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    Calibration of t7.200 power command

    Very impressive replies I will pass on this to my friend
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    Calibration of t7.200 power command

    Hi friend asked me to ask on here how to calibrate gearbox on a t7.200 it's 2013 year. Power command gearbox. Don't know what is wrong with it.
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    Auto command/cvx opinion

    I test drove a cvx version and was impressed able to use lever and foot pedal. Didn't realise there was difference between the new Holland controls and case.
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    Auto command/cvx opinion

    Hi I am looking at a new to me tractor. 2014 or newer. Have an older cvx which has spoilt me so taught I would go for similar again. Looking at puma 160 or equivalent in New Holland. Don't know much about them or what to look for. Was told the vario is repairable is that true. Are they...
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    Solar to pre heat water

    Sorry I am talking really basic system of just reducing electricity usage. Not anything which will ever export electricity. Have to get a tank anyway. Can get a direct or indirect? Am thinking 2 panels attached to a 24v DC immersion. That does away with the need for inverters etc. it will not...
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    Solar to pre heat water

    What is simplest/cheapest way to pre heat water with PV solar. I am thinking there must be a way to connect a certain number?? Of panels to an immersion and then use 240v immersion to heat it fully up. I see 12v and 24v immersion available. So if a tank had 2 immersions one for each. Do you...
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    What % of winter crops not planted or destroyed

    You mixed up acre with hectare. 1000 a hectare for a maximum of 20 hectare
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    London fireworks

    I did not stay up to watch the new year. But as an Irish person I would always tune in to watch the London celebration. It is always amazing and a great spectacle. You should be very proud and I think it does far more for your tourism brand than it costs to put on. There is always more sensible...
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    Clayton 4105 steering playing up

    Hi my Clayton 4105 with knight sprayer has for the last 3 years I have had it been faultless with the steering. Sprayed a field last week then yesterday started it and no 4 wheel steer. It self centres for front wheel steering on road. But when I put it in to 4 wheel steer nothing happened then...
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    co op exec on €6 mil a year

    You don't realize your first line about CEO coming from within is exactly what happen with Siobhan. She is working her lifetime in glanbia. She is from Kilkenny where the company house is. She was spotted by the previous CEO (who also worked his way up within the glanbia company albeit from...
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    Nitrogen for late barley liquid or granules

    Have late sown barley sowed 14 days ago. Weather forecast is for no rain. It got 24kg/ha in seedbed but I want to put on the rest now. Would liquid urea be ok. Temperature is in mid teens but sunny. Or granulated can
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    Spring drilling 2023

    I have my spring barley to drill on Monday. Was ploughed a month ago. Huge rain since. Power harrowed this week. To try and dry out the top. Will be sown with a vaderstad rapid which is new to me. Should I roll after. No rain forecast for me for the week. But land wet underneath but drying out...
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    Sound proofing and acoustic improvement

    Am renovating a 3 storey building adjoining nigh club (same owner) we were told by acoustic engineer to use 2x2 stud's set 2 inches from wall. Fill with 100mm acoustic rock wool. Then slab and plaster. Said we could spend a lot more and get very little extra benefit Another job for an extension...
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    Dissolving urea

    Does not dissolve with out agitation. I sometimes have 3 tanks to mix. What I would do there is put the pump in 1 for 20 or 30 minutes then move it to the other and so on. And then leave it in first one over night. That initial mix gets things going. Then next day the mix is probably half...
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    Dissolving urea

    Back in February I would put a mix on at 5pm and it would be left all night and be mixed next morning. That was cold water from well
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