aaron moore Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 This is a small farm I've been working on for a few years, gradually building up details here and there, we farm around 150 acres, 110ish in grazing and silage ground,with the remaining 40 odd being mad up of barley and potatoes. We sell some barley and keep a little in the sheds for feed, we would do the same for the spuds too. Our equipment is fairly old, we run only two modern machines, a John Dere 6830, a JCB 310s, two fords, a gen2 5610, and a gen1 7610, these two spend their days on the diet feeder, small trailers and are our yard shunters. The Deere is supported in its main role by a New Holland 8360. Eventually I hope to turn the farm back to an late 80's/ early 90's theme. The farms cereal crops are harvested by a New Holland TR85. We milk around 50-80 freisians at any one time, this is collected by Glanbia Dairies and goes for cheese production, alongside that we take a few churns over to a cousins Ice Cream shop in the centre of the town each morning. We currently have planning permission in to knock down one side of the yard and replace it with a large silo and a catlle shed, this would allow us to make more clamped silage and less wraped silage.But anyway a picture speaks a thousand words. Back lane leading into the yard, most of our grazing ground can be accessed though here The farms old entrance, we have since added a lane to the side for tractors and lorries to access the farm, however the lorry drivers have to reverse around most of the yard to acces the dairy unit The farms red brick parlour, its still a WIP though A few bales we wrapped up ready for sale today, we wanted to get them off the field as it has a tendancy to flood in wet weather And finally for tonight our 68' drawing slurry in for storage for a neighbour with a contractors tanker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tectorr Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 Looking good! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Light Land Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 Really nice start, enjoyed it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oakley Farms Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 Another diorama to follow nice work aaron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Palmer Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 nice to see another layout on here,keep it up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Ford Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 very nice work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tractorboyjules1977 Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 really good fella , cant wait to see what comes next ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aaron moore Posted July 9, 2014 Author Share Posted July 9, 2014 Thanks for the kind words guys, small update from the farm, Started the day by getting the feeder hooked up the NH to get a quick service done before the cows come back in and in between silage. A few poles there too, left by NIE when they were changing some poles further into the village The 5610 awaiting some fuel I was putting a few cows out last week and noticed there were quite a few rushes growing behind the bale pad, so I stuck a few beef cattle in to graze the field down and finally had some spare time today and put the topper onto the 7610 to control them a bit, only remembered about pictures when I was leaving the field All topped down now and ready for some slurry and grazing, I think I'll have to move the bales next year, they just seem to be adding to the boggy land it seems Thanks for looking Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aaron moore Posted July 12, 2014 Author Share Posted July 12, 2014 Thanks for all the likes and kind words guys, a small update on our combine, not really worth its own topic for such a small convo, since these were taken I have managed to get the bulk of the interior done, with just some glazing to do, and then its onto making the reel for it. Which reminds me anybody know the normal size of header for one of these? Any pictures of said header would help too, if anybody has any tips for building headers let me know please, Edit:In these pictures the combine is only sitting together to the safety frame at the back actually connects on to the body and sits level Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aaron moore Posted July 12, 2014 Author Share Posted July 12, 2014 I must have forgotten about this picture last time round, local contractors own set up, Fendt 820 and Redrock 2000 ferry tanker with lazy arm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aaron moore Posted October 20, 2014 Author Share Posted October 20, 2014 I've been fiddling about a bit over the past few weeks when I can, changed my yard design a little. sso far these are the only two pictures I've taken since Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tractorbob Posted October 25, 2014 Share Posted October 25, 2014 looking good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niels Posted October 25, 2014 Share Posted October 25, 2014 If you look on Google you can find enough TR's with the conventional header on. The early models all seem to have the sort of NH 8000/TF style header and later on like this in the picture with very long dividers. This might be a flex header though for soya beans. The TR was never sold in the UK but some did end up in dry country's like France. In Western Europe we had the TF, which is pretty similar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aaron moore Posted October 26, 2014 Author Share Posted October 26, 2014 Thanks for the help Niels, still havent got round to finishing this though, just that header I need to build Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aaron moore Posted October 26, 2014 Author Share Posted October 26, 2014 A few odd pictures from around the farm yesterday, firstly putting a bale into some beef cattle, we mainly keep charlois, highland, and the odd aberdeen angus, Hauling potatoes to our distributer, we send them in loose, then the distributer puts them in his own branded boxes, then they are sent out to factories and chip shops I've been keeping this one secret, the latest purchase for the farm, a Claas Scorpian telehandler, this is the JCBs replacement, we've been using it mainly for feeding and cleaning out, we mainly upgraded to it for the longer reach and bigger lifting capacity Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stabliofarmer Posted October 26, 2014 Share Posted October 26, 2014 Loads of great little details in there Aaron, love the weathering on the Claas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robertw1 Posted October 26, 2014 Share Posted October 26, 2014 I second your comment James, the weathering on the claas is just great! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aaron moore Posted October 26, 2014 Author Share Posted October 26, 2014 Thanks for the kind words guys, if I was to reveal how the weathering was done it would shock some people how simple it is A few pictures of mucking out I forgot to post earlier, Getting a couple of bales for the calves Blowing it in Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aaron moore Posted October 26, 2014 Author Share Posted October 26, 2014 A random one of the Class, Leaving some straw in for them to eat, they get this along with nuts kept in the silo beside the shed, and the usual milk from the dairy herd. All parked up in the yard for the next job, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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