Tractorman810 Posted April 3, 2008 Share Posted April 3, 2008 well guys its that busy time of year again with spring ploughing and seeding, so its time for another fun and free to enter FTF comp, Remember this is just a bit of fun for you guys to play around with your collection! ;) so here are the rules Rules: 1. Each person is allowed a maximum of 1 entry in each section, each entry can contain a maximum of 8 photos. The categories will be Pre 90's After 90's Please title your posts ploughing and seeding 2008 - Ford Farm seeding 1992 or spring crops 2008 - Fen End Farm 2008 ect ect When submitting an entry you should first try and indicate how many acres your outfit deals with and try to match the machinery used with the workload......... KEEP IT AS REALISTIC AS POSSIBLE 2. The pictures can show any part of the ploughing / seeding or fertiliser spreading process 3. Any item of machinery can be used but try to keep it realistic. 4. It is ok to use older machinery in for example a 2005 collection considering some contractors and many farmers still do use old machines 5. A separate section will be made "in this board" to allow people to comment on the entries, anyone posting comments in the competition will automatically receive a NUMPTY AWARD, any OT posts under this title, other then the entries will be deleted 6. Once all the entries have been received a poll will be created, where each member has * vote. There will be no prize for the winner, this is just for fun 7. All photos must be uploaded at the same time. No 'reserving' slots for future photos. Any reserved slots will be deleted and you may be disqualified * - number of votes to be confirmed after competition closes depending on number of entries Competition will run From 07.04.2008 until 10.05.2008 *RULES SUBJECT TO CHANGE BY MODS* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Posted April 17, 2008 Share Posted April 17, 2008 Well, since no one else has started this off - unless they have and I'm in the wrong place - I'm going to get going with a bit of spring planting from this year. It's loosely based on our own farm, growing around 150 acres of combineable crops split pretty equally between winter & spring planting. And before anyone decides the size & quantity of tackle is overkill, well, that's how we do it! That being said, the machinery shown could not all be operated by the farm, so you have to assume that a local owner/driver contractor has taken over a couple of operations, namely ploughing and drilling, leaving just the seed delivery & loading and power harrowing to the farm's own fleet. Some eagle eyed viewers may recognise the photos from Issue 6 of Model Farmer magazine. I think I've chosen pictures which didn't make it to print to give them an airing. And in no way does this appear in breach of the rules!! So, without further ado, some spring planting from the Marches area of England..... Contractor's Renault 836 finishing off the ploughing with a 5 furrow Lemken, while the planting crew are on standby... Farm's 5455 Massey & loader swinging the bulk seed into the contractor's combination drill..... The working down gets underway with the farm's own T6070.... Drilling started and the contractor gets involved with his TS135A & Lemken combination.... A fine seedbed... Teamwork gets the job done FASTER! Loosening up the headlands to finish... Heading home for a well earned pint of Jake on a sunny spring evening... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leakeyvale Posted April 24, 2008 Share Posted April 24, 2008 TV crew are busy filming for "Past Country Ways" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pistol pete Posted April 26, 2008 Share Posted April 26, 2008 firhills spring planting 2008 firhills farm is about 800 acres but has a large contracting business. we run a fleet of john deeres from 6410's up to 7930's.All ploughing and sewing is carried out in house. the farm is located in the north of scotland near arbroath. first pic is of the 6930 and grubber, 6330 and 4 furrow and 7530 and 5 furrow. next pic is of them arriving at the field. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pistol pete Posted April 26, 2008 Share Posted April 26, 2008 the 7530 finishing the field and the 6430 back of to the farm.next pic is of the 6930 and power harrow working infront of the farms other 7530 and lemken drill. the big drill is out on contracting work so this is used as a back up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pistol pete Posted April 26, 2008 Share Posted April 26, 2008 a few last bags of seed and fer being unloaded by one of the farms john deere loaders. the drill being loaded Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pistol pete Posted April 26, 2008 Share Posted April 26, 2008 last one the 6820 rolling with the old farmer looking on with his new land rover. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJ Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 Well now its just a few days ago april 2008 here at ballylaw farms and ploughing and drilling is in full swing we are a bit behind this year because of bad weather at the start of the month, this year we are ploughing with a jd 6930 and 4f kverneland, jd 7930 and 5f overum i am waiting on a new 5f kverneland to replace this but it wont be here until the autum. this year drilling is a 6 month old jd 7530 with lemken solitare 9 3m drill and a new t7060 with lemken solitare 9 bought just last week to replace a mf 7480 which had a bit of an accident well heres the pics broke a point so a quick change 6930 oh oh what this 7530 followed by the t7060 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJ Posted April 29, 2008 Share Posted April 29, 2008 hello again well i know you all like pics do some more for you Again its 2008 and we are planting maize ( i know its the same field but i cant help it ) the ploughing was completed in this field yesterday by the 6930 and kverneland 4f here is the 6420s and amazone lime/fert spreader getting the last bit out of the trailer to spread on the maize ground just finished leaving the field our 6920s carryin out the power harrowing with a set of 6m kuhn harrows and drilling today is the t7060 on a 6 row planter with tyre packer on front a 6920 and quickie loader supplying the seed the 7060 making a start while the 6920s make a headland turn both running nicely 6920 topping up the drill while the 6920s waits for the planter so he can start the headlands hope you like Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdc Posted April 29, 2008 Share Posted April 29, 2008 Had a bit time this evening so I had a shot at this.... Well it's the early 60s at Letham Shank. The 10 acre field for spuds had 250 hoggets on it all winter and wasn't ploughed as early as it should. It's still pretty wet now. The two TEs get ploughing, but Dolores loses a disc on a stone. The latest purchase, a Dexta with only 15 hrs on the clock rolls behind (it's the boss of course!) The neighbour's Major with the winch had to be used a couple of times when the Fergies got stuck in wet holes. Once the ploughing has dried a bit, our own Major rips it up a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdc Posted April 29, 2008 Share Posted April 29, 2008 One of the Fergies 'drills up' behind. There's a lot of stones to pick as planting gets started. The 35 got stuck on the headland with the seed trailer There's still some puddles in the foreground! The boys on the planter having a laugh. Planting in full swing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toyfarmer Posted May 10, 2008 Share Posted May 10, 2008 here at creek fen farm this year we are growing 45 acers of sugar beet on a field ploughed last autumn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fendt-man-matty Posted May 11, 2008 Share Posted May 11, 2008 well i decided to put some pics up, might as well, only takes 5mins off my life well at McKeemur farm we are planting spring barley late january 2008-ploughing with JD7530 1st April 2008- drilling the barley with lemken power harrow & accord drill getting her filled finishing up spread a bit of fert on after 11th may 2008, crop is growing well, happy days!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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