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My old 155-65 only does a few odd light. Earlier this year I used it one day and it was fine; started it a week later and the low transmission oil pressure warning light came on. Oil level seems fine. I suppose I ought to change the transmission oil filter as cheap and simple although it hasn't...

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The slurry valve on my Joskin filler arm isn't opening. It's given no trouble the last 12 years and everything else works as it should and is set in specification. It was working fine in the autumn but it was my first day out yesterday and it was non-functional. Anybody else had this issue and...

Anyone with any experiences of the latest type of Primera? Good or bad.

I want to change the radio in my T175 Direct for one with DAB. The tractor currently has the factory radio with volume controls on the arm rest and phone call answering on the touch screen. Having surfed a few websites this morning I see that there are adaptors for Valtra available but I was...

The DPF on our Lexion 760 is failing to regenerate itself. Dealer struggling to sort the problem. Does the likes of the Derv Doctor or someone else do a DPF delete? Anyone any experience of doing this on a 760?

As title really, my old T174 had a huge amount of tool storage behind the right hand side steps. On my new T175 most of this space is now filled by the exhaust system; whilst I am surprised at how much I have managed to squeeze in the tiny looking plastic tool box and a few other nooks and...

I have just put together a point to point wifi to take our internet access to various parts of my farm yard. I have used Ubiquiti M5 Nanostations for the point to point parts and Ubiquiti UAP-AC-LR access points. My first jump from the house to the workshop works exactly as hoped and no problem...

We are repurposing an Accord seed hopper but struggling to get the new pipes onto the tramliners. The outlets are much bigger than the ones on the distribution head. We have tried the usual tricks of hot air gun and boiling water. Our best effort has split the pipe. Anyone got the know how?

Are these services reliable? I have recently been to look at a 2011 car that shows about 83,000 miles which corresponds with current MOT and checks out on three different mileage checking services as OK. However one shows that a DVLA record in 2014 as 46,000 miles but the corresponding MOT as...

Harvest workers required for 2021 harvest on 2,000 acre farm in West Essex. The farm specialises in herbage seed production as well as growing wheat, OSR, linseed, peas and beans. The job is to start at the beginning of July and to finish early September (dates to be arranged with you). The...

What are people's thoughts on drilling on the green into cover crops in the spring? I get the impression that the feeling is that it doesn't work well in general under normal UK conditions?

In common with others I am getting less keen on the use of insecticides. My independent agronomist of 30 odd years is keen for me to apply an insecticide mix for the control of aphids in my peas. For those who have given up insecticide spraying is it just a case of "sucking up" the pain in the...

Given the absence of Deter and that most of us are looking to minimise the use of foliar insecticides and the general acceptance that no till establishment of crops is best done sooner rather than later what is the best way to square the circle where the CA principle is always having a growing...

Apologies if I've missed this being discussed already but how many people have had diesel (filter) issues this autumn? Fairly widely there have been a lot of people having problems with blocked fuel filters particularly with, but not exclusively, Claas combines, JD tractors and seemingly...

We do a muck for straw deal with a local pig farm, been going for over 30 years, should I Vaddy Carrier in the muck and drill a cover or drill the cover and put the FYM on after and not incorporate?

Got a field I want to mole and sow overwinter cover crop in. Not yet cleared, should I drill the cover and worry about the moling later or get on with the moling first?

We seem to have problems every year with the slip clutch on our Krone Easymow 400, a mounted 4m disc mower. Our use is slightly untypical in that we are using it to mow herbage seed stubbles that have been stripped by the combine. Today we have burnt out two clutches despite operating at 8km/hr...

A combination of a meeting I went to today and round 2 of the small productivity grant has made me think I should be thinking about fitting a flow meter to my tanker (with trailing hose boom) to measure application rate. What's good in peoples experience?

My Centerliner will open hydraulically, but won't close. I have changed the ram, the old one was very stiff, but the problem remains. Tried a different spool valve and a different tractor but no different. Is there something going on with the fittings at the tractor end of the pipe - there as a...