SPN

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I like the harvester! Mengele, the best Pottinger clone ever! Most unusual to see one the trailer on the right, although it does make life easier for the harvester driver. Curious choice of tractors though. You don't normally associate Masseys with Silage.

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Is that a Pottinger Mex VI?

The Duracell Bunny of Mowers - they just keep going on, and on, and on ......

And on the fourth day it was all done. That ends my tractor driving adventures for 2006. Roll on 2007!

I've traced his IP, hacked the phone companys records, and figured out where he lives. I'm passing a copy of what he said, and his address to Paddy Lee. Prepare to be fed your ass white boy! Chopped down truck chassis my eye! :

Hardly! : The red ones are LEE 8 TONNERS and the blue one is a pretend LEE 9 Tonner painted blue.

Here is a Lee 12 Tonner that went past me at 40k behind a Deutz Agrotron. My timing with the camera is getting damn good 8) A more detailed pic of one of these trailers is top of my to-do list for next week.

We had a long draw today. 42 minutes from pulling alongside the harvester to the next time I pulled alongside. The CS is a little cracker on the road (40k box). Here's the third tractor we had hauling today.

Day three: Spot the pattern

Correction: I should have said 6510.

Just noticed that the exhaust on the 6640 is even worse! ha ha!!

Powerstar: He had a TS115 and CS110 drawing, and he may still have a 6520 (his only loader tractor). When I saw them in action last year he had a 6920S and the 6520 doing the raking. Nashmach: He kept an old-style 924 reverse drive for the mowing, and replaced this in 2003 with a new-style 926 reverse drive. He also has an 818, bought late in 2004 (prolly to wind up the JQ dealer as he bought a dose of 6820s and 6920S's since then). Here's a rake I spotted on my way home this evening. I don't know whose it is because there is a different contractor on this farm every year.

The 7740 has two jobs, driving the harvester and driving the Keenan Wagon. It doesn't need 4wd. The 6640, 4355 and CS94 all have 4wd, and all have loaders. They do all the hard work! Tomorrow we'll have another tractor and trailer in action as we have a long draw. It's the sweetest sounding tractor on the market.

..... and a few of the chopper.

What a difference a day makes .......

Pictures of Silage Rakes in Ireland in 2006. John Murphy, Portlaw, Waterford, Ireland: Pictured from the N25 - across the road from Mulhearne's yard (ouch!). 06 JQ6920S and 05 Case MXM120 with Claas rakes. 29/5/06.

I don't know who owns this little outfit, but he wasn't using the autoswather, and he had a 6000/6010 following with a Claas rake.

Here's a thread for mowers. Irish Mowers! In 2006. Just like it says on the tin ........ We'll start with Mulhearne's Big M.

With a little help from it's friends - the Massey 4355 and Ford 7610 - the brave little Steyr hauled and dragged, pulled and tugged, and within three hours there was loads of silage in the pit. That's enough for one day, thought SPN. More to come in the next cartoon.

But that wascal SPN had other ideas! Here's the very thing to cure the problem, he chuckled.

.... there was an empty silage pit.

For an indication of how ginormous those trailers are, here's a picture of an 18ft Dooley and a 110-90 running alongside another Jaguar. Anyone who has ever put a Joskin Silospace alongside a Marston Silage Trailer will already know this! ha ha!!

What is the reg number of the Farmall M ?