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Only had it since April 17, now 26k done miles. Drives so much better with the little black box!

I can’t get it remapped as it’s under warranty and plugged in once a year for updates which would remove the remap. Chip is removable so big advantage and can be reprogrammed when I change the truck.

Had a little black box fitted to my Ford Ranger this afternoon, having driven it back the fuel economy is up by 6 mpg and it drives even better than it did as standard. Based on the miles I do now it should really make some savings

Is it really that long ago that I sent you all the various measurements and brochure copies for this!!

Good pictures Joe. The crop is rye, there are thousands of acres of it grown in Norfolk and the surrounding counties now as whole crop for AD plants. A few years back it was strictly a grain crop grown for the likes of Ryevita on light land as it’s not a fussy crop when it comes to soil types.

Certainly are and word soon gets round as to who they are, those that do that sort of thing need to remember that model dealers/sellers/builders talk to each other so they get found out very quickly, especially if it’s forum members involved.

Extremely, even the black grass looks sick in the field behind the host farm. Think you’re suffering more here than we have been back in Norfolk until this week, starting to hear the words spring barley and write off in the same sentence a lot now.

Currently trying to keep cool down in Essex while doing a two day forklift course........think someone’s turned the heating up down here!!

After spending several hours yesterday sorting out the wiring loom for it, I finally got my Truckman top fitted today so I can now get more stuff in the buck than when the shutter was fitted.......shame they’ve got the wire colours for the central locking the wrong way round in the instructions though! Quick slice and splice and it’s working ok now!

Looks a tidy tractor Paul, going by the reg plate it originated on my doorstep here in Norfolk. Our neighbour used have an 804xl as his spraying tractor, could hear it working from a mile away!

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Cut a piece of string, some are on minimum wage and others are on a damn good rate but sometimes there’s still a house included in the pay.

Wrong industry for me to help you in unfortunately, often asked on courses about anyone looking for farm work.

That’s never a good place to be in. What line of work are you in?

Glad your ok Justin, material things can be repaired or replaced as frustrating as it is, living things can't. I too can just remember 1987, really frightening night for a 7 year old (me!) and adults alike.

I never sat on it so

Not updated this for a while as I've not been on the farm at all this harvest, I've still been training people all through the period. Today I had to do a Pa2 sprayer course on something a bit different though at a large plant nursery in the fens so thought I'd get a few pictures. The machine in question was an 8m wide spraying "robot" which is piloted up, down and across the greenhouses on tracks with a self contained generator on board. It can also pick up a large quantity of plant trays and transfer them to a platform for stacking and transport, all under the control of one man.

At Dunns Grain in Long Sutton today doing a Pa1 pesticide course for them......I like having air conditioned venues, stops their brains overheating

In a very wet Lincolnshire at a poultry farm not far from Lincoln to do knapsack sprayer training......hope there's an empty shed on site!!

Wouldn't mind a MF 865 myself, it was the first combine that I ever had a go at driving, fitted with an 18ft power flow header. It was replaced with a Claas Dominator 118 Maxi after the straw walkers broke up.

I done their third and final forklift course last Saturday, they'd finished their OSR and were in the process of getting the three combines ready to go into wheat as soon as it was dry enough.

Used to use a single axle Welger big baler and they definitely don't ride as well as the twin axle variant. The MF 2160 produces a 1.2m wide six string bale similar to a Claas Quadrant.

Are you sure it wasn't a 2160 Mike, quite a common model and comes in both single and double axle form?

Passed my Pa6a knapsack sprayer and Pa6aw knapsack applications to water assessments this afternoon. Two more added to my list!

Refreshers are only one day so should be much cheaper. As long as you have your Pa1, the Pa3 would be in the region of £210-250 including the training and the assessment fee as a ballpark figure.