Gav836

5 minutes ago, chris.watson said:

Yes, I know it mate, farm on the left next to a little lane. Opposite is the land that used to belong to moulsham hall which was sold when the racecourse was built, it now stands idle and is reverting to scrub...shocking really.

Seems to happen quite a bit these days. I knew you were around that area somewhere but couldn't remember where. I'm doing more work now for the training group that covers your area so never know when I might be in the area again. 

Just now, chris.watson said:

Willows green? Which farm was it, and what were you training people on.

Gate Farm from memory Chris for Pa4g and Pa4s training. 

10 hours ago, chris.watson said:

My neck of the woods Gavvers, where were you?

A stones throw from the showground down Moulsham Hall lane. First time I've been down into Essex that far for training courses.  

Enjoying the first day of a 4 day weekend after having a long day yesterday down near Braintree teaching. Very little paperwork to do this weekend so should be a relaxing one!

Enjoying the first day of a weekend away on the edge of Rutland Water, been a busy few weeks and the next few are looking manic so short break was needed!

That's a very nice addition to your collection. James has done an excellent job building it. 

What annoyed me today? Idiots who think the world should revolve around them and their ideas/reasoning.......one of them may think he's going to win the battle but he picked the wrong person this time

On ‎22‎/‎04‎/‎2017 at 9:39 AM, Tractorman810 said:

 

one thing that has come from it is we need a clean up of certain topics , and areas, this may mean some topics are merged into one bigger rolling one, as being a free forum,we do have at time limited bandwidth ,usually peak times, the joys of you guys having it for free, posting say a seperate topic for every thing you do, when a single topic for all your stuff may need to be implememted,especially if your a prolific conversion person or similar . all helps in the housekeeping side we need to do thats all,and with luck saves to much downtime .

 

One or two members may notice that this has now happened and that they have individual topics in their own names on certain boards for their various posts, this has solely been done for the reasons stated above by Sean so please do not see it that we have singled any one member out in an act of malice.

Forklift course this morning so I'm now qualified to teach on the side loader types found in timber merchants and similar, followed by a relaxing afternoon. 

These things are good fun to drive

I did wonder if you might have had Vernon, I've known him for a long time now and speak to him regularly as we both teach the same pesticide modules as well. 

That's not one of the courses I get involved with, there's already another couple of guys doing it for the training groups I work for. Did you do it through Otley or one of the independent groups Smithy?

Forklifts, Pa1,2,4,6,11,SC pesticides, tractors, ploughing and any other machinery ones that may crop up. 

2 hours ago, simong said:

What training do you undertake Gav?

2 hours ago, simong said:

That my daughter starts an agricultural apprenticeship at Elevden Estates on Monday. Well happy for her. 

They'll keep her busy on there that's for certain. It's one of the farms that I go on as a training instructor. 

1 hour ago, Deere-est said:

The prospect of a ten week booking through Oct/Nov next year. Now that's advance bookings for you! Albeit in the cider pulp which doesn't require much but it's guaranteed 12hrs/day, 5 days a week, home every night. 

That's the sort of booking you need Tris! A lot of my bookings only happen for a few weeks ahead so can be a bit frustrating at times. I am hopeful though that I have work booked for next harvest already plus one of my fellow instructors is packing up so may put some more training courses my way. 

2 hours ago, chris.watson said:

You naughty boy smithy. Is that a spray can box I can see on the fire in the first picture. I do hope the tripple rinsed cans weren't in it. 

No triple rinsed ones Chris, no need to wash them if you're going to burn them, saves time when filling, thought you'd have known that

On 05/11/2016 at 9:52 PM, smithy said:

Cant tell you exact place at moment my mate got one of the chaps business cards so can find out later on but phone no is on the tractor it was somewhere on a back road between WISBEACH and HOLBEACH  I will see my mate in next few days and get the address and come back to you   

That wasn't at a place called Three Holes was it? Place is right on a sharp bend on the A1101 if it's the one I'm thinking of. 

I have to agree unfortunately, no rain to speak of in the forecast for here and turning colder in the next week. Hopefully we're both proved wrong. I think Spring barley could be popular around here next year as well but for different reasons. There's a lot of decimated OSR crops around here thanks to CSFB, in some cases neighbouring fields are a mix of one good stand and its neighbour is bare!

1 hour ago, chris.watson said:

I would settle for 7mm at the moment Gav mate. Friend has got a farm in Suffolk at Brampton and he has had 60 mm in last 3 weeks. No beet being lifted around here, it's too hard.

I'm not surprised, I've been seeing some of my friends comments on Facebook from down your way as to how dry it is, it's unbelievable how it can still be so dry down with you after all the rain elsewhere in the East, it's not that greater distance between us really either! Hopefully you'll get some rain with you soon and that the forecast is wrong!

That was fairly light land there Mike, we've had 70mm of rain here this month (sorry Chris!!) so some fields are a bit damp in a place or two but no where near as wet as it has been at times. 

After having a couple of weeks away from the farm I've spent three days back there this week carting sugar beet and should be there next week doing the same. 

They run their own harvester which is shared with another local farm, between the two of them they carry out contract work with it as well. The harvester is a 59 reg  Agrifac Quatro six row, this is the fourth year that they've owned it, it's only going to lift 450-500 acres of beet this season as customers have cut their acreages due to the abysmal prices being paid for the crop currently. 

I've had one of the 6930's on the Richard Western 18 ton trailer carting, it holds about 1.5 harvester tank loads, the customers usually put an extra trailer in with us as well. 

I think we've spread in the region of 2500 tons of yard muck over the land as well, the last of it was done with one of the 6930's and one of the old Ford 7840's both on Bunnings spreaders. 

We've two drills going, the other 6930 has been on a Kverneland tine drill putting wheat in (no pics I'm afraid, been elsewhere!) while I had the 7230r on an Amazone combination fitted with a shakerator tine bar with four legs on it drilling the barley.

We've just about finished all our Autumn land work now with only 40 acres of barley left to drill following potatoes on a field they rented to a large grower, they finished lifting them this lunchtime and I just managed to finish cultivating it before it got too wet. 

A few more pictures from the past few weeks, we had a slight bearing failure on the baler resulting in a 5 acre BBQ! No real damage caused though and we were baling again 15 hrs later. 

We've also had a 6155r direct drive out on demo so decided to test it on the 6f Kv plough in very dry and hard ground. We both said that we prefer the autopower transmission but it's what we're used to. 

On 11 August 2016 at 0:19 AM, smithy said:

Does the press use all your horsepower ? or is it easy to pull what would a 4meter one need hp wise , mine is ok but is a bit heavy on some hills but if the ploughing is good I can normally keep it strait  

Sorry Smithy missed this, we do use a 6930 on it as well but to get the best out of it with the tines in any depth then it needs the HP of the 7230r

3 minutes ago, Paul Palmer said:

get a decent firm then Sean

 The trouble is there's so many clowns out there doing building work, decorating and other home improvement related work that finding good ones isn't as easy as it used to be. 

Drilling winter barley with a JD 7230r and 3m Amazone combination mounted on a shakerator frame while boss drills wheat with 6930 and Kverneland tine drill