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Forever Fendt

Member

Location

Derbyshire

• Jul 30, 2020

• #109,921

marco said:

Why the rollers on the troughs?

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Badger proof to stop them contaminating feed or lick buckets pretty sure they will work the rollers are 90mm diameter going to do something with water troughs next I have an idea to keep badgers out at a meter high but
allow calves to drink

 

mar

Member

Location

Ulster (Rep of Irl)

• Jul 30, 2020

• #109,922

Gator said:

Yeah i have the bail handler wi the rollers on the tractor, better for loading and soft hands on the skiddy for unlosdind abd stacking
I use the tractor to load in the fieldView attachment 896661
And the skidsteer to unload and stack at homeView attachment 896664View attachment 896665

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@Gator I remember you saying before you put the harris fencing shown in the last photo around the bales to keep cats out. How do you keep them standing, do you use the normal feet that they use on sites to keep them up. Would cats get in under the gap at the bottom.

 

Pan mixer

Member

Mixed Farmer

Location

Near Colchester

• Jul 30, 2020

• #109,923

last minute rush to get the grainstore ready, contractor arriving in 2 hours.... Yesterday he told us 3 days.

Surprised us both, the last bit of continous wheat (being put to pasture this year for 4 years) did 3.3 t an acre at 14%

Some wheat already in the rotation did a bit better, very pleased.

Are we going to start the 'my crack is bigger than your crack' competition again?

 

Breckland Boy

Member

Mixed Farmer

Location

Breckland

• Jul 30, 2020

• #109,924

Harvest finished at my neighbours

 

Breckland Boy

Member

Mixed Farmer

Location

Breckland

• Jul 30, 2020

• #109,925

Harvest begins at home

 

Celt83

Member

Livestock Farmer

• Jul 30, 2020

• #109,926

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Are we going to start the 'my crack is bigger than your crack' competition again?
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If that isn't a challenge for @Bald Rick I don't know what is!

 

J

JWL

Member

Location

Hereford

• Jul 30, 2020

• #109,927

Gave it a try, 16.9%, parked it back in the shed

 

Tomr10

Member

• Jul 30, 2020

• #109,928

Anybody know of any farming experience places. Anybody do chopper or forager experience days

 

S

spanners and hammers

Member

Location

cambridgeshire

• Jul 31, 2020

• #109,929

i shudder to think what will arrive from bald ric

 

jendan

Member

Mixed Farmer

Location

Northumberland

• Jul 31, 2020

• #109,930

JWL said:

Gave it a try, 16.9%, parked it back in the shedView attachment 898139

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Is that organic Wheat?

 

J

JWL

Member

Location

Hereford

• Jul 31, 2020

• #109,931

jendan said:

Is that organic Wheat?

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No, just WW that really suffered in the wet from autumn, nearly got ripped up a few months ago but was given a second chance. Not a huge crop but the grains in the tank although small are quite plump

 

Norfolk Olly

Member

Mixed Farmer

Location

norfolk

• Jul 31, 2020

• #109,932

Half way through the wheat, hopefully the better half is left to do ,

 

JP1

Member

Livestock Farmer

Location

Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk

• Jul 31, 2020

• #109,933

Forever Fendt said:

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Wrong thread "new toy day" ................

Do the rollers keep badgers off?

 

Gator

Never Forgotten

Honorary Member

Location

Lancashire

• Jul 31, 2020

• #109,934

mar said:

@Gator I remember you saying before you put the harris fencing shown in the last photo around the bales to keep cats out. How do you keep them standing, do you use the normal feet that they use on sites to keep them up. Would cats get in under the gap at the bottom.

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Fence at the sides and back are upside down so theres no gaps underneath, and there wired to some fence posts

Front are held by clips and the blocks they stand in, the bottom have some mesh wired to it to stop tbe csts gettin in

I'll tek some pics when i fence it off

 

Gator

Never Forgotten

Honorary Member

Location

Lancashire

• Jul 31, 2020

• #109,935

Steady day shakin, bailer due tomorra

 

Tomtrac

Member

Location

Penrith cumbria

• Jul 31, 2020

• #109,936

A view off the lake distric

 

Bob lincs

Member

Arable Farmer

Location

Lincs / Cambs border

• Jul 31, 2020

• #109,937

More WW today , yields improving slightly but straw is shocking . The70 ac field we cut yesterday has just been baled ....72 hesstons off 70 acre

 

Chae1

Member

Location

Aberdeenshire

• Jul 31, 2020

• #109,938

Nice baler tractor!

 

Forever Fendt

Member

Location

Derbyshire

• Jul 31, 2020

• #109,939

JP1 said:

Wrong thread "new toy day" ................

Do the rollers keep badgers off?

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No evidence yet but I think they would find it difficult to get purchase on the rollers then spin very easily i am hopefully borrowing a trail cam to do a test and will report back have historically never seen badgers around here but got shut down 2 months ago and have spotted 3 this week so doing all I can to stop contact

 

Pan mixer

Member

Mixed Farmer

Location

Near Colchester

• Jul 31, 2020

• #109,940

Finishing my small acreage of wheat. Last field.

Straw not very thick - those are 4 foot bales following a 20 foot combine.

Nice heap though.