Paul Palmer Posted January 28, 2013 Share Posted January 28, 2013 sorry for going off topic tris,its a fantastic topic and one i always follow,i wont clutter it up any more,my rant about the model bonnet is over,well in this topic anyway Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Tractor Twitcher Posted January 28, 2013 Share Posted January 28, 2013 Thanks guys, it came from a farm just 15 miles away near Calne, Mark. May have been a second hand buy through the dealer network though unless the chap moved up here from down that way maybe. As for working it off ... I would like to retire one day! Thanks, David. ... could do with an on board photographer some days! I shall have to join you for a photographic excursion some day Tris, if your good self and Howards don't mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deere-est Posted March 10, 2013 Author Share Posted March 10, 2013 Quick update, got a few pics on the phone to get across yet so the order will be all over the place but here is a few from the past few weeks anyway. Had a big job down in Cornwall a few weeks ago where we loaded the rigid onto the artic and set off, meeting a third lorry down there to help bring it all back. The haul was made up of: Kverneland Plough Which I loaded in to the rougher of two silage trailers, a Griffiths. A Kverneland cultivator which I loaded into the Herbst dump trailer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deere-est Posted March 10, 2013 Author Share Posted March 10, 2013 Then I loaded the Albutt buckrake into the tidier silage trailer, a Richard Western SF11 The New Holland baler.. ....and the Vicon fertiliser spinner onto the Weeks 25ft bale trailer along with a grain bucket. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deere-est Posted March 10, 2013 Author Share Posted March 10, 2013 Then, the Twose hedgetrimmer went on the artic. Along with the Griffiths trailer and the little Marshall and it's dismounted loader, bucket and fork. The other haulier took the Richard Western trailer and the Weeks trailer. While the Same and the Herbst went back on the rigid, my time was up and after 15hrs I parked up near Okehampton to get me head well and truly down! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deere-est Posted March 10, 2013 Author Share Posted March 10, 2013 Once I got back the following morning it was another run to the scrappy with the rigid, as it was unloaded before I got back in the artic. Off with a load of cabs again.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deere-est Posted March 10, 2013 Author Share Posted March 10, 2013 And this week was rigid work, the SF11 was sold to a farmer just outside Cullumpton and a subsoiler to a Crediton farmer who met me in Exeter auction centre... 15ft 7ins high that was! Whilst the boss was at the auctions themselves and got me this for a return load. Then the next day I took a 3CX up to Worcestershire to a place with a mile long track at the end of which one resident had bought this and the others were buying the stone to re-do the track. Back to Marlborough to load the last few bales which were bought and stored there. Tip them and reload the Griffiths to deliver near Shepton Mallet. This one topped 16ft 6ins so we took the greedy boards off before I set off. On springs, it rocked about a lot more than the SF11 which was on rocking beams. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Light Land Posted March 10, 2013 Share Posted March 10, 2013 still plenty of soil moving left in the kv kit tris,were will they end up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMB Posted March 11, 2013 Share Posted March 11, 2013 That's a lot coming off one site in Cornwall, was it part of a farm sale? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deere-est Posted March 11, 2013 Author Share Posted March 11, 2013 Yep, a job lot from a contractor who sadly passed away, Chris. The cultivator is sold to a farmer 40 miles away, Ol. Not sure about the plough, it's sold but don't know where too yet. The spinner went to Ireland, the Herbst is sold but not sure where too, as is the Weeks bale trailer and the Same. Just the baler, Marshall and hedgetrimmer left which I am hoping the latter will stay! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
altrac Posted March 11, 2013 Share Posted March 11, 2013 Very interesting thread sir, just found it today and I've spent quite a while going back through it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hicksy Posted March 11, 2013 Share Posted March 11, 2013 Hi tris did I see you today going down the a34 today with three fergies and a fastback on the back I was working opposite side of the road between white horse contractors and Abingdon tilsey park in me crawler mole ploughing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deere-est Posted March 11, 2013 Author Share Posted March 11, 2013 Thanks for looking, Andrew. It certainly keeps me busy working for the couple of companies you see in the last few years worth of posting. The topic started near enough when I started my self employment but some of the Photobucket links are void now. Glad you find it interesting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deere-est Posted March 11, 2013 Author Share Posted March 11, 2013 Not me, Phil. I was on the logs today and the artic wasn't on the road today as far as I know. I always keep an eye over the hedges incase I see you though. Someone down the A420 has a 8RT, saw it the other day with a 6 or 8m Horsch drill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deere-est Posted March 13, 2013 Author Share Posted March 13, 2013 And a few others. The 13m CAT machines at Cheffins, doing their stuff and making light work of it. One of the fleet where Powerstar Luke works having tipped at Cheffins. My load of three Belarus's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deere-est Posted March 13, 2013 Author Share Posted March 13, 2013 Then a tractor which was bought some time ago and sent away to have the gearbox fixed, not sure what the problem was. Anyway, I picked it up the other week. The chap who fixed it had a few tractors he had as projects, Fordsons, a 3000, a Dexta and these... Massey in the latter stages of a refurb. An ultra rare, one of four built for The Forestry Commission, Howard tractor. He paid twenty quid for it many moons again at a dispersal sale. And this old Fergy with a belt driven sickle bar hedge trimmer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tractorman810 Posted March 13, 2013 Share Posted March 13, 2013 you want a snow plough on that howard tissy, lot easy sat down than pushing one arround ,not that i ever bother cleaning the drive / path anyway Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deere-est Posted March 13, 2013 Author Share Posted March 13, 2013 What?!! Are you serious?!!! You should do it twice a day, every day and without fail!! AND MORE TO THE POINT!!!! You MUST photograph it every. . ... single. .. ... . flipping. ... . ... time!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tractorman810 Posted March 13, 2013 Share Posted March 13, 2013 sod that, anyway i am highly annoyed with you, wheres the multiple pics of the owners car to?? i really do wonder just where your heads at sometimes tristopher, a howard must always have a car shot to ok !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robbo Posted March 13, 2013 Share Posted March 13, 2013 I didn't know there were that may Belarus tractors left in the UK, still with 3 of them gone there can't be many left now ;D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tractorman810 Posted March 13, 2013 Share Posted March 13, 2013 theres 2 or 3 logger versions down this way out beside burrator on dartmoor, well there was last time i cycled round there ,and i can think of 3 or 4 still going up suffolk, chris lockwood still has his too i belive mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deere-est Posted March 13, 2013 Author Share Posted March 13, 2013 I didn't know there were that may Belarus tractors left in the UK, still with 3 of them gone there can't be many left now ;D The lads in the yard hate them, Mike. No work is done to them apart from a deep clean but they get broken down for the containers and everything on them is heavy, seized and awkward!!! Must have sent ten containers of them over the water in the last year or so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMB Posted March 13, 2013 Share Posted March 13, 2013 Do they go back to eastern Europe by any chance? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deere-est Posted March 13, 2013 Author Share Posted March 13, 2013 No, they don't which surprised me when I asked! Cambodia! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
batcher Posted March 13, 2013 Share Posted March 13, 2013 Good to see you are still keeping busy.Had many nights at bp used to like seeing the old red girls now and then.Do you no that was just over a year ago that we had a chat at bp don't time fly steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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