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Oh yes I do, I have 1200kg of weights hanging on it at the minute for ploughing, its also the only way to pick up and move my furrow press as none of the rear linkages drop low enough when its on the ploughed work. Once you have a front linkafe you'll be surprised as to how much you do use it

I have a Zuidberg on my 6920s Ricky, got absolutely no complaints with it at all, in fact its one of the few things on the tractor that isn't trouble ;D Make sure that you get one that has double acting rams on it though, you'd be surprised how handy that can be in certain situations and check to see how it will be plumbed in as mine is hard plumbled into the back of the spools with a changeover block, better than having it on probe ends into a spool itself.

Its not losing it either clock turned 127000 on the way back from LAMMA Wednesday, still going strong and averaged approx 40mpg on that run so not too bad at all

Try using a lighter right foot then bird brain ;D If it makes you feel better it cost £90 to fill my Discovery up last Friday

Its a good job you didn't attend LAMMA Marky, all the shiney new machinery may have had you reaching for your cheque book with you having been diagnosed with 'shiney paint syndrome' by Dr Mike ;D

Our welder does have wheels fitted to it which is usefull, only problem with the weder comes when trying to weld really light plate like tractor steps, it can be done but a mig would make it easier. Yes the straps are bent, have yet to see one with straight ones on it My thoughts are that its either been caught in the banks going down the road or when topping margins, it is pssible it was done how you say, just something we'll never know, just lucky it split off in the field and not coming down the road. Don't think it'll break again now somehow with all the work I've done to it

I've also been working on the destoner overhaul, still several bits outstanding from the dealers at the moment which i testing my patience as they told us they were all there two weeks ago only for a load of parts to be missing when they arrived on farm So far I have stripped the disc coulters down and replaced the hubs, bearings, sealing rings and disc coulters themselves, not got the prices to hand at the minute for those few bits but will add them to the topic later in the week, suffice to say just those few bits alone cost a considerable amount even after discount! The old disc, the other was exactly the same The rebuilt disc coulter assembly, hubs had to be replaced as they were worn allowing them to float in and out knackering the bearings in the process

Not alot happening on the land at the minute but we had a little misshap at work whilst topping stewardship margins yesterday, a small crack in one of the lift pin clevis's on the topper turned into a split so needed some major repairs and strengthening. No pictures of the split but here's a few of the remedial work and bracing Split can still be seen on front of plate in this picture, the rest has been welded and ground down Lots off bracing to reinforce the clevis's on it as I found a small crack in the other side upon close examination None of your fancy mig welders in our workshop, just a good old Oxford oil cooled

We have only used kale for out wintering once in the time I worked on the farm, it caused nitrate poisoning in some of the stores we had on it, 2 died because of it, it also ties up a field for a wwhole year so we don't bother with it now. Instead we grow either stubble turnips or a forage rape/kale hybrid that we can sow behind a crop of winter or spring barley, we bale the straw up and clear the bales to the edge of the field at 9m spacings, the field is then cultivated and drilled by early August allowing the crop to be forward enough for us to start grazing in November moving the fence forward one bale every day top and bottom. We also grow grazing rye by ploughing and drilling to allow for early grazing post calving in early spring giving the grass time to get ahead. We either plough for maize behind it, plough for sugarbeet or spring barley or we have subsoiled and cultivated the field before bedforming for potatoes in the past, our latest venture is also to rent one of the fields out for carrots meaning we don't have to do a thing to it after the cows are off. The fields to get panned down fairly tight, especially if it was wet while the cows were on it, obviously if the weather has been kind the field is left in much better condition. We always try and pick our lighter fields though for the task, there's one or two we would never attempt to graze the cattle on over winter. It does save us a fortune in feed though, we did host an open day a couple of years back about it that featured in the Farmers Weekly http://www.fwi.co.uk/Articles/2009/01/22/113841/Reducing-winter-feed-costs-is-possible-as-open-day-will.htm

Tell me about it Mandy, I've still not recieved a parcel that was sent to me first class in the middle of December, wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't my sisters Christmas present in it, was a frantic rush to find something else for her when it didn't turn up in time

Have you been hanging around the blind persons centre again Alex...... ;D

Post all your purchases here that aren't model 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)

I know, most people I know who had one put the little black box on them to their cost

I seem to remember something about that as well Sean, the Warrior models seem to suffer the most though, possibly due to thepower tweak on them

No idea on that one Tris, maybe if she has twins it could be Tiger and Moth ;D We only usually name the ones that are trouble, need extra care or overly friendly Angela......Kicks like a mule Deborah.....Weak calf we had last year Ginger......Extremely docile, no longer on the farm but at the local retirement home for cows Boeing......Wild and nutty, too much Limousin in her Clinton......Bull David........Bull, named after David Cameron, arrived on farm at election time Ed............Bull

The weather, our farmyard is like a skating rink, had two cows go down like a sack of sh!t today when we got them in for the winter/calving, numerous others slipping about as they came trotting down the road into the yard. We won't even go into Boeing the Heifer and her ability to annoy us.......she got her name because her tag ends in 747 and she's completely nuts, we dread her going into the crush as she tries to leap over it.....be fun when she calves

Sore point after having the engine rebuilt on his I think Alex, some of the 2002 - 2004 ones seem to suffer from bottom end failure in the engine or head gasket problems (and turbo in some cases...). The later old shape ones seem reliable as do the new shape ones, depends what age you'd be looking at. If you want a reliable double cab I'd go down the Hi-lux route but you will pay a bit more for it

Finishing the new barbed wire fence between our yard and the meadow that joins it at work followed by attaching the crash barriers to the sleepers we sunk into the ground infront of our fibreglass liquid fertiliser tanks last week to save any reversing "incidents" from occuring there and then finally starting to attach the crash barriers to the sleepers at the back of our cow shed that are going to form our outside coral for summer feeding and to aid with mucking out and handling the rest of the year. Its great fun when the ground is as hard as iron due to the frost, have some gate posts to concrete in but we daren't do it at present in the freezing conditions

10 lorry fulls of spuds being cancelled this week due to the weather, didn't want to risk opening the store in these conditions when it would let all the warmth out and expose the remaining 30 or so loads to the cold

Yes I've done it, easiest way is to just saw/dremel/cut by any means the back furrow off just behind the 5th one, can't remember if there is a line there already or not, have a feeling the model is based on a 5+1 but unsure without finding my one. It is possible to then re-attach the transport wheel at that point

I went back on Monday Tris, currently suffering from tendonitis in my right knee though, turns out its a side effect of the antibiotics I was on. The ash is fairly well seasoned having been laying in the field hedge for 10-11 months, never cut ash like this with a chainsaw before, the outside is as hard as iron to cut through, in fact its knocking even shades of s*&@ out of my chainsaw chain and yet the middle is as soft as hell, normally ash is a pleasure to process, this is a nightmare! Just back from the local pub hence my late appearance on here, had a pool tournament up there tonight, I however decided the bar needed to be propped up all night......... ;D

Our postman's reaction when I handed him a bottle of drink and card for Christmas as a thank you for bringing any parcels for me to the farm instead of leaving a card through the door for the past 12 months

Yeah it is Marky, its the top half of an ash tree that fell down back in the spring. It was as much as the teleporter wanted to carry the 2.5 miles down the road from where it was to my house, was an interesting trip given it was about 4.5m wide coming down the road in the muck grab ;D

Cutting up this "little" tree trunk with a chainsaw, 10 large wheel barrow fulls so far and at least the same amount again left in it. Really should be sitting indoors resting my leg given I have tendonitis in it at the min but I got bored, no doubt I'll suffer for it later