mb86 Posted September 16, 2016 Share Posted September 16, 2016 Nice pics smithy. I see you are handy with a welder, tidy job you have made on the weight frame. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smithy Posted September 16, 2016 Share Posted September 16, 2016 22 minutes ago, mb86 said: Nice pics smithy. I see you are handy with a welder, tidy job you have made on the weight frame. Thanks ,yes made it up one sunday morning as church was closed for the day haha ,used to do a lot of welding a few years back when I worked for a company building generators in the winter months I used to help make up the base units and convert 20foot shipping containers into sound-proof units 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smithy Posted September 16, 2016 Share Posted September 16, 2016 I received a email from CNH INDUSTRIAL ST. VALENTIN-AUSTRIA on Monday this week inviting me to one of there 3 road-shows that they was putting on ,one on Tuesday at Cirencester ,one on Friday at Harlton,Cambridge and one next week somewhere in Scotland . So as it spoke of being wet on Friday and Cambridge being the closes I replied saying yes so me being me set of very early to allow for traffic and was one of the first to get there even before a lot of the reps from all the case dealers in the area but the coffee/bacon buttie van was on the go and was free so I dived in and then my Goodwin turned up so had a quick hello with him before going of to test drive the tractors of which I drove every one some of them twice it started to rain about 11ish so went and got another coffee and pork roll this time and was then told that some other farmers from my area was planning on being there in the afternoon so went and got another coffee/hog-roast roll and waited as by now it was raining hard and I know that I could not be doing any land work back home so went for some more drives in the machines and spoke to the farmers from my area and some from all round the local area ,anyway after most of them had gone and after appox 30mm of rain me and a demonstrator driver took the Quadtrac out again and sunk the machine we was pulling into the ground and set off on what was very wet ground but it pulled it and only had 6% track-slip I had more than that trying to walk across the field anyway it was then time to make my way home with very wet/muddie boots and another pork roll but no coffee as you cant drink and drive 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smithy Posted September 17, 2016 Share Posted September 17, 2016 Some more pictures from the demo the tractor off the ground was connected to some controls in the tent next to it so you could practise setting up all the controls as in headland-management /auto gear changes . Some of the demo team had been over here for 4 weeks from Austria but was flying home over weekend and some more flying out to do the Scotland show then I think they said moving it all to Denmark 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deere-est Posted September 18, 2016 Share Posted September 18, 2016 Been over my Dads sorting out his attic ready for the insulating guys to do there stuff on Tuesday. Anybody want any farm models?!!! On a serious note, I need a table at Toytrac I think and do a dispersal sale. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0025 Posted September 18, 2016 Share Posted September 18, 2016 been very busy over this weekend, since I was 18 on Friday! Went out on Friday and only made it to the first bar before I was very sick! ha ha!! Then last night, I thought I was going out for a meal, but came home to a surprise party! I must say it was a well kept secret, however I am very gullible. hopefully going to open the rest of the presents from last night... 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robbo Posted September 18, 2016 Share Posted September 18, 2016 Putting myself forwards for "The Darwin Award" today. This is where you are judged on your stupidity and if you followed natural selection then your line would die out. It was wet in the garden but I was cutting the grass with a petrol rotary mower, it blocked and I wanted to keep the motor running to help to blow out the wet grass. The grass wouldn't budge and so I decided to give it a helping hand, my left hand. I have ended up with a broken finger which is better that chopping the damn thing off.........opps 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tractorman810 Posted September 18, 2016 Share Posted September 18, 2016 doh , little bit of swearing take place to mike ?? as you say ,it could have been just a little worse , so kind of lucky Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smithy Posted September 18, 2016 Share Posted September 18, 2016 5 hours ago, robbo said: Putting myself forwards for "The Darwin Award" today. This is where you are judged on your stupidity and if you followed natural selection then your line would die out. It was wet in the garden but I was cutting the grass with a petrol rotary mower, it blocked and I wanted to keep the motor running to help to blow out the wet grass. The grass wouldn't budge and so I decided to give it a helping hand, my left hand. I have ended up with a broken finger which is better that chopping the damn thing off.........opps ouch bet you don't do it again 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trigger82 Posted September 19, 2016 Share Posted September 19, 2016 Bringing this load to ploughing today Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smithy Posted September 20, 2016 Share Posted September 20, 2016 Been ploughing again ground is a bit softer since the rain on Friday ,also spent a few hrs checking over the combination drill as plan to start drilling over the weekend also had a quick visit to a mate of mine that has just come out of hospital as about 2 weeks ago he cut down a tree which landed exactly where he wonted it on the edge of a ditch he got in the ditch to clear out some rubbish and tree rolled on top of him and brock his collar-bone and stopped the blood supplies to his other arm he was found by 2 people out walking about 2hrs after it had happened was in hospital a little while as he got blood-poisoning but home now and on the mend may have to go and do some of his work to help out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valley Axe Man Posted September 21, 2016 Share Posted September 21, 2016 5 hours ago, smithy said: Been ploughing again ground is a bit softer since the rain on Friday ,also spent a few hrs checking over the combination drill as plan to start drilling over the weekend also had a quick visit to a mate of mine that has just come out of hospital as about 2 weeks ago he cut down a tree which landed exactly where he wonted it on the edge of a ditch he got in the ditch to clear out some rubbish and tree rolled on top of him and brock his collar-bone and stopped the blood supplies to his other arm he was found by 2 people out walking about 2hrs after it had happened was in hospital a little while as he got blood-poisoning but home now and on the mend may have to go and do some of his work to help out He was lucky the walkers found him Smithy. Must have been a long old wait hoping someone would come to his rescue. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smithy Posted September 21, 2016 Share Posted September 21, 2016 3 hours ago, Valley Axe Man said: He was lucky the walkers found him Smithy. Must have been a long old wait hoping someone would come to his rescue. Yes very lucky as his blood was starting to clot and had to fly him in helicopter to hospital pretty quick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tractorman810 Posted September 21, 2016 Share Posted September 21, 2016 ouch smithy, sounds like he was very lucky . how many acres left to seed then ?? everything left or are you doing some spring. crops to ? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trigger82 Posted September 22, 2016 Share Posted September 22, 2016 Went today and got 1 ton off meal for the cattle . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gav836 Posted September 23, 2016 Share Posted September 23, 2016 Drilling winter barley with a JD 7230r and 3m Amazone combination mounted on a shakerator frame while boss drills wheat with 6930 and Kverneland tine drill 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trigger82 Posted September 23, 2016 Share Posted September 23, 2016 Load out off the ploughing today 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trigger82 Posted September 23, 2016 Share Posted September 23, 2016 1 for home ha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smithy Posted September 23, 2016 Share Posted September 23, 2016 On 21/09/2016 at 8:23 AM, Tractorman810 said: ouch smithy, sounds like he was very lucky . how many acres left to seed then ?? everything left or are you doing some spring. crops to ? Yes he was very lucky but he is up and about but not allowed to drive at moment as for me if it don't rain on sunday I plan to start drilling wheat been giving some fields a second pass with press last few days as well as spreading slug-pellets and bit of spraying on stubbles where next years sugar beet are going we will also have about 30 acres of spring barley on one field where there is some black grass,as for winter crops ,wheat/barley/beans I have about 170 acres of my own to do and depends on weather if it turns wet I have some to do for 2 neighbour's as I have a Maschio/Accord combination drill 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trigger82 Posted September 25, 2016 Share Posted September 25, 2016 At a vintage tractor /car run today i side i go in my kp starlet 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tractorman810 Posted September 25, 2016 Share Posted September 25, 2016 been into work today after a 5am callout ,one of my workmates (may notbe much longer ) rang in sick at 5 am for a scheduled A60 fibre change over ,basicly a customer agreed date and time we cant break without huge penalties , which started at 6am, luckly i got there at 6.15 which wasnt bad given it was in exeter, and the other guy had made a start both ends already which saved me some time, got home about 30 mins ago, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trigger82 Posted September 25, 2016 Share Posted September 25, 2016 Few tractor at the run today . 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trigger82 Posted September 25, 2016 Share Posted September 25, 2016 Few more tractors that was there . 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trigger82 Posted September 26, 2016 Share Posted September 26, 2016 Big move on todsy in the lorry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trigger82 Posted September 26, 2016 Share Posted September 26, 2016 So today i got to seat in the fendt 1050 all i can i say is Woo. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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