pistol pete

well spoke to one of my other mates craig on the phone a few times but he was working all the hours with his new sumo trio 3 with drill on top for rape. there aint main in our area so he is run of his feet. but he did phone one night saying he was heading home if i want to see his new machine. so of i poped up to his farm to see the new machine along with his replacement for his as he puts it terrible fergie that replaced a 6920s jd that was chipped. the replacement was a 7930 10 plate that he has now chipped it only had 500hrs on the clock when he got and he has put another 1200 on it since last october

well got a few more pics of the good camera today so thought i would post them. first up is my mates 8530 with there new kv eo/lo plough it is only a 6 furrow reverseable as the 7 was going to be too heavy for the 7920 as it is fully mounted. it has been bought to be used with the gps and can be ploughed in the fur or on the land as he was doing as both the 85 run 800's beast of tyres. this was only the second day it had been used. normaly he pulls a 10 furrow reverseable that is some outfit. i think the back of his headboard is quality

I you never know what is about mate. youg allan has new tractor a newholland 7050 i think not reall y my colour but was a nice tidy machine too.

was a realy good holiday should have taken my camera more as saw loads of my mates when they were working so missed out on a few pics there mainly fendts and deeres. but on the plus side did get alot of time on the tractor myself. spoke to young allan who said he will be going to glams this year and said he will more than likely see you. we got rid of the beef cows about 12 years ago mate but we have as they call at the farm a hobbie heard of charolais. there has always been charolais at firhills since about 1940 i think. we now have about 40 cows/hefors in total and at the moment 2 bulls for breading and about 8 that will be going to carlise or stirling sales as perth has stopped trading.

she was been a good machine mate we have run her since 2005 and have not had any real problems with her at all compaired to the dominator 98 she replaced.

had a good few days carting of from the combine but didnt alays have the camera which was stupid but did have it one of the best days monday the 29th August condition couldnt really have been better. a slight wind had dried the barrel perfectly through the night so much so we got started at 0930hrs and it was coming of at 15.6 on the moisture meter. we managed to cut about 40 acres that day which to the lads with the big combines isnt much butto us with our tx 34 and 18ft header is a good days work. the old girls days may be numbered as we were looking at tx68 in farmers weekly and the internet and at firhills unless it is being considered seriously. my yoke for the past 3 seasons the 6830 some of the tx34 working

also in the grain shed was the new feed wagon that came home in Jan and also the new(to us) the dryer. we used to have a dryer at one of the other farms but it was old and was not worth repairing. as we have the new big shed at firhills it made more sence to buy a portable dryer. m/albums/oo200/tractorpete/DSCN0467.jpg

well have just been on my holidays at home in scotland for 3 weeks with my wife and my youngest girl. as you can guess apart from seeing family all my wife wanted to do was going shopping. so i gave her the bank cards and she headed of to do her thing and of course i headed of to the real Firhills farm. on the way up from the ferry i recieved a text from jim(owner of the farm) new toy for you to play with see you in a couple of days when i get home from hols combine ready better get your tractor and trailer ready to go. some pictures of thenew toy a Jcb 527-55. this replaced a 53 plate 525-55

ros grimme harvester tidy bit of kit

only one thing to say tidy

We are heading home on the 15th august for a couple of weeks. you going to be working for mr martin then.

some nice kit there not to different to home thn if the weather is crap.are you going back down under when you finish there then

looked at your facebook mate are you in france just now

wonder if i will see those size of deeres up at home.

Very nice marty will you be crussing taking loads of pics when you get it

very nice pics sean place is looking good

good looking layout lisa keep up the great work

that is top work there mate your skills never fail to impress.love the hole set up so far

cheers mate jus needed to rebuild a 2140 opu cab and will have them both

will miss this year again due to work as I will be in Afgan hopefully next year

looking forward to this one pete

thanks very much

cheers pete just seen your comment

seen it in our local model shop at the weekend with the 824 both good looking models