51MON Posted February 9, 2008 Posted February 9, 2008 not quite finished yet see what you think Quote
Murray Posted February 9, 2008 Posted February 9, 2008 wow beast looks nice keep up the good work Quote
Lord Ferguson Posted February 9, 2008 Posted February 9, 2008 Great pice of work buddy... I hope you are proud of it So... what do you have left to finish on it then Quote
51MON Posted February 9, 2008 Author Posted February 9, 2008 the feed fence that will go around the bunker need some match sticks for that job Quote
Deeredriver Posted February 10, 2008 Posted February 10, 2008 nice 1 mate made not far from where i lived was mates with the blokes son Edd wally did you know he was the guy that invented the west dual spreader Quote
51MON Posted February 10, 2008 Author Posted February 10, 2008 Yes i only live ten minutes from edd walleys farm Quote
Deere-est Posted February 10, 2008 Posted February 10, 2008 Ah ha you joined up!! I was the one whon sent you the message on ebay when I saw this in the background of your listing photo!! I love this kind of thing, different, original. . . British Looks like you have done a nice job with it. Quote
Tractorman810 Posted February 10, 2008 Posted February 10, 2008 nice work, i aint a grass man here so this may seem silly, but whats zero grazing, i can guess from the title i know, but would like to know for sure if you can Quote
Deere-est Posted February 10, 2008 Posted February 10, 2008 The cows are permenantly housed Sean and fresh feed cut and brought to them via a system like this. Quote
Tractorman810 Posted February 10, 2008 Posted February 10, 2008 The cows are permenantly housed Sean and fresh feed cut and brought to them via a system like this. ah so not what i thought then :D doh, cheers for that tris, whats the benifits of that system then? Quote
Deere-est Posted February 10, 2008 Posted February 10, 2008 To be honest mate I am not sure what the advantages are. Anyone? Quote
Deeredriver Posted February 10, 2008 Posted February 10, 2008 well we used to have 1 at the place i worked 1 mower 2 trailers advantages are that you can keep the cattle on a field close to the yard all the time and bring in the grass to them saving the cows a lot of time walking and grazing also when cows graze a field they seem to waste a lot of the grass by craping on it also if you notice how a cow grazes she will walk around and eat a few spots bare and leave some hardly touched the place where i worked had some fields that were around 2 or 3 miles away so thats why we used the system also with the machine you can cut the grass at a very early growth stage when the sugar is at its highest also being able to get more cuts per season another good reason is that with the mower and trailer on floatation tyres you can still keep cutting grass in november or so when the fields are wet where as the cows would just poach the feild up big time hope this helps Nick 51 mon i used to live at cheavley cottage huntington for a couple of years and was self employed i used to help out Bob Arden a bit phil robbinson used to run an umbilical cord and go around cheshire pumping poo Quote
51MON Posted February 10, 2008 Author Posted February 10, 2008 small world i only live ten mins from bobs yard helped him with silaging last year. we have just bought a zero grazing outfit it arrived yesterday looking forward to using it Quote
Deeredriver Posted February 10, 2008 Posted February 10, 2008 yea they are good basicly just a pz mower drum or they used to be can go like hell i tell ya next time you see bob give him my best wishes tell him nick in the States says hello we had a hell of a party in his grain store god must of been 10 years ago now he made it into a beach put sand on the floor and everything made a swimming pool out of bales and silage sheet and used a bale trailer for a stage think we ran out of ale so the land lady from the pub brought 100 bottles out within about 10 mins that was gone too Ahhh the good old days Do you know the jones,s the bought the land and the buildings off bob? i went to young farmers with Mike and Caroline Quote
51MON Posted February 10, 2008 Author Posted February 10, 2008 think i went to that party yer mike dose our spraying at home Quote
tractorbob Posted December 28, 2008 Posted December 28, 2008 I ONLY LIVE 10..MINS FROM WERE THEY ARE BUILT ..I LIVE IN TIVERTON ,TARPORLEY.... WE STILL USE A KIDD DOUBLE CHOP (FULL ELECTRICS)WITH 8 TONNE MASTON TRAILER.. USED TO HAVE 2 NEW HOLLANDS Quote
51MON Posted December 28, 2008 Author Posted December 28, 2008 hi mate whats your name i live ten mins from tarporly Quote
tractorbob Posted December 28, 2008 Posted December 28, 2008 ROB ..I WORK FOR RICHARD OWEN, FERNEY LEES...BEEN AROUND HERE ABOUT 6 YEARS Quote
51MON Posted December 28, 2008 Author Posted December 28, 2008 oh eye yer we bought one of these zero mowers last year we used a kidd doble chopp too but it would sink in the ground if the fileds were wet and then it would chopp soil so ibought a 8 ton feed bunker to best machein on the farm i cut 5 acers a day from march till november and put 2000 gallon of slurry behind the mower every day plenty of milk for little imput puts the kidd to shame for the regrowth is three times as fast Quote
Deeredriver Posted December 28, 2008 Posted December 28, 2008 Are they still made mate i heard they gave up with em now Jonathon tomlinson was making the trailers at Holt about 4 years ago if i remember right Quote
51MON Posted December 28, 2008 Author Posted December 28, 2008 yer harbrook engernering do baches of 10 at a time when they get enough orders in but they are £16.000 now mine was only £4.000 my trailer was new so it will last me a long time it,s massive it feeds 50 cows at any time im feeding hefiers with it on the stubbes now so it gets used all the time Quote
tractorbob Posted December 28, 2008 Posted December 28, 2008 RICHARDS A BIT TIGHT ..SO I THINK WE WILL STRUGGEL ON WITH THE OLD DOUBLE CHOP, I ONLY BRING 1 TRAILER A DAY FOR THE COWS ,TIP IT THEN PUT IT THROUGH THE A KEENAN 140, FOR THE COWS WITH BLEND..COULD DO WITH SEEING YOUR CLAAS CHOPPER FOR TIPS AS WE HAD A CLAAS 60 AT HOME YEARS AGO Quote
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