Gav836 Posted February 23, 2011 Author Share Posted February 23, 2011 there's one thing you need to go with them air brakes and the 50k gearbox....Twin beacons ! If it has twin beacons so be it but they serve no helpful purpose to me in the field unlike everything else on the tractor Sounds like a small version of the Puma 225 CVX I move around hey Gav It is Paul, the 165 is the baby of the old Puma CVX range Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tractorman810 Posted February 23, 2011 Share Posted February 23, 2011 sounds a nice well speced machine mate, do you get free overalls and baseball cap with it ;D ?? oh sorry thats a marky thing aint it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gav836 Posted February 23, 2011 Author Share Posted February 23, 2011 I hope so ;D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deere-est Posted February 23, 2011 Share Posted February 23, 2011 How did the New Holland compare on price then Gav, can't be a huge amount in it spec for spec and I suppose really you are getting the tractor you wanted all bar the colour. . .. (and awful tacky plastic chrome grip shift!). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gav836 Posted February 23, 2011 Author Share Posted February 23, 2011 The New Holland was more expensive that the Case but not actually seen the quotes for anything other than these two so unsure of the actual figures. The chrome does look a bit tacky but everything else makes up for it, will certainly keep the village awake with the noise the Puma makes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deere-est Posted February 23, 2011 Share Posted February 23, 2011 They do sound stonking, I'll grant them that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPN Posted February 23, 2011 Share Posted February 23, 2011 Can you get it delivered in Blue rather than Red? Much nicer colour, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJB1 Posted February 24, 2011 Share Posted February 24, 2011 lets hope you got the right tool for the job gav , but to be perfectly honest i think your opinion on the future tractor was how much room for buster there was , not fussed over oil capacity or hydraulic lift blah blah , bottom line will buster be happy ? pics please .............................................buster not the tractor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gav836 Posted April 5, 2011 Author Share Posted April 5, 2011 Been a while since I updated this topic but all the spring barley and sugar beet are now in and we are half way through planting the potatoes, nothing much new there this year so no pictures to add really. The carrots have now been lifted and all gone, no pictures of the harvesting unfortunately as I was working the other side of the village the whole time they were there. owever they spread some lime on the ex carrot field yesterday and I managed to get some pictures of this taking place, machine was a Terragator and I'm sure him spreading it in the wind yesterday done the image of agriculture the power of good : Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gav836 Posted April 5, 2011 Author Share Posted April 5, 2011 Think our near neighbours may complain yet as it engulfed her washing line Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gav836 Posted April 5, 2011 Author Share Posted April 5, 2011 As part of the carrot contract they also have to get the field to a usable state as well so a local contractor is there at the moment with his Challenger 865B and Simba Solo 600, after 4 passes I may just about manage to plough in the 20 tons an acre of straw that they put on it in the autumn..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gav836 Posted April 5, 2011 Author Share Posted April 5, 2011 One more picture of the Challenger and a video of it working. I first met the driver of this 12 years ago when he had an old Challenger 75 and 10 furrow Naud plough and came to plough a field for my first employer when I left school, was good to catch up with him again. *edit - video is not playing ball at the moment, will post it in a bit* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jdeere6910 Posted April 5, 2011 Share Posted April 5, 2011 Really good update Gav, sounds like you had a good time catching up with an old friend Whens the new Case arriving? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gav836 Posted April 5, 2011 Author Share Posted April 5, 2011 We're waiting on a confirmed build date at present but it should be sometime in May or June, hopefully the 6920s will keep going that long without major incident, its already had two bottles of rad-weld shot in the cooling system in the past month after the radiator sprung a leak Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jdeere6910 Posted April 5, 2011 Share Posted April 5, 2011 Its been a real friday afternoon tractor hasnt it \ our neighbour has just got two new pumas a 180 and a 155, they look really nice tractors Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gav836 Posted April 5, 2011 Author Share Posted April 5, 2011 Heres the video on Youtube, Photobucket was being a pain Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Light Land Posted April 5, 2011 Share Posted April 5, 2011 Nice pictures Gav,Do you think some of the straw would burn or is it to wet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gav836 Posted April 5, 2011 Author Share Posted April 5, 2011 We're not allowed to burn it Ol, would have burnt a treat last week as well as it was bone dry up there. I did suggest a night time trip with a box of matches but my boss didn't approve despite saying that would be the best idea Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Light Land Posted April 6, 2011 Share Posted April 6, 2011 All very PC is'nt it,laws made by miss imformed green law makers.The energy used to work that straw down by yourself and the joker with the big simba would have to be alot more than throwing a match in it on a warm afternoon. Were condtions permit farmers here will rake up the haulm such as pea straw,spud topps,etc and burn the haulm then sub soil the head lands and run a spring tine (nz aggressive etc) lightly over the paddock once and drill there crops often early wheat with little cost even on heavyer soils. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Ferguson Posted April 6, 2011 Share Posted April 6, 2011 Great pics Gavalar... I pity the poor sod who gets your old JD.. lets hope it's not someone we know :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MPR Models Posted April 6, 2011 Share Posted April 6, 2011 I can smell the spring from here Gav,nice pictures mate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Ferguson Posted April 6, 2011 Share Posted April 6, 2011 I can smell the spring from here Gav,nice pictures mate No that's just Gavin you can smell Pete.... he's got that 'musty smell' all the time :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MPR Models Posted April 6, 2011 Share Posted April 6, 2011 No that's just Gavin you can smell Pete.... he's got that 'musty smell' all the time :D :D You are such a nice guy Mark ;D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gav836 Posted April 12, 2011 Author Share Posted April 12, 2011 Onto our last 35 acres of potato planting now but we are having big problems with getting seed delivered, we have 19 tons now coming on Thursday but we've been waiting since last Tuesday for it and have now run out of seed again This field is one of the worst on the farm for soil type which has meant we have had to hire a bed tiller as our own one is in use on the planting tractor for pesticide application, at £250 a day its not a cheap machine to hire. Its a new Grimme rotavator with a shapeformer on the back of it Before After Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Light Land Posted April 12, 2011 Share Posted April 12, 2011 Some clods,that bit of kit would make most farms I've worked on blow away in an hour. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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