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A couple of pictures of the Saxon second early potato's I lifted today, this lot came off 20 feet of row, some were quite a size too The red ones are one root of Kondor maincrop

Trouble is that they may not have a job on the Monday if they did so Tris, Manns are funny about them working on their machines for cash in hand, especially if its under warrantty which I'm guessing the 600 is. Heard that first hand from someone who works for them. Sad that that branch is like that Phill as our local branch are very good, thats one reason why so many people have been buying Claas stuff round here.

Take a look at my "At work with Gav" topic and I'm sure that you can work it out

I'm sure if you need any more details on them Jez will be able to help you given where he works

Some good pics there Phill, is it Manns that you are dealing with there, if so which branch?

Britains John Deere 2266 combine..........now wheres my Dremel

Another video now :D :D

Should be here this week mate, having a few haulier problems.........

A video of combining yesterday

They're going in between 1 and 2cm deep

Cheers Adam, we still have OSR, Spring Barley, Winter and Spring Wheat left to go yet Depends on the swath, with a good full swath behind our combine I don't have to weave too much but with a narrow or rounded swath I do or I get barrel shaped bales

Cultivating and drilling stubble turnips yesterday at a seed rate of 5kg/ha 6810 on Terra Disc 6920s and Vaderstad

My carting set up, my 6920s and 14 ton AS trailer Buster having fun :D I have two videos as well, just waiting for them to upload at the minute

Some pictures from yesterday now, I was grain carting for a change, could keep up with the combine instead of him having to wait like he was with the student doing it

We just had one small spot of lodging in the one field and that was more to do with a wet spot than anything

Got the cultivator and the drill ready this morning then the student went cultivating and I went drilling stubble turnips behind him till 4pm, quick stop at home before going back grain carting till 10:20pm as the barley had dried out after yesterdays downpour. Pictures a couple of videos to come tomorrow

Finished combining our winter barley at 10:20pm tonight, looks like its all made the top grade as well from the tests ;D

These ones will just be tipped over as bedding Rob, gives the cows something to lay on while they munch off the turnips We will be ammonia treating some a bit later on again, the cows can't get enough of them once they are inside and calving

They offered it to us so who are we to refuse

If the baler had of behaved I'd have been right behind the combine on the other field, lost over 5 hours due to that. Combine isn,'t pretty but it does the job. Should be having a new Tucano out on demo soon Those bales will be staying out all winter, fields going into stubble turnips so will be put around the edge and put in on a daily basis

We started cutting our winter barley yesterday, got about 25 acres left to do now. Been baling the first field up today, baler threw a wobbly though and spat a bearing out mid morning, was 4.30pm when I got going again only to be rained off at 8.30pm with only a few swaths left. Once the bearing was fixed I was really pushing on, 40 5' bales an hour at 12.5kph, was only doing 20-25 last week Not what you want to see looming up when you're baling was 30mins after pic was taken when it hit

Trying to change some ram seals at work only to find that they have sent the wrong seals and that one of the two rams has a bent piston. Also had a couple of chaps out from the dealers today fitting a new hydraulic rockshaft kit (£800!!) to my tractor due to wear and tear meaning the pick up hitch won't function

We've also got a new (well to us) tractor coming home in the next week or so, we finally found what we think is the right tractor and bought it. Its a 2001 John Deere 6910 with 6600 hours on the clock, will be used for drilling, de-stoning and trailer work mostly as well as a back up for my if when it goes wrong again, exactly the same size tyres as mine so my row crop wheels will fit it as well, decided to keep the front linkage and PTO so it can go on the spud harvester should the need arise. I'll get some better pictures once it arrives

As far as I know I'm baling 50 acres for the neighbour followed by about 300acres of our own as we don't need so much straw this year. I think its a 22' cut Ricky, only go 10-11k with it, sure I could push it harder but don't see the point. Had a few age related problems with it last year but they are all sorted now, just got a net issue at the minute which we should be able to sort after its been used again, got a roll of genuine JD net in it to rule out our stuff now, if it still plays up we know the rubber roller needs changing @ £500 :o Not sure on that one Mike as I didn't start it up, by the time I was looking at it the auctioneer was only a couple away. Do know where there are a couple of decent 6900's up in your direction though

Sounds more the size that the previous idiot at Weatherheads should have sold you in the first place Should do everything that you want it to more sensibly than Frankie