Recent content by hillbill

Update..... 1 knackered kettle, 3rd degree burns on both hands, but ive bossed em. Boil a couple of times then pull them over with 2 pairs of pliers. Seem to have gone back to normal fine.

Iam on doing some jobs on a amazone adp super drill for some one. Theres a few of the rubber boots that connect the seed tube to the coulter, split, so ive got some, but cannot get them to fit anywhere near. Ive boiled them, warmed them in a oven, greased them and still no where near. Theres...

Dont get me wrong, if we wanted to be millionaires we'd have pursued a different career path. But the means to make a decent living appears to be getting tougher. Not impossible, but tougher.

Iam fairly sure iam well on the ball with costings and our pricing. We're certainly not working for nothing, but machinery prices go up faster than the job can stand for everyone to make a living. End of the day, if theres no customers, there's no work. Ive just been quoted £120k to change from...

Tha Thats the thing. We are contractors.

It would appear iam not alone in having difficultly getting and keeping decent staff? Is it a nation wide issue or more regional? Wheres the best place to find the unicorns that maybe out there? Also, machinery price increases are a constant issue to us. I know theres nothing we can appear to...

Still looking..... any about?

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We run a convetional lemken press now. And 75% of the time its ideal. However due to the nature of our work theres alot of moving about and small fields. I just thought that carrying the packomat with you would make life easier for hill sides, headlands, smaller fields etc. Plough tractor is...

Few things here. Ive not got, and not lijely to get a kv, as what i have (in my opinion) is as good if not better, however my current plough manufacturer doest even make press arms, we had to have one made. I aquired the packomat at a cost even youd be impressed with, and as the headstock...

Many thanks for your comments and help. Ill explain a little more. Iam not fitting a extra furrow to my plough, i wanted to know what extra theoretical weight would be imposed on the tractor and also more importantly the plough headstock if i had. Iam in the early stages of converting a...

Yeah i understand that, but there'll be a calculation to take into consideration, length from the point of lift and weigh of the item fastened to the lever as it were....

The fact that i didnt listen at school 20some years ago has eventually caught up with me. So, essentially i need to find the formula to calculate the load gain on the tractor 3 pount linkage, by adding a extra furrow on the plough. If the extra furrow and disc weigh, hypothetically, 250kg, what...

Iam on the hunt for a pomi bale accumulator suitable for 4x3 square bales if anyone knows of one, or has one for sale. Cheers.

No one came to set the baler up. I just took it out of the yard as I knew the basics having run a comprima for a season in 2012. I am not saying I got the best out of it, but thought there wasn't a lot more I could do to improve it. The chap we were baling for questioned the bale weights as he...