holly smoke
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Tanker and pump going at slurry today
Today at work
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Tanker and pump going at slurry today
holly smoke
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Barley get tall might be too late for the slurry on it
@Bald Rick what grinder do you use?
Would like to have one come by once in a while as you are right, it’s expensive to do in the mixer.
Would like to have one come by once in a while as you are right, it’s expensive to do in the mixer.
Cuthbert
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Love the overalls. Like mine
holly smoke
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Haha not my best side [emoji6]
Day off, spoilt the OH with a trip away 
had some barrens booked in for midday
treated her to a romantic meal for two.
followed by a wander round a local gallery
That's enough of valentines, I'm Off ploughing!
That's enough of valentines, I'm Off ploughing!
Rotagrind but the shoot means that fine particles of straw fly everywhere & I believe the Hay Buster is a better machine in that there is much less chaff flying around but double the price. At the moment, we get a young man in to do it but may be looking to buy our own once we see how this feeds as we would probably need to do 2 artic loads a month esp if we can up the amount the dry cows will eat. Unground, too much gets left as they will not long stems
@Bald Rick my dry cows get 5 kg of straw a day. We mix for 2 days and it takes about 1,5 hours in the mixer. Any less and they leave it. We chop a bale in the mixer twice a week, for about 1,5 hours and unload, to use in milkers ratio. We leave meal and cake in water between feedings (feed twice a day), and with 3 tons of wet mud, chopping any straw is impossible. So we use many hours on the mixer just chopping straw. If there are stones in bales, thats quite expensive. I don't have any indoor place for a lot of chopped straw, so if i want something else done, i either need my own machine or they have to come often. Hay buster is much to expensive for just what i use. I have given up on feeding straw to heifers because of this. I feed them a little extra grass and if they want any more, they have to take from the straw we bed them with.
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- norfolk
Well it doesn’t feel like February, more like April
How about getting hold of a old trailed forager to chop straw
blue power
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- Staffordshire
Came back from a day out with the wife picking up her new car to find my new spreader had been dropped off
looks like some feet is going on the rape tomorrow
@Serup .. sounds like you’re doing compact feeding? Something we are keen to try but need to make high dry matter silage which is a challenge being so close to the sea.
Is it not worth a few neighbours to come together and buy a straw mill between you? Rotagrinds new are about £22,000 here, Hay Buster almost twice that
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- Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
Post movement TB test reading clear thank goodness.
Not sure I will be repeating this any time soon
Not sure I will be repeating this any time soon
Nearly
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- North of York
There was a frost in the workshop.
Fraserb
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- Scottish Borders
I see bald rick has already answered but our rotogrind will chop pretty much anything you can put in the tub, we do a fair bit of hay and straw through ours. Speed can vary but around 12 hesstons an hour in straw.
That could probably work. But i haven’t seen such machine around here in 25 years.
We are trying yes. Just started with water in premix around christmas. Take some adjustments and my stupid cows still sort like they where paid to do it.
How dry silage do you have and what is your goal? We want 30-32% but often end up higher. Sometimes rain at the wrong time gives 25% grass which is a mess.
Not many cows around here, and the farmers who have, don’t think it’s worth it Just to have the cows eat 3-500 gram of straw. So they just clean it out again.
I use a crazy amount of tractor hours in front of mixer now. About 1600 a year for less than 400 cows. We use it to make premix, sodagrain, chop straw and actually it mix some tmr from time to time when it’s free.
Foregoneconclusion
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- Pembrokeshire
Irony.
Tb testing tomorrow .
Tb testing tomorrow .
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- North West
Bit more on the 6830 this morning, got the liners in.
Piston built up,
Then had to go and assess some jobs for a customer so I can get parts sorted.
6520 needing a speed sensor
6420 needing a window seal, a faulty door latch, a sticking scv and an oil leak. Sorted the door and scv but need parts for the other jobs.
Just needed some wd40 and grease for the scv.
And finally a 6330 with a knackered seat and a can bus fault, also needs mucking out!!!!!!
Asked him politely to clean them before I go back
Piston built up,
Then had to go and assess some jobs for a customer so I can get parts sorted.
6520 needing a speed sensor
6420 needing a window seal, a faulty door latch, a sticking scv and an oil leak. Sorted the door and scv but need parts for the other jobs.
Just needed some wd40 and grease for the scv.
And finally a 6330 with a knackered seat and a can bus fault, also needs mucking out!!!!!!
Asked him politely to clean them before I go back
Dman2
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- Durham, UK
Just read the threads on here, lots of issues with JD head gaskets, including my Claas arion which is on with its third gasket, the second being another JD gasket. Now has a Claas gasket fittedNot sure who’s doing these head gaskets if they’re getting regular repeat failures! Think they need a kick up the arse as there’re not doing something right