Kiwi6920

Nice pics timmy and welcome back mate 

I have an MC135 on spud carting and it is completely gutless under load, another person has an MTX140 carting and that is worse still, we both have identical trailers, the tractors just won't pull. The powershift on the MTX is abysmal with a delay between changes which means the harvester has to stop when he does change gear. The MTX where I used to work had the gearbox go bang at two years old. McCormick took what was a basic but good tractor and cheapened it. The dealer here, well one of them took on McCormick when they loct Case and pushed them hard, they are cheap and are worth very little a few years down the line. Build quality leaves a lot to be desired, the paint is already coming off parts of our MC at 1 year old \

Funny you say that gav, ive been talking to ol and he was telling me the paint on his JD6820 was falling of allreay with around 1000hrs on the clock, My father inlaws Mxu 110 is in the shop having a repaint and its a 05 model  ???

Don't even suggest it mate!!!!! 

So was it that good over here tris? Im driving the 8120 part time this season on the stack, im going full time next year

talking to a contractor that has a mc 115 the other day, POS, its done 1200hrs and is on a new engine and its getting a new back end, broke some castings, it only runs a 3m mower it was burning oil like nothing , had shaged rings and liners

Wow super pics and that sounds like one corker of  day mate, wish i didnt have hockey today or id go play in a big jds 

Why the hell did I ever go and work for Reymer!!  :'(

Told you i could get you a job when you were here, he still wants adriver for this season

hes not a a deale, im running the 8120 with front links this seson on the stack, the loader tractor is a 7920 i call it a quary loader, he just says its handy, Its the first loader ive been near that i can stand under the arms with it on the ground and not hit my head    She is a monster

Nice pics mate, those tralers are cool, never seen or herd of that system before, thanks for the pics mate , what do you think of the mc? im looking at a mc 115

Yet again super pics mate, But according to the mrs its a model set up 9 the last pic that is, Ive never seen any of this type of gear in person, thanks for shareing these pics

There's a lot of broken down John Deeres in that workshop, no wonderit's so big.

The "broken down" ones in the shop had siezed drop arms for the linkage, And they were TIGHT, got them sorted tho,the 2 in the yard are doners or were atleast, other wise every thing else works like a clock

About the pick ups im not sure, i know the maize ones are 8 rows, ill have to ask about the pick ups

Ok i went and saw him agin today, here are a few more pics

I said there were a few, hope you like them guys

Nice pics mate, cant wait to get stuck into the dirt work next month 

Ordered fendt are taking over my colection now 

Here it is, its very simlar to what tm810 described

http://www.farmtoysforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=14877.0

get a crane mounted then mate, oh deere you are slipping latley aint ya :D

looking good though, have seen a t forestery valtra this way before same colour to, with a crane mounted of the back 3 point, and over the bonnet with whinch

That pic is on the forum some where, in the Uh section maybe? im not sure where

Heavens To Betsy.... how big is the workshop then

And what sort of business is it (assuming it's not a private workshop with a big tractor collection)

He is a silage contractor, he also has 4 or 5 older jds, (ill get some pics later this week) and a class 8700 mower, there is a jcb tele handler, ill try get some pics of every thing,

How many units are there??

It has 32 sets of cups in it at the moment, but we are extending it to 44

great pics kiwi nick . ;Dlike texas said i have never seen a calf feeder like that before , i have installed many milking parlours all westfarlia ones biggest was a 32 point rotary how many can you milk in yours is it waikato . nice pics are the cows out all year ; \

Yes that is a waikato plant, i personaly dont like it, i have allways used milka ware plant and never had issues with it, My inlaws have a 32 bail internal rotary, i have a friend milking in a 80bail rotary also, Our calves go oustide after 6 weeks in the shed,

Yes our cows are out side all year, we never get snow here and the lowest temp we get normaly is -5deg but thats just at night,

Thanks for the nice comments guys glad you enjoyed them ill get more pics of around the farm as i work today

Why don't you want claves form 1st calvers and what is EG jersey?

Texas

Eg is short for example, Jersey is a breed of cow, we run Fresion crossbreed with jerseys, and pure fresions, The rason we dont keep calves from 1st calvers is becouse we use small bulls to get small calves to make it a easy calving on the cow, these calves genrely dont have very good breeding worth and a not any good for milking from, That explain it mate?

Do you sell for the veal market?

Yes and no, We send our 4 day old calves we dont want Eg Jersey or calves form 1st calvers  on the boby lorry So yes we sell to the veal market but then we dont if you know what i mean

Thanks for the info. But a question: to feed calves this way don't you get problems later with the calves that when they don't get milk anymore they go to drink by each other. i hope you understand what i mean.

Texas

I know what you mean mate, starngely enough no we dont get those problems, we get those problems when we feed them daily ( only one or 2 calves a year) So far we havent had any yet thos year ,they just suck on one calves ears and they go all ******, We are giving shed calves milk, water and meal the outside calves are getting milk meal water and grass,

Looks great Nick. Very nice place where you live. Do you have a other picture from the calve feedtrailer. Never seen this before.

Texas

Here is a link to the makers website http://www.stallion.co.nz/mobgrav.php

The model we use is MG50lt, That one is slightly newer but still the same idea, Ill get some pics of the feeding tomorrow ofr you texas,

Im in Manawatu In New Zealand , we have a good climate here and grow alot of grass year round here, Hope that info helps you mate

Wow she is beuatfull, id love to see one in the flesh

Here are a couple of pics i got of my mates workshop befroe my digi cam battries went flat, ill have more at some stage

There are 2 8420 jds, 2x 8120 jds, 1x 8530, 1x7920, 3x Class jag choppers, 1x 6920, 2x claas disco tripple mowers and some wheels, So she is a huge work shop 

Sorry for the crap pic quality the pics are of my cell phone and sorry for the double up on the mob of 20 calves with 12 in the pic 

Ok guys here are some pics of the farm i work on, its 160ha not acres as i said eariler, we run 450 cows and have 100 replacement heifer calves

Here are 40 of the calves in the padock after i feed them

Looking to the small section of the main farm from the calve padock

Where the cows walk into the milking shed

The right side

The start of the yard from the entence of the cow shed

looking on the round yard heading to the rectangular yard

Looking at the storage tanks for calve milk and the loading race for the truck

The milking machine ( water ring vacum pump) and the milk cooler and wash tub

The bulk milk tank for the factory milk ( big one) the small one is another calve milk tank and teh blue trailer is the 50 teat trailed calve feeder

The high presure water tanks and the storage room ( far end) the office is on the close end of the pic) The milk cooler water is held in these tanks to wash the yard down

The head bail gates left and right

The small feed pad we have, it can hold 180ish cows

The yard with the milking herd on it ( 350 cows currently)

First cow comming into the shed

The  JD 2140 2wd we have at the moment ( ment to be getting a new case)

The Giltrap 10 cuM silage wagon

Another 20 calves out side

End of the tour for now guys, ill get some more pics later for you if you want,

We are just starting to get drainage done, Here is a pic of the truck tipping 14m3 in to the pile, his 6th load

Hope i didnt bore you to much guys