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I'd heard that as well but up until now thought that it may just be another one of those tales that get spread around Its a frightening amount of fuel to use really, admittedly that field is tight having just had a 6 row beet harvester run on it but no different to what the MF had to deal with and that used 27-28ltr/hr. In order of fuel usage the New Holland was the lowest but they all sat in the 25-28ltrs/hr bracket

A few more in cab pictures showing the commandarm set up and the command centre readout

Genuine parts on it Simon, they wear better. Well finally, after 10 months of waiting I have a John Deere on demo and am rather unimpressed by it. Yes the commandarm makes life better in there by putting everything close to hand and in one place and yes it has a better lift range on the hitch but to be honest they're stuck in the past with the cabs. It does pull and handle the plough well but it should do at that size compared to a 6920s (which incidently is showing signs of a looming transmission failure) but by god can't it drink diesel in doing so, no matter where i set the engine management functions its using between 30 and 36 litres an hour while ploughing, thats between 2 and 10 litres more an hour than any other tractor we've demo'd, work that out over 5-6000 hours and its a good lump of money

That always used to amuse me as well when I was doing multi drop oil deliveries, used to come past like hell then anchor on before taking off again, always good for a laugh!

Its the location of the wheels thats the problem Sean, grain trailers have theirs nearer the middle so you can easily turn them in tighter spaces whereas with the low loader having them at the back it cuts corners more and will always need more space. With it being lower the tractor will also foul the trailer if you try and turn too tight with it. Our low loader is the same length as our 14t trailers but always requires more turning space to get it round or through anywhere

I've never used them but have no idea why any company would need your email password in order to place an order. There is a phone number for them on the following page though: http://www.tractorium.com/Hp-AGB-ENG.html I will say that an 18 euro shipping charge does sound expensive though \

There's four words I never thought I would hear in the same sentance :of ;D

We are having to be very careful with our cropping rotation with regards to disease build up, particularly club root as with also growing oileed rape it is a real possibility. The forage rape hybrid (Swift/Redstart)/turnips are usually grown on fields we can get the cattle to easily so mostly near to the yard, the same one having just gone through a barley-turnip-spring barley-Redstart rotation it will now have a break for a couple of years before having another brassica crop on it. The oilseed rape is a new comer onto the farm due to the weed beet problem we have in the land on some fields making growing sugar beet difficult and expensive on some fields, its a big juggling act at times with knowing what to put where. The slatted boards actually make it easier to pull, the problem is the straw layer is up to 8 inches thick, well matted and wet leying on top of well compacted headlands from the cows jamming about on it. Even at slow forwards speeds all it takes is for the land wheel to skid instead of turn or for a skimmer to briefly ride near the surface in a dip and it starts to drag the straw up like a rake would blocking the plough in the process. I opened the plough right out to 50cm furrow widths to allow a bit more clearence which did help slightly. Before we have scraped the headlands with the muck grab but the ones on this fireld are to wet to run the teleporter and a trailer about on, its one of those fields that never dries out properly until mid summer so as its coming beet needed to be turned over now to try and get some frost onto the soil to break it up and hopefully allow it to dry slightly by mid March

Wear sun glasses whilst looking at them....... ;D ;D

Why do you think I kept you well away from mine last year

And thats just when Alex sees you sitting on your booster seat to see over the steering wheel with wooden blocks tied to your feet so you can reach the pedals Tris ;D

Unfortunately this is the downside to outwintering cattle, having to try and plough this much straw in on the headlands........good job there isn't a swear box in my tractor thats all I'll say

Nope they aren't when they get to that size Marky, thats the joy of Dell, keep them watered and they get to that size and stay solid. Those were two that had been pushed out the end of a row in the field hence the scuff marks on them

Smalls to McCains most years are anything under 50mm in diameter but due to Dell being elongated you can still get some big ones in that lot, not sure what the restrictions were this year but it seems criminal to me when I see some of what we've fed to the cattle in the past two years. Are these big enough......

I was off with flu when they loaded the bulk of the Dell but when I returned they told me we had a shed full of smalls, when I went in there I expected to see a load of golf ball sized spuds but not these, certainly wouldn't call these smalls

We sent 6 bulker fulls of McCains reject smalls into another processor at Grantham this year, their idea of smalls are big enough to use as baking poato's as well. If they were making that much maybe we should have found another buyer \

Pentland Dell are a popular alternative to Maris Piper for processing into frozen chips and the like here Niels, they have the capability to produce large elongated tubers and a heavy yield. Crisps 4 All are an unknown quantity to us, its the first time we've grown that variety, we had to wait for the seed to come in from Holland as the supply of Saturna seed had completly ran out here last spring, both the later are grown for Walkers crisps, the Dell being for McCains, all are on contract but no idea on the contract prices.

Nope, 65 acres still in the ground, we're waiting on the haulier to tell us when he's coming as British Sugar are operating a lift and process within 24hrs policy at the moment. We do have some frost damage but ours look alot better than some, the fields are still green for one thing

Yeah I know what you mean Ricky, for that much extra in cost it may be worth going for though no matter what. Unsure what capacity mine is without having a look on it but never short of lift.

Just out of interest Ricky, what is the maximum front axle loading for a 6930 as I'd imagine with a 5t front linkage it would be getting close when loaded up?

Not bad at all then, especially considering the bad press that the Freelander gets at times

At least with it being a Land Rover it shouldn't cost too much either

Last years bill was over £6500 as well Sean, this years total is over £7000 at the moment. The machine is now coming into its 12th season so is getting on a bit for the type of work its used for. We should hopefully be having a new Standen Uniweb destoner on demo this year, was talking to their salesman at LAMMA about it when he offered us the demo, supposed to be a vey good machine so we'll have to see what happens

Our Dell have all gone now, very minimal frost damage on them, they always seem to keep better in our straw bale lined shed with a layer of straw over the top of them than some do in insulated stores. The Saturna and Crisps 4 All don't go for a while yet though but they are in a group storage facility at Thetford. My boss estimates that we are £20,000 down on potato money this year as the yields and sizes were down on the Dell........thats before we get to the sugarbeet side of the cropping

As promised a couple of posts ago these are the prices for the bits fitted to put the front end of the destoner right for those that may be interested......hope you're sitting down!!!!! 2 x Disc coulters @ £349.71 each 2 x Hubs @ £248.86 each 2 x 6211-2RS bearings @ £28.87 each 2 x Self aligning bearings @ £67.92 each 4 x Sealing rings @ £5.81 each There's some discount on them but even accounting for that the total for just those few bits came to £1292.35, thats without a couple of hours labour and some new nuts and bolts to fit everything........and my contribution to the swear box in doing so ;D