Gav836

A few very good reasons, I've never got on very well with them in the past, our neighbour has had problems with them and finally my boss nearly had a heart attack at the price of them

After ploughing our last 2.5ha for wheat this morning I have spent the rest of the day renewing metal on the plough and giving it a greae up before starting on ploughing next years beet land in the morning.

Fitted to the plough were:

10 Landsides

10 Landside Wedges

10 One Way Points

10 Shares

10 Shins

40 M10 Nuts & Bolts

64 M12 Nuts and Bolts

Should be ok for a few more acres now

i will let you have that mate,arsenal ones are better for dusting

or as an emergency measure when the bog roll runs out.......... ;D

I have the year on year bills for it here up until 30/4/2010 and by the looks of it it wasn't trouble free back then either with a few parts failures on there, the 09/10 costs were almost 8 times that of the 05/06 ones though

At least its only one fault on the tractor in 500 hours, the 6920s could barely manage 100 hours without going wrong in one way or another...........

gav,can i ask,the picture with all the seagulls you are ploughing at an angle ,the other pictures you are ploughing normally,why the 2 methods?

Ideally I would be ploughing at an angle to the beet harvester all the time but in the first field the side hedges are parallel to each other so the only way to do it is at 90 degrees to the beet, this was the original plan but with heavy rain being forecast we daren't wait for the harvester to finish the field. The last time that field was beet 3 years ago the harvester actually got stuck in it at this time of year so that field can be very wet. Its nigh on impossible to plough the ground over level how I was doing it there as the plogh wheel drops in all the harvester wheelings so not really recommended practice but needs must

Heres a few of the beet harvester and cart, its a 60 reg Verveat Beet Eater 625 and a Claas Axion 820 with Bailey Beeteaper

Its the first one thats caused any hold ups. It had an O-ring blow during harvest due to two of them being fitted to a bung instead of one during manufacture, it did have to be towed back to the yard last Friday due to it failing to select forward or reverse when I pulled out onto the road a short distance from the yard, that has been an intermittant fault for about 10 weeks now, usually just loses reverse though. The dealers engineer has a rough idea whats causing it but they are waiting for a response from Case on the subject and for us to finish ploughing with the tractor before taking it in to change the faulty switch.

We've had our first beet of the year lifted yesterday so I've been ploughing behind them, I can't ever remember the ground being so dry at this time of the year before, its so hard and dry under the surface that the plough points are too hot to touch when they come out of the ground!

My Case has had a slight technical fault on it yesterday afternoon with the diff-lock solenoid meaning that the diff-lock was stuck on despite me not using it so I had the 6910 on the plough until lunch time today when it was all sorted.

Back on the Puma at this point which ended up getting plastered in crap thanks to this lot

My girlfriend is a nibbler but that is a whole different story alltogether  .

You lucky devil ;D

For the simple reason that by and large they are highly reliable and there is a good dealer nearby if anything does go wrong.

And at one time cheap compared to other brands and a bit like a Skoda used to be in many respects, you either love them or hate them

I did indeed after you pointed out an Isuzu garage...........I can't help it if you have shiney paint syndrome

It was, never mind the bags of dog wotsit laying about as well ;D

It was worth the 3am start just to see you try and suspend yourself off a Land Rover door catch ;D

Auto Command or Power Command Tris? Make sure you get it right this time ;D

Count me in again as well, its worth it just to see if his Lordship rips the ass out of his trousers on a door catch again let alone the show itself ;D

We had a Condor belonging to a local firm of contractors come in to spray our rape off this year, the driver couldn't sing its praises enough over the Sands and John Deere machines that they also run, I won't even repeat his comments on one of those two machines   I've never seen sprayer booms with so much steel in them as what these had, looked a really well built machine

I beleive we've done 80-85 out of 100 so far as thats all the spare shed space we had at the moment, the rest will be done as soon as this lot are outside. Kale is ok as a feed but they need planty of straw with it, we'll never put out youngstock onto it again though after we lost two to nitrate poisoning two years ago when we tried it. They love the taste of it and stuff themselves on it to the point that their digestive systems can't cope so we just put the cows on it now. We use the Redstart as an alternative to stubble turnips as we always seemed to struggle to get a good crop of them due to flea beetle and root flies, they don't affect this too much.

It works well for us as it saves us a considerable amount of money and time having them outside in the open and the cows seem happier out there as well.

We're kicking our lot back outside tomorrow, they came in for weaning on Monday and the cows will be off out onto 10 acres kale tomorrow, once thats eaten off they will be working their way through 50 acres of Redstart kale/forage rape hybrid, all strip grazed, while their offspring remain inside now until they are sold in February. The cows themselves won't be coming in again now until January ready for when they start calving in February.

It made it to the garage alright then

Been to a ploughing match organised by my old Young Farmers Club today, its the first one they've held for many years and it was also one of the most well attended ones locally this autumn. Looks like they are going to make it annual event now

Barry your a legend, fpmsl  ;D ;D :laugh: :laugh:

Imodium.......... far better than sticking a cork up ones behind

You'll be needing one of these then.........

Money tree due another fruitfull harvest is it? ;D

To be quite honest Tris the past 10 days have given me lots of time to think about things and I've come to the conclusion that there must be better places out there where everything isn't an uphill struggle so I may have changed jobs by then \

You can get a device for shifting the wheels around, No idea what its called but we had one in College..

I know, its £850 and my boss won't get one as he reckons we'd only use it once a year..........so far this year we've changed the wheels on the 6810, 6910, 6420s and the Puma, all done by man handling them

Can't you use pallet tines for the time being, Gav? You don't do it on your own do you?

We do what we can with the tines but its not ideal. I did do a good percentage of it by myself as per usual, is it any wonder I get fed up there

Been washing down the potato harvester, haulm topper and my tractor before swapping the wheels back to the full size ones on it. We really need to look into mechanising the wheel changing a bit more on safety grounds now, the back wheels are a bity on the large side to be manhandling safely on the Puma \