nashmach Posted May 23, 2011 Share Posted May 23, 2011 Great to see you have finally got her Gav. Best of luck with her - you'll look forward to going to work now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unkelfergus Posted May 23, 2011 Share Posted May 23, 2011 what an upright pillar of the community you are Alex... straight and too the point... which must have been hard :D we didn't have to winkle it out of you either :D I bet it wasn't as big and shiny as ours.......... :P :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlexMF Posted May 23, 2011 Share Posted May 23, 2011 what an upright pillar of the community you are Alex... straight and too the point... which must have been hard :D we didn't have to winkle it out of you either :D that assessment is (as my friend from lincolnshire would say) "c*ck on chief!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Claaspower Posted May 23, 2011 Share Posted May 23, 2011 That Case Puma is a beaut,well wear Gav Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoshParkinson Posted May 23, 2011 Share Posted May 23, 2011 What a beast! Oh and By the way, how come it has Hare and Tortoise buttons on the joystick when its a CVX? or does it have like a high range and a low range? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPN Posted May 23, 2011 Share Posted May 23, 2011 The next time FNHIR and I head to Spalding we'll be bringing a set of T6090 decals to slap on that in the dark of night. Whilst I still believe that the best tractors come from Basildon, St Valentin is a close second. Best of luck with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nashmach Posted May 23, 2011 Share Posted May 23, 2011 The next time FNHIR and I head to Spalding we'll be bringing a set of T6090 decals to slap on that in the dark of night. Whilst I still believe that the best tractors come from Basildon, St Valentin is a close second. Best of luck with it. I hope you have some spare room................... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gav836 Posted May 23, 2011 Author Share Posted May 23, 2011 What a beast! Oh and By the way, how come it has Hare and Tortoise buttons on the joystick when its a CVX? or does it have like a high range and a low range? It still has three ranges in the transmission despite being a CVX tractor, the buttons change between them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoshParkinson Posted May 24, 2011 Share Posted May 24, 2011 It still has three ranges in the transmission despite being a CVX tractor, the buttons change between them Ahh i see, bit different to New Holland Auto Command then Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niels Posted May 25, 2011 Share Posted May 25, 2011 Auto Command is exactly the same. You have three groups which you can change using the plus and minus buttons on your joystick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MF-ROB Posted May 28, 2011 Share Posted May 28, 2011 Hey Gav just have been reading this and i have to say i wish i had your job it looks to be a great place to work and all them nice machines to work on to keep up the good work of posting i will be watching this now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gav836 Posted May 28, 2011 Author Share Posted May 28, 2011 Been ploughing with the Puma yesterday and was extremely impressed with its fuel usage, between 20 and 28 litres an hour spot rate, the best my old 6920s managed was 30 litres an hour with the plough at 12 inches deep and 50cm furrows. No pictures of that as the camera batteries died but I did manage to get a few today when I drilled and rolled in the kale on what I ploughed yesterday, all behind strawed carrots. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Claaspower Posted May 28, 2011 Share Posted May 28, 2011 That information system looks the bees knees Doesn't seem that long ago when you'd only see stuff like that in aeroplanes never mind tractors Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gav836 Posted May 28, 2011 Author Share Posted May 28, 2011 First impressions of the AFS 300 computer are good, its certainly easy to use and alter settings on, makes altering things like spool valve flow easy and by fine tuning tractor settings from the information showing on the screen its possible to get the best fuel economy out of it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gav836 Posted May 28, 2011 Author Share Posted May 28, 2011 Here's a short video from when I was drilling today Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Claaspower Posted May 28, 2011 Share Posted May 28, 2011 Lovely roar out of her Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Tractor Twitcher Posted May 28, 2011 Share Posted May 28, 2011 Lovely roar out of her 2nd that, lovely accompanying sound track. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niels Posted May 28, 2011 Share Posted May 28, 2011 Will you be upgrading to a larger drill now as well Gavin? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gav836 Posted May 28, 2011 Author Share Posted May 28, 2011 I have to admit that it does sound nice, even my boss remarked on it when I was drilling today Here's my other new toy, a President Johnson II CB radio which arrived yesterday and is now sitting tidily in the cab roof, didn't fancy drilling too many holes to fit a standard cb in this tractor with the amount of wiring tucked into the cab Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gav836 Posted May 28, 2011 Author Share Posted May 28, 2011 Will you be upgrading to a larger drill now as well Gavin? No we won't Niels, the drilling only gets done by me when I have the time to do it otherwise one of the smaller tractors goes onto it. There will be a new drilling tractor at some point in the future, possibly next year but boss isn't sure as yet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tractorman810 Posted May 28, 2011 Share Posted May 28, 2011 so i take it busters now confined to the yard with that new toy mate?? dont want any dog hairs in there now do we ;D ;D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deere-est Posted May 28, 2011 Share Posted May 28, 2011 Smart rollers Gav, you go steady pulling them around the fields. You're slightly underpowered I feel. . .. :laugh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harvey123 Posted May 28, 2011 Share Posted May 28, 2011 Is it a 40k or 50k box Gav? (i don't remember you mentioning!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PDC Posted May 29, 2011 Share Posted May 29, 2011 Nice looking tractor Gav sounds good too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gav836 Posted July 4, 2011 Author Share Posted July 4, 2011 Its a 50kph box fitted Mark, we were advised to go to that to keep the resale value up in the future. Been going through my phone this afternoon and found a load of photo's on there of the contractor baling our silage a few weeks back. As we were so short of grass on our first cut we've bought standing grass off 3 of our neighbours, made up of large margins, set aside and old water meadows, we were hoping for about 200 bales and we've exceeded that by getting 280, all carted back and wrapped at the old airfield in the village where our usual silage ground is located. The Krone baler is a demonstrator that the contractor is trying this season with a view to replacing three of his JD balers with it, early impressions of it are that its a good baler but they would be ordering them with the tandem axle option in order to spread the weight a bit more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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