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He only does the school run as far as I know, its the "other" earnings he has that no one knows about from doing up cars and selling them

Those balers do look good, our silage contractor was one of those testing the real pre production machines out in the past year, does seem strange to see a fabric tail door though.

No offence taken as that comment of hers annoyed my family as well as thats more than I earn a month as well along with most members of our family. That doesn't include her partners earnings either as a bus driver or from selling cars so we really can't see why she's complaining

The fact that we pay taxes to keep the lay abouts going bugs me too especially when my aunt who is younger than me (long story!) with two young kids and partner reckons that she can't survive on the £1700 a month benefits that she gets >  Thats her rent paid, council tax paid and various childcare benefits, takes that pee slightly really

My local dealers gave me one of those for Christmas bless them 

I'm not surprised, they probably see you as a "golden goose" given that its very rare that you leave there yard with the same amount of money that you entered it with ;D

Its a John Deere, you should expect to find faults on them these days ;D

Very true Stan, hadn't thought of it like that ;D

You've made a good start there Rich, will be looking forward to seeing how this progresses with time

Only criticism is your choice of those 'orrible green tractors ;D

This ebay sale, someones in for a shock.......a fool and their money ;D

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Apple-iPhone-4S-box-/230720908170?pt=UK_Mobile_Phones&hash=item35b809ab8a#ht_500wt_922&clk_rvr_id=301841433727

Post all your purchases here that aren't model/layout related just like in previous years

This topic is only for the following purchases, same rules apply as previous years

1 = Farm Toys

2 = Construction Toys

3 = Conversion Parts (parts like 3 point linkages and similar but not paint or tools)

4 = Farm layout Parts (trees and vegatation, livestock and buildings)

Its not just tractor tanks they are doing in this manner, its the household and farm bulk tanks as well. Trouble is their holding tank isn't always big enough so they often leave a mess behind them as well when the remainder runs out across the yard

Phone call from a neighbour today, hes not a happy bunny he got woken up last night by a cow mooing, if i dont stop it mooing he will have to do something about it. Anyone know where to get cow muzzles?

I just read this on Fascebook Andy, have you not got any newly weaned cows or calves that you can put near his house for a couple of days   ours normally disturb the whole village post weaning for at least 48hrs, get some interesting remarks in the pub afterwards ;D

You're lucky if they drill the tanks here, they usually carry gas bottles with them arount here and heat a spear up on the end of a pump hose. Once its red hot they shove it straight through the plastic tank and suck out the contents, almost 100% silent compared to a drill

NFM at Sculthorpe Nick, they only had two left after I had mine so you'll have to be quick

Wiking Fendt 939 Black Beauty.......I only went into the dealers for a new pair of work boots ;D

PMA are a french company that produce all sorts of wheels, linkages and other spares for converting and building models, sold on the Artisan32 site

http://www.artisan32.com/?id_lang=1

The gruesome twosome at work, the 6810 and 6910

The 6810 currently has no injector pump on it and the front left hub seal has given out while its been standing there depositing the hub oil all over the wheel and floor, this is after it just came back from the dealers having had the rear hitch rebuilt and another injector pump leak fixed. The 6910 crank seal gave out and the same time and as can be seen on here elsewwhere I've just done it, unfortunately as I was looking over it to check it was still dry this morning I noticed that the hub seal has now gone on that tractor as well so yet more work for me to do. Unfortunately unlike the 6810 where its the large easy to get at seal thats gone, on the 6910 both the large one and the small input shaft seal have gone so the whole swivel housing has to come off so while I'm at it I'll change all the bearings as it has 8000hrs on the clock...........getting to the point where we're saying what next although we know that the injector link pipes are leaking on the 6910 as well so guess that answers it

Belt only took 2 minutes to fit as there was nothing in the tractor forward of that point and the front pto unit drive shaft was already out. Changint the belt is a major task on all our 6 cylinder tractors as they all have a front pto fitted so its severall hours work, if it wasn't for that it would only take a few minutes, just use a 15mm socket and breaker bar to lift the auto tensioner off the belt and feed it off all the pulleys and out around the fan before doing the reverse with the new one.

Continued from yesterday........first job this morning was to drill two small holes in the old seal, insert two self tapping screws then using a pair of molegrips clamped onto the screw prise the seal out with a bar against them. Wasn't too bad to do and this was the result

The new seal was then packed with grease on the rear and fitted by gently tapping it in with a hammer and punch making sure it located evenly in the process

The crankshaft pulley and damper could then be refitted

This is where the step by step pictures cease due to the dealers turning up to fit the new air conditioning condensor/oil cooler and we were all working in the same area together. Finished result looks like this though, new belt was brought out by dealer today so I could fit that while it was apart. Engine was refilled with oil, new coolant in the engine and all started and ran with no leaks so a good result I feel.

The offending oil cooler showing the hole in it where it landed on the edge of the bonnet rails yesterday, new cooler cost £680

Thats one of my jobs for tomorrow, check the belt and if there's so much as one mark in it that shouldn't be there it'll be changed. The shaft on my 6920s was easier to remove than this one as well. If it wasn't for the drive shaft the seal would have been done and the tractor back together again instead of needing a £680 oil cooler fitted to it and only being halfway through repair

Yeah, it should go back together quicker as I know how to do it all now and don't need to spend so long looking at exploded diagrams or parts to see how the come off. Need to get the dealer to come out and put a new oil cooler on though as the air con system will need evacuating and recharging to do it.

We don't need a tool box on that tractor as all it usually has the weights on for is topping or occassionally terra discing and the latter has a parts rack fitted to it, alot of extra effort for how little it would be used.

A little project of mine from a couple of weeks ago, the original weight frame we had for the 6810 was cracking up badly so I decided to rebuild it using much thicker steel on the original Ransomes single leg subsoiler headstock. All steel used in it came from our scrap pile and is between 0.75" and 1" thick so should stand up a bit better to punishment in future

Had a bit of a change today, in order to try and save some money on repair bills I'm now trying to take on some of the repair jobs on the older tractors in house. First candidate has been our JD 6910 thats suffered a failure of the front crankshaft oil seal. This should have been a fairly simple job however our one has a front pto fitted so its meant I've had to remove the radiator, oil cooler/air con condensor (the latter also now needs replacing due to my colleague dropping it and putting a hole in it ), header tank, battery tray and air cleaner in order to remove the pto drive shaft off the front of the crankshaft to gain access to the crank pulley retaining bolts. After spending just over 4 hours on it today I've managed to get it stripped down to the point that I can now remove the seal first thing tomorrow morning and insert the new one. Here's a few pictures from today anyway.

The offending pulley and driveshaft

Undoing the shaft retaining bolts. Allen key was used to hold the crankshaft still while cracking off the four retaining bolts on the front face of the ring with a 24" breaker bar

The offending seal can now be seen with everything removed