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  1. Mark C

    New toy day

    It’s pretty much unenforceable though. It’s to try to stop people buying them and claiming the ‘dealer finance contribution ‘ and then paying the finance off immediately and selling on at a profit. I believe theirs commission on the finance to be lost if settled within a certain timeframe
  2. Mark C

    Fertilizing winter cereal

    24m Drop point setting K for straight urea
  3. Mark C

    New toy day

    mmmmmmmmmmmmm baby!!!!!
  4. Mark C

    might be a daft idea !!!

    Why not buy small bales in packs? Convenience of handling big bales and customers get small bales to use. You will soon get a yard full of loose straw blowing about with wheel barrow loads being trundled about on a windy day.
  5. Mark C

    Mcconnel Bale Packs

    The packs are very sloppy, a flat 8 is a no no, you need the grab similar to the one above
  6. Mark C

    New John Deere RX

    You’ll still need a front weight o balance your plough! 😂
  7. Mark C

    Ploysulphate through a KV geospread

    anyone got a disc drop off setting for a KV geospread using polysulphate. Unfortunately it hadn’t been delivered when we did a tray test. Have done a shaker box test but nothing comes up close on the app
  8. Mark C

    Are there any do’s and don’ts for rain water harvesting for sprayer use

    Best thing we did, in conjunction with a covered sprayer filling area. 2 x 10000 l tanks on diffrenrent buildings across the yard. 2 inch pipes in ducts under the concrete into the sprayer shed. Generic 360 roundup no wetter on stubbles at 2l/ha works like napalm
  9. Mark C

    Crew cab pickups to be taxed as cars from July

    20% vat which you couldn’t reclaim unless you could prove it’s 100% business use , lower road tax would
  10. Mark C

    Crew cab pickups to be taxed as cars from July

    Lobbying by the manufacturers by all accounts …
  11. Mark C

    Cross Beet chopper bucket

    We had 2 kw’s and now have a VDW. It’s an absolute beast and far , far quicker than the twin motor KW we had.
  12. Mark C

    New toy day

    Yep. Used red funnel a lot in the last few years as got together with a young lady from East Cowes. Managed to entice onto the big island full time at Christmas. Heading back there next weekend. Love the place!
  13. Mark C

    New toy day

    Red Funnel aren’t fussy, Wightlink way too upmarket for anything ‘agric’
  14. Mark C

    6420 auto power

    Local hedgecutter chap had one that went on to clock some big hours. Service history is a must and i would get a sample of back end oil analysed (your local main dealer will know where to send it)
  15. Mark C

    VF tractor tyres

    Just resurrecting this thread. Currently speccing tyres on a 200hp tractor doing 800 hrs per year. Mainly top work / drilling and mowing/ tedding/ baling wth some trailer work upto 10 miles from base. Previous tractor had 650 multibibs which were 65% worn at 5000 hrs. Are VF tyres worth the...
  16. Mark C

    Triple mower power requirement

    I run a set of non conditioner triples on a JD 6215r and it plays with them, mostly on delicate hay do have gone away from conditioners. Big heavy crops being conditioned hard and hills need power, but also dry short permanent pasture takes more cutting than stemmy short term ryegrass
  17. Mark C

    Fendt profi plus or power plus

    There's also whether it's 'setting one' or 'setting 2' spec for the armest. On a power plus you can either have fingertip spools or a joystick because there are no mid mount spools but on a Profi plus you get both. On a power + you can't get a front spool unless you pipe it from one of the rear...
  18. Mark C

    Long Term FLT Hire

    Have bought 2 hyster ex mod ones from witham specialist vehicles in the past ‘old but gold’ low hours and maintained regardless Worth a morning out to have a mooch about their yard
  19. Mark C

    3m combi drill hire charge

    Have a contractor wanting to hire my 3m Horsch combi drill to do around 40ha for a customer. I can’t do the whole job myself as have other commitments at the moment. Anyone got an idea of a fair hire charge just for the drill?
  20. Mark C

    New toy day

    If you hire out, make it crystal clear to them that if they damage the PTO guard it’s their responsibility as they are eye wateringly expensive.
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