Today at work

Chae1 · Mar 28, 2017

Bit of a rush today to get on before weather breaks so ploughing with mixer wagon tractor.

Bit light on the nose. Still struggled with this on front! Have had this plough on a 6420s so must be really light on front.

Flossie · Mar 28, 2017

haulmblower said:
It's 1. 30am I'm wide awake and my heads buzzing!
I've got to be up at 6am to help my mate, but there is not much chance of me sleeping tonight.
So these pics are actually yesterday at work.
Did some stone separating in the day.

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Essential supplies

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Now we come to the real reason I'm so happy

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Then in the evening i helped milk just under 400 of these beauties from 8.30pm till 12.00am.
And I can do it all again tomorrow night.

Is that an internal rotary?
Looks cumbersome to work in (to my untrained eye

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Lofty1984 · Mar 28, 2017

Chae1 said:
Bit of a rush today to get on before weather breaks so ploughing with mixer wagon tractor.

How many deutz have you got there?

1690turbo · Mar 28, 2017

Been trying my fresh front mounted power harrow out. Makes a good job one up front and one on the rear

Chae1 · Mar 28, 2017

Lofty1984 said:
How many deutz have you got there?

Just one other one was a demonstrator.

Steevo · Mar 28, 2017

1690turbo said:
Been trying my fresh front mounted power harrow out. Makes a good job one up front and one on the rear
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Looks to me like you'd pretty much get away with just one power harrow! Looks well weathered ploughing.

1690turbo · Mar 28, 2017

Steevo said:
Looks to me like you'd pretty much get away with just one power harrow! Looks well weathered ploughing.

Yeh would of today. Was just checking how the set up worked as I'm going to get the beet land ready in one pass.

Steevo · Mar 28, 2017

1690turbo said:
Yeh would of today. Was just checking how the set up worked as I'm going to get the beet land ready in one pass.

Ah, I see. Will you run them both the same depth for that, or run the front one shallower and the rear one deeper?

Flossie · Mar 28, 2017

Been having a root through the store lambs (not me obviously

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^^^^there's a few more than that^^^^^^^
The 'lucky' first draw

I kicked some cows into the collecting yard while the boss took the lambs in

Fed and bedded my girls

This cheeky bull arrived

And anyone want to guess 'who's the daddy'? Father-in-law thinks these came in the Jacob ewe he bought. Whatever they are, they're beauties

Nearly · Mar 29, 2017

I turned the cows out.

Well I must have left the gate catch open and they turned themselves out.

All back in again, anyone left outside will have to camp out in the rape overnight and beg to be let back in tomorrow (today actually).

haulmblower · Mar 29, 2017

Flossie said:
Is that an internal rotary?
Looks cumbersome to work in (to my untrained eye )

Yes it is an internal rotary. Do you say 40 point?

I am definately making it look difficult in that picture to be fair.
I've got 3 milkings under my belt now and I'm a lot better coordinated.
I had only been shown one way to hang the claw in that pic, later I was shown other ways which made the job a lot easier.

As a complete novice I felt very safe with the steelwork between me and the kicky heifers.
I'm sure if you saw experienced milkers working one you would be impressed.

And they have offered me a job if I want it.
That's a YES from me.

And, and, and they have bulls as well, I have to keep pinching myself.

RWG Contracts · Mar 29, 2017

haulmblower said:
Yes it is an internal rotary. Do you say 40 point?

I am definately making it look difficult in that picture to be fair.
I've got 3 milkings under my belt now and I'm a lot better coordinated.
I had only been shown one way to hang the claw in that pic, later I was shown other ways which made the job a lot easier.

As a complete novice I felt very safe with the steelwork between me and the kicky heifers.
I'm sure if you saw experienced milkers working one you would be impressed.

And they have offered me a job if I want it.
That's a YES from me.

And, and, and they have bulls as well, I have to keep pinching myself.

Don't milk them

Kiwi Pete · Mar 29, 2017

Chae1 said:
Bit of a rush today to get on before weather breaks so ploughing with mixer wagon tractor.

Bit light on the nose. Still struggled with this on front! Have had this plough on a 6420s so must be really light on front.

What size machine is this beastie?
Used a few different machines on the plough over the years and rate the Deutz up there with the best, nice and sparky.
It's all been ploughing on the land though with a 5 to 6 furrow conventional semi- they don't lift the nose

RWG Contracts · Mar 29, 2017

1690turbo said:
Yeh would of today. Was just checking how the set up worked as I'm going to get the beet land ready in one pass.

I was taught to power harrow my second pass at 90 degrees to my first? Do you not do that or is that a grassland thing

Kiwi Pete · Mar 29, 2017

This day I have mostly been wearing sparks

Had a call from the lamb drafter to sort out a load of lambs for the truck tomorrow, so I got welding and got my swing race into a state that it's useable. Still needs latches and a brace in the middle but it works as well, if not better than planned.

I can set it up by myself in two minutes, heavy sucker but it swings well. Ran these fatties through it and pulled out 5 that are off to the butcher shop, almost 300kg on the hoof!

But have 80 prime ones to load out tomorrow. Time for a whisky and then bedtime stories for the boys

we are watching the ram lambs having a joust out the window

fog is rolling in again

holwellcourtfarm · Mar 29, 2017

Kiwi Pete said:
This day I have mostly been wearing sparks

Had a call from the lamb drafter to sort out a load of lambs for the truck tomorrow, so I got welding and got my swing race into a state that it's useable. Still needs latches and a brace in the middle but it works as well, if not better than planned.
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I can set it up by myself in two minutes, heavy sucker but it swings well. Ran these fatties through it and pulled out 5 that are off to the butcher shop, almost 300kg on the hoof!View attachment 492930
But have 80 prime onesto load out tomorrow. Time for a whisky and then bedtime stories for the boys we are watching the ram lambs having a joust out the windowView attachment 492932 fog is rolling in again

You've survived the fumes from welding the galvanized steel then Pete

holwellcourtfarm · Mar 29, 2017

RWG Contracts said:
I was taught to power harrow my second pass at 90 degrees to my first? Do you not do that or is that a grassland thing

I was taught never to cross at 90 degrees (can introduce ridges making for rough travel). Second pass at 15 to 30 degrees.

Kiwi Pete · Mar 29, 2017

holwellcourtfarm said:
You've survived the fumes from welding the galvanized steel then Pete

Yes!! It was a bit close in the back of the workshop at times, but I took out the back window (just corrugated plastic roof held in with screws) and let more breeze through.
Those big heavy angle irons at the end were part of a power pylon and had a serious amount of galv. Awful stuff to weld, popping and sparking like railway iron.. but got there and got it working with 15 minutes to spare

even got the kink in the right place to keep it a constant width. Ta for the advice re welding it.

quattro · Mar 29, 2017

Chae1 said:
Just one other one was a demonstrator.

What's new one like

1690turbo · Mar 29, 2017

Steevo said:
Ah, I see. Will you run them both the same depth for that, or run the front one shallower and the rear one deeper?

The front one only just knocks the flag off. The rear one runs at 3-4 inches . Don't like pulling sugar beet land up too deep. Going to use the same set up with the combi drill later in the year. Cuts a job out.

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