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Is there a particular reason why you got an 'old' style 828 over the new 828 S4 Alex, or purely because of the price involved?

The Heath does but the Transtacker doesn't? http://www.transtacker.co.uk/

On a bale chaser the intake is on your right so a bull bar on the front of the tractor is already pushing it to one side off the tramline. Wouldn't that be sufficient?

Not to good about the rat plague but nice shots and farm! Very realistic.

Skin quality is everything in the UK Ol as British tend to eat them with the skin left on so all in boxes rather than bulk.

Just put a box or Styrofoam there and place some boxes on top and on the side. Then it looks like a massive stack.

Looks impressive Alex! The subsoiler Brian build looks very good also in combination with your drill. Nice meeting room!

Looks nice Simon! Here is something similar. A picture from our wedding on the 22nd of May. This is my father in laws tractor (7635) and my wife regularly drives it. Hence why we took a few pictures with it.

Lovely work Sean. Of all the diorama's on here this is still my favourite one to follow I think. Not really sure why. It just looks very realistic, cosy and nice equipment!

My wife and I went on our honeymoon recently to the US and Canada. We visited some dealerships and I picked up a bunch of John Deere and New Holland brochures. This was in the French speaking part of Canada, Quebéc, so some of them are in French. Nice souvenir anyway and free! -First some John Deere combine brochures and pocket guide given to me by a local sales rep. -Unverferth chaser bin brochures. -John Deere tractors and combine. -Some JD machinery. -More JD. -New Holland equipment -More New Holland

Looks nice Alex, but why does it have air lines?

That is one massive grain sampler! I hope it doesn't knock a hole in one of the trailers . Looks more like an oil drilling rig!

Found it: http://www.profi.de/news/Tiefladermulde-auf-Raupen-1483020.html Does say release planned for 2015. Will be Agritechnica I guess. Here is the manufacturer that builds the tracks: http://www.elmersmfg.com/products/transfer-tracks.html Oh and in English: http://www.fwi.co.uk/machinery/horsch-trials-clever-rival-to-the-chaser-bin.htm

@Joe and Alex: Sorry, have to correct you a little there. Horsch was in the news last year with their tracked carriage for trailers. I believe it did say they were investigating to release it in public but that is all I heard. Can't find the news story but am fairly sure it was on Profi's website. The tracks are build by an American firm. I have forgotten the name but have photographed the data plate. Will look it up for you. Sly are just the importers. They also use those tracks under their Titan chaser bin.

That looks a very sturdy model Alex. Are the tines as big in real life as well? They look very chunky!

That is what farming is like you have a near endless stream of money! Or so it seems to me anyway. Glad Mr. Michael Horsch is spending the money on developing techniques that other farmers can implement later on or benefit from. So, who is up for an FTF farmer visit to the Horsch farms in Czech?

What are they about Paul? I have access to Agco's image library so they should be in there.

I thought you would be more onto the Horsch Leeb PT 270 Alex!

Does look very Krone indeed. Nice model.

Few new additions recently. My wife brought home a new Valtra brochure (GPS) from work. Some JD combine bits and booklet that I got from a rep and, most impressive of all, a stack of 1949-1950 magazines. A farmer found these on his attic and they are quite mint. Could have them for free. There's a few original UK ones and ones for worldwide publication which also includes French and Spanish text.

I think in the UK one of the main points of worry is pest control. Mainly pigeons. As well all know rape does best in big blocks and Oakley can provide those probably. I don't know how many woodland you have in your area, but it would be my worry. You can precision drill and most seeds will come but if they get hammered by pigeons you end up with nothing? I find rape is drilled relatively thick in the UK so they have enough plants left when pigeons are done with them? Over here we aim for much less plants but don't have as many pigeons eating them. I don't know how this translates to Oakley. In reality Alex, is land in Somerset as easily available like you depict on here or is that purely to suit the story? I only know my way round Eas Anglia and know the availability of land there is a major issue.

Just a short reply Alex but is seed rate the biggest cost saver on OSR? Are there other ways of saving costs? I always think you need to be very punctual on OSR otherwise it won't do as well. Very odd crop and takes a lot of detail and skill. Not to mention sheer luck at times. If you have that wide Horsch drill around in your yard could you use that for precision drilling rape? It won't be doing much round that time of year. It is always good to have your subsoiler seeder on back up if you want to loosen some land and go with a more shallow approach when conditions allow.

Ah good idea! They do look the business. You got the paint spot on I reckon.

Agreed those fertiliser tanks look good. Did you use an old oil filter for that?

A nice model Paul, like all Replicagri Agrisem tools. Very strange to see discs AFTER a cage roller. You would expect it the other way round. I wonder why they did that. I guess the roller is there purely for depth control and the disc's leave it nice and fluffy? I can't see this working in the UK under wet conditions. Discs need to be in front of the tines in order to aid thrash flow. Any thoughts? http://savasukis.lt/uploaded/images/Katalogas/Zemes%20Ukio%20Technika/GiluminiaiSkutikai/AGRISEM/Agrisem15.jpg