Best agricultural invention in your time !

[Gormers]

Bulk bags

 

[Exfarmer]

Bale twine made of plastic is a bloody blight on the countryside. If you ask me the stuff should be banned and the NFU should find a supplier of sisal and champion it's use. Fudging plastic twine finds it's way everywhere.

I promise you would not say the same if you had used Sisal!
I know what you are saying , but the stuff would rotat the first sign of damp , if the rodents had not eaten it first.
We bought a stack of straw from a neighbour once, we had to rebale over half of it, apparently there had been a threshing issue and every mouse in Bedfordshire had taken up residence

 

[ollie989898]

I promise you would not say the same if you had used Sisal!
I know what you are saying , but the stuff would rotat the first sign of damp , if the rodents had not eaten it first.
We bought a stack of straw from a neighbour once, we had to rebale over half of it, apparently there had been a threshing issue and every mouse in Bedfordshire had taken up residence

Fudging plastic twine is everywhere though; you can find it in fields years after it found it's way there. There has to be an environmentally friendly version that will stick being wet for 12 months before rotting?

Every bale I've ever opened contained plastic 'offcuts' of twine, there must be millions of these lying around the countryside. Plastic that never degrades is a blight on the countryside and should be fudging banned. Black sheeting and black wrap would be next.

 

[lloyd]

Round bales ,made it a one man job.

 

[Classichay]

can i just say Jodpurs .... the leading reason to tractors crashing in the countryside

 

[Two Tone]

The Flat 8/10 conventional bale sledge and grab system.
Especially when the grab is fitted to a centre pivot telehandler.

 

[Dave6170]

Milwaukee impact wrench!

 

[Rowland]

Telehandler

 

[uztrac]

I still have scars on my thumb from the topping sugar beet,so I will plumb for the Self Propelled Sugar Beet Harvester.

 

[unlacedgecko]

Electric fencing and rappa ATV winder.

 

[Lincs Lass]

Seed spuds in ton bags ,,unstringing and hand balling cwt hessian sacks into the planter was revolutionised when big bags arrived.

 

[Werzle]

Haybob.

In my top four along with flat eight sledge ,silage bale squeeze and tree shear

 

[Lincs Lass]

Nobody has mentioned gps guidance systems and auto steer , to think the person in the tractor actually had to drive it and control what ever was behind ,how did anybody manage before technology took over the job.

 

[Werzle]

Nobody has mentioned gps guidance systems and auto steer , to think the person in the tractor actually had to drive it and control what ever was behind ,how did anybody manage before technology took over the job.

Teach monkeys to drive them now, no skill involved.

 

[Lowland1]

Hydraulic folding Cambridge Rolls. No fighting to get them in line . Being able to drive down the road faster than 5 miles and then not having to fight them to get them in the field position. Magic.

 

[ewald]

Telehandler, mobile phone, Tek screws

 

[thesilentone]

Milking Robot

 

[Suffolk Serf]

Power shuttle. Saved my knees from an early demise, as well as saved many clutch replacements.

 

[Suffolk Serf]

Really though, there's been so many since I started in the 1980's how can you choose only one?

 

[Dead Rabbits]

Electric fence that works and specifically poly wire and geared reels. Live and die by the poly wire.

Also, not a scrap of baler twine on the farm. Never had much use for it.