archbarch Posted July 22, 2010 Share Posted July 22, 2010 i did a stint a Claas Rolant baler years ago in Cambs it was so dry barley straw is a nightmare, the best way is to bale at night when the heat has gone out of the straw. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlexMF Posted July 23, 2010 Share Posted July 23, 2010 those photos i took actually came out rather well! was a good afternoon, thanks to Gav and Buster for having me, and Patrick for letting me park in his field! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gav836 Posted July 25, 2010 Author Share Posted July 25, 2010 Thought I'd get you a few pictures of what I've spent an hour doing at work today (and it actually went right first time hence why it only took an hour), we're running our irrigation pump 24-7 at the moment to get water on the spuds and carrots, the spuds are now on their third pass and the carrots are getting their second pass, each pass should be putting on roughly 25mm of water. These pictures are from the carrot field which is the reel I've done today, the boss has been looking after the other one on the spuds where its taking 24 - 30 hours to come in due to the length of the field. Halfway across Nearly there..... There at last...... Its a relief when this happens on the first attempt There's no way I'm coming in to move it at that time of night ;D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gav836 Posted July 25, 2010 Author Share Posted July 25, 2010 This is our high tech method of avoiding getting wet from leaking taps when we turn them on ;D The chart we use to determine what retraction speed we set the reel on and what nozzle we use in the rain gun Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tractorman810 Posted July 25, 2010 Share Posted July 25, 2010 how many acres of them carrots have you got in this year then gav? wasnt aware you grew them to be honest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gav836 Posted July 25, 2010 Author Share Posted July 25, 2010 35 acres Sean, we don't usually grow them but the Environment Agency threatened to cut down our water abstraction licence as we hadn't used all the allowance for the past couple of years so we rented out a field for carrots to someone as the land in question is too full of disease to grow spuds on, the 5 acres of spuds we did plant on that field are riddled with Potato Cyst Nematode anyway which decimates the yield. We're only doing the irrigation on them so using our allowance up hopefully this year keeping the EA off our backs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tractorman810 Posted July 25, 2010 Share Posted July 25, 2010 makes sence, no point in loosing your water at the end of the day, prob took a while to get it in the first place Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gav836 Posted July 25, 2010 Author Share Posted July 25, 2010 Yeah it does and once its gone its hard to get it back, we'd love to grow more spuds as things progress so we need to keep hold of the licence as it is now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gav836 Posted July 26, 2010 Author Share Posted July 26, 2010 Heres a few pictures I took of the bossman spraying the spuds for blight this morning while I was waiting to pull the irritator back onto the field after a couple of minor repairs to the gun frame. They are now starting their 4th pass of 25mm of water on this field which at present looks like it could be its last as the pump is starting to cut out due to low water levels in the bore.........we've abstracted around 40,000 cubic metres of water in the past 3 weeks :of The maximum amount of water we are allowed to put on a season is 150mm but its not looking like we'll do that this year Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tractorman810 Posted July 26, 2010 Share Posted July 26, 2010 hows the sprayer going then gav?? any issues with it since you got her Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gav836 Posted July 26, 2010 Author Share Posted July 26, 2010 For the most part we've had no problems with it and its speeded up the spraying operation no end, we've had a couple of minor issues with it during the spring and one over the weekend with the diaphrams in it not liking some of the chemicals we use so we've put the higher grade ones in now. I do wish we'd had auto boom levelling on it though as its a pain in the ass at times Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMB Posted July 26, 2010 Share Posted July 26, 2010 Fascinating and eye-opening read, thanks for these updates Gavin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tractorman810 Posted July 26, 2010 Share Posted July 26, 2010 thought the auto boom option would have been the first on the list??? save you a lot of extra work wouldnt it ,good to hear at least one jd is going ok in the yard mind kind of makes up for the 6920, others seem to be performing well as i dont recal any moans about them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gav836 Posted July 26, 2010 Author Share Posted July 26, 2010 The 6810 and 6910 are all good other than age related wear and tear, both need a 3 point hitch rock shaft, 6910 is in fact getting that done later this week along with the front axle pins and bushes and the 6810 will probably not ever have it done unless it fails as it doesn't do much hitch work these days but it does need the track rods looking at. That leaves the 6420s which has an untraceable vibration on it somewhere that is suspected to be engine related and we all know about my 6920s Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MATTY 7530 Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 Theres most be some amount of hours on those 10's now Gav. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gav836 Posted July 27, 2010 Author Share Posted July 27, 2010 The 6810 has 8280 hours on it and the 6910 has 7250 hours on it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pingu Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 For the most part we've had no problems with it and its speeded up the spraying operation no end, we've had a couple of minor issues with it during the spring and one over the weekend with the diaphrams in it not liking some of the chemicals we use so we've put the higher grade ones in now. I do wish we'd had auto boom levelling on it though as its a pain in the ass at times Stop being so lazy gav I haven't used mine in 4 months plus and over 6000 acres so stop whinging there more a pain at this time when crops this height as on mine has a tendency to slam booms on ground one side when gets confused by the height crop so would happen a lot on spuds going by this happens on even wheat crops :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gav836 Posted July 27, 2010 Author Share Posted July 27, 2010 hmmmmmmm lets see your's is a self propelled Sands which would have a completely different set up and no forces acting on it from the tracking drawbar, we are constantly fiddling with the boom levelling on ours as it has no form of auto levelling on it at all only manual adjustment whereas I know the last Sands I had anything to do with had it in some form as standard, don't forget we have spuds as well, watching my boss the other morning he was having to lift the booms right up to get round the ends and corners without damaging anything then letting them down and levelling them when on the straight again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ctsboy Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 I've got boom trac on my 840I and i wouldn't be without it now , its nothing to do with being lazy it makes life easier and able to do the job better, you can keep the booms lower with out having to keep making minor adjustments frees you up to monitor what else is going on. especially with bigger booms , to often i see operators when i'm driving around with the booms to high above the crop cause its easier to run with them high than keep adjusting them, i have mine set so they are running around 50cm above the crop and they keep there unless i hit a sudden rut, and they also lift up at the end of the pass when i turn the spray lines off so they are up out of the way while i turn leaving me to make a smooth controled turn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tractorman810 Posted July 28, 2010 Share Posted July 28, 2010 why didnt the boss get that when he ordered it then gav??? cost i asume, can it be added on as a after sale item Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pingu Posted July 28, 2010 Share Posted July 28, 2010 hmmmmmmm lets see your's is a self propelled Sands which would have a completely different set up and no forces acting on it from the tracking drawbar, we are constantly fiddling with the boom levelling on ours as it has no form of auto levelling on it at all only manual adjustment whereas I know the last Sands I had anything to do with had it in some form as standard, don't forget we have spuds as well, watching my boss the other morning he was having to lift the booms right up to get round the ends and corners without damaging anything then letting them down and levelling them when on the straight again Ah ok not used a tracking drawbar so can't comment what they like for forces sorry gav but not been to impressed with mine at all only on the very best of wheat crops and when its short does it work tried it on beans today gave up and went back to manual. It is brilliant on stubble and early stages of the year though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archbarch Posted July 29, 2010 Share Posted July 29, 2010 i agree with you Pingu, the amount of spraying ive done with a variety of sprayers on all types of crops i wouldnt bother with the auto level system, just another extra to throw money at!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gav836 Posted August 31, 2010 Author Share Posted August 31, 2010 Here's a few pictures from work today of us combining one of our last bits of wheat, had to have the dealer out to the combine today though as its had some water get into the electrics over the past week so been doing silly things Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gav836 Posted August 31, 2010 Author Share Posted August 31, 2010 We've also had another local farmer in to do us some big bales for the silage clamp walls, JD 7810 and NH baler Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jdeere6910 Posted August 31, 2010 Share Posted August 31, 2010 Great photos Gav, that New Holland baler is a beast especially on the 7810. How wide is the header on your combine? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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