Gav836 Posted July 31, 2008 Author Share Posted July 31, 2008 Joystick controls and pillar display Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gav836 Posted July 31, 2008 Author Share Posted July 31, 2008 Nice bit of barley going in the tank and view towards Blakeney Point from the field Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gav836 Posted July 31, 2008 Author Share Posted July 31, 2008 A few of our remaining fatteners and one of our bulls in solitary after finishing his job with the cows, his name is Balmoral, we have two more bulls beside him as well Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FB Posted July 31, 2008 Share Posted July 31, 2008 nice pics again Gav!,....now are you sure its not you thats helping the deere die ....so you can get a claas! ;D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
51MON Posted July 31, 2008 Share Posted July 31, 2008 hhmmm i thought that tooo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gav836 Posted July 31, 2008 Author Share Posted July 31, 2008 I haven't had to do anything to help the Deere, its quite capable of self destructing it would seem Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
51MON Posted July 31, 2008 Share Posted July 31, 2008 i know them 6 20,s arn,t to hot i don,t know what the thirty ,s are like Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gav836 Posted July 31, 2008 Author Share Posted July 31, 2008 We get the feeling that we may never find out on this farm, probably be a change of colour in the future Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deere-est Posted July 31, 2008 Share Posted July 31, 2008 BLimey, no one down here on spring barley yet. Most are still on rape as the showers we are having isn't hurting it. Straw stemmed crops are on hold for the minute though. Are you cultivating at 90deg to the tramlines or were the pics on the headland? Poor old Deere, nurse her gently Gav :'( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gav836 Posted August 1, 2008 Author Share Posted August 1, 2008 We shouldn't be cutting it either, apparently what the neighbour called our boss out of his ear shot for doing so is unrepeatable :D Well spotted, I was doing it at 90 degrees to the tramlines and it was bleeding rough, I'm rather sore around the waist area today from doing so. Colleague should be doing the cultivating tomorrow if it stays dry while I start drilling the stubble turnips on what I pulled up yesterday Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tractorman810 Posted August 1, 2008 Share Posted August 1, 2008 BLimey, no one down here on spring barley yet. Most are still on rape as the showers we are having isn't hurting it. Straw stemmed crops are on hold for the minute though. Are you cultivating at 90deg to the tramlines or were the pics on the headland? Poor old Deere, nurse her gently Gav :'( little bit of spring barley done down here now but only a few bits, up in mid/north devon, know its spring as we were proving the job when it was planted, and it was harvested the other day when we went past so the deere getting worse then mate, are they all genunine problems do you think, or just a computer glitch/werid displays but no actuall fault Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gav836 Posted August 1, 2008 Author Share Posted August 1, 2008 Well the latest one seems to be a wierd one as it was consistantly showing up all yesterday but here's no trace of it today and the offending sensor is behaving itself, we've put it down to the excessively rough travelling with the Terra disc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tractorman810 Posted August 1, 2008 Share Posted August 1, 2008 does seem strange, makes you wonder how many of the faults are real i guess, or just bogus computer ones, however if the baler and that one combined is making the farm feel like getting rid i guess they must have had enough of them as a whole, so will it be a full fleet swap, combine the lot?? or just the problem kit and nothing else Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gav836 Posted August 1, 2008 Author Share Posted August 1, 2008 Its one of those whose to say situations, once that the baler is sorted I'm sure that it will put in many more years service as will the combine, personal opinion though is that it will be the 6920s and 6420s that get changed, possibly the 6810 but as thats never been any trouble I doubt it'll go Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Light Land Posted August 2, 2008 Share Posted August 2, 2008 How do you find the 6920's cab to climb in and out of ? Small door way I thought. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gav836 Posted August 2, 2008 Author Share Posted August 2, 2008 Today I have had the 6920s on the Vaderstad drilling 'Swift' Forage rape/kale hybrid into some of the land that I Terra Disced earlier in the week. This will be grazed on by the cattle over winter. Not too many pics I'm afraid as we were hit by torrential rain after a little while. Anyway view to the front and back Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gav836 Posted August 2, 2008 Author Share Posted August 2, 2008 The control box showing ground speed, Ha covered and tramline bout number Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gav836 Posted August 2, 2008 Author Share Posted August 2, 2008 And what it looked like 10 minutes later...........the roads were flooded on the way back to the yard as was the farmyard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pingu Posted August 2, 2008 Share Posted August 2, 2008 Surely you can do more then 9k with that vaderstad gav we always used to drill at 16+k with our old 4m rapid and partners were anything up to 18k or is that deere to weak to pull :D But great pics mate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gav836 Posted August 2, 2008 Author Share Posted August 2, 2008 You try drilling at 90 degrees to the previous crop on a very rough field that has only been terra disced at more than 10 kph and then pass comment, besides with only 10ha of them to put in why rush, speed isn't everything Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deere-est Posted August 2, 2008 Share Posted August 2, 2008 I see rain on the window Gav, how did the box drill behave in thr sticky soil? Ol I know exactly what you mean, the 7530 doesn't seem so bad but my old 6900 was awful. The cab is set too far back as it is and then they go and stick a buddy seat in the door opening Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gav836 Posted August 3, 2008 Author Share Posted August 3, 2008 It was still going ok until the monsoon hit Tris, I'd guess that it dropped 10-15mm on us within 30 mins, I had to go out in it to fold up eradicator tines, metering wheel, discs and clod boards so I could get back to the yard, I was soaked through within 5 mins Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJB1 Posted August 3, 2008 Share Posted August 3, 2008 It was still going ok until the monsoon hit Tris, I'd guess that it dropped 10-15mm on us within 30 mins, I had to go out in it to fold up eradicator tines, metering wheel, discs and clod boards so I could get back to the yard, I was soaked through within 5 mins once it starts to come down it certainly draws a different line of events for the day gav , always the same just as you get going , all rained off, shame looks like the going was good Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gav836 Posted August 3, 2008 Author Share Posted August 3, 2008 It was good going mate, would have liked to have got that block in yesterday so we could have cleaned out ready for doing the turnips, still raining this morning and should do tomorrow as well so guess I won't be back on there any time soon. Wish he'd got the blue dyed seed though so I could find it in the ground, just have to check its drilling at the end of the field and hope for the best Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJB1 Posted August 3, 2008 Share Posted August 3, 2008 did you not mark the last drill with a stick or someting ? i used to keep an old cane & a 100cwt fert bag handy in such events Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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