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We've had sewage sludge from anglian water/nutri bio for about 5 years and generally get on well, only a small farm here (150ha) but they're good to deal with except a blip last year when the rep left in a hurry and there was a gap before the replacement started. Dad rung them on monday to say...

I'd suggest kverneland as we're on our third one with little bother, although I suspect all the mainstream brands are much of a muchness number 8s are fine unless you're on 600+ tyres, we've run 520s with number 8s no problem. I'd avoid vari width on older/lower budget ploughs as its a lot more...

ours is 2018 and hasn't been any trouble except when the dealer updated the software last year and it took 3 attempts to get the new software right, but admittedly only done 1100 hours

Only just found this thread but as @carbonfibre farmer said, we're dealing with Anglian water at the moment, what a complete and utter shower. meant to start in April, finally turned up in august, pee'd about and basically didn't do a lot until November when it was wet. Dad begun by being nice...

Evening all, The blower motor in our 290 (sankey cab) hasn't worked for a long while and given the recent cold weather some heating would be nice! Dad took it to the local MF dealer who quickly dismissed it as obsolete:rolleyes: anyway I've found a few options on eBay and Malpas etc but not...

All our sheds have come from AC Bacon in Norfolk, always done a good job and do staged payments. our last shed was in 2015 so they may have changed since but unlikely I'd say.

Evening all, We are currently looking for a close coupled 3m cultivator toolbar to put ahead of our short disc or power harrow to work in a bit deeper in one pass, not subsoiler depth, probably 8 inches or so. we've looked at a pro forge stoka pro, grange close coupled toolbar and an Alpego...

Back in the day when our matbro was new, it came out on demo to us, its first ever demonstration. they liked it and agreed to buy it, the dealer said they wanted to do more demos with it before it gets sold...dealer got told if it leaves this yard we'll buy a JCB instead so it stayed and they...

Hi, has this been sold? thanks

Thanks for all the replies, that has settled in my mind we do need to be looking bigger than a 527-58. we haven't really got any space restrictions other than one old brick building that only has crap in, so if we can't get in there its no bad thing!

Thanks both, thats reinforced what I thought. We have looked at Kramer and liked them, but £5k more for a new Kramer than a JCB. Don't really get on with the local manitou dealer. We did look at a merlo and it was ok but everything seemed a bit 'different' on them, we concluded a merlo would be...

We are currently looking to replace our matbro TS270 (2.7t 5.5m) and it will probably be a JCB, either new or up to 3000 hours second hand. I think we need to be going slightly bigger capacity than we've had, for future proofing and the overload lockouts etc on new machines. I don't think you...

Same situation here, would love a bale packer of some sort but can't justify it for 10,000 a year Similar to what @DeeGee does...we have 6 trailers here that hold 1300 when loaded up, bale and load in the afternoon, all straight on to the trailers with the flat 8. Dad extended the trailers to...

Happy with a Kobe retractable airline I bought last year, sold by Cromwell/Zoro.

we bought a 5 furrow KV on no 28s last year, still got the old 4 furrow on no 8s for occasional use when biggest tractor is on the combi drill. 28s are definitely better for wide tyres, we did get away with 520s and no 8s though 16.9 tyres fitted better. No disadvantages I can see, if the 4...

Very limited on weed control, not a crop for bad blackgrass fields. We switched from winter to spring beans about 10 years ago partly due to poor weed control though spring aren't much better. There is pendimethalin, imazamox and clomazone pre emergence, its expensive but works well in a year...

As @Will 1594 said, welgers can have plyboard lining both sides of the chamber to make the bales standard size. Our AP830 came with the 'bale reduction kit' from the factory so I suspect many others will too. a few years ago the cook sledge started messing about, turned out the ply had got worn...

We've had similar problems over the years taxing our MF 50 mk2 loader...it was registered as a digging machine by the dealer when it was new in 1982 even though it came with 3 point linkage and no backhoe. when the matbro came in 1996 it went onto limited use to save the tax and we've had 2...

OK, thanks all. I have properly read both the management requirements and I think AB1 will work better for us, as the majority of it will be plots/corners rather than margins. the margins/strips will be AB9 so there's easy access from roads/tracks for supplementary bird feeding. Also I noticed...

Evening all, We're currently looking to apply for the mid tier stewardship arable offer to start next January. We've not done any ELS/CSS etc before so complete novices at this, I was just wondering what to go for out of the AB1 nectar flower mix or AB8 flower rich margins? I know the payment...