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    Today at work

    Can you still use the tractor or will you have to get a flashing light first? One less beacon in the world is no bad thing!!
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    Today at work

    Must of been a good camera,it actually shows grass going in the trailer...wonder what shutter speed they used??
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    Today at work

    Ploughing in wind turbine's today, might need to go a bit deeper to get a decent burial....
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    The end of trailed mowers.

    A trailed mower will last for years ,a mounted mower is like a cheap kettle or toaster when its f**k scrap it , I prefer mounted though if you have a front mower lot easier in the corners,wouldn't like to use a rear mounted by itself though far too unstable
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    Back in the day

    Always remember pulling the plug out for his decks one night he never noticed until his groupies told him,not a happy chappie that night!!!! Use to be good for lockins in the shady ,good job I was working on a arable farm in those days never got home until 5 some mornings,I start at 5 now !!!
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    Back in the day

    That's the lad , the others I remember are Warwick Platt and Tim Ellis
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    Back in the day

    Geoff Vickers was a pioneer in his day ,he was one of the first to grow it , always remember Clive Goodwin buying a Massey 525 combine with a maize header in the late 80's so they could cut some for the grains don't think it ended to well though think they cut 2 acres then parked it up at the...
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    Back in the day

    Tony's pride and joy a 3140 forget the lads name who was driving it at the time he lived opposite the bull in clotton ,anyway we had been playing chicken all day,we both won in the end,the wheel on my 7610 lost as it went rolling down the hill ,that took some explaining to Geoff Vickers??? The...
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    Back in the day

    Did you ever go to peckforton estates, always remember his 7000 and Massey 1080 pulling the Norton trailers ..
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    Today at work

    Start of second cut yesterday, only 4 trailers to contend with ...
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    Back in the day

    No ones mentioned the shady oak or Bickerton poacher yet !!! Dink international on the turn tables ,wow what a DJ sometimes his records were nearly in fashion....
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    Back in the day

    Just found this thread fingermouse ,remember Pete young and his fleet of dx 90's andhis reverse drive same and chopper !! Still see the occasional Stamford 8 silage trailer after all these years ??? Remember Tony jones and his jd self propelled in the mid 80's big outfit back then ...
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    Today at work

    Then this today! That's the end of first cut ,start second in 10 days time ....
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    Today at work

    Every frigid man to his rigid machine? Sorry dear chap but you could never work here as its an orgy of 12 men and 1woman all trying to shag 2 pivots as quickly as possible......
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    Today at work

    You might be right my good man!! But maybe if you never had a 10 " square box blocking your view and your knees around your ears you might just see that pivots are not gay , just more 21 century!!! Would you like a woman to be rigid or bend in the middle??
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