smithy Posted January 18, 2019 Share Posted January 18, 2019 Had to fit new exhaust to my mates chainsaw other day as one in the picture has a big hole blown in the top of it 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smithy Posted January 18, 2019 Share Posted January 18, 2019 Spent a few days this week on chainsaw trying to keep ahead of my mate on the digger as he is cleaning out another bit of a main watercourse that goes though my fields I enjoy this sort of job leaves you knackered at the end of the day , got a bit more to do next week when hopefully I will have got my energy back 6 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smithy Posted January 18, 2019 Share Posted January 18, 2019 This one would not burn very well so had to put a couple of rubber 165/13 firelighters under it to get it going 2 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dm434 Posted January 18, 2019 Share Posted January 18, 2019 Quote tidy job there smithy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smithy Posted January 19, 2019 Share Posted January 19, 2019 10 hours ago, dm434 said: tidy job there smithy Thanks , my mate is pretty good on diggers so I let him have that job ,there is a lot of water go down that ditch when we have heavy rain as it all comes this way from wattisham airfield Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simong Posted January 19, 2019 Share Posted January 19, 2019 Picked this B23 mower up yesterday to go on my B250 and also my daughters B275, also have a B12/13 plough for them as can be seem on the 4100. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smithy Posted January 19, 2019 Share Posted January 19, 2019 Well done Simon ,will book you up for hay-making time 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simong Posted January 19, 2019 Share Posted January 19, 2019 2 hours ago, smithy said: Well done Simon ,will book you up for hay-making time anytime, wouldn't mind trying it on some grass in the summer. its all free and moving, even got the original swathboard with it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMB Posted January 20, 2019 Share Posted January 20, 2019 Could have done with that JCB on a number of felling jobs I had to do. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justy 46 Posted January 20, 2019 Share Posted January 20, 2019 Splitting timber with this old rare thing. A Renault 851..Got a loan of it for the weekend . Its the only Renault tractor local that I know off. 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smithy Posted January 21, 2019 Share Posted January 21, 2019 My mate been on digger again today while I trimmed up few more trees in front of him 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smithy Posted January 21, 2019 Share Posted January 21, 2019 I have also been putting white plastic marker posts in above drains 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smithy Posted January 21, 2019 Share Posted January 21, 2019 bit more of what we have done so far 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tractorman810 Posted January 21, 2019 Share Posted January 21, 2019 tidy job smithy, good to see people doing it, was amazed last time i came up how many ditches were overgrown and clogged up,like people dont bother with them any more we had a 2 /3 year rotation system, doing what you are, and the fields drained so much easier .what will you do with the soil out of them just plough it in 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smithy Posted January 21, 2019 Share Posted January 21, 2019 1 hour ago, Tractorman810 said: tidy job smithy, good to see people doing it, was amazed last time i came up how many ditches were overgrown and clogged up,like people dont bother with them any more we had a 2 /3 year rotation system, doing what you are, and the fields drained so much easier .what will you do with the soil out of them just plough it in Back in the 1970s and early 1980 we used to do some each year as we had a ford wheeled digger on the farm a 550 I think but when that gave up I did not replace it ,have hired one in on a few occasions , but got this machine know so doing a bit each year . The soil will lay where it is till after harvest and dry out then we will just push it out on field and plough in , may have to pick out the odd root that could be buried in the soil 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smithy Posted January 21, 2019 Share Posted January 21, 2019 In the ditch we are cleaning out there is the remains of a red brick dam , as back in the day so I have been told all the sheep that was in the area was brought to this bit and the dam was made higher and they drenched the sheep here my field was a meadow which they called the dripping meadows as after the sheep had been drenched they was put out there to dry . Don't think it would be allowed today 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smithy Posted January 21, 2019 Share Posted January 21, 2019 This is what we call the pond area other side of dam the trees are all self grown in last 10 years as that is when I last cleaned this bit out ,I plan on clearing out all the trees in the bottom ,but not sure how far we can reach with the 5ton machine . I plan on planting about 5or 6 trees along the high bit of bank when we have finished 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smithy Posted January 21, 2019 Share Posted January 21, 2019 (edited) This is the start of the pond area that we have done then skipped by and started at the furthest end so we are coming against the water The ditch the other side of gateway is the piece we did this time last year Edited January 22, 2019 by smithy add more words 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tractorman810 Posted January 22, 2019 Share Posted January 22, 2019 13 hours ago, smithy said: Back in the 1970s and early 1980 we used to do some each year as we had a ford wheeled digger on the farm a 550 I think but when that gave up I did not replace it ,have hired one in on a few occasions , but got this machine know so doing a bit each year . The soil will lay where it is till after harvest and dry out then we will just push it out on field and plough in , may have to pick out the odd root that could be buried in the soil We had a old jcb 3c , only got used for ditching and beet loading , do not recal ever seeing it without the beet bucket in the front . Like you we just ploughed it in after a bit of a spread out . Like icsaid its amazing how poor a condition most of the ditches are now , they get a quick bush wack and thats it 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smithy Posted January 24, 2019 Share Posted January 24, 2019 On 1/22/2019 at 12:43 PM, Tractorman810 said: We had a old jcb 3c , only got used for ditching and beet loading , do not recal ever seeing it without the beet bucket in the front . Like you we just ploughed it in after a bit of a spread out . Like icsaid its amazing how poor a condition most of the ditches are now , they get a quick bush wack and thats it Not very clear but my old digger sit next to the Zetor 6718 this picture was taken in the late 80s , next to the ford digger is a 4000 then N/H 1545 ,Ford 7610 ,Ford 6600 , Ford 4600 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smithy Posted January 24, 2019 Share Posted January 24, 2019 We have been back on the last bit for know , clearing out last of the trees that had self-grown in the bit that we call the pond , because my 5ton machine cant reach to the middle of this bit we are planning on taken it into the bottom on to the silt that has built up ,hopefully it wont sink and got bogged down and then we can get the middle and work away back to what we can reach from the top 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smithy Posted January 28, 2019 Share Posted January 28, 2019 I had a bit of a rest from the ditch job as there was a frost last Thursday morning so it stopped the wheels from leaving a deep mark on one of my hay fields 5 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smithy Posted January 28, 2019 Share Posted January 28, 2019 My mate was back on Friday to do a bit more as we cant reach it all from the top he carefully went down the bank and into the pond bit to get the middle bit . 5 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smithy Posted January 28, 2019 Share Posted January 28, 2019 After lifting some of the silt right out and making a heap right on the edge he got himself back out of bottom of water course 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smithy Posted January 28, 2019 Share Posted January 28, 2019 one of my Saturday jobs was to take Eric's tractor back to his fire-wood yard 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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