- Location
- N.Lincs
No, I've been training a young dog on these.
They're 'nice and sharp' and have kept him 'on his toes'.
diary of a comedy sheep farm
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They're 'nice and sharp' and have kept him 'on his toes'.
- Location
- N.Lincs
That old Farmhand Flat 10 accumulator must be in really good nick if the stickers on it are as nice and shiney as your avatarI love my avatar too and you get points for being the first to comment on it
spin cycle
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- Location
- north norfolk
monday
got combine out....minor pulley repair....grease up....clean up.....generally pretty pleased with her
....washed grain trailer out
saw an old bowls playing buddy whilst picking up mums pills....looked well but he's had heart attack....pretty fed up cos he's very active gardener and had 26 days beating lined up this coming shooting season.....can't do any
tuesday
HH's 22nd birthday
got grain store ready and made a start combining about 1pm.....first two rounds (24ft) were grim but after that it's scruffy but good crop........few stops for 'teething adjustments'.....but by 2pm going nicely......just topping up trailer at 4pm when little chain that drives unloading auger went .......joiner link failed.....whether wear/tare or auger blockage i don't know.....could be little stone i suppose cos i'd grounded tank before.......hot/flustered....to late to get to spares place i give up.....got home bit hot/bothered/ fed up........little birthday tea for HH walk on beach in cool......when we got back mrs spin did us all a little fry up.......try again tommoz
in 'other news' mcenroe and lambs have taken up station outside grain store.....bugger can smell new crop coming....billabong about as well but had wandered off temporarily
got combine out....minor pulley repair....grease up....clean up.....generally pretty pleased with her
....washed grain trailer outsaw an old bowls playing buddy whilst picking up mums pills....looked well but he's had heart attack
....pretty fed up cos he's very active gardener and had 26 days beating lined up this coming shooting season.....can't do anytuesday
HH's 22nd birthday
got grain store ready and made a start combining about 1pm.....first two rounds (24ft) were grim but after that it's scruffy but good crop
........few stops for 'teething adjustments'.....but by 2pm going nicely......just topping up trailer at 4pm when little chain that drives unloading auger went .......joiner link failed.....whether wear/tare or auger blockage i don't know.....could be little stone i suppose cos i'd grounded tank before.......hot/flustered....to late to get to spares place i give up.....got home bit hot/bothered/ fed up........little birthday tea for HH walk on beach in cool......when we got back mrs spin did us all a little fry up.......try again tommozin 'other news' mcenroe and lambs have taken up station outside grain store.....bugger can smell new crop coming
....billabong about as well but had wandered off temporarily
- Location
- Luton, Bedfordshire
Happy Birthday to HH!
- Location
- Shropshire
Those sheep’s are beyond arrogantmonday
got combine out....minor pulley repair....grease up....clean up.....generally pretty pleased with her
saw an old bowls playing buddy whilst picking up mums pills....looked well but he's had heart attack
tuesday
HH's 22nd birthday
got grain store ready and made a start combining about 1pm.....first two rounds (24ft) were grim but after that it's scruffy but good crop
in 'other news' mcenroe and lambs have taken up station outside grain store.....bugger can smell new crop coming
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Want their throats cutting ,
spin havevyou got the green baler going , if not coming sunday to have a look
- Location
- south norfolk, uk
If not @robbie been busy baling. If your lucky he'll bring his co pilot!! Spin won't know what to do with himself.
- Location
- the brecks norfolk
I couldn't put up with that, they'd be in the next available pen in Norwich market.
- Location
- the brecks norfolk
That wouldn't do chop. Spinney would be splashing the old spice on by the gallon and be going round the yard like a little bantam cockrill!!!!!
- Location
- south norfolk, uk
I'm not really sure how you concentrated balingThat wouldn't do chop. Spinney would be splashing the old spice on by the gallon and be going round the yard like a little bantam cockrill!!!!!
She'd soon sort spinny out!
- Location
- the brecks norfolk
A good bloke can multitask!!!!!!!!I'm not really sure how you concentrated baling
She'd soon sort spinny out!
- Location
- the brecks norfolk
You never know chop @carbonfibre farmer perhaps old spinney already has a distraction riding about with him and that's what keeps putting him in a "muddle"
Must be a big trailer and field of topping it out at 4 pmmonday
got combine out....minor pulley repair....grease up....clean up.....generally pretty pleased with her
saw an old bowls playing buddy whilst picking up mums pills....looked well but he's had heart attack
tuesday
HH's 22nd birthday
got grain store ready and made a start combining about 1pm.....first two rounds (24ft) were grim but after that it's scruffy but good crop
in 'other news' mcenroe and lambs have taken up station outside grain store.....bugger can smell new crop coming
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, and twice round in 3 hours or where you practicing the cok bod dance. 2 scrats forad and yan back 
- Location
- the brecks norfolk
My paddy built green machine is coping ok and taking it all In it's stride!!!!
The straw is knocking up behind our walker combine even with the concave right open and 900 drum speed so I dread to think what it would be like today behind a axial flow......match sticks I would imagine.......been there done that got the tea shirt a few times, once with the Johnny quire but I was too young and green to get stressed about it
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Go and give him a handMy paddy built green machine is coping ok and taking it all In it's stride!!!!View attachment 984483
The straw is knocking up behind our walker combine even with the concave right open and 900 drum speed so I dread to think what it would be like today behind a axial flow......match sticks I would imagine.......been there done that got the tea shirt a few times, once with the Johnny quire but I was too young and green to get stressed about it
- Location
- the brecks norfolk
Bit of a trek for me but if he was a bit closer I'd be in there like rat up a drain pipe to get it wrapped up for him
spin cycle
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- Location
- north norfolk
spin cycle
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- Location
- north norfolk
wednesday
got up...drove to bearing supplies nr norwich just as they opened......got a new chain...£14 .....shorta diesal so on way back stopped and got some at a little garage and 'treated' myself to a costa vending machine 'vannila cappacino'.....it was horrible but in a very comforting way
back at farm....fettled admiral then took gator down field to fit new chain.....tried the auger first with mole grips....GOOD NEWS it turned easily so no obstruction.......fitted chain....BAD NEWS....the tensioner wouldn't go back....it was to big
......back to yard....some calf pen kerung and fashioned a smaller one.......back to field.....still to big......cue saw/bodging til it did
......bit worried though cos original tensioner had 2 bolts to stop it turning but my bodge only had room for one
back at yard started tipping trailer....i'd done tyre pressures on trailer but forgot to top up back axle oil....other little niggly things but eventually down field to try my repair.....eased lever in gently.....belt groaned then went #phew.....i suppose it had to start up full...it was nae bother after that....anyhoo i got finished ...the only other drama was mcenroe miss behaving whilst i was trying to tip....fortunately mrs spin was nearby....one sharp word from her and .mcenroe legged it.....so once again having got started/running smoothly i've finished....i'm relieved though....total cost of repairs £30....10 gallons of fuel and field looks a whole lot better than it did a week ago.....just as important no costly breakdowns which always worry me due my mechanical weakness
interesting what ppl find 'difficult'....i get stressed/depressed but never think about things being 'difficult'....it's just 'the way it is'....i mean i'm just back from putting the admiral back to bed cos she fell out.....whilst i've been trying to catch up i've been giving her odd sleeping pill.....it doesn't help her though.....back on vit d placebo tommoz
anyhoo by way of a contrast to the shiny mchale.....here's my vermeer emergency belt repair courtesy of my dead welgar donor...180 bales 'not out'
ps...if you think that repair is 'rough'...wait til you see the 'chain tensioner'
got up...drove to bearing supplies nr norwich just as they opened......got a new chain...£14
.....shorta diesal so on way back stopped and got some at a little garage and 'treated' myself to a costa vending machine 'vannila cappacino'.....it was horrible but in a very comforting wayback at farm....fettled admiral then took gator down field to fit new chain.....tried the auger first with mole grips....GOOD NEWS it turned easily so no obstruction
.......fitted chain....BAD NEWS....the tensioner wouldn't go back....it was to big......back to yard....some calf pen kerung and fashioned a smaller one.......back to field.....still to big......cue saw/bodging til it did......bit worried though cos original tensioner had 2 bolts to stop it turning but my bodge only had room for oneback at yard started tipping trailer....i'd done tyre pressures on trailer but forgot to top up back axle oil
....other little niggly things but eventually down field to try my repair.....eased lever in gently.....belt groaned then went #phew.....i suppose it had to start up full...it was nae bother after that....anyhoo i got finished ...the only other drama was mcenroe miss behaving whilst i was trying to tip....fortunately mrs spin was nearby....one sharp word from her and .mcenroe legged it.....so once again having got started/running smoothly i've finished....i'm relieved though....total cost of repairs £30....10 gallons of fuel and field looks a whole lot better than it did a week ago.....just as important no costly breakdowns which always worry me due my mechanical weakness
interesting what ppl find 'difficult'....i get stressed/depressed but never think about things being 'difficult'....it's just 'the way it is'
....i mean i'm just back from putting the admiral back to bed cos she fell out.....whilst i've been trying to catch up i've been giving her odd sleeping pill.....it doesn't help her though.....back on vit d placebo tommozanyhoo by way of a contrast to the shiny mchale
.....here's my vermeer emergency belt repair courtesy of my dead welgar donor...180 bales 'not out'
ps...if you think that repair is 'rough'...wait til you see the 'chain tensioner'
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- Location
- the brecks norfolk
It's not a shiny McHale it's a filthy dirty dusty McHale which has probably already done more bales in its life that the Vermeer.
I think I have a problem, as soon as I looked at your picture of the swaths of straw I started getting twitchy and want to be baling......I only got off the bloody thing 20 mins ago
I think I have a problem, as soon as I looked at your picture of the swaths of straw I started getting twitchy and want to be baling......I only got off the bloody thing 20 mins ago