FB Posted April 7, 2006 Share Posted April 7, 2006 nice pics Luke.....you just need some dumpy bags next :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Powerstarâ„¢ Posted April 7, 2006 Share Posted April 7, 2006 Yea I have invisiblespread at the moment \ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FB Posted April 7, 2006 Share Posted April 7, 2006 Yea I have invisiblespread at the moment \ dont we all ;) reminds me, i need to go in the loft later.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IH885XLMAN Posted April 7, 2006 Share Posted April 7, 2006 those masseys look real tidy marcus :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tractorman810 Posted April 7, 2006 Share Posted April 7, 2006 hells teeth that 2 very nice layouts there,and outside pics to,wonder what your neighbours think marcus,laying down in the dirt taking pics :D :D,well i ain't getting all mine out now ,hardly any soil to put them on anyway,so going to have to finish thew 3 field boards now double time to get in before the end date,stand no chance of winning with them 2 on here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewHolland2 Posted April 7, 2006 Share Posted April 7, 2006 Both very nice scenes there Luke and Marcus...... :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pingu Posted April 7, 2006 Share Posted April 7, 2006 Great pics luke and marcus were we allowed to go into that much detail which tractors hours Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NCC Posted April 7, 2006 Share Posted April 7, 2006 Looking good, NC farms better get a move on and have there photos taken and MF Fan better watch out as theres lots of JD's ;D :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pingu Posted April 7, 2006 Share Posted April 7, 2006 Better go have that larger i was given earlier then bloke at works birthday ;D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NCC Posted April 7, 2006 Share Posted April 7, 2006 You'll need a few then, there will be a few Fendts and a few Claas and MF machines chucked in mind ;D ;D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deere-est Posted April 8, 2006 Share Posted April 8, 2006 Fantastic stuff from both of you. Marcus there are a few heartstrings being plucked with all those lovelly convo MF's you have on the go. Brilliant photo's, no wonder the builder think your quackers!!! Looks like you want some rain down your way to give the new plants a kick-start. Luke you got some kit there too mate, the Fendt with Amazone and Vari-Press looks like a menace, very good looking piece of kit. Nice to see most of yours on wide tyres too, quite an imprtant point I think. The Deere's look nice, is on of them the high detail version 6920? I havn't got a complete tillage outfit yet, waiting on a good drill really. I'm waiting for the summer series when I can get my hay making gear out :) oh and grass silage too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJB1 Posted April 8, 2006 Share Posted April 8, 2006 look forward to seeing that mate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NCC Posted April 8, 2006 Share Posted April 8, 2006 NC Farms, farms around 17,500 acres of heavy sand/silt and heavy clay/loam on the Derbyshire, Nottingham border. Crops include 3500 acres of wheat, 3000 acres of barley, 2500 acres of OSR, 1000 acres of beans, 1500 acres of peas, 2000 acres of potatoes, 1500 acres of sugarbeet, 1500 acres of grass and 1000 acres of maize. The grass and maize land is farmed by NC Contracting a sub division of NC Farms that specialises in grass and maize harvesting and also muck and slurry handling. All crops are rotated every year, except for the grass which is on a 2 year ley. We use both minimum tillage and ploughing methods when it comes to cultivating the ground and every field is ploughed at least once every 2 years to prevent disease and help soil structure. Root crop ground is always ploughed. NC Farms mainly uses John Deere tractors which do the majority of the cultivation work, but also has a few Fendts and Claas Challengers too. The Fendts are mainly used for drilling and fertiliser application and the 2 Claas Challengers are usually doing min-till cultivation on 6m Amazone Centuars. No tractor has a specific job though. Sorry for the boring display background, I was going to take the pics outside until it started pouring down \ \ 1st pic: The sub 200 HP JD tractors including the 5820, 6520, 6820, 6920, 6920s, 7820 and 7920. 2nd Pic: The 200+ HP JD tractors, 8400, 8430T and 9420T. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NCC Posted April 8, 2006 Share Posted April 8, 2006 1st pic: The Fendt tractors back at the yard: 2x716's, 818, 2x926's and the 2 930's. 2nd pic: The Claas Challengers: 85E and MT 765. NC farms bought one of the prototype Claas MT crawlers at a special auction in Germany, when Claas sold the Challenger name to Cat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NCC Posted April 8, 2006 Share Posted April 8, 2006 1st pic: The teleporters and loading shovels, Liebherr 538 ag spec loading shovel, JCB loadall 526 and the 2 JCB loadall 526 Farm Specials. The loadalls are mainly used for all the lifting and shifting jobs on the farm, potato boxes, seed/fert bags, pushing grain etc while the loading shovel is used for loading grain and rootcrop trucks. 2nd pic: The sprayers, NC farms has fields situated up to 35 miles away so needs high capacity self propelled sprayers aswell as spraying the 2000+ acres they have on contract at neighbouring farms. Sprayers include: Tecnoma Laser PR 340 used for all cereal crops at Nc farms, Melroe Spra Coupe this is only used on the potatoes, sugarbeet and OSR crops, MB Unimog U400 and Hardi demount sprayer mainly used on the fields situated furthest from the farm, as it's got a fast road speed and lastly the John Deere 6820 and Hardi Commander 4400 this sprayer is normally used for contracting but also helps out the Tecnoma when busy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NCC Posted April 8, 2006 Share Posted April 8, 2006 The Claas Challengers, 85E and MT 765 mainly used for NC farms min-till cultivations both hooked up to 6m Amazone Centaurs, note the 85E's Centaur has the rear drills mainly used for direct drilling our OSR. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FB Posted April 8, 2006 Share Posted April 8, 2006 nice farm Nath! :) you got any more pics to come Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewHolland2 Posted April 8, 2006 Share Posted April 8, 2006 Nice set-up there Nath. Some big kit too...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NCC Posted April 8, 2006 Share Posted April 8, 2006 1st pic. Sub soilers, NC farms uses both 5 and 3 leg subsoilers. We only subsoil the headlands and tramlines as this is where most of our compaction occurs. 2nd pic. The ploughs, the JD 8430T is our main ploughing tractor having a 9 furrow reversible Dowdeswell on the rear and a 4 furrow dowdeswell on the front. This outfit ploughs nearly all of our heavy sand and silt ground. JD 8400 and 6 furrow Overum this plough is used mainly for ploughing all of our grassland and setaside hence the disc coulters on every furrow to cut through the grass. It also helps out our Lemken Europal 7x reversible on our heavy clay ground. 6 furrows is about the maximum amount of furrows we can use on our clay ground without using stupidly high HP tractors and increasing compaction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NCC Posted April 8, 2006 Share Posted April 8, 2006 1st pic. The big cultivators for ripping up the clay after the plough, 6m Lemken and Flexicoil soil loosner's are used aswell as discs and presses to get a good seedbed out of it. 2nd pic. The presses and power harrows for the sand land, 6m Lemken Zirkon power harrow and 6m Lemken press on JD 6920S, 4m Kverneland power harrow and Kverneland press on JD 6920S and 3m Maschio power harrow and 3m press on JD 6520. A pass with these normally gets the sand/silt ready for drilling, although in the dryer years sometimes a pass with soil loosner is helpful just to break the ground up a bit more. All depends on the weather and compaction as to which equipment we use to do the job though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NCC Posted April 8, 2006 Share Posted April 8, 2006 Forgot about this, we only use this whole outfit as one in the really dry years, normally powered by our John Deere 9420T it takes some pulling in our heavy clay. Most years we can get away with just a pass of the solo on the sand land and the solo and cultipress on our heavy clay. All depends on weather though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NCC Posted April 8, 2006 Share Posted April 8, 2006 1st pic. These drills are used to drill all of our cereals and grassland. Both Fendt 926's run with 6m Accord power harrow drill combis and are transported on the road using Fraser hydralic lift trailers. Both Fendt 716's run again with Accord 3m drill's although one is mounted on a Maschio power harrow. 2nd pic. Fendt 930 with 3m Kverneland press and 3m Accord MSC direct drill, normally used for direct drilling our combining peas into stubble. We plough before we drill the peas on our heavy clay as the drill alone doesn't seem to get enough depth. We've had good results in our sand land with direct drilling on it's own. Fendt 818 and Becker Aeromat precision drill, this is used to drill our maize and sugarbeet. Due to our increased acreage over the last fer years we have just bought a Amazone precision drill to help with the workload. Probaly our oldest peice of equipment on the farm our MF 30 drill and Lemken spring tine cultivator is in charge of all of the field bean drilling and game cover drilling at NC Farms, it's normally teamed up with one of our soon to be replaced Fendt 930's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JC Posted April 8, 2006 Share Posted April 8, 2006 Some fine kit there NCC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NCC Posted April 8, 2006 Share Posted April 8, 2006 1st pic. Last but not least the cambridge rolls, used to roll all of our cereals, osr, beans and pea ground. All 3 sets are made by Vaderstad and are pulled by the lower HP tractors like the JD 5820 and 6520. 2nd pic. The ferting team, All 3 of the Fertiliser spreaders are made by Amazone and are of the disc type. The larger trailed spreader is used for spreading fertiliser on the farthest fields from the farm. The 2 other smaller capacity spreaders are mainly in charge of the ground nearer to the farm. The MB Unimog U400 is fitted with a demount Lime spreader, mainly used for contracting more than spreading on the farm. It's most likley to be found up in the peak district spreading lime. Thats it for now folks, I'm off for a lie down all this typing has tired me out :D :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NCC Posted April 8, 2006 Share Posted April 8, 2006 Some fine kit there NCC. Cheers, quite alot of it has been supplied by Palmers agriultural machinery dealers you know :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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