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    How much trouble to install air con on older tractor

    We had air conditioning fitted by AMA as an aftermarket add on about 20 years ago and it’s still as good as the day it was fitted. Definitely worth a call. cw
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    BFU Flyer

    In the A5 version the heading “The British Farming Union - 100%……..”. The word Farming is misspelt.
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    MF 175 URO 442E

    Anyone know anything about this tractor, according to the dvla website it still exists. my first job after leaving college in 1969 was driving this tractor. Thanks Clockwatcher
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    Kubota

    I think you hold the light switch down and turn on the ignition
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    Opico 580 LPG Dryer

    plenum temp must be set about 50‘ above that it is running at. This is a safety cut off point and not the running temp. if you have them set the same it will keep cutting out
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    3 metre Bomford Dynadrive

    Anyone got one about the place, must be 3 metres.Southern England ideally Thanks
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    Today at work

    Yes 190*F in old money opico book recommends 170*F but we haven’t had a problem with it a bit higher grain temp is usually around 106 - 108*F at the end of the drying cycle. Then we cool it to 90*F before unloading, final cooling is done using pedestals in the heap.
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    Today at work

    Usually dry wheat at about 80*c, takes a bit less than an hour to take out 2%
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    Today at work

    We usually dry at about 50*c and reckon 3-4 hours from 20%. Maybe even longer to get them much below 16%
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    Any drainage experts on here

    The dashed lines on the second plan that extend on from the solid lines are most likely tie lines that extend the line of the drain to the far side of the field and the measurements along that boundary mean that the line of the drain can be set out with reasonable accuracy. Without the tie lines...
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    Opico 580 LPG Dryer

    879kw according to their website
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    Mobile weigh bridge?

    We have the tandem axle weigher which I don’t think is made anymore, but we havent had any problems with it and have weighed a good many thousand tons with it over the years. Would definitely recommend them. Cw
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    Zetor forterra pto/splitter problem.

    We have a 9641 that jumped up through the gears on hills, the oil in the backend needs to be way higher than the marks on the dipstick, probably 50mm higher from memory but we just topped it up til it cured the problem
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    McConnell ditch king tile drain bucket wanted

    Ideally the trench want to have a v shaped bottom which tiling buckets form, rather than just having the pipe sitting on a flat bottomed trench with no support for the pipe
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    McConnell ditch king tile drain bucket wanted

    We have one of these, we modified it 20+ years ago to fit a 3 t mini digger. At the same time we scrapped the ejector mechanism. We are on the Kent Sussex border if you want to see the bucket with a view to fabricating one. cw
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    Anyone on here operate a ditch-witch for drainage work ?

    Depends on how large, but they won’t cut through rock with the standard cutters. we tried a mixture of rock teeth and normal cutters but it slowed it up too much in normal trenching so we took the rock teeth out and just have the normal cutters and dig out any large rocks with a digger. Cw
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    Anyone on here operate a ditch-witch for drainage work ?

    We have a case 460 trencher which is similar to a ditch witch.we mainly use it for laying water pipe, electric cables etc, but we have laid drains with it provided that there is a reasonable fall and the ground is smooth. The ground needs to be smooth and not undulating too much because the...
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    Best way to fix a drain full of roots?

    Dig out. Relay. Cut down ash tree.
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    Wartime threshing memories

    For anyone interested in the history of the war ag the definitive history of it is The Battle of the Fields by Brian Short published by the Boydell Press in 2014 there are also several old films on YouTube dealing with the reclamation work carried out by the war ag, some of it is pretty heroic...
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    How do you dry the inside of your wellies

    Thanks, I will give them a go.
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