Light Land

What will you put on the back of em gems?

That's well smart.Pigs will be eating well this winter with all your harvest tackel.

Q4U.....why is he working the ground when it's so dry?

Guy next door to me was trying to plough down pea stubble with a one way KV plough when it was to dry last fall,he made a real mess and still could'nt drill untill late when it rained.

Handy snaps mate 

A good rain and the ground will explode hey.

My 3rd fooked front window this winter in my ute.I saw the split and tryed to stop it by touching it with a clear sticker but just ended up making it x7 worse than before.  \   

bye bye bessie then  :D

seemed funny when I thought it up 

I say now they are fine tractors 

what are the cows doing while all this is going on? are they out side?

Disc look's heavy enough to bite into the dry ground for sure.

Well that don't cover you or Marky I should add.  :D

This topic has cut down the OT ness in other parts of the forum I reckon.

In the long run it's good to have a few hard bosses and drive a few rough tractors. :)

had a on aJD 7920 ploughing then 3 hours discing rape stubble with a JD 7810 opened up to 225 hp

7810 must have sounded like the beast from hell with a bad smokers cough  8) 8)

Nath would sell the farm  :D :D

Upwards for ollys table  * * *

Cor that looks well fine. 

Yep just the right amount of kit in the shed,spot on.

If I had it you would'nt be able to shut the doors and the frontloader on the tractor would have to be left up because the drill was in the road a bit.

if all the stones were to be picked out ol, the field wound be lowered by about 3ft 

if the srones were not there , it wouldn't drain as well as it does ,the soil would then pan down hard & would then be almost unworkable.

This method of destoning complete fields has been tried years ago at a farm near langport , about 12 miles away , now the whole farm is permanent set aside , or mindrilled linseed, as there are no stones ,the fields don't drain, the soil packs hard & is completely unworkable , when wet it clogs up every thing , when dry it's as hard as concrete , i pulled a 12ton set of discs fully weighted on there once & all i ended up doing was making nice straight lines about 5mm deep, just didn't touch it , then after 5 mins of rain i spent more time racing the dics in a left turn circle to try & keep them free & clear,

  When dry a plough will not draw into the ground & a powerharrow just skips & jumps across the surface, when wet the plough gets down to about 3in deep & just holds the tractor still as you cant get any grip , that stuff was evil 

we did manage to plant spuds of a fashion in one of the better fields , but when it rained it compacted the soil again & the spuds couldn't grow we couldn't harvest them so were left to rot & just leveled the ridges with a mounted set of discs     

Thanks for that marcus,I realy enjoyed reading that.

Funny you say that marcus,As I was typing that post I was thinking a fair few of the pictures of crops in the farmers weekly seem to be grown on heavy but stoney soils,seems odd to me as here most of our heavyer land is stone free.

If the stones were put into a trailer while de stoning for the spuds a few times then would'nt you have got the best of them picked off.??

Some day I'd like to see some of that English soil with all the we bit's of rock in it.

COR 5 ton dry land  :o :o

5t/ac is about 12t/ha if I've worked it out right.Irragtion on cereals is not done there because it doesn't pay or is water hard to get?

What was the paddock in before the cereal?

What is the farms rotation?

7740 TVT  :D

look at the sky  cool

This did'nt annoye me but happened this week.

There were 2 young lads that have been helping out around the yard this winter doing some realy ugly jobs.

Yesterday morning the lads were 20minutes late for work because there ride was late,thats not there fault.

The thing was they did'nt run into work the boss asked them to hurry up but the cheeky one of the two gave the boss some attitude.

Next thing he turns around and tell's them both to fook off back home at the top of his voice.

The amount of disrespect them little sods have shown towards him is sicking they had it coming to them.

lazzy brat's  >

Smart kit 

How many more tonne's per ha would you get on that country if it had irragation on it?

Vaderstad rapid are good drills arn't they.....