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luckily i'm only a worker and not the bill payer, its not just tyres, its wearing parts too, when we took on the farm 4 years ago it cost ?7500 in plough parts to plough 1200 acres in the autumn! still costs around ?4000 according to our boss! An old boy who worked for a carrot grower who rented fields there years ago said they used to cut a set of Armer Salmon lifting belts out every day!!

We farm on stoney ground, a set of 20.8r42 rear tyres on my Renault 836rz cut out within 18 months, gets expensive as they should have cost around ?3000 when we got them, now have a set of wider 620/70r42 and 480/70r30 Firestone on there which cost about ?2500, been on since August and are already badly cut and down to 60%tread left!! :

and another one...

another one...

i had to go up CTM today to get a trailer repaired and a leaflet on the big beet cleaner 'fell' into my hand, so i thought i'd put some pictures out of it on here........ :

if you want to know more about the Ropa look here... : http://www.ctmharpley.co.uk/NewsShows.htm

The yellow Ropa beet harvester is a hell of a machine, the dealer in Norfolk (CTM-Harpley engineerng) is based in the next village to where i work. The Beet cleaner loading the lorry is quite an impressive machine, i saw one working this afternoon on a local farm, the haulier who carts our beet in has just bought one this year, it can load 30 tonnes in about 2 minutes! The heaps can only be one trailer full wide though

i'll put it back in the cupboard for now then

woah! does that mean i'm actually right about something for once? :

It looks the same as my Siku model of a Fendt 926 vario, so probably not a 924

i had a look in one at our Claas dealers open day earliet in the year, looks even better when you are sitting in the seat! :

any body ever seen the four disc Volac disc plough from the 90's? i used to use one on the farm i worked on when i first left school, bit of a heavy beast at 1900kg, left alot of trash on the top too, but he swore by it! When Dowdeswell bought Volac they soon dumped it from the range

We had to have 75%of the front axle replaced under warranty due to insufficient grease nipples being fitted, it wore out! Had several little electronic niggles, and presently a software fault where it won't remember any auto diff lock settings. We still won't change it though. The drill is a KRM opti drill, will try to get a pic of it at work and post here. The 8560 is on the other farm, our drilling rig is a Renault 816 and Amazone KE402/RPD402 powerharrow drill combi. Had a problem with the plough since we bought it, the metal is wearing alot more on the back furrow than elsewhere on the plough, think we might have cured it now after 18 months of trying!

Yea the back end of the F140 is almost identical to the 60/TM series, the front axle is also the same. Although the tractor is only the run about now we still think she needs looking after, i usually touch up all the paintwork around the nose every year, just to keep her looking good. New headlights were fitted to improve things, and at present we are trying to persuade the boss to fit a new, more comfortable seat to it. It really is a nice sounding tractor when it's under load. our Amazone RPD402 drill/powerharrow combi used to see to that!

Got some of the farms own TSA115 in a similar position with a topper on!!(we are only contractors for him)

Think i might have you in tears then when you see the picture of one 8560 pointing skywards with a 4m drill on it then, over the rear axle in mud!!

My Renault 836 with Lemken Europlough 8 and Farmforce press

at least once or twice every year!

most of his pics are of it stuck, so thats better still :

the New Holland is on the other farm, will have a word with my mate see if he can lend me a couple of pics to put on here, i know he's got some good ones of it. I do get Classic Tractor, can remeber reading that buyers guide. Boss was very happy with the combine, total cost was about ?53000 i think by the time we'd been through it and had it delivered to us.

we do get a few gulls up here as we're not too far from the coast! Don't do the paintwork any good!

i'd never say something nasty about a different tractor even if we did have one 8560 burn the wiring loom out! :

no comment!

We wish we didn't either, we try not to drive it too much now unless we are really forced to! its one of the most uncomfortable tractors i've driven, i have to drill then hoe 750acres of sugarbeet with it, not pleasent! Get a back ache within the first hour. This one is the mechanical spec one not the electronic winner spec

At present we run 2 Renault Ares, an 836 and an 816 (2003), a NH 8560 (1997), a Fiat F140 (1995) and a Case MX150 (2000) tweaked to match a MX170. The Claas came out of an auction in 2002 for ?47000 with 1000 hrs on the clock, bargin price really! Will try to get pictures of the other machines as we use them. The 816 and 8560 do all the spraying with 2 Berthoud Racer 32's 3200 litre, 24m sprayers. The 836 pulls a 6 furrow Lemken and the MX150 pulls a 5 furrow Lemken, The Fiat does all of the sugarbeet drilling and hoeing now, although till the 816 came along it done all of the drilling with a 4 metre Amazone RPD power harrow combi, alongside the 8560 which uses a cultivator drill and front press.