jordantaylor Posted July 8, 2012 Share Posted July 8, 2012 Well as many of you know I have finished college and been struggling to find work. But I have found a job. I came and did a trial weekend on a dairy and arable farm in aylesbury, buckinghamshire. It's around 750 acres, milking 220 cows keeping them in straw yards. They grow wheat, barley, osr and maize. The farmer is a huge Massey man and currently runs a 135,65,168,188,3085,6265,5465,6465. He also has David brown 880 on the slurry pump. He runs 3 old JCB loaders the newest being an 03 plate. I have moved 122 miles for this job and it's looking to be fantastic. The farmer is training me up to take over all the machinery work so he can retire and he is training up another lad I went to college with to take over the dairy when he retires. It's good that I can work with a college friend but it's opening new opportunities up for me. I will get a chance to operate a variety of equipment and maintain it. He has just bought a new pottinger Faro silagewagon for me to learn how to use and a new Marshall 9 ton muck spreader coming next week. I will get straight to work with this as we have a few large straw yards to clean out I will soon post photos and share more about the farm with you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MF-ROB Posted July 8, 2012 Share Posted July 8, 2012 AH well done Jordan good to see you back working again and working for a Massey man cant wait to see the pictures when you get them up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jordantaylor Posted July 8, 2012 Author Share Posted July 8, 2012 Yeah it's great too be working again and a full time job now, the part time days are over, it's real world farming now. And don't worry I will get plenty of photos up. The 135 has had a custom made bonnet due to being treated badly as it's a scraper tractor. It also has no brakes but works well enough. The farmer has got rid of a few heavy handed workers and unreliable workers due to damaging kit and not saying owt. I know come the end of harvest we have got a huge job sorting out all the fences around the cattle paddocks and we have also got the cattle tracks to sort out when we eventually get some dry weather (haha). The cows are currently being kept in overnight as the cattle tracks are that thick with muck we struggle to get the land rover down them and they were coming into the parlour covered in muck from the fields. It's not been easy on the filter and we have had the spend more time cleaning the teets than we want to really as it delays milking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nathan Posted July 9, 2012 Share Posted July 9, 2012 sounds like have a cracking job mate. and to move away from home takes guts too . look forward to reading this topic. well dome mate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Posted July 9, 2012 Share Posted July 9, 2012 Well done JT, have you joined up with the local Young Farmers Club yet, get some friends and meet some girls!!!! (Even if you look like Sloth from the Goonies, there's a Young Farmer girl for you!!!!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jordantaylor Posted July 9, 2012 Author Share Posted July 9, 2012 Cheers guys, yeah it is a cracking job, It is good for me as this farmer has put plenty of trust in me and he is letting me operate each machine just around the yard to get a feel for them all, and I've had a few on muck and slurry and gfd already. He is also letting me spend time with the equipment in the workshop getting used to fixing and maintain each machine. And I'm going to look for the local yfc I think it's aylesbury yfc as me and the other lad are going to join just to make some new friends in the area Photos should be on in the coming days, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jordantaylor Posted July 11, 2012 Author Share Posted July 11, 2012 well as i said some photos will be up and here are a few The first 2 photos show the main farm and the smaller farm we have. on the main farm we have also now got a huge cattle shed the full lenght of the machinery shed behind the machinery shed. And various other photos from around the farm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jordantaylor Posted July 11, 2012 Author Share Posted July 11, 2012 there is plenty more machinery to photograph yet such as the third loader, new forage wagon and new kuhn baler but these are all under lock and ket at the other farm so i will get photos when i can, we are however taking delivery of a new 9 tonne marshall rear discharge spreader this week the 5465 is now efectivly my main tractor and the 6465 is the bosses main tractor and the 168 is main farm run around. the 65 and 188 are just there for when they are needed such as raking and the 188 goes on the bale wrapper and the second slurry tanker every now and again. he has around 7 bales trailer for when carting after harvest. he gets thousands of round straw bales and so all the farm staff get on the carting with a tractor each being it a new or an old machine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pistol pete Posted July 11, 2012 Share Posted July 11, 2012 looks like you will have plenty kit to work with there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris.watson Posted July 11, 2012 Share Posted July 11, 2012 any arable kit jordan? or does he contract it out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jordantaylor Posted July 11, 2012 Author Share Posted July 11, 2012 (edited) hes got 2 sets of discs, a 5 leg cousins subsoiler and a 4m power harrow. most of his arable is done by contractors now. hes got all his own silage kit and slurry and muck kit. he did have a krone big pack last year but didnt do enough bales with it to make it worth keeping and pay for itself. Edited July 11, 2012 by jordantaylor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MF-ROB Posted July 11, 2012 Share Posted July 11, 2012 Jordan good to see the pictures are up love the MF3085 would like a few more pictures of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jordantaylor Posted July 11, 2012 Author Share Posted July 11, 2012 Jordan good to see the pictures are up love the MF3085 would like a few more pictures of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jdeere6910 Posted July 12, 2012 Share Posted July 12, 2012 Looks an amazing job Jordan, nice equipment and a lot of trust and encouragement being placed with you which can only be a good thing good luck with the job and keep up with the updates Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jordantaylor Posted July 12, 2012 Author Share Posted July 12, 2012 yeah its a fantastic job, im able to get on with work and dont have people breathing down my neck checking on me 24/7. i can just get on with a job stress free. im also able to take on things ive learnt at other farms and put them into practice and use them to my benefit. i have just bought a whiteboard for in the workshop and ive got all the tractors and loaders written down on it and i have told everybody if they do any work on any of the kit to right it down on the board including the machine, what they have done, the date and who did the work. this is then being put into a spreadsheet by myself so we can keep track of what machinery is being worked on and when and it can also show up if any machine has got constant problems say for example id a loader is constantly being filled with hydraulic oil we can take a closer look and take up further action if required i.e. get dealer out or replace the machine. I have also got plans to put up new shelving so we can sort all of the tools out so they afre not spread over the benches all the time. im also going to give the workshop a thorough clear out as i can while this bad weather is in as i calnt get into the fields. it gives me a chance to see what parts are available to us already and what we could do with stocking up on ect... i am also getting the main road and field work tractors and im going to make them brackets so they can each have a grease gun and various essential tools on the machine at all times so if in the field if anything breaks they dont always have to return to the yard. some would say things like this is unnesacery but its what i feel works well and ive seen it work well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnDeereMan Posted July 12, 2012 Share Posted July 12, 2012 On my 69 i just put my grease gun on step and on my 2140 i bolted a black downspout drain pipe to step for grease gun to go in. Job done you pick little things up like that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Light Land Posted July 13, 2012 Share Posted July 13, 2012 Good for you Jordan.Were's the cow pictures before Pat kicks up a stink? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnDeereMan Posted July 13, 2012 Share Posted July 13, 2012 that MF 188 looks grand. The teagle tomahawk bale spreaders are a great machine we had on for many years - can rember driving it when i was about 10 and I used to pretend I was foraging with moving spout up and down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jordantaylor Posted July 17, 2012 Author Share Posted July 17, 2012 a few updated from work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jordantaylor Posted July 17, 2012 Author Share Posted July 17, 2012 A few more, the barley is ready for havest and so is secont cut silage Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Posted July 17, 2012 Share Posted July 17, 2012 Some very nice shots there Jordan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jordantaylor Posted July 17, 2012 Author Share Posted July 17, 2012 thanks barry, its a shame i dont really have time to get working photos. i will try and get photos when we get out with the new muck spreader and when we get silaging, hopefully a few harvest photos when the combines get rolling Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soilboy Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 (edited) Seems its quite a small world as I use to do the silaging at Caley Farm and I know the contractors I worked for were there a few weeks back doing first cut and they said that there was a forage wagon sitting in the shed. Edited September 10, 2012 by Soilboy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jordantaylor Posted July 18, 2012 Author Share Posted July 18, 2012 It is a small world yes, calley farm is a fantastic farm and roger is a great boss, and im not one to take sides on how people act and what they are like, roger has placed allot of trust in me and im extremely gratefull. im an easy lad, i go to work, do my job to best of my abilities and i go home, i dont get involved in workplace arguments or dissagreements, im just a lad here to do my job and do it well. what roger used to be like is another story for another day. anyway my new muckspreader arrived today, im going to be the main person using it, the marshall bloke talked me through its servicing ect... so ive got a few sheds to muck out now so some dry weather would be great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnDeereMan Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 think theres one thing missing wich could make it a bit hard to muck spread Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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