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I didn't say I would be out of the gate I said the tractor would be The cost of the repairs on it is shocking

By boss gave me the year on year costings for my 6920s..........lets just say the this service year doesn't end till April and its frightening, if it doesn't get any better it'll be out the gate as the farm can't keep paying out like they have been for it :of :of

They are Ricky, two big hydraulic motors that can be turned on and off as required with two power settings, standard and extra power, the latter will push the tractor along on concrete. We wouldn't be able to move on a lot of our land without it in a wet season

Thanks Niels. Its a water kit on top of the machine, never had anything to do with them before. It is a heavy machine at 7500kg but its too good a deal to turn down in our opinion, the visibility isn't as bad as you might think once you get used to it. The Vision hasn't been offered with the lgp tyre option as far as I'm aware, that was on the Pearson derived Enterprise and QM machines as far as I know. The diablos on this are indeed driven which should prove useful on some of the lighter fluffy land we now grow spuds on, it was a nightmare this year for bulldozing

Exactly, thats been the problem with the Enterprise, I've not got one nearby to go to each time I need to check something on it. A new harvester was always talked about for this season so I held off as there was a chance it would be an Enterprise I could have made use of. Now I know what we're getting I can act accordingly

Thats the annoying bit, it would have, in fact if it wasn't for the Single Farm Payment we would have to stop growing potatoes altogether as we couldn't afford to grow them for the price they are making at the moment given the amount of work that goes into them

Not trading the old one in Sean, trying to sell it privately if not we'll keep it and scrap it for parts for the new one as we think most are interchangeable. It is Marky but the current one could cost a considerable amount to get ready for this season and at 12 seasons old this year you have to think hard about what to spend and its future reliability i.e do we spend £10k getting the old one ready or spend that and a bit extra on another one \

I think they've offered us about £6 a ton for them, we don't really want them back as we have enough stockfeed as it is, there's only so many spuds the cows can eat in 8 weeks

Its the same size as the current one give or take a little They're looking for approx £25k for it, wouldn't get a Grimme for anywhere near that in that condition at that age besides which I wouldn't want one

I would imagine the absolute minimum you'd need on it would be 100-120hp Marky, its quite a heavy harvester that takes a little bit of driving \

Its just the newer version of our current one, same sort of output just has more cleaning rollers in it

Its a good job we abolished Numpty awards Sean or you'd be getting one now......given I said its a 2005 machine in the original post I'd say its now coming up to its sixth harvesting season ;D ;D It is a lot of money especially given all the extras fitted to it but it's working in our favour

Its all time though Marky, annoying as it is we can't justify it, looking like the cows are going to be well fed this spring

It may well be, the delay behind the building of the original Enterprise model I was planning has now been revealed

Neither, we can't afford a brand new harvester on our acreage so were looking at used Enterprise and Vision machines, the latter is the more likely

Not been much going on a work lately, I was ill for the two weeks before Christmas so wasn't there anyway, all we've been doing is grading spuds out of store for processing and for the past couple of days mucking out the cattle yards and getting them ready for the cows to come in on Monday morning. We are also changing our current Standen Vision for a 2005 Standen Vision XS if the machine is as good as it looks in the pictures and as the salesman says it is. It's only lifted 150 acres a year on fenland silt since new so its in exceptonal condition and should last us years. We've provisionally said that we'll have it even though we haven't looked at it yet as its too good to miss out on with other people being interesd in it as well

It's going to be another Standen, we'd never buy a Grimme harvester for various reasons

We're upgrading the spud harvester for this season, last year really knocked the stuffing out of it with how hard and dry it was

Not this year Sean, will be next year at the earliest before we look at tractors

Being told today that my boss and myself are going "shopping" on Monday :D :D

If you saw them then you would see why we aren't happy, I've seen much worse on the shelves of supermarkets.........the joys of there being too many spuds on the market at present. Computer spud never went on the grader, this has just lost the farm around £4000 There's not enough money in it to make bagging them worthwhile Ben, as it is we've got about 50-60 tons of what they call mid size spuds piled in the barn, they're too small for the McCains contract but still plenty big enough for kitchen use

The rejected load of spuds we re-graded yesterday was rejected again because they were too bruised : con merchants spring to mind

Having to put a rejected load of spuds (approx 26 tons, they took 3.5 off pre rejection) over the grader again at 7.30 am today before sending them back in.........wouldn't be annoying if they hadn't rejected it for rotton potatoes, we only picked about 30-40 rotton spuds out of the whole load, looks like McCains are playing silly buggers

My neighbours son and his music AGAIN!!!!! Its currently pounding through my walls again for the umpteenth tme since they moved in, despite several polite requests from me to keep the noise down (and one threat of using his x-box/rock band for 12 bore target practice). Looks like I need to go to my boss as the house belongs to them \

Thats what I was thinking too, save the IPA for any guests ;D ;D