jordantaylor Posted January 16, 2012 Author Share Posted January 16, 2012 well its been a while since i have posted in this topic but it has been pretty quiet at the farm. firstly we are expanding our sheds. we are having another 26 cubicle in the main cubicle shed to take us up to full capacity with 420 cubicle beds. we are also having the machinery shed(originally built for cattle) converted into a straw yard. we have had two large cattle pens built in the straw shed able to take up to 15 cattle each. we are having the yard finished with hardcore and then in the next few months we will be starting to build a multipurpose machinery/straw shed. we are also having slats put down in the current straw yard. the weather has not been kind to us though, we have had around 35 acres of land flooded by the river a few weeks ago, we have also had some problems with a bug going around the calves so are awaiting the results of a muck report to see what it is. fortunatly we have only lost a bull calf to this bug and since have been ontop of it . we have only lost 2 calves since i have worked there from oct 1st 2011, one of which was born dead and the other was shot due to having this bug. to controll this all the calf hutches and mesh fronts were all disinfected and pressure washed along with milk feeders and water/nut buckets. the concrete pad where the hutches are kept has also been washed and disinfected and left for a few days and now everything is being put back. might seem drastic action seen as we have only lost one calf to it but it just prevent s anything else and probably why our mortality rate is so low. pictures will soon follow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jordantaylor Posted January 16, 2012 Author Share Posted January 16, 2012 here you can see the preparations for the new cubicles to go in, we are joining them up to the presant cubicles. they are now finished but her we can see the walls going into place for the slurry pit drainage. we had to pump all the slurry from the other side of the wall of the present cubicles so we could cut the wall out and join the rest of the pit up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jordantaylor Posted January 17, 2012 Author Share Posted January 17, 2012 i found out a few months ago that we actually have 2 county 1184 tractors. the one is an N reg and the other an E reg. the E reg machine is usually away from the farm on an irigator or pumping slurry. we we using both machines not long ago to do fencing work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jordantaylor Posted January 17, 2012 Author Share Posted January 17, 2012 pic 1- here are the calf hutches on the pad at work pic 2- the point of whitch we got all the slats down pic 3- jd 6400 in the workshop having the transmission sorted out pic 4- jd 6120 2wd replacement for the 6400 pic 5-neibours fendt 718 bringing down another 280 lambs to graze on our pasture over the winter months pic 6- jd 7530 with dribble bar parked up after spreading slurry pic 7- calf hutches, and the concrete pad cleaned for a nice row of clean hutches to be lined up ready for new calves pic 8- massey 565 with trima loader at te small holding where we have 40+ heffiers in a straw yard and cubicle shed pic 9- entrance to the small holding pic 10- just a taste of the fog we had for 3 days straight, this was at 2:30 in the afternoon and i could barley see the farm from 50 metres away, driving down the road to the small holding was pretty dangerous especially with the bale spikes on the front Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Light Land Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 all the best with the new job jordie lad,few cow pictures would'nt hurt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robbo Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 The two Countys in your pictures both have V registrations on them, are you sure they are N and E reg machines? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howard_S Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 i found out a few months ago that we actually have 2 county 1184 tractors. the one is an N reg and the other an E reg. the E reg machine is usually away from the farm on an irigator or pumping slurry. we we using both machines not long ago to do fencing work. Two??? Thats a bit greedy isn't it?? You sure he doesn't want to sell one to one of us enthusiasts??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Ferguson Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 Well done, Jordan. Looks the perfect place for you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farmermilkin82.050 Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 Looks great Jordan, hardly any chance of another picture of the new shed with the two manitous out in front? Thanks mate, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
05rich Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 only just seen this topic jordan, looks like you have a realy good job, plenty of kit about. where are you based , i know they do some maize around here , and one year i got a ride in the claas forager your 75 with "licky" in the window has been in at our place recently i think , head gasket? also nice to see one of our 6120 2wd they were always handy tractors to have around the yard. who is doing the gearbox on the 6400 , someone from my place or not? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jordantaylor Posted January 18, 2012 Author Share Posted January 18, 2012 only just seen this topic jordan, looks like you have a realy good job, plenty of kit about. where are you based , i know they do some maize around here , and one year i got a ride in the claas forager your 75 with "licky" in the window has been in at our place recently i think , head gasket? also nice to see one of our 6120 2wd they were always handy tractors to have around the yard. who is doing the gearbox on the 6400 , someone from my place or not? hi mate, yeah the 7530 with licky in the window has been at your place and shes working well now, not sure who was soring the 6400, didnt have much to do with it but i think it was an independent mechanic that used to work for deere. the 6120 is a superb tractor and i think it might be from your place as when the arctic turned up in the yard with lickys 7530 on the back they has bought the 6120 with it. we are done with it now so if it is your it should soon be returned. other than that how are you getting on working at deere?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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