Oakley Farms Posted August 20, 2013 Author Share Posted August 20, 2013 We had a nice surprise today with the delivery of the new Grimme CW150 destoner the farm ordered last year, this should improve output when planting as the old CS1500 machine was becoming abit tired and will now probably be sold Maurice unloading her Put to bed in the machinery shed until spring 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oakley Farms Posted August 20, 2013 Author Share Posted August 20, 2013 Inside the grain store at the mo, this years rape on the right and the first of the wheat on the left Shame its not falling out the door but yields this year haven't been great as planted late due to wet weather and a cold spring put it behind about a month Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oakley Farms Posted August 20, 2013 Author Share Posted August 20, 2013 Night time juice up! Steve drilled some this morning before the dew lifted and combining then took over, now at 10pm its too damp to continue cutting so is going on into the night drilling, silly season is here! Very impressed with the Challenger, pulls like a dream, new drill is doing a dam good job too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oakley Farms Posted August 30, 2013 Author Share Posted August 30, 2013 Updates for 30th Aug The demo challenger has now gone back so the 8530 is back on drilling rape, the demo went down very well, that well in fact the farm has bought it as an ex demo, being cleaned up and serviced before being delivered end of sept Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oakley Farms Posted August 30, 2013 Author Share Posted August 30, 2013 We had a farmer from Devon come up to have a look at our drill, Paul Palmer from Huish Farm arrived in his pick up and is looking to buy a 6 meter version but wanted to see one before buying 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oakley Farms Posted August 30, 2013 Author Share Posted August 30, 2013 I have now started work on the farm entrance, on the left is hedges and trees creating a boundary between yard and field, this area will be used to park trailers, potato boxes have arrived ready for lifting spuds in the first week of Sept, these have been stacked on the right in the box park which has hedges around it, in the back ground you can see work has started on digging footings for an extension to one of the coldstores, this will be a loading bay for potato lorries Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Massey Boy Posted August 30, 2013 Share Posted August 30, 2013 Looking good as always, some moneys worth of gear and spud box's haha!! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Light Land Posted August 30, 2013 Share Posted August 30, 2013 Nice lay out, I enjoy this topic. The vadderstad drill would make a beter job than the tiger by the nature of the ground engaging tools in a lot of conditions? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oakley Farms Posted August 30, 2013 Author Share Posted August 30, 2013 Nice lay out, I enjoy this topic. The vadderstad drill would make a beter job than the tiger by the nature of the ground engaging tools in a lot of conditions? thanks Ol, yes your right there but for oilseed rape establishment in one pass the tiger is fine, we get away with it on this farm because of the light soils, but id imagine in heavy clay it wouldnt be suitable to drill in one pass Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Light Land Posted August 31, 2013 Share Posted August 31, 2013 Well put, keep up the good work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oakley Farms Posted August 31, 2013 Author Share Posted August 31, 2013 Farm entrance now pretty much finished 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Palmer Posted August 31, 2013 Share Posted August 31, 2013 that looks brilliant Alex,very smart entrance there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandy6930 Posted August 31, 2013 Share Posted August 31, 2013 Looking good really like the signs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B O R Posted August 31, 2013 Share Posted August 31, 2013 good work Alex...is looking excellent Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jordan_coe2012 Posted August 31, 2013 Share Posted August 31, 2013 That's fantastic it looks huge and how many potatoe boxes do you have!!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oakley Farms Posted August 31, 2013 Author Share Posted August 31, 2013 Thanks for all the comments guys, really appreciated, iv tried to keep the farm nice and tidy so i built an entrance to match, Oakley Farms prides itself on a clean tidy image so this is portrayed to its customers when signing contract farming agreements, which is currently happening, 3500 acres owned on a "home farm" with an extra 1000acres in contract farming agreements starting this autumn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oakley Farms Posted September 2, 2013 Author Share Posted September 2, 2013 Harvest is now in the bag at Oakley, had a good run of weather and a good team Combine returning home Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oakley Farms Posted September 2, 2013 Author Share Posted September 2, 2013 2nd September 1st day of lifting spuds, slow day setting up the machine, trial dig for Branston potatoes so 2 lorry loads required for tomorrow, here is Mark and Maurice leaving the yard for Hinton Park this morning Also going on this week, now Steve has finished combining he can sit back on the 8530 and drill the remaining 600 acres of OSR, now we are into september and its beginning to become late for drilling rape we have swapped varieties, we were on DK Camelot and have switched to DK ExPower which provides early vigorous Autumn growth, great for later drilling! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oakley Farms Posted September 19, 2013 Author Share Posted September 19, 2013 Spud digging is now in full swing and progressing well, the yard was a bit chaotic one day with 3 loads going out and of coarse they all turned up at once! Empty boxes being taken into the grading shed The beloved 8530 has now been sold, we put it through the workshop giving it a clean and 5000hr service 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Palmer Posted September 19, 2013 Share Posted September 19, 2013 Cracking updates Alex,so what challenger is replacing the jd 8530 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oakley Farms Posted September 19, 2013 Author Share Posted September 19, 2013 Thanks Paul, its a MT765D, i was impressed with the model compared to the C range, more detail like topcon receiver and better linkage Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oakley Farms Posted September 19, 2013 Author Share Posted September 19, 2013 (edited) Starting the winter wheat drilling campaign today, Steve is calibrating the drill along with help from the smarts fitter dave who is also here servicing the 8530 in the workshop Joe has been loading bags of seed on the flatbed with the jcb and strimech bag handler ready to take the field Edited September 19, 2013 by Oakley Farms Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oakley Farms Posted September 19, 2013 Author Share Posted September 19, 2013 A local dairy farmer has dropped off a West silage trailer to be filled with stockfeed potatoes The lads have got abit of a winter workshop project ahead of them, Oakley farms have bought a fire damaged chaser bin from Cambridge; with taking on more land next year and running two combines it seemed a viable option. So at the moment the chassis is in the workshop and on wet days the lads are going through the running gear, outside is the main bin part, watch this space! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Palmer Posted September 19, 2013 Share Posted September 19, 2013 I have just got another 765d,they are a great model,look out for the 775e Alex,I love the flatbed trailer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catkom3 Posted September 19, 2013 Share Posted September 19, 2013 Your a brave man Alex dismantling a Perard,?? Regards Joe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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