bluegreen Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 Did you get the rain Smithy? Weve had quite a bit down here on the fens and just in the nick of time too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smithy Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 6 hours ago, bluegreen said: Did you get the rain Smithy? Weve had quite a bit down here on the fens and just in the nick of time too Hi Bluegreen, on Monday night/Tuesday morning we got 3mm , during Tuesday we had a bit more bringing total then up to 7mm ,by Wednesday evening total was 10mm ,we have had a bit more today so by 8pm tonight rain gauge was saying 16mm in total since Monday evening ,it is slowly getting down to spring sow crops but really need a bit more. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trigger82 Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 But a new rower on the digger today 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valley Axe Man Posted May 9, 2020 Share Posted May 9, 2020 Been on a "stop the rot" campaign on a mates Ap cabbed 7610, rot cut out of righthand inner wing and plated back in, top of step cut out, new piece bent up and welded back in and a new crossmember fabricated for the back of the cab under the lower back windows, that just needs a few holes drilling in it for the window clamps now and then it'll see a bit of primer, Step still wants straightening and a couple of cracked welds to repair on its mounting then theres a bit to cut out and plate up in the bottom of the righthand door before i get the wing and wheel back on. old cab crossmember shown... 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
844john Posted May 9, 2020 Share Posted May 9, 2020 Tidy work Paul! For a cab that was always destined to spend its life up to the eyes in cow sh*t, effluent and fert dust it always seemed like they were never that well prepared for it from new! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valley Axe Man Posted May 9, 2020 Share Posted May 9, 2020 7 minutes ago, 844john said: Tidy work Paul! For a cab that was always destined to spend its life up to the eyes in cow sh*t, effluent and fert dust it always seemed like they were never that well prepared for it from new! Thanks john, well when it comes to metal and playing with a welder i'm hardly a virgin but i know what you mean, the Ap cabbed tractors were a stockman special really, to be honest rest of cab is in good order, floor wants a clean off and a coat of red lead before the mat goes back but for a 32 year old cab its survived fairly well 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smithy Posted May 9, 2020 Share Posted May 9, 2020 Thought I had better have a catch up on this topic ,time/days just seem to be flying past at the moment . This is the base for Goody's oil tank that we got cemented and the path we dug out before I hurt my wrist , anyway with a lot of hard work from Mr Goodwin on the shovel feeding the mixer we got the pathway laid and I floated it up with my left hand as the right one was still out of action . 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smithy Posted May 9, 2020 Share Posted May 9, 2020 Back in February I got invited to a case demo day ,so Mr Goodwin picked myself up and 2 other farming friends and headed up to Newark ,as well as all the static machines on display there was nearly one of everything that you could jump in and drive ,move muck about ,a great day out 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smithy Posted May 9, 2020 Share Posted May 9, 2020 Back at Goodys we had to put oil feed pipe across his garden ,so because of my wrist problem and not being able to use my right arm for digging he had a mate of his bring this machine over one morning , what would have taken us 3or 4 hours to dig by hand was done in 15 minutes by this machine 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smithy Posted May 9, 2020 Share Posted May 9, 2020 Just before the lockdown I dug out a base in my sons garden for a patio and a summer house to stand on ,as the trailer was not a tipper we had to drive mini-digger over and pull the dirt back of the trailer 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tractorman810 Posted May 9, 2020 Share Posted May 9, 2020 ditch witch eh, our lot have just bought a load of those, so they can trench quicker in the countryside for our full fibre roll out, they claim it works out to less than £2 a meter with that,compared to £45 a m we pay the contractors with mini diggers ect , and they have taken our own guys on to do it. and we can get a lot more laid in a day . the day out looked great fun, did mr goodie talk you into buying anything ? new loader or similar . 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L33 DA17ON Posted May 10, 2020 Share Posted May 10, 2020 (edited) Washed the volvo today.. well can now say yesterday. Picked what felt like the hottest day of the year so far. It's been in need of a full exterior clean for a while now when I was back at work we laid a new yard for my bos with road plannings he then insisted to coat it in red diesel to seal it with a bomag roller. Save to say for a couple months the tyres on the Van's and cars where slick when leaving on a night. And the paint work was covered in tar spots. So the volvo got Tfr rinse Iron-x (fall out remover) Snow foam rinse 2bucket wash Tardis wipe down 2bucket wash again. Tango rinse Dried Polished and waxed Trims brightened up Wheels cleaned Tyres slicked Outside windows cleaned. I'll post some pics tomorrow.... well later on she scrubs up well for a old tank. Edited May 10, 2020 by L33 Da17on 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Palmer Posted May 10, 2020 Share Posted May 10, 2020 finally finished this today,i was waiting on the grass scatter,happy with how its turned out 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Palmer Posted May 10, 2020 Share Posted May 10, 2020 some more pictures,i am now half way through a Tamiya opel blitz truck,pictures of that later 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smithy Posted May 10, 2020 Share Posted May 10, 2020 On 5/9/2020 at 2:37 PM, Tractorman810 said: ditch witch eh, our lot have just bought a load of those, so they can trench quicker in the countryside for our full fibre roll out, they claim it works out to less than £2 a meter with that,compared to £45 a m we pay the contractors with mini diggers ect , and they have taken our own guys on to do it. and we can get a lot more laid in a day . the day out looked great fun, did mr goodie talk you into buying anything ? new loader or similar . It was great fun driving around all day ,the light lunch was all right and there was coffee or tea all around the event to help yourself to and on the way home Mr Goodwin treated us all to a fantastic carvery . One of my farming mates that was with us on the day had bought a new farmall and loader of Goody a few months before ,so far he has not tempted me to change anything but you never know 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smithy Posted May 10, 2020 Share Posted May 10, 2020 The shed that I fatten up a few Christmas chickens in was a bit rotten at the back it also sticks out into my sons garden ,so to keep myself and my son busy /occupied doing this lockdown we took the back of and a section from each side and then started to rebuild it and my son has now got a slightly bigger garden for his children to play in 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tractorman810 Posted May 10, 2020 Share Posted May 10, 2020 got my scaffold poles cut and up now, holes all drilled and eye bolts fitted ,did have an un enforced issue after the wife assisted me ,had to cut 1 m of the end of one ,so got her to hold the end being cut off, so it didn't drop on anything especially my foot, did the gentlemanly thing and shielded her from the sparks, assuming shes got hold nicely, nope bloody thing drop and hits my toes, turn around and shes got one hand right on the end, whilst turned away shielding her glasses with her other hand, i don't think she had even noticed it had dropped luckily no damage on me toes , just got the 4 new eye bolts to fit next Friday in the wall, and the sails can go up ,garden done, also managed to get one side of guttering done on the piggery, but i have now run but of matt black paint, so thats on order now. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smithy Posted May 10, 2020 Share Posted May 10, 2020 After all the wet weather we had the ground soon dried out rock hard back in march so I had to quickly change the tines on the power harrow ,it was a job to find a company at the time that had tines in stock and also the lockdown was not helping ,anyway a mate of mine picked a set up from a company that he deals with and Mr Goodwin got me another set for my other power harrow , the tines are mainly made in Italy with Chinese steel so there could be a series shortage come harvest time 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smithy Posted May 10, 2020 Share Posted May 10, 2020 I started back in February doing some major alterations on my barn , we took off some of the big six asbestos sheets and replaced with some steel grain walling ,we also dug some holes inside to put in some additional posts to hold a fresh internal grain wall ,(that's how I messed up my wrist ) anyway I had a couple of my mates step in to help out and my brother called in when he could to help out + my granddaughter helped out with the red oxide painting . A bit of the floor was breaking up so we ripped that out and re-laid it . 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smithy Posted May 10, 2020 Share Posted May 10, 2020 one of the new posts in the floor ,and the back wall all in place ,we also took out a section at the front of the barn and had a new roller door fitted , we still have the original sliding doors on the other side as a 2nd entry /exit place 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smithy Posted May 10, 2020 Share Posted May 10, 2020 This bay of the barn is going to be used as a workshop , I got my son to help the other day break out the floor under the new roller door as it was un-level and then we re-laid it 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smithy Posted May 10, 2020 Share Posted May 10, 2020 one of my mates that helped me on the barn asked if he could borrow the 5ton digger for a couple of days ,his next door neighbour said she would like to dig out the pond at the bottom of here garden that as a child she could remember playing in ,here father and grandfather had filled it in as they was afraid the children would fall in and not get out ,so my mate said yea no problem do that in a couple days over the weekend five days later after getting all this scrap out they started to shape the pond ,allow a bit smaller than the original plan it was a job they wished they had never started ,there was 22 bicycles , 2 mini sub frames ,car doors ,other car parts including 4 engines ,one sewing machine and as you can see loads more ~~~~ 5 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smithy Posted May 11, 2020 Share Posted May 11, 2020 As my son helped me with jobs around the farm while he was of work he said can you help take down the old conservatory ,as it gets to hot in the summer and to cold in the winter and it leaks and build me this timber framed replacement , no wonder my wrist don't get any better had 3 flare ups with it in the last couple of months ,anyway just a bit more cladding to put on than its over to him to paint it ,inside and out 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smithy Posted May 11, 2020 Share Posted May 11, 2020 I had these ALFABLOC delivered the other day ,neighbours in the houses next to my farm asked what they was ,I said its my tribute to Stonehenge 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smithy Posted May 11, 2020 Share Posted May 11, 2020 On 5/9/2020 at 2:37 PM, Tractorman810 said: ditch witch eh, our lot have just bought a load of those, so they can trench quicker in the countryside for our full fibre roll out, they claim it works out to less than £2 a meter with that,compared to £45 a m we pay the contractors with mini diggers ect , and they have taken our own guys on to do it. and we can get a lot more laid in a day . the day out looked great fun, did mr goodie talk you into buying anything ? new loader or similar . Forgot to say in last past the Ditch witch is a marvels machine Ares was only a little job but it saved us a lot of time an effort ,your lot should get on well with them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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