rich.new holland

recovery guy by us has a 6620 painted in his own colours too 

ahh nice to see someone carrying on the massey tradition 

only way you can compare machines is get them in the same field and use the same driver etc you cant say that pete in dorset's fx is better than better than paul from carmarthen's claas   

i got to be honest i think its dispickable ! the machine is someones pride and joy and alot of effort has gone into the investment of the machine which can take years and a theif can destroy it in an hour or two    its bad when youve got to "baby sit " your tools i think :/ i remember as a kid we used to finnish late and we used to just park up in the field next to the road <leave the keys in it and go home in the 4x4 , and now in work if we have to leave kit out of our yard we always try take it back to the farm yard or if its too far it gets hiden in the field and a implement blockin the gate -shows how the world has changed doesnt it  \

there is some good crops down here but no where near ready ! need a few weeks yet highest one ive seen was abt a week ago and was nearer 7-8ft now and that is across most the 100ish acres that weve planted

Do you have a McHale 998 model? If so where did you get it or did you make it yourself?

Been after one for ages, bit beyond my scratch building skills

no i wish i had one , ts135a and 998 is what i drive for real so would love to make one sometime

r.b contracting has had someup dates already well the order for the 7070 and the 6090 have been dropped :/ they keep pushing the dates back so we are going to re arrange the fleet a bit as we've purchased 2 low houred tm165's and the t191 will have a front links + pto fitted and will take over the 936's dutys and she will be sold and the tm's will go on the trailers and where not sure if we will keep the 818 to repay some of the cash weve just spent on the computer to be sorted :/ at the moment she will prob have a front and back mower fitted as the old 7530 is struggling to keep up    oh and the 7840 is chugging on with almost 18200 hours on the clock now shes be a reliable tool ! and the tm310s has arrived too    expensive year for us 

R.B.Contractings 2011 lineup 

harvester gang

09 fendt 936 -kuhn butterflys

05 new holland ts115a -claas 10 rotor tedder

97 new holland 7840 -claas linear 3000

10 john deere 7950 harvester

06 john deere 6920s -18ton silage trailer

08 fendt 818-18ton silage trailer

09 valtra t190-18ton silage trailer

10 valtra t191-22ton tri axle silage trailer

11 jcb 416 on buckrake

04 jcb 414 on buckrake

baling gangs use the same mowers and tedder which are

08 john deere 7530 -claas butterflys

05 new holland ts115a-claas 10 rotor tedder

the sqaure baling

00 new holland tl90-fella rake

08 new holland t7060- bb950a baler

05 new holland ts135a- mchale 998

the round baling

97 new holland 6635-fella rake

06 new holland tm155-brand new this season claas uniwrap 

98 new holland 8560 - 08 claas uniwrap

there are 2 t7070s and a t6090 on order , but they have been delayed ortherwise the t7070s would be on the butterflys and the 936 and 818 have been part exed for them as weve only had problems with the fendts :/ the 6090 would be swaping with the 8560 and she will be taking over from the nh 7840 which is being sold as she has passed 17500 hrs    there is a massey 6480 coming on demo in a few weeks but will have to see what we think and there is a jd 6930 coming on demo around the same time    we are looking at a 08 t6050 but will have to see as there asking quite a bit but she is low hour so will have to see

i worked for a contractor who bought the business from the contractor he was working for and built up from there. I must say it was interesting but extremely long hours, loads of stress, narrow margins and you see a different side to farmers.

now that is very true !!! nice and chatty when you visti or talk somwhere but turn up with equipment totaly differant person  \

my boss's dad started contracting in 1972 ,he bought a brand new ford 5000 and topper and went round topping for farmers and has since progressed to being the biggest contractor in wales acreage and by equipment ,having 3 self propelleds at one time but the sons have now changed the line up and now have the 2 biggest forage harvesters that john deere do- 7950 10 plate and a 7850 09 plate, runs 23 tractors cat challenger new holland massey and john deere. has 2 sqaure balers and a fusion . 4 mowing outfits. 4 claas rakes. 4 umbilcal slurry kits and one injecter . 3 tankers from 2500 up to 3700 twin axle with injecter and thats just some of the kit    i think your success depends on area and your timeing i think    thinking about it id love to write up exactly what they have  \  bet theres millions worth

would rather a manual or powershift / semi when using trailers as ur on the brakes all the time with cvt/vario but for field work they are very good for jobs such as baling as you keep the revs and can go at the balers pace not the gears/revs pace

200 acres and it took 14? not being funny the boys in work with triples quite often cover 150 acres each a day ! so thats quite slow goin :/

depends what your power  haroowing for , spuds you would struglee to use a 6m on 200hp would be better off with a 4m , but if you were working land for maize / grass id say 5m but for wheat/corn etc youd get away with 6m but soil type would also hampper your answer. and if you had a folding harrow it would aslo differ the answer as folding takes more power. at work we use folding 5mtrs on 6930's and 6920s's and they handle them ok when doing maize land

whats size is she ?  dooley are hell of a good trailer and so is your work , thats all work run is 12 18t  and 2 16t dooleys

hey luke hows it going bud ?,nice to know your still with A+B    ive almost completed my first year with the contractor im working with    i got the same job as you too aha i got a brand new 2010 mchale 998 had her at the end of last season and she had just done about 4800 odd bales before i sprayed her down in octorber    did have a nh ts115 on the front but did have a blast with a 6930 on her for a while but the boss bought a  ts135a about oct-nov time and ive had her since she came on the pumps and spreaders and put around 500hrs on her so hopefully will have her on the wrapper this year    got a bit more guts than the 115    she used to struggle on hills aha

did you find the loader clumpsy on clamp then ? 

ahhh damo :/ i know the farm you went to , know there son fairly well and my best mate works next door aha    small world isit 

id love to have works jd 6930 on clamp    electric finger tip spools and has front links and boy does she have some power , she would be perfect with a nice 10ft push off 

i saw you skyving marcus haha    you were parked up on the road from llandeilo to carmarthen on the bypass in the layby    at about 11.30 on saturday

iessu mawr haha , i wonder about all the people commenting in this topic about that we should never go over 20mph i wonder if they speed in there cars    and do 71+ when they should be sticking to 70    not being funny but this is life if everyone obeyed the laws and rules the world would be a perfect place but as everyone one knows fat chance of it happening   

we use a jcb 434s and a jcb 416s with 16 and 14ft fold out buckrakes , and when the machines are being pushed the jcb tm310s comes out to help , she also does the farms with low or tight sheds.

Good job your having fastracs, uprating a massey to 60k is asking for trouble. If you were to go down a hill with a load on and the momentum takes you up the nearly 70k then the tractor shuts down. And this is true because i know someone that it happened to.

correct me if im wrong but you shouldnt be going down a hill flat out ? you should be pullin down the gears to hold the tractor back and not leaving her run away ! my boss saw you doing that you'd be down the road

personally i much rather 40k out of the speeds availible, there much better geared for roads than 50k+ and i find that people push the tractors too much when they are higher speeds eg harsh cornerin , harsh braking etc and tyre wear is beyond on the 50k's so im quite happy to stick with 40k 6930 then the 50k 6930s we got 

fair play id hate to be carting silage with an 18t trailer at 60kph its hairy sometimes at 50 let alone any higher   

we had the the big x 650 and 12 row header on demo last week    and boi (is spelt boy!) it takes some crop in one swipe    wish we had another 12 row header and we could have put her on the jd 7950 see how she would have taken the 12 row

Edited for Chav Talk!!

push the back part of the ram up to the top of the chrome ram as if in real life and the mowers will stand corectly as the play in the pins will be taken up the ram if you get me basically push the ram together and it will stand up