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    Slurry store full sluces failing?

    depending on the tank, can you not throw a pipe over the side of the tank for the pump, our contractor has a 90 degree bend for doing it so he can run as a one man operation.
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    Farmers earn more from YouTube than their crops

    tractor pulling, just to beat the flower power fendt. (again).
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    Track suitable for hgvs

    depending on the ground id say strip top soil off down to good subsoil then a layer of terram and filled up with 300mm plus of decent sized stone/ hardcore tracked in with a 13t plus machine on steels and a layer of fines on top to blend it all in. If done in the dry will last for years if you...
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    Christ it's wet

    Yep, normally drilled up and machines put away for the winter by now and just got 2 fields drilled today but not brilliant conditions. Just seems to dry enough to get drilling and we get another chunk of rain.
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    Mobile phone signal in rural area , questions

    Im finding its not always signal thats a problem but been able to have calls between people regularly have to redial people to be able to hear/ be heard on the phone and randomly cuts out. Often will have 4 or 5g with 3-4 bars of signal and same with person at the other end but can't have a...
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    Fuse size

    Our stocks one at work has a 20 amp fuse on it unsure what model it is thou.
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    The most itchy crop to combine.

    Oats or Hybrid barley are certainly up there on the itchy as hell scale when your drying/ working around the grain.
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    JF sales Milton Keynes

    straight as a die bought my 6810 of him and he was spot on to deal with and had a good look around as well.
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    New toy day

    A proper toy, got to love the classics, Enjoyed driving my mates one at my old job just dont tell him that.
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    GREASE GREASE GREASE

    Smack the ring pull end down hard and square on a lump of steel or something heavy first and they open first time everytime.
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    New grain dryer opinions?

    Big open bayed shed and just keep shoving it in. Have to bucket grain into hopper to load the dryer. Quiet a labour intensive operation but only way to work it with the building layout we have. Dryer unloads into the shed next door. Running an 25t mecmar and doing 2000-3000t of grain a year.
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    New grain dryer opinions?

    where I work we do have a shed that can hold 800t of wet grain by the dryer and just keep running the dryer 24/7. Our record in 2021 harvest when we were buying alot of grain in was 164hrs clocked on grain drying tractor in a week although are looking to make an engine unit for the dryer for...
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    Today at work

    Yeah, saw it twice going into black pool on the Thursday night and again Friday morning coming out. TBF would of probably missed it if it wasn't for the few dozen cars parked in every field gateway/ passing point near the line for the 15 mins before.
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    Today at work

    Spring drilling 2023 line up of the 3 Ameigos Nice upgrade from the old opico soil saver to a carrier 650. Stretched the legs on my 515 rolling the last field of barley in with the good old MWM Purr who needs a radio. While the south of the country is getting HS2 up in the grim north west...
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    quick fixes, bodges and creations

    have morse code tramlines up the field with the flashes of the indicators
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