chris.watson

Another amazing build Ian, well done mate.

2 hours ago, b_emmons said:

Thank you, I hope so

Good luck mate, my gaffer on the farm suffered like you for a few years, it wasn’t MS though, turned out to be Celiacs disease. Mind you, all the chemicals we have been handling for years probably has affected us all....sheep dip through to all the sprays. Often wondered if I would have death via Metasistox

2 minutes ago, smithy said:

only a couple of weeks ago we needed some rain ,now we got too much

Feel your pain too Smithy, it’s turning into a salvage job. We’ve had 80 mil here in the last 2 weeks but a mate up at beccles has had 160 mil. 

On 8/24/2019 at 10:07 AM, Ferret90 said:

I love that, what sprayer is going on the back?  

My moneys on a knight

1 hour ago, smithy said:

Been cutting more grass today hopefully we get the sun over weekend to make hay

We dropped 140 acres today mate. Fingers crossed it stays sunny. Some people round here have had hay down for 2 weeks and had 55 mil of rain on it......looks awful.

Sorry to hear your dad isn’t well Andy

22 minutes ago, mb86 said:

There was me worrying about taking the UH one apart! It will look great when you've finished Chris. 

Was a bit worrying mate. Hopefully it will make it look 100% when it’s done.

39 minutes ago, alf aphid said:

Yes I must admit I always thought that model was somewhat lacking with no glazing, when considering price!

Your right mate. Makes you wonder if the prices for these will start to slip a little.

15 minutes ago, GPS said:

Brave man!

I believe the later ones did have glazing. My blue one doesn't, but the gold, yellow and red (Udimore) do.

It came apart very easily actually mate. And yes, all Daves later works were glazed. Will be happy to get my one done.

Since the uh county came out my dbp variant just doesn’t look right without a glazed cab.......so with clean pants on.....I split it, and got away with it. Will now be able to detail the cab with some black trim rubbers and glazing.

Stunning......as usual from you Ian.

Looks fantastic. Well done mate.

In East Anglia rape crops that got away well from flea beetle attacks last August looked good until the hidden damage comes to sight in the late winter/early spring. If you take a stem of what looks like healthy rape, cut it down the stem you will see little white blobs, these are flea beetle larvae. When these hatch out in the spring, they eat from the inside out, and doom the plant to very heavy loses. Some people are even letting the pigeons graze the crop as they eat the larvae we stopped growing rape 6 years ago, and incidentally, haven’t used a slug pellet on the farm for 4 years. Nothing attracts slugs like a rape crop.

56 minutes ago, smithy said:

Yesterday I went to lift this manhole lid as I needed to feed this armour cable though some ducting , but I dropped it on my hand/finger and it b##### hurt , 32hours later it still b##### hurts . cant bend or move it .dr said badly bruised/squashed good start to the new year

Man up Smithy......just cut it off....you’ve got three others Pal

13 hours ago, mb86 said:

Criminal would be a good word to describe what happened leading up to fmd

 

Squeaky bum time for us at the moment mate, but there has been at least 10 reported cases since the main bse outbreak all those years ago. If they contain it, they will be fine. We are a totally closed herd now, so we can keep an eye on things. It makes me laugh, bse and f&m take the headlines, but as you and John know, far more cattle over the years have been slaughtered due to tb. It’s the sheep boys and girls that bore the worst of the f&m, don’t get me wrong, us cattle people had it bad, but the sheep numbers killed were horrific. All our bull  fatteners are entire and go at 16 months, it’s the heifers we will struggle with if the 30 month rule came back, ours go 32 to 34 months sometimes, enables slow trickle out of the unit to keep regular cash coming in. 

21 hours ago, Tractorman810 said:

The anouncment that mad cow disease  has been found in a herd in scotland , can remember it back last time it was down here, huge fires burning to get rid of the caucus’s of the cattle put down , and the smell that hung over the area for days after , hopefully its not a major outbreak  

Foot and mouth mate.

That simba top tilth is a sight shinier than our one Phil. Nice pics mate.

5 hours ago, smithy said:

My youngest granddaughter was up farm today when I called in to refill the tractor Ella and her mum come over to say hello , now Ella is only 2 years old and she knows the difference between the tractor and a teleporter anyway she goes a bit shy with me but her mum was getting her to tell me about my son ,Ella's father as last night he was on ebay bidding on JOAL TX 34 New Holland Combines as she wants one as that is what her granddad (me) has got well he was outbid 3 times last night then he called her over to look as he thought he had found one more ,well it was yellow and it was a combine but she soon told him it was wrong so he  said he would look again tonight . Well I have a few of them as if I see one I normally have to go and buy it if I am at a toyfair so of I went to my secret store and got one out and put it in a bag and went back around the farm as she was then feeding the chickens I called her to say I had a present for her well you should have seen her face when she saw what it was her mum was screaming with joy as well , Ella forgot about being shy she gave me a high 5 just had some pictures come though she has cut the lounge carpet a dozen times tonight bless her . cant believe I give one of my prized models away think I had better go and lay down for a while , thinking about its a excuse to nip away to toyfair and get a replacement       

Always new your were a top bloke Smithy. Now we are getting harvest wrapped up, I will pop over and see you soon mate, it’s been a while.

22 hours ago, mb86 said:

Only just really started to grow after first cut here. No doubt there will be a lot of stock left out as long as possible, it's not an option with dairy cows up here, or at least not if you want to keep them in milk. Was a bit of whole crop silage not an option Chris?

Whole crop was considered, but with the price of grain going skywards, we decided that the wheat and barley was best left to combine. We will use the horse hay if we run short.

16 hours ago, mb86 said:

I think if anything you have it worse down there Chris, things seem that way in the press and on Faceslap. Luckily I haven't had to feed too many bales and the clamp is still sealed shut but it's too late now to make up for the shortfall of first cut, the growing season is a couple of months shorter up here. 16mm won't make much difference, we've had some very heavy showers again today which will bring the grass back to life, I only hope the rest of the UK sees the same before too long. 

We did only 40acres of second cut when we should have done at least 150.we only got 1.2 bales an acre. We are about 1000 bales short on silage, so have made extra straw bales and will, if necessary, buy a feeder wagon and mix a silage bale with an oat straw bale to make it go further. The suckler herd will be fine on this ration. The fat stock will get silage until they go on cereal finishing rations. We have made 1200 hay bales for the horse customers, but if we need it, the horsey people will have to go elsewhere. We have now had 20 mil here in the last two days. Even the winter beans are being cut.... in JULY!!!!. Let’s hope we can keep stock outside until late autumn weather permitting.

I feel your pain lads, we got lucky yesterday, finished the wheat, backed the claas Tucano in the shed and an hour later it rained for 15 mins and gave us 16 mil. We hadn’t had a single drop here since may 27th. Cows have munched through 300 bales of fodder out in the fields already this summer. Not good.

1 hour ago, smithy said:

Finished cutting a poor bit of rape today  then tested my wheat it is 20% so maybe a week away  ,one of my neighbours has done a round on one wheat field and his neighbour has done a hole field would not think he would cut it if it was not ready especially this year 

We have been on wheat for 2 days Smithy, skyfall and Siskin. Doing about 3.4 ton acre, spot weights of around 77 to 78. Very pinched sample, it’s died rather that rippened  mate. Moisture was down to 11% last night.

Very nice Mike. Are they not having any decals though? Or are they prototypes.

Although there are these idiots that withdraw stuff from sale just before bidding ends, there are a few idiots that bid/order stuff that they have no intention of paying for. 

28 minutes ago, bluegreen said:

This weather is very reminiscent of 1976, I was only an 11 yr old then and I can remember dads back lawn (his pride and joy) being frazzled to a crisp!!    I also remember he bought the Beach Boys 20 greatest hits which came out that year and we all loved it so much it became the sound of summer 76...…………………………...And isn't it strange in this swelteringly hot summer that the very same songs have just been  remixed by the Royal Philharmonic orchestra and are now getting lots of airplay on radio 2!!!   Hows that for an anomaly.

 

Just wish Radio 2 would play more than just one song off the new album though Phil.