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Already cultivated and drilled 22 acres of forage rape at work withing 48 hrs of the field being cut, baled and cleared

One of our students at work.........he just has a way of annoying me without even trying to

M reg was between 1 August 1994 and 31 July 1995

That looks like a good buy Tim, looks like its been well looked after by the previous owner. Unusual to see one that age with no signs of corrosion starting to show on the rear door too.

That field will be drilled by Monday lunchtime if it all goes to plan, should get the fodder rape off to a good start. They haven't been round yet as in his words the other week "We'll give you four weeks notice as that should give you time to get it tidy" >

Not really ahead Sean, we usually cultivate where the fodder crops are going as soon as we can after the fields have been cut and baled so we can get them drilled asap

We started cutting our winter barley yesterday afternoon, 22 acres done and baled by 8pm but then had some showers overnight and no real dry out today so this morning I cleared the bales to the edge of the field then cultivated the field this afternoon ready to drill the forage rape on Monday. A few pictures from this afternoon The readout from the tractors computer after I finished the field showing area worked, distance travelled, average fuel per ha and per hour and total fuel used

The reaction of one our students (also the owners son) to a practical joke at work today ;D ;D He made the mistake of revealing to me Monday that he doesn't like (read runs a mile) mice or rats while we were cleaning the grainstore so today myself and another student managed to dispatch one whilst loading the last of last years wheat out which was then rested on the steering wheel of a certain persons tractor he was using for topping so it was looking at him.......his reaction was better than expected ;D ;D

I think its a 20' cut, there won't be much straw about this area this year after all the dry weather we had during the spring and early summer, that was his best field as well. Lexions do leave the straw in a tighter swath than many combines do as well so there does look to be less than there was in places on there

Just a couple from the baler side of things......I'm in the dog house at the village pub at the minute as it bounced on the road outside covering several of the regulars with baley harns and pieces of straw last night ;D control box The view from the seat, the Case dwarfs the baler unlike the JD used to, will get more pictures when we start gong again.

As I mentioned elsewhere our neighbour started cutting his Flaggon winter barley yesterday, I've been dreading baling this after last year when it just shattered on contact with the baler but no such problems like that this year for me only with the net wrap thanks to my boss buying 4200m rolls that take two people to lift into the baler and the fact the net chamber is made for 3600m rolls at the most On with the pictures...... Lexion 440

Two of our neighbours have both started cutting now, had to go baling for one of them Friday afternoon (just noticed its Saturday ), the barley wasn't brilliant but it also wasn't as bad as he feared at about 7.5t/ha. Will post up a few pictures later on

Because they are bolted sugarbeet plants so the genetic basics are the same as the sugarbeet crop in the field, the sprays that would kill the weed beet would also kill the sugarbeet hence the weed wiping with round up and a few passes with the tractor hoe early on

Variable chamber Cerin. Today I got handed the most hated job on the farm as our self employed chap finished yesterdau to have a few days off before he starts harvest elsewhere.......weed wiping the weed beet, the boss hates it and I hate it as well. Its a slow and unrewarding job with no signs of you have done any good for around two weeks. A certain farm management company have a lot to answer for in years gone by for letting things get to infestation stage they are on the farm now. Steed for the day was the JD 6420s which has a knacked 3 point hitch rock shaft on it at present so I had to be careful if the tractor hit any bumps as the weedwiper had 8 inches plus of up and down travel at the boom tips 6420s and Edlington weedwiper The weed beet......theres some sugar beet plants in there as well!!!

Looking like we'll be starting on the barley next week weather permitting, the rape was only sprayed off yesterday so be looking at about two weeks before thats ready to cut

I'd also say to allow a dog to climb the steps without the risk of its feet going through the slats in them

Not pleasant Paul, I spent a few days on a landfill site when I was self employed with a contractor digging in drainage pipes to take the liquid oozing out of the rotting garbage away, that was in a cell that had been capped several years ago, the smell was almost overpowering at 7am

This is whats puzzling me as the owners have told me in the past that he does nothing but sing my praises to them as have a few other people he talks to, he rarely does it to my face though so I get the information via a third party. Plan A at the minute is to let him have his inspection so it backfires on him as there aren't any faults to find in here, its clean and in good decorative order, the garden can be sorted within an hour, just needs a lawn mower and some roundup. In the mean time other avenues are being looked into

I had to turn the job down with the new Fendt due to the personal problems I've been having. This morning he's given me notice that he wants the landlords to inspect my house due to the fact that there are weeds growing on the outside of my garden wall (highways/council maintained area!!) and my front lawn hasn't been cut for two weeks, he intimated that my house may be a pigsty and extremely untidy, nothing could be further from the truth so he's really done it this time. I'm going to speak to my neighbour in a bit who also works for them and see if he had a similar phonecall about weeds and walls as his is the same but I suspect not. Yes theres the odd Springer hair or magazine laying on the table in my house but its a home not a show piece and I resent the fact he's trying to say otherwise

My bosses attitude towards me again!!!! I've been having some personal problems for the past few months and he already blurted them out in front of my three work colleagues a few weeks back, one of whom knew nothing about them. Ever since I told him about them its felt like he's been looking down his nose at me and that his attitude towards me has changed, he's picking on me for every little thing he can think of it seems and I'm now reaching breaking point after his phonecall this morning, if it carries on he will be told exactly where his job can be inserted and I will then go to the top of the ladder and tell them exactly why > >

I also spotted this field when I was out near where I used to live the other day, looks like its been put into an arable reversion scheme as it was fairly poor growing land in a wet year, not seen so many poppies in a field for a very long time though

Its a 50kph box fitted Mark, we were advised to go to that to keep the resale value up in the future. Been going through my phone this afternoon and found a load of photo's on there of the contractor baling our silage a few weeks back. As we were so short of grass on our first cut we've bought standing grass off 3 of our neighbours, made up of large margins, set aside and old water meadows, we were hoping for about 200 bales and we've exceeded that by getting 280, all carted back and wrapped at the old airfield in the village where our usual silage ground is located. The Krone baler is a demonstrator that the contractor is trying this season with a view to replacing three of his JD balers with it, early impressions of it are that its a good baler but they would be ordering them with the tandem axle option in order to spread the weight a bit more.

There is, your boy's been auctioning off tickets to do it on ebay ;D

The amount of new kit at the Royal Norfolk Show with a certain local contractors name of it, of particular note were a JCB 434 shovel, Stewart 20t silage trailer with electric sheet and a Krone Big X 1100 forage harvester, he must have been shaking his money tree again