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These ones go straight through a grader and into bulkers before a short trip to a bulk store locally ready for Walkers. The Pentland Dell what we will go onto in a couple of weeks though all go into on farm bulk storage but with what the yields look like we may well have a problem

An Italian ebay member bidding on my item despite it saying UK postage only and being informed in response to his postage to Italy request of this as well......bids now cancelled

Thanks Marcus, if all this field and the other two of this variety run as well as the two headlands we've done then it will certainly be a good crop, the other variety looks to yield well as well leaving us with a few storage issues \

Cheers Adam, its not too bad really, still the odd wet patch in the field waiting to bung the roller table up though

It wasn't too major this time, well it would have been worse if it had of been left but just a pin ***** hole in the load sensing pipe on the back end of the tractor, cost more in labour than parts, can't see it getting changed for a while yet hough

I think Canada is a bit too far to come from for one day Simon :D

ooooooooh yes I'm the harvester operator, no one else can master my tractor for one thing :D Done about an acre so far and lifted between 20 and 25 tons of spuds so looking like a good year for them. The Deere is a sore point after having yet another visit from the doctor during the week for a oil leak

Potato harvesting today ;D

And some working pictures The cleaner table and discharge area cam Haulm roller and star cam - not a good picture as my digi cam doesn't like the monitor \ Filling the trailer, was a bit dusty

We also managed to get the Standen Vision fixed this morning so I've got you a few pictures of that as well, standing still to start with

A bit overdue but a few pages back I promised I'd get some pictures of the new cattle yard parts so here we are. We finally found some builders willing to do the job and they've made a start with rebuilding walls and erecting the feed barriers this week These bits are all parts for the bull pens and are bl@@dy heavy We now have our potato grading line set up as well, bit of a mismatch but it does the job

The spud harvester, we get it all up and running and into the first field, 30 yards into the first two rows it rips the splines out of the hydraulic motor on the roller cleaning table, will now be spending tomorrow fitting two new motors along with seals and driving dogs

I was more concerned with the seed depth and getting the joins right than upside down seeds :D

Seeing the rape I drilled two weeks ago and the barley I drilled last week up nicely, means I done the job right

I'd suggest a Renault 106-54 or one of its bigger brothers myself, all can pull like trains and can be had for decent money. In the case of the 106-54 the muck spreading contractor I worked for a while back had a few of them at one time, still had one at that time, 10000hrs and never had any problems with it. In its earlier days it had been used on 12 ton spreaders and ran rings around a JD 6900 when they had one alongside it on the same spreader despite being much smaller, very much a pocket rocket, slap a turbo on it and you'll have it up to 120hp no trouble

They came direct from Standen's at Ely with the correct tag on them so we guess so, got to the point that we are going to finish putting the drive chains on in the morning and the digger web then put the PTO in gear and hope they sort themselves out as we can't afford to spend anymore time on it. The bulkers are arriving and we still have to change my wheels and get the grader set up ready for Monday

The star shafts on my spud harvester, we refit the new stars as per the old ones and the two shafts collide, so we do it as per the book and they still collide so we alter them with no difference, what should have taken an hour has taken two of us the best part of a day and a half and they still aren't right > > >

At least you have a matching pair of black eyes now Marky :D :D

Continued with the potato harvester overhaul today now we're all drilled up, hopefully should finish it tomorrow. Also had to have one of the older cows put down

I dragged it out backwards with a chain before pulling him out the same way

Didn't have to plough the set aside, only the stubble, wasn't too bad just hard work in the fluffy patches, no wet holes there that I didn't know about from when I baled it

Been ploughing a nasty little field today where the soil won't scour so its been sticking to the mouldboards and making it hard work.....unfortunately it is also a wet field.......bosses son was topping the set aside on there this morning, I'd just put my plough on when I looked across and saw he'd bogged the 6810 and topper, good start to the day at 8.30 am : Unfortunately he done it again at midday Which led to this happening when I tried to pull him out Boss managed to pull me out with his 6420s no problems as I'd stopped before I went in too far, we then chained mine to the 6810 and the 6420s to the front of mine and hauled it straight out with little trouble

That I'll agree with Chris, 22 rods putting a cutting edge on a bucket whilst wearing a t-shirt........result strong bucket edge but very very sore arms

Its on standard 38 inch wheels, the tyres are just worn on it, its also set at 72 inch centres for row crop work

Been drilling the first of our winter barley today, 45 acres drilled in 9 hrs, leaves just over 30 acres left to drill now so unless I'm overhauling the spud harvester tomorrow it will all be drilled in another 24hrs