jordantaylor Posted September 15, 2012 Author Share Posted September 15, 2012 I might see you tomorrow Jordan if you are baling as im bringing my combine over to cut the wheat at Calley Farm in the morning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jordantaylor Posted September 15, 2012 Author Share Posted September 15, 2012 it really has been a busy few weeks since i last posted not sure how to explain it really, ive done too much to talk about so im going to make it simple Baling, baling and more baling- final count for me these past 2 months is 2269 4ft round bales. we have now got over 2700 bales on the farm, i have baled all our own and ive baled some straw on other farms that we have had aswell. cultivating, more cultivating, chizzle ploughing bale loading and carting muck spreading last of the silage plenty of cleaning - mower, rake, forage waggon, baler, marshall muck spreader, tractors maintainance- welding, general repairs, flat tyres, blown radiators ect.... we have also had big problems with kids from the local estates yet again with the bales. i was out baling all the wheat straw over 2 days and loading and carting inbetween but while i was baling one evening the boss had to chase a load of kids from the farm that were ontop of the round bale stack trying to roll bales off. they then came to the field and for 3 hours while i was baling one of the dairy staff was having to drive around the fields in the landrover making sure the kids didnt try and destroy the bales and the boss was having to watch the stack at the farm. anyway to cut a long story short, we started a 2nd stack at the other farm, we currently have over 400 bales there. i went to check on the heffiers we have there only to find that the kids had gone to that bale stack and rolled about 12 bales off from the side. thes bales caused a load more bales to roll down destryoing the fence to the side of the stack, so now we have a huge gap in the middle of the stack and we calnt do anything about it as we have a few hundred bales infront of where they rolled the bales we are having to get multiple cctv cameras put in around both farmswith night vission aswell so not cheap as we really want to catch these kids now, the police dont seem to want to know which is surprising but i just hope they dont decide to set fire to any bales as they did a few years ago, destroyed a stack of about 800 at the main farm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soilboy Posted September 19, 2012 Share Posted September 19, 2012 hi jordan, i brought the lexion 630 montana to help out simon getting the wheat cut. when i am back home next week i will post some pictures i took last sunday of you baling whilst i was finishing off in the first field. i think i might have been taking pictures of your baler at the same time as you were taking pictures of my combine. good to see you seem to be getting on well at rogers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jordantaylor Posted September 23, 2012 Author Share Posted September 23, 2012 the pictures explain themselves as to what ive got up to 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jordantaylor Posted September 23, 2012 Author Share Posted September 23, 2012 well ive been drilling for the first time on saturday. ive been drilling a 2-3 year silage lay . this was to get me some experience before i go onto drilling the barley. the valtra is owned by simon payne the contractor. its a fantastic machine and is fantastic to drive, i think its got to be the most comfortable tractor ive ever driven Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deere-est Posted September 25, 2012 Share Posted September 25, 2012 What a fantastic mix of jobs you are doing, Jordan. I bet there is no looking back now, remember when some of us were saying not to get blinded by the big fancy machinery, thousands of acres etc etc. Sometimes it pays just to step back and look for a farm which may not be running all the biggest, latest kit but does keep much of its work in house. I'd be happy as a pig in pooh to have your job even now!! Lovely update, buddy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jordantaylor Posted September 25, 2012 Author Share Posted September 25, 2012 (edited) What a fantastic mix of jobs you are doing, Jordan. I bet there is no looking back now, remember when some of us were saying not to get blinded by the big fancy machinery, thousands of acres etc etc. Sometimes it pays just to step back and look for a farm which may not be running all the biggest, latest kit but does keep much of its work in house. I'd be happy as a pig in pooh to have your job even now!! Lovely update, buddy Edited September 25, 2012 by jordantaylor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deere-est Posted September 25, 2012 Share Posted September 25, 2012 Pleasing reading, Jordan. Much the same where I work from 15 - 21 years of age. I was taught so much on the farm back then, wrnt there having never driven a tractor and left having done everything we did, drilling, spraying, ploughing, combining, cattle work....... Like you, the list just goes on! Again, good on you. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jordantaylor Posted October 7, 2012 Author Share Posted October 7, 2012 well with the weather taking a turn for the worst we decided to bring the cows in now as the tracks and the fields were getting too churned up. i had to call upon the dairy boys to bring the 3085 down to pull me out when i got stuck as the boss man was away for the day. we have been cleaning out the machinery shed as we are having a few sections for the heffiers to go into and we are having a 1/3rd of it for the maize as we have no clamp space left after all the silage. we are hoping to start the maize in the next couple of days and from what ive been told we have got a team of fords coming down to cart off a claas jaguar so i will try and get photos if im not too busy. The contractors have been spreading muck with a claas arion 640 and Ktwo spreader and loading with their manitou. I was at the yard helping one of the lads grease and setup the plough and front mounted press thats on the john deere but due to how wet it is they are not on the go at the moment. i have also preped the winter barley ground but just waiting for a dry spell to get in there and drill it. i will try and post an update after the maize gets harvested but i will probably see a few of you guys at toytrac whoever is going 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jdeere6910 Posted October 8, 2012 Share Posted October 8, 2012 Great update Jordan, its good to see the workings of a difeerent farm. Does the JD belong to the farm you work for, and does it pull the 5 furrow okay? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Light Land Posted October 25, 2012 Share Posted October 25, 2012 odd ball looking press on the jd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jordantaylor Posted October 31, 2012 Author Share Posted October 31, 2012 odd ball looking press on the jd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deere-est Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 Nice set of photos, Jordan. Any idea what the mirror is for on the 87? Big trailers, any sticky moments? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jordantaylor Posted October 31, 2012 Author Share Posted October 31, 2012 well in other news, the mf 135 decided one day that the engine was going to give up and so that was the end of that one, so the boss sld it for £1200 to somebody who was going to rebuild it and replace it with a David Brown 780 with a loader. we took the loader off and put it on the scraper and after 2 days the clutch sudenly went so its currently sitting down on the wash pad with a PTO powered water pump for washing the machinery off. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jordantaylor Posted October 31, 2012 Author Share Posted October 31, 2012 Nice set of photos, Jordan. Any idea what the mirror is for on the 87? Big trailers, any sticky moments? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deere-est Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 I thought that would be the case with the mirrors. Are they convexed mirrors then? I should think those trailers do take some pulling!! I was only saying in Bas's topic just now about the size of the trailers in Holland dwarfing 70 series tractors and these big Richard Westerns are just the same! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hicksy Posted November 1, 2012 Share Posted November 1, 2012 This is a great thread really enjoyed ready it congrats on you getting the job looks like you really deserve it bet you never stand still , with lots to do all the time , really like the old fergies 168 etc And the maize harvest I really miss that job , keep posting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jordantaylor Posted November 11, 2012 Author Share Posted November 11, 2012 well another update from calley farm we have been trying different dairy rations to find which one is bringing the milk up and we have got it up over 4000 litres/day in the past month which is pretty good as they are indoors all the time now. we have also got the cell count down to 86 which is a big improvement from 250+ just a few weeks ago we are giving them silage, maize, barley blend and some brewers grains with a small amount of straw. we are also rethinking the yard layout as we want to let them have access to the small silage clamp where we are going to self feed the silage. we are also going to setup a race from the parlour where they will be footbathed at least once a week to reduce some of the problems we are having with the cows. we are also considering creating another open yard fro them at the other end of the covered yard so they have more rrom to go outside if they want but we are going to put small amounts of straw down so they can lay down outside if they please. we have also still not used the bale shreader yet as its still at the other farm but we have been bedding down the yards by hand for over a month now and using at least 6 bales per day for the main yard alone. its taking its toll but we are getting faster with it but the boss has said hes thinking of selling the bale shreader and purchasing a spread-a-bale so we can get the yards bedded down faster and meaning one person can scrape out, bed down and feed in a morning and afternoon. he is also considering purchasing an industrial JCB loader with a 3 stage boom that he has seen at the local dealers. its an 04 reg so nothing new and fancy but its in imacualte condition. we have also done some late silaging this week where we got a good friend to bring down some demo lely kit. he bought a splendimo mower conditioner and a combi baler - wrapper . the boss is certainly considering changing his current 3.80 meter lely mower for a lely mower conditioner. were not too sure on the baler though as we are not looking to do any silage bales next year. and it didnt create as good a bale as the kuhn VB2160 we currently have. we did have to get our little wrapper out though as the boss only bought 1 roll of wrap for the demo baler whereas it needed 2 to work properly so he didnt wrap the first 15 odd bales as he was waiting for a second roll of wrap to arrive. i also tried to go drilling my barley the other day as we really needed to have got it in weeks ago, but the drill wasnt doing much good to we got in our ggod friend and local contractor with his valtra on flotations and 4m drill to have a go but after one run around the field he was blocked up and made a considerable mess after sinking slightly on the top headland. we did eventually get it all in though but i think we may have some trouble with various diseases and weeds now. we have also got a new Angus bull on the way, he will be number 4 on the farm. we have just moved one over to our one group of heffiers and had to take one out of the dairy group as hes lame again so were thinking of selling him as they are having trouble mounting the cows due to the height difference Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tractortim Posted November 11, 2012 Share Posted November 11, 2012 you'll find the three stage jcb handler probably to be abit big and cumbersome and also heavy unfortunatly most of those jcbs lacked a turbo so are also not alot of use on a silage pit or for heavy loading such as emptying sheds but for lift and shift as it would on a building site you won't get better Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jordantaylor Posted December 20, 2012 Author Share Posted December 20, 2012 Due to a long list of reasons i have quit my job at calley farm. I know many of you will want to pick at me about it but before you do i am more than happy to give you contact details of other workers who have been there and seen it to back my reasons up. i will give a short list but it was not easy working there i was not on a contract, being payed a daily wage so i wasnt benefiting for working longer hours i was losing out, working too many hours, getting very little time off, being made to break laws, not covered by the farm insurance if i had an accident, being made to work with incompetant workers, not being able to have a say in how the farm was run and being discusted in how the stock was treated. not being taken seriously when i had concerns or problems and having to work with machinery that constantly had problems and issues. so i am the 9th member of staff to leave calley farm in 6 months. I did want to stay on there but the boss made it unbarable and i did get the support from many people and lots of local farmers and farm workers understand why i left as they know all to well how the farm is run and what the boss is like Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Light Land Posted December 20, 2012 Share Posted December 20, 2012 Jordan that's sad to hear but understandable.It'll get you down working for a boss like that,in the end what don't kill you makes you stronger so chin up go buy your self a model and forget about him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tractorbob Posted December 20, 2012 Share Posted December 20, 2012 you can allways tell who are the gits to work for . job .adverts every couple of weeks ,got some round us ..stay away from those twats... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jordantaylor Posted December 21, 2012 Author Share Posted December 21, 2012 cheers guys, well all is not lost ive been to see a few old friends and JRO Griffiths & Sons have given me some work nothing full time but work on the graders over the christmas period and some yard work into the new year. I have also been offered some weekend photography work at sporting events, football, rugby, gymnastics, track days ect... im going to give it a go as i do enjoy my photography and this will allow me to go self employed and so i can do my farm work and photography. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMB Posted December 22, 2012 Share Posted December 22, 2012 That's sad, and I thought it was all going so well! I think most will agree you left for the right reasons Jordan and thanks for spending the time on the updates, they were great while they lasted! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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