davidroberts30
Member
- Location
- pembrokeshire
Nice dirt
Today at work
- Thread starter Penmoel
- Start date
- Location
- Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
Over the border tonight to the NPA Eastern regional meeting
Over the border too came @Suffolk Serf to give us a talk on Australian pig farming
Watch this space for a thread post at a later date
Over the border too came @Suffolk Serf to give us a talk on Australian pig farming
Watch this space for a thread post at a later date
- Location
- Darlington
Big job on yesterday........digging the tatty patch up to try and dry it out
Last field and Just the headlands to do at milking time yesterday afternoon
came back to plough them in the rain.
Desperate to finish before it got sodden.. suprise suprise first time round with the drill and a roll pin sheared on one of the PH rotors
came home and had a threaping session with the OH holding a bar gave up and went to bed
Woke up to a dry morning. Got rotor fixed and got it sowed by ten. Started raining as I left the field and it's persisted down all day. Glad to be finished.
Desperate to finish before it got sodden..
suprise suprise first time round with the drill and a roll pin sheared on one of the PH rotors
gave up and went to bed Woke up to a dry morning. Got rotor fixed and got it sowed by ten. Started raining as I left the field and it's persisted down all day. Glad to be finished.
- Location
- Near Colchester
Discing up for an attempt at pollen and nectar mix - not really quite dry enough but time is passing.
- Location
- West Yorkshire
Hmmm
That dirt looks very dry compared to a very wet West Yorkshire right now.
Put cows into a good dry field on Sunday night and it’s rapidly turning into a quagmire and it’s only Tuesday. Hopefully it will recover fairly well but Big changes ahead this year never again shall I run out of fodder and bedding due to a extra month of winter.
I’m already panicking about fodder and straw (f!!!ng drax power station aparently buying all they can get hold off already)
for next winter the way things a are working out with reduced planting’s etc.
- Location
- North West
Went to try and turn our moss (peat) ground over yesterday
for spring barley, it was a bit wet though.
Wasn’t good when the water started coming back up at us
Bit of a dig and decided to bail out and leave it to our drainage contractor
Moved to dryer field and carried on
Then went spread some horse muck today while the old man was rolling (till rain stopped him)
Was doing ok till a pipe on the spreader blew on the very last load oil all over the back of the tractor and stopped for two hours to get it fixed! Was meant to be going to another yard but it was pi*#ing it down so went home early for a change.
for spring barley, it was a bit wet though.
Wasn’t good when the water started coming back up at us
Bit of a dig and decided to bail out and leave it to our drainage contractor
Moved to dryer field and carried on
Then went spread some horse muck today while the old man was rolling (till rain stopped him
)
Was doing ok till a pipe on the spreader blew on the very last load
oil all over the back of the tractor and stopped for two hours to get it fixed! Was meant to be going to another yard but it was pi*#ing it down so went home early for a change.
davedb
Member
- Location
- Staffordshire
I only opened it for the pictureVery good. Keep that back window shut though, you're making me nervous
Back before anyone was smart enough to blow pipes out with a compressor the worst bit was finding you had to undo a coupling with pressure on at the bottom of a dip and you'd left your hi tech bit of rope at the yard
- Location
- northumberland
R.B.H
Member
- Location
- Bedfordshire
Few pictures from past week
Uncle with his favorite drilling tractor
Seem to end up finishing the rolling in the dark
Bit of spreading and spraying with the DB
Uncle with his favorite drilling tractor
Dman2
Member
- Location
- Durham, UK
Is the low loader trailer hooked on the back of the spreader?Went to try and turn our moss (peat) ground over yesterday
for spring barley, it was a bit wet though.
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Wasn’t good when the water started coming back up at us
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Bit of a dig and decided to bail out and leave it to our drainage contractor
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Moved to dryer field and carried on
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Then went spread some horse muck today while the old man was rolling (till rain stopped him
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Was doing ok till a pipe on the spreader blew on the very last load
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Greenbeast
Member
- Location
- East Sussex
That's what i wondered!
RWG Contracts
Member
- Location
- Samlesbury, Lancashire
How come you’ve put a rail in 5” down from top rail?
RWG Contracts
Member
- Location
- Samlesbury, Lancashire
I wondered same. Seen it done other way around but never lowloader on spreader
JLTate
Member
I always do on those size doors due to the weight / size. Over engineered really but makes me feel better once there hung.
- Location
- North West
davedb
Member
- Location
- Staffordshire
I tend to put the pins through a plate and weld them on the back side don’t weld them where the ball is this seems to work well
- Location
- North West
Technically you shouldn’t have your second trailer loaded
, but as I’m sneaking from field to field locally and it saves dropping the spreader I just stick loader on the back.If we’re taken both spreaders any distant we put the spreaders together an stick the low loader on the other tractor if that makes sense
davedb
Member
- Location
- Staffordshire
Hired a trailing shoe for a big job, got rained off today tho
Steevo
Member
- Location
- Gloucestershire
Some of you guys are far too clever at hooking up trailers behind others!! It would probably be quicker for me to make two journeys than double up trailers!