bobajob
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Yeah might aswell include that the newer ones just look like there designed to fall over on my hills
You must have hills like us!
Yeah might aswell include that the newer ones just look like there designed to fall over on my hills
Taarup 106B? Always fancied one of those as a toy to lift a few acres with. Power requirement from 45hp depending on gearing according to the sales leafletEnough of this SP talk- this is how we rolled in 1991
I was in a pushchair but i'm told the 390 on the forager had a TB turbo fitted at some point. We've another video of it somewhere chopping at night with the manifold glowing.
We have one, wouldn't be hard to talk to I'd your interested. It's been sat out for a few years but it was inaccurate prior to that and still not bad.Taarup 106B? Always fancied one of those as a toy to lift a few acres with. Power requirement from 45hp depending on gearing according to the sales leaflet
I’d a smaller version of that about 20 years ago. I just worked away my self carting & buckraking and did about 10 acre a day. Cheap silage. I’d have thought that & a man buckraking to do about 30 acre a dayHow many acres a day would you do with a small box like this on short runs all less than 2mile View attachment 1157353
We pulled trailers for years till I couldn't get lads to cart if jumping off and on was the job.What a pain it must have been getting in and out tractor all day doing hydraulic pipes.
I carted off to a chopper pulling trailers once. I was driving a 7740. Was a nice tractor.
Should be able to do 25 to 30 in a good crop.How many acres a day would you do with a small box like this on short runs all less than 2mile View attachment 1157353
aye, memories of a kidd double chopper jack knifing.We pulled trailers for years till I couldn't get lads to cart if jumping off and on was the job.
80hp, Jag 40 with analogue control levers, and a couple of 4-5ton Frasers then latterly 8ton Frasers.
Then 100hp on a Deutz Fahr FH900 pulling 8 and 10ton trailers.
We had it down to a fine art, if you had a good man on the trailer who dropped it in the right spot we could easily change over in under a minute, lad who had the most time jumped out, sometimes the chopper man, sometimes the trailer man.
Over a 10hour day you maybe lost 10mins an hour, so 100mins chopping time. If it was level going towing didn't really slow you down much, in some ways it was preferable to having some muppet moving about till its like a clay pidgeon shoot wondering were to aim next.
When toys became bigger, and conditions wetter or steeper, it was much tougher going though. Downhill with the gravity battery pushing you was grand but uphill with a full trailer on was slow going, then I ended up in a snarl up a couple of times running off on a steep or slippy bit, PTO usually got the works.
To those who haven't done, it a trailer hooked on to a trailed forager when pushing downhill puts weight behind the chopper axle which lifts the drawbar on the driving tractor, then it all gets very sketchy very quickly!!!
Trail loading was highly efficient.What a pain it must have been getting in and out tractor all day doing hydraulic pipes.
I carted off to a chopper pulling trailers once. I was driving a 7740. Was a nice tractor.
aye, memories of a kidd double chopper jack knifing.
Had a bogie on ours to help,used to tow the engine driven forager with the worst tractor in the fleet,a mf 590 4wd with multi power,when it got warm it would lose 4wd and go into low multi,that was fun.We pulled trailers for years till I couldn't get lads to cart if jumping off and on was the job.
80hp, Jag 40 with analogue control levers, and a couple of 4-5ton Frasers then latterly 8ton Frasers.
Then 100hp on a Deutz Fahr FH900 pulling 8 and 10ton trailers.
We had it down to a fine art, if you had a good man on the trailer who dropped it in the right spot we could easily change over in under a minute, lad who had the most time jumped out, sometimes the chopper man, sometimes the trailer man.
Over a 10hour day you maybe lost 10mins an hour, so 100mins chopping time. If it was level going towing didn't really slow you down much, in some ways it was preferable to having some muppet moving about till its like a clay pidgeon shoot wondering were to aim next.
When toys became bigger, and conditions wetter or steeper, it was much tougher going though. Downhill with the gravity battery pushing you was grand but uphill with a full trailer on was slow going, then I ended up in a snarl up a couple of times running off on a steep or slippy bit, PTO usually got the works.
To those who haven't done, it a trailer hooked on to a trailed forager when pushing downhill puts weight behind the chopper axle which lifts the drawbar on the driving tractor, then it all gets very sketchy very quickly!!!
chaeWhat a pain it must have been getting in and out tractor all day doing hydraulic pipes.
I carted off to a chopper pulling trailers once. I was driving a 7740. Was a nice tractor.