 2 passes of the power harrow which is why we operate one like this on our heavy land

as above, NH8870 and semi mounted 6 furrow Vogel and Noot, won the 4 furrow and above class

no, most seem to favour 2 or 3 furrow ploughs but the farmer i used to work for took a NH8870 and 6 furrow semi mounted plough to one. Goes in various classes for example: 2 furrow conventional/reversible, 3 furrow conventional/reversible, 4 furrow and above just to give you an idea

not just in the fens, we grow 30 acres of carrots at North Elmham, not to far away from you

i have seen a yellow one in the past, possibly industrial model?

Looks a bit like an IH crawler to me, not too sure on that one though

not seen one mib go cheap for quite a while now, unboxed one on ebay at minute from someone we know :D http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/RARE-BRITAINS-1-32-KVERNELAND-PNEUMATIC-SEED-DRILL-MIB_W0QQitemZ7009020901QQcategoryZ117196QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Last ones that i saw on ebay went for over ?45 if thats any help, seems like they are highly sought after

They do but they are few and far between, i've only ever seen one with solid mouldboards and my workmate has only ever seen the one they had with them. The slats are far more popular

too late now, damage is done Nah i'll let you off just this once but only as you're a Land Rover man :D

firstly i'm in Norfolk so he's even nearer to me-within 15 miles in fact secondly less of the cheek, and after all i done for you too :'( :D

wish mine only had 3 furrows when it came to replacing metal, my 6 furrow takes a long while to change parts on, usually end up using an impact wrench to change the points and shares, takes a lot less time :D

thought it might be going by the landsides - long one on the back and shorter on the rest, also went by leg design. Did the Rabe you were working with have the slatted bodies like most of them do or solid bodies?

Some more good pictures there, is that a Rabe plough?

great pics there, your windows look as bad as mine did before i cleaned them this morning

i think i would have gone over to him and said 'i know you don't like this tractor but theres no need to try and set fire to it' :D

Its been wet over our way but as we're drilling on very light land we've kept going, not many people can plough an hour after 14mm of rain has finished falling!! Both the Renaults are behaving so far though, i think the NH 8560 is causing more grief of late, it's getting past it now, 7500hrs and needs to go now to someone who will use it less. At least with James doing it you had a good chap as he knows what he's talking about on the electronic side of the Renaults.

its going, not going to say too much at the minute as i don't want to tempt fate. I did have a suspension seal go yesterday but that's fixed now. Had a bad run in January which cost ?6000 in repairs and 1000hr services, most of it was to do with general wear and tear of a hard worked tractor with 3000hrs on the clock. Mostly ball joints on the front suspension, a hub seal and drive shaft, gear change cable, linkage fault, prop shaft bearing and new shaft and a couple of oil leaks. Not using the dealer from now on unless it's an electronic fault.

B&G Spreaders, think they are based in Suffolk, they work in with Bunns at Gt Yarmouth. I've never heard of your chap, the only other contractor i know of locally is Peter Dennis who works out of Fakenham.

Not seen much today as i've been in the middle of the farm, but we have had a terra-gator spreading fertiliser on the estate today along with a JCB 530-70 loading it. Hope to be able to get some pics of it tomorrow

Very nice indeed, looks just like the real thing there, spot on!

i hope that wasn't a dig at the mechanical problems my 836 has been having for the last 6 weeks :D

like mine are most of the time then :D