Tractorman810 Posted March 7, 2010 Share Posted March 7, 2010 how much beet do you grow a year then gav?? still a fair bit down my old area so to speak, saw a fair bit being lifted when we last went in nov for the funeral Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Light Land Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 Very nice very nice very nice sugar beet pictures's,realy nice looking lump of kit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gav836 Posted March 8, 2010 Author Share Posted March 8, 2010 Was in the right place at the right time today, just managed to snap this one within seconds of being born Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pingu Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 Amy liked them mate Was your old berthoud only 4 section as well? Mine was 6 sections new sands is 7 thank god for auto section control has just been fitted to it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gav836 Posted March 8, 2010 Author Share Posted March 8, 2010 Thought she might ;D Yeah it was 4 section as well, no need to over complicate matters Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nashmach Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 How was the beet after all the frost? A lot over here is pure dung! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gav836 Posted March 8, 2010 Author Share Posted March 8, 2010 They don't look to have taken any harm really, will know for sure once they go into the factory Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gav836 Posted March 18, 2010 Author Share Posted March 18, 2010 Now its dried out we've managed to make a start drilling sugar beet today, got two fields we can't get onto yet as they are still too wet, the same goes for a couple of headlands on the spring barley we've been drilling. 6920s on the Germinator, yes that is dust blowing, will get more pictures later Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gav836 Posted March 18, 2010 Author Share Posted March 18, 2010 6810 on the beet drill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nashmach Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 Is that seedbed after 2 runs with the Germinator Gav? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gav836 Posted March 18, 2010 Author Share Posted March 18, 2010 No, it's just the one pass Colm, the ploughing had a good bit of frost on it up there, its also the difference that slatted bodies have made this year, taking much less effort to get a good seedbed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
texas Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 Great pictures Gav. Nice baby calf. The stones are that no problem for the beet drill, and with the harvest what will happen with those stones, because they will be between the sugar beets i think. Texas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gav836 Posted March 18, 2010 Author Share Posted March 18, 2010 Thanks The stones can be a problem for the drill at times, jamming the press wheels up and can alter the spacing down the rows, they will also get into the harvester but the beet cleaner will get a lot of them out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deere-est Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 Is your Germinator fairly recent, Gav? Flipping good bit of kit they are but they are just a tad light in the steel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gav836 Posted March 18, 2010 Author Share Posted March 18, 2010 Its a 2008 model Tris, they are fairly lightweight but still built stronger than the Kongskilde beet hoes which I think are made of cheese Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deere-est Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 I didn't even know they were still made. Where I worked as a teenager, one hear the contractor had a 4m trailed on a Ford 7810 and it made for a lovely seedbed on some sandier loam ground. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Light Land Posted March 19, 2010 Share Posted March 19, 2010 Beet any good behind the wheels of the johny Gav? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdc Posted March 19, 2010 Share Posted March 19, 2010 I see the flying rodents have given the paintwork a nice roughcast look. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gav836 Posted March 25, 2010 Author Share Posted March 25, 2010 Got a muck spreader on hire at the minute after being badly let down by our contractor.......supposed to have come at the end of last week then the middle of this week then the end of this weeks so they got told what we thought of them in no uncertain terms as they were holding up the preparation of the spud ground Only downside is that we may not be able to have anymore turkey muck off them we're not the only farm they've done it to either! Spreader turned up middle of the morning, between 10.30am and 6.30pm we managed to get about 27ha spread in 3 different fields at a rate of approx 7.5 tons per ha. Got the cultivator right behind me as well due to the rather pungent smell of the stuff 6920s and Agri-Hire 16t horizontal beater spread with spinning discs Forward speed of 10.5 ish kph spreading a width of 10-12m Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tractorman810 Posted March 25, 2010 Share Posted March 25, 2010 i am quite surprised you don't have your own spreader gav, any reason for that?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gav836 Posted March 25, 2010 Author Share Posted March 25, 2010 It would be dead money to have sitting about only to be used for at most 5 days a year so its easier and cheaper just to hire one at the moment Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Ferguson Posted March 25, 2010 Share Posted March 25, 2010 I've often thought of buying one and hiring myself out... how much do they charge Gavalar.. and indeed... how to they charge mate... by the load Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tractorman810 Posted March 25, 2010 Share Posted March 25, 2010 guess so, we never really bothered in or day as such, each farm had its own spreader 2 had 2 one had fymaxs, x 2, the other had farmhand twin axel beasts, and my grandad had a vicon buffalow one, only small, but thye moved arround to cope Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nashmach Posted March 25, 2010 Share Posted March 25, 2010 What make is the spreader Gav? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gav836 Posted March 25, 2010 Author Share Posted March 25, 2010 One local machinery hire place charges £175 a day or £700 per week for a 15 ton spreader with a spinner deck on it Marky. At those rates we could aford to hire a spreader for over 10 years before we've spent the same amount of money as a decent second hand machine would cost It's an Agri-Hire spreader Colm, they build their own machines Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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