SilliamWhale
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after the PLOUGH
I feel sick.
Wanna buy marsk stig roscoe? Its in front of where you park the lorry?
quick fixes, bodges and creations
- Thread starter jimmer
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I feel sick.
Wanna buy marsk stig roscoe? Its in front of where you park the lorry?
- Location
- south norfolk, uk
The chain harrows or the markstig?
Chain harrow grassland I make hay from. Not my ground or rented so its not grazed so needs a bit of help every year.
Markstig is for ploughed land though no where near as much as used to. Generally used on tight headlands and after cultivator(none ploughed) if we min till.
how much
SilliamWhale
Member
£100
picture as my memory is carp
SilliamWhale
Member
what width is that 10 or 12 ft
SilliamWhale
Member
I don't think its as wide as 10ft. Maybe though
will offer you £80 for it
Robigus
Member
Too much paint for @roscoe erf
hee hee hee yours had plenty of paint on it
jd6110
Member
Anyone remove spring tines and replace with tines as simple grass harrow cheap alternative to buying one???after the PLOUGH
Robigus
Member
I'm always suspicious of those bodges that look too neat and have a good coat of paint.
We used to grow about ten acres of broad beans for seed. The first year we got a contractor, who claimed he had done it before, to try and drill them, it wasn't a great success.
We looked at several drills but the beans are so large and flat that they will not flow and cant be forced through a metering mechanism.
We tried an Accord, a Vaderstad, an old Carrier, an old Massey and an even older Smyth. We tried spreading them to plough in but they broke the rollers in a Kuhn Aero and would not flow through and got cracked by various spinning disc machines.
The best system was the Smyth as it lifted the beans up and did not try to force them through a meter. Inspired by this cutting edge Victorian technology we built this Heath-Robinson affair to drill our little ten acre contract. The beans rest behind the roller which lifts them up and over and drops them down the chute. The rate is varied by using an old Nodet gearbox. I've no idea where the chains and sprockets came from and most of the sprockets are welded onto their shafts, so when something breaks we're jiggered. The seed tubes are 2" inch pipe and the whole thing is set on a 3m Vibroflex. It's even got hydraulic bought markers
The point is that we cobbled this together fifteen years ago so that we could drill ten acres of beans, but we have been growing broad beans since then and not only did we some times have nearly two hundred acres ourselves, but several other growers have borrowed it most years.
We bought a Mzuri this season and one of the essentials was that it could handle broad beans and then of course we went and gave up the broad bean contract. But the old drill is still going, two other growers have used it this year.
If I'd known it was going to be around so long I would have finished it of a bit better and given it a coat of paint.
We used to grow about ten acres of broad beans for seed. The first year we got a contractor, who claimed he had done it before, to try and drill them, it wasn't a great success.
We looked at several drills but the beans are so large and flat that they will not flow and cant be forced through a metering mechanism.
We tried an Accord, a Vaderstad, an old Carrier, an old Massey and an even older Smyth. We tried spreading them to plough in but they broke the rollers in a Kuhn Aero and would not flow through and got cracked by various spinning disc machines.
The best system was the Smyth as it lifted the beans up and did not try to force them through a meter. Inspired by this cutting edge Victorian technology we built this Heath-Robinson affair to drill our little ten acre contract. The beans rest behind the roller which lifts them up and over and drops them down the chute. The rate is varied by using an old Nodet gearbox. I've no idea where the chains and sprockets came from and most of the sprockets are welded onto their shafts, so when something breaks we're jiggered. The seed tubes are 2" inch pipe and the whole thing is set on a 3m Vibroflex. It's even got hydraulic bought markers
The point is that we cobbled this together fifteen years ago so that we could drill ten acres of beans, but we have been growing broad beans since then and not only did we some times have nearly two hundred acres ourselves, but several other growers have borrowed it most years.
We bought a Mzuri this season and one of the essentials was that it could handle broad beans and then of course we went and gave up the broad bean contract. But the old drill is still going, two other growers have used it this year.
If I'd known it was going to be around so long I would have finished it of a bit better and given it a coat of paint.
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- Location
- Devon
Certainly comes under the 'quick fixes' - put griptop rubber matting in the lambing trailer to stop sheep skidding to the front as they jump in the trailer.
Thanks to @eulb for a source for the matting.
Put new stockboard on the front too as the ply was rotting out after nearly 14 years.
Thanks to @eulb for a source for the matting.
Put new stockboard on the front too as the ply was rotting out after nearly 14 years.
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Cooper3075
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- Location
- North Derbyshire
Was only this morning thinking I should do something with my slipy quad trailer floor! Going to build a new bigger trailer as mine only holds 2 ewes and there lambs or 3 ewes no lambs could do with room for 4 and there lambs any idea what size? Was thinking 6x4 or I have a ifor canopy that's 6.6x5 but maybe bit big for the quad?
- Location
- Devon
I switched to using a 7x4 trailer for lambing Cooper when numbers increased, but have gone back to this now I'm lambing mostly outdoors.
The 7x4 had lamb boxes all down 1 side, and a gate halfway. That way the ewes stood across the trailer with their heads over their own lambs. It held 6 doubles comfortably.
Advantage of lambs down the side is it evened the weight up aiding traction compared to lambs in front and ewes behind.
The 7x4 had lamb boxes all down 1 side, and a gate halfway. That way the ewes stood across the trailer with their heads over their own lambs. It held 6 doubles comfortably.
Advantage of lambs down the side is it evened the weight up aiding traction compared to lambs in front and ewes behind.
- Location
- Devon
Cooper3075
Member
- Location
- North Derbyshire
Did the quad pull it ok on wet ground iv a 500 Suzuki.
Nearly
Member
- Location
- North of York
I built a ewe and lamb box last year for the front of a neighbour's Kramer loader. 8'x5' 5 ewes, 10 lambs-ish. A bit heavy for wet days, but good for clearing large numbers out onto drier patches.
- Location
- Devon
Fine on the level and on steeper if it's grassy. Mud and steep bit of a problem!
500 4WD