Recent content by will_mck

To be fair it's only 3months old and just finished its first season. Gonna try and keep it like that though, only do 600 tons per year

Washed the manure spreader down today as I'm finished with it for the season. Before I started using it I waxoyled inside the body and then sprayed the rest of the machine with a mixture of diesel and old hydraulic oil. Been spreading chicken muck since and I never washed it until now but I kept...

I listened to the rest of the episodes while spraying today. Tony seemed like a proper gentleman. I wonder what his outlook would have been for a young farmer trying to start up a traditional farm enterprise today. He said after the war farmland was £40/ac, in 1987 it was £2000/ac, rented land...

Watched the first episode last night, I was 2 when it first aired. I wonder how many of that 800 acres is farm land today? The gentleman said the farm was 30 miles from London back then. Bet there's been alot of London sprawl since then. More farmland and less people I say, it'd solve alot of...

I've a kuhn 3002, I must look to see if there's a kit available

Probably need two hydraulic toplinks as you say, one on the powerharrow and one that bridges the harrow to the drill. Pity powerharrow manufacturers wouldn't put two small rams on where the packer roller adjusts. When your doing a run from one end of the field to the other the soil type can vary...

Been thinking of getting one of these for my one pass, I thought it would be handy for working the power harrow more deeply in cobbly bits of soil and then lift out a bit on the finer stuff, all on the move and from the tractor seat. The only thing it might affect the depth and pressure of the...

Our sulky will be 18 years old this year and it's still like brand new cos I wash and oil it after each use. Not many nooks and crannies on it underneath and it's pretty open and accessible to wash down, takes me about 10 mins to powerwash each time. The only parts I've changed in 18 years are...

Also if the net is partially cut it'll be a knife/anvil issue and the bit of the net that's not cut will be the area of the knife/anvil where the issue is. If the nets not cut at all anywhere along the net its likely to be a non knife/anvil issue eg. Clutch or spring. I'd get someone to work the...

Could be rust on the edge of the knife too, I sometimes give it a light rub with sand paper to clean it

Very good baler those and very simple and reliable to work with, I've one myself.

Surely if this is the case the issue is the knife not cutting cleanly somewhere along the knife edge or somewhere along the anvil. These two items need to be clean and flat the whole way along from one end to the other. Probably also check the cocking mechanism for the knife is working properly...

When the knife drops against the anvil does the net still keep getting pulled into the bale chamber?

If you can get it across the irish sea stick me down for 1% of that and it'll do me for next years crops

My bigger tractors are ploughing and drilling you see