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Bit of green fever the past few days, all done for a week or so now!
Today at work
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John 1594
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had to go push the muck heap up tonight...bit of a hole near it so decided to level a bit of spare soil
3 hours later i get the tractor home....
in all fairness the wheel had been chafing on the kingpin for a few months, now i know why
just glad id didnt let go earlier today while i had a tonne of fert hung over the spreader!!!!
Fergy 9 hole bar and a chain, dragged her back home to await a new kingpin!!!!
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3 hours later i get the tractor home....
in all fairness the wheel had been chafing on the kingpin for a few months, now i know why
just glad id didnt let go earlier today while i had a tonne of fert hung over the spreader!!!!
Fergy 9 hole bar and a chain, dragged her back home to await a new kingpin!!!!
A chock of wood in between the axle and your wallet on the power harrow would have done the job.
exmoor dave
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Good of you to get dressed up for the occasion
What were you demonstrating? How to roll yourself in shite?
Got to keep up the image that us hill farmers are dirt poor but lovable rogues
John 1594
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A chock of wood in between the axle and your wallet on the power harrow would have done the job.
I prefer the "road train" look, got a few glances heading up the main A road to the yard during rush hour thats for sure!!!!!
I know but I'd have done anything possible to avoid walking home or ringing for a lift.
Steadier day today-entertaining the kids mostly
Cheated for dinner-although the wallet felt it
Caught rower man to give him his chips just before he went 8 miles to the fields at mum and dads.
Bit of shovel porn for all you buckraking enthusiasts
.........and the Maxxum in the distance
Then a quick sheet up after milking to get it airtight. Persisting down, so green sheets and tyre sidewalls can wait till tomorrow
Cheated for dinner-although the wallet felt it
Caught rower man to give him his chips just before he went 8 miles to the fields at mum and dads.
Bit of shovel porn for all you buckraking enthusiasts
.........and the Maxxum in the distance
Then a quick sheet up after milking to get it airtight. Persisting down, so green sheets and tyre sidewalls can wait till tomorrow
rc mx110
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John 1594
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- Cambridgeshire
i dont tend to carry blocks of wood with me, was only a few miles from home luckily
even luckier that it didnt snap this morning while i was filling the fert spreader up!!!!!
You have the patience of a saint, if the bloody wheel fell off my tractor I would have delivered it straight to the scrapyard in frustration.
John 1594
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- Cambridgeshire
its gonna cost me about 50 quid for a kingpin, thats if ive not got one lurking in the heap of spares i already have
If the kingpin went on a new machine, so new that second hand parts are not available....how much would it cost you.....
exactly.
Great pics there!
Philip Watkins
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- Back in Shropshire
One on the right in purple top? Or the one behind her.Any Mrs Exmoor Dave 's in the bunch, or should I ask ....................
davedb
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- Staffordshire
pine_guy
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- North Cumbria
Carted a few trailers for a neighbour, picking up for another neighbour. Some biggish tackle for a small dairy farm. Last time I went over this bridge was with 110hp and ten ton trailer, today 150HP and 20 ton trailer. Was a bit point and pray.
The return route full was a mile of rough narrow track, and had traffic jams.
A 90deg turn onto a narrow bridge (look in wing mirror).
Then a 240 degree turn into the yard with space for a mouses fart between front wheel and local residents car.
Was raining when we finished,
which was fine as the contractor had been in and put the fert on my spring barley in my absence well washed in now.
The return route full was a mile of rough narrow track, and had traffic jams.
A 90deg turn onto a narrow bridge (look in wing mirror).
Then a 240 degree turn into the yard with space for a mouses fart between front wheel and local residents car.
Was raining when we finished,
which was fine as the contractor had been in and put the fert on my spring barley in my absence
well washed in now.
exmoor dave
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Any Mrs Exmoor Dave 's in the bunch, or should I ask ....................
Bit young for me
Oh to be 18 & back at college!
Found the reason why the old farm Discovery wheel was rubbing the body and wouldn't drive straight!
John 1594
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A chock of wood in between the axle and your wallet on the power harrow would have done the job.
having dwelled on this, wonder how i would have negotiated the roundabout and the bottom of the bridge i had to go over on the way home.....
had it been the other wheel, i may have got away with it?