Richard de Florennes Posted October 6, 2008 Share Posted October 6, 2008 Spending two weeks of holidays at the German Balticum seaside on and near the island Fehmarn, I could not resist to use the one or other day trip for wacthing what was going on on the (very large!) fields over there. The first sight of farming action on the Thursday of the first week was this MB Truck fitted with a Damman sprayer: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Richard de Florennes Posted October 6, 2008 Author Share Posted October 6, 2008 seen a few miles away: a nice John Deere with an even nicer Amazone pneumatic seed drill (seeding winter wheat). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Richard de Florennes Posted October 6, 2008 Author Share Posted October 6, 2008 operating alongside was another John Deere fitted with a power harrow and metal wheels (instead of additional dual wheels, a measure to reduce soil compaction). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard de Florennes Posted October 6, 2008 Author Share Posted October 6, 2008 just to give you an idea of the area covered during my vacations - see at the painted red roundels, with the three more southern roundels covered yesterday on my journey back home ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard de Florennes Posted October 6, 2008 Author Share Posted October 6, 2008 Then I saw another John Deere coming out of a small farm way, while I passed him in my car staying on the main road ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard de Florennes Posted October 6, 2008 Author Share Posted October 6, 2008 after turning and driving into the small hidden farm way, I found this arrangement: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Richard de Florennes Posted October 6, 2008 Author Share Posted October 6, 2008 as the unfriendly driver of the forager advised my that "we do not like taking pictures or filming", I continued my trip - after making some more pictures due to the interesting lighting conditions ;-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard de Florennes Posted October 6, 2008 Author Share Posted October 6, 2008 continuing on the main road in the direction to Kiel, I found another John Deere: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard de Florennes Posted October 6, 2008 Author Share Posted October 6, 2008 found this Amazone "Centaur" parked as "gate guard" of the university for agricultural science near Kiel - well, I must say, I looks a little bit different compared to the respective SIKU modell ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard de Florennes Posted October 6, 2008 Author Share Posted October 6, 2008 as entrance on the University fields was not allowed for externals, only a long shot was possible of the MB truck with Cambridge rollers ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard de Florennes Posted October 6, 2008 Author Share Posted October 6, 2008 Running up that hill: Also working on university fields was this Claas with dumper trailer, transporting sugar beets ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard de Florennes Posted October 6, 2008 Author Share Posted October 6, 2008 following the trailer when returning empty lead to some more action: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Richard de Florennes Posted October 6, 2008 Author Share Posted October 6, 2008 driving a little bit out of the region, poor soil conditions coincided with poorer farms and smaller/old-fashioned implements, as evidenced by this photo-shy MF with small "one-way" plow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pistol pete Posted October 6, 2008 Share Posted October 6, 2008 As normal great pics love the john deeres Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard de Florennes Posted October 6, 2008 Author Share Posted October 6, 2008 towards the end of the day, I found this scene, consisting of a parked gang of rollers, a tiny packer press, a Claas tractor equipped with front grubber, power harrow and seed drill all of different brands and a supporting loader which just had brought some bags of seed (winter wheat) to the field ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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