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Your turning into a bit of a gypsy on the work front gav, you can't sit still long, can you!!! Good luck in the new job mate, to be honest, a man of your skills was never going to sit on a hedge cutter all the time. Look forward to seeing the pics from the new job.

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I'll put a few pictures on here later Mike, the new job was a complete disaster and I've been without work for the past two weeks. I worked one full week for them, they then put me on a zero hours contract when there was no harvesting to do before getting rid of me two days after that. I start a new job tomorrow at Littleport in Cambridgeshire, it may only last until Christmas or it could last longer but I'll be ploughing for and drilling all of their cereals for them most of the time while they harvest the potatoes.

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I've switched to ploughing now with a 6 furrow Kverneland LO85 on land plough on the 8345rt, taking a bit of fine tuning as its new to the farm and not quite set up properly at the moment.

 

 

 

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I like the pictures of you ploughing, are the furrow splitters welded on by you or are they a kv part, good luck for the future too

Sorry I missed your question before, they are a bolt on KV part from the dealer Phillip.

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Here's a few more pictures from last autumn now I've taken them off my camera.

 

We had a Pottinger Terrasem 6m drill on demo, they left it with us for nearly three weeks so we got a massive chunk of the autumn drilling done with it. I drilled a large amount of wheat directly into stubble with it as well, the last picture is of the first field I done like that once it had got going.

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We also had a Horsch Sprinter ST on demo, this was only 4m wide and the dealer "insisted" we had the 6210r on demo with it........nothing to do with a Puma 210 coming up for change in the future of course. I preferred the Pottinger drill and certainly wasn't a fan of the constant heat shimmer above the bonnet of the tractor!

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This is the farms own drilling rig, a Case Puma 210 with front power harrow and rear power harrow combination fitted. The tractor does have a little black box fitted to it as well at times to allow it to work faster, I did however have a turbo hose explode on it late one evening when it was working hard!

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I did quite a bit of ploughing with the 8345rt but the tractor was absolutely useless once it turned wet so actually done most of the late ploughing with a Puma 230 and 5 furrow Lemken rather than keep elevating my blood pressure with the crawler when it spun itself into the furrow repeatedly!

 

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I did have one little mishap with the Lemken plough first thing one morning, the wheel spigot snapped off while it was in transport mode! The plough hit the road with a bit of a bang and a shower of sparks! The plough itself has done a lot of work so not unsurprising but at least it went where it did as another 50m it would have been in the middle of the level crossing on one of the mainlines to Ely!

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