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Deeredriver

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  1. These were sold under contract even before they were planted $30/100wt and yes they are dry they are loaded into wagons right off the field an=d wil be shipped to the plant as soon as they will take em 9.8%moisture content the plant will take seeds up to 12% moisture but not above as we found out last year when we sent them a load at 13% ooops
  2. Added a video to youtube wife took it she was a bit far away but you can take a peek if ya like http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=RnNfd1FUXnQ
  3. iam in south central Nebraska USA basicly smack bang in the middle of the states mate 51mon i sure will mate
  4. heres the header its my fatherinlaws we hire it off him for the sunflowers n our 9760sts
  5. The Seeds in the combine bin then the stubble wher you can see it was direct drilled into wheat stubble also
  6. Sold for oil mate goes into cooking oil then the waste kernals and shells go for cattle feed
  7. I got to combine our sunflowers yesterday not a very big crop this year prob made about 3/4 ton to the acre but not bad as it was planted late after a crop of wheat anyway so its just a bonus crop heres a couple pics of the flowers
  8. woolies demise has been coming for a while folks my sister worked for them she got made redndant ages ago and they closed down the shop
  9. yea mate i just booked it fly out next sun morn leave kansas city 6 am sharp i hope
  10. I'm going to go n spread some of the smelliest poo i can find one of our neighbours decided that he would biuld a fence in one of our fields to expand his field by 1.5 acres my boss got a court order against him on friday but yesterday he had 5 blokes out there finishing the fence so later im gona plaster both sides of the fence in cow crap so monday when they have to come back and take the fence down there gona be coverd in the stuff Good or what ha ha!
  11. Some cracking pics mate i love the combine im trying to convince my boss that we should sell our jd combine and get a lexion we are nearly finished our autumn harvest here were in our last field of maize in which we are doing just like the guys are doing there the maize cobs make a hell of a racket when they come out of the straw chopper dont they ha ha! By the way have you tried to eat the seeds you got yet dont mate there inedible for us to eat Over here its called dent corn beacuse if you look at a cob all the little seeds have a dent in the end does yours look like that? we grow well this year 2800 acres of maize for the grain its main uses are for cattle feed and over here we have a lot of factorys that will make thanol out of the grain and then turn it into petrol infact there was a program on the discovery channel couple of weeks ago called modern marvels all about the modern maize plant It showed how that it is a man made plant really the plant was a type of grass that grew in the wild in mexico and man has transformed it into its modern day form It also showed some of the products that the maize seed in one way or another can be turned into pretty AMAIZING stuff ha ha! sweetcorn and grain maize are 2 compleatly difernt things mate too i always thought it was just normal maize that you could eat before it starts turning hard but i was wrong we grow a little here for us to eat ourselves in our maize field we will just clean out our maize drill and plant a small patch my boss usually gets the sweetcorn seed free as he spends 1000's of dollars on field maize seed hope this helps you out some mybe i ramble on about too much cr@p pm me if ya like Nick
  12. Tris feel like i really should come home harvest is about wraped up here now be a bit shady on my wife and kids though as i havent seen much of them for the last 2 months But i really feel i owe this bloke he helped me when i bought my first tractor to go contracting and i also lived with him when my dad chucked me out from home tickets are cheap so really i have no excuse other than they cant get a funeral set yet as the hospital havent done a P.M yet
  13. Sorry to hear too Tris i know how you must feel mate my fav uncle died this morning too thought it was kind of odd that at 7.30 am i get a fone call off my mum while i was at work he got to the hospital at 1pm uk time by 1.15 he was dead a burst blood vessle in his stomach times like now i hate being so far away from home take care mate and take care of all your loved ones around you that goes out to everyone here too Nick
  14. Our old Ih 1066 caught fire last night thats one less crap tractor to have to mess with deleted for text talk!!
  15. like when i was in school we were on a subject about unions and you had to name x amount of unions i named the NFU National farmers union they told me there was no such thing god i hate teachers nowonder kids dont want to go to school ha ha!
  16. Thats a bloody good idea using ready rod the rollers look great
  17. seems like the 20 series have a lot of problems my boss looked at trading our 8310 in for an 8320 untill i told him about the 20 series having problems prob getting an 8*30 this next spring either need somthing bigger to pull the 30 ft notill drill as our Mx270 is crap so its gona be on lighter duties
  18. yea i bet it was looks pretty fidley my hands shake too much to even try sumit like that im afraid
  19. Ruddy hell mate that looked like it took some doing looks well smart
  20. Man thats got to blow @ss I have no idea why the rest of the world made it to a point that they rely on china for nearley everything over here the price of weedkiller shot up nearly 4 times the cost of what it was last year beacause china shut down there chemical plants for the olympic games as the plants stink
  21. Whys that then alls you see on tv over here is how to reduce our carbon foot print and building green
  22. me too think i have some pipe insulation here somwhere n plenty of tape cool thx Tris
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