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About this way the dealer has been pushing Fendts over MF for the last few years, they are a good drivers tractor, and very economical on fuel,  however the ?200000 price tag for 2 of them before discounts and trade in put our man off them. John Deere owners round here are now buying anything but due to a few problems in certain quarters, won't say any more as i don't know who might read this

some people are never happy

Look forward to seeing it! Pre ordered one tonight, look forward to hearing from you when it's available!!

i know, we had a lorry supposed to collect some wheat last week, never turned up so we rang the off ice and they said 'oh he broke down, we meant to ring you but forgot!'   but if we're not there to load them they soon complain!

That seems to be the norm nowadays whatever you seem to be involved in. no one seems to keep to there timings

thats not very good then! at least it should still be under warrantty. Hope mine lasts longer, i have a lot planned for that little guy

Sounds like our KRM Optidrill, holds nearly a ton, trouble is it's a 4m wide fully mounted monster on a NH 8560, too big, should be trailed!

Yeah, theres a contracting neighbour to one of our farms using a Quadtrack and one pass disc setup with one of the maxicasters on to establish all of his oilseed rape, looks a good plant establishment too. looks a hell of a setup on the field and monstrous on the road!! :D

Nope! thats a Focus too, the Homebase is in East Dereham

consists of hoppers fixed to the combine header but rather than me try to explain it, take a look at the autocast website here probably be clearer for you to see it than me to describe it, but a clever bit of kit

http://www.autocast.co.uk/autocast/

this'll make you sick I only paid ?14.99 for mine with accessories from homebase in fakenham

PAH!! ?14.99? is it a genuine Dremel then? Never thought of going to Focus in Fakenham (there is no Homebase there!!)

Can't say that i've seen one or if i have, i can't place it at the moment. I know a few people who have rigged up broadcasters to furrow presses. Some have put them onto combine headers, subsoilers and disc harrows for broadcasting oilseed rape and turnips on though

i bought one last week out of Argos, ?49.99 with 110 piece accessory set worth ?25 free with it, not a bad deal i don't think

That is very interesting bairn.Makes one wonder why they were trying to work that land in the frist place if direct drilling will work for them.

I have a bit of a dilemma....Each year on the farm we plant around 50ha of turnips and rape.Problem is our turnips love a well worked seedbed but as I strip graze the crop off in winter it gets very compacted and pugged up because of the high stock traffic/numbers being shut behind a hot wire.

So to fix the compaction I need to grubb the paddock a few times to get it back to a good state and as you can understand the problem starts over again for another year.

This year I'm going to try something a bit diffrant(on a wee bit of land)...direct drill the turnips into the old pasture and except a lower yield of turnips but reduce the compation.

From tests I've done the trick to good no-tillage is braking the compation cycle I think.

Sorry if I'm boring anyone I'll zip it now.

We sow a lot of turnips for someone at work and have managed to get some good coverage in the past by broadcasting the seed on with a Kuhn fertiliser spreader, think we used about 25kg of seed to 1000kg of top dressing in the spreader from memory. we have also had a local contractor blow it into the crop with an air jet spreader with great success. Unfortunately due to an agronomy mix up, we had to plough and drill 90% of the area this year as he used Ally herbicide and IPU by mistake!! :

thats the way i think of it too, why subsoil if you are going to plough that deep :D

mines the only one of the 3 tractors there that will stall on it, the other bloke thinks 9 inches deep is enough! Keep telling him i can plough deeper than that, i stick it in 15 inches and she just finds it tough going on boulder clay for some reason : even my old 240hp Magnum 7230 used to struggle on those bits!

snap! our light flinty soil has a habit of ripping the legs off our subsoiler if it's too hard, but the clay stuff on the same farm will stall a 200hp tractor on a 4 leg subsoiler, very tough!

yes, he was on here earlier on tonight. You could always contact him through his website at http://www.britainstoyfarm.co.uk/ if not on here

you'd be right there- DT=Dave Towse

never known anyone locally here to have a problem with one, seems like a very good tool to me from what i've heard

i know the sort of clay you mean, theres an area of blue clay on the Norfolk/Suffolk border that i once had the misfortune to lift sugarbeet on. we had to dig 3 tonnes of beet out of the bottom of the tank on the Verveat where they were glued together with the clay as well as digging it off the cross augar in the tank, was just solid like a roller!

i've never deen the furrow cracker like that, i only know of the Claydon knife type one that runs parallel to the plough beam. Very good plough conversion none the less

i hate irrigation!!we grow 20acres of carrots on our other farm, the kit belongs to the owner not to us, he sold the good stuff and kept the worst ones, it took 3 of us a week to get it to run properly and during the whole season there was only one day when it didn't go wrong! As for clay we have a 600 acre unit that a 170hp tractor and 5 furrow plough at 14inch furrows struggles to plough at times, some of the worst land in that area of Norfolk, in fact the driver ripped the headstock on the plough in half two weeks ago, really tough going!!

Looks good from what i can see, have you got any clearer pictures of the plough?