JohnDeereMan

yeh I like it, comfortable, pulls well but a bit thirsty. Done nearly 900 hrs now

a few work photos from the previous year

Anyone seen the two new grass men dvds, Keep er lit and sustain the flame. Both are brilliant. Good range of tackle, great bunch of lads, interesting and some great filming. They never bore me even though i drive tractors all day every day. Anyone else seen them or the previous dvds?

In no particular order

John Deere 2850

John Deere 2140

John Deere 6930

Ford 4000

John Deere 6210r (undecided yet i will say more in a few years)

right tractors, it goes well

yeh its a weapon

weve had loads like that nearly all season, nightmare

been leading gravel with towd girl last few days, she pulls like a dream

no just fits on like a weight block and secured by a bolt, taken them off now but had them on for ages in summer and that

Ive got loads of baling but it says the size is to big to upload them - any help

Leading muck with my old 69 , she was an absoultue babe

My pride and joy (2140 loeading soil)

Tanking on old tractor

Chain harrowing in spring with home made chainharrows

fat out ploughing

Last field, was very wet

A selection of photos from my busy summer

First photo is after i washed everything off and put new baler away for hibernation

Second one is a band carrier i made one night

Stacking straw

Me rescuing a tractor in need

Oh I must add, it was all my fault not blaming anyone else, just a bit close, got distracted and was tired. thankyou

Spent all summer trying to keep baler out of wet holes, only got bogged once. Main one for me was about a month ago when alot of the roads got colsed because of the flooding. Took me 3 hours to get home in tractor and I ended up in the middle of Thirsk at half 3 (school home time). Queing inm traffic and somehow i ended up running into back of a car and my band carrier on front went through the car back window. Only just touched it but my pride was hurt. ha ha! Think the hundreds on young lasses coming out of school had nothing do with distracting me causing this to happen

think theres one thing missing wich could make it a bit hard to muck spread

that MF 188 looks grand. The teagle tomahawk bale spreaders are a great machine we had on for many years - can rember driving it when i was about 10 and I used to pretend I was foraging with moving spout up and down.

On my 69 i just put my grease gun on step and on my 2140 i bolted a black downspout drain pipe to step for grease gun to go in. Job done you pick little things up like that

we farm newby hall

WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO FOR WORK AFTER SUMMER?

Think your 'heavy soil' is the equivalent of our light stuff

Looking for a pig lad if you are interested? thought you had a part time job

Looking good - what sort of prices are you looking at? will they be framed? quality of paper? I might be intersted maybe for my dad in our farm office,

ok thankyou

Well, if your boss likes his scale models he might have been reading on here as well and will know all about the situation! Never a clever thing complaining about work and such on the internet! Everyone can read it.

Very good advice

My Dad always tellls me never fall out with a boss however bad he maybe.

After leaving last year after doing a ND in agriculture i got a job on a 6000 acre farm, on the arable side - about 20mins from my house. Ive done 3 summer seasons with them predominateley leading corn, taties and stacking bales etc. However now that I have left college I tend to get lots of variety. Ploughed about 170 acres this backend, bit of tanking, rolling, lots of loader work, bit of building, leading muck etc. And there was talk of my boss getting me going on the bateman - and I love it. The highlight for me though was in August my boss got me a 6930 for me to drive, which i call my own tractor as we all have our own tractors at work that we maintain a nd look after, already done nearly 800 hrs in half a year.

I'm not trying to blow my own trumpet, but i really did blow my own trumpet (in the village band).

Seriously, every one starts at the bottom but if you stick at it you normally work up. Just out of interest, you list your experience, could you enlarge on it for example how much ploughing you have done, tackle used, lambing experience etc.