Gps, computer screens and their bloody error codes, fiddling with switches and knobs isnt for me. Give me a lever and pedals and looking at and listening to the machine to tell me whats wrong any dayA very select type of driver on this thread.
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Classics Earning their keep.
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Vincent
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- Location
- Kildare Ireland
Happy hillbily
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- Location
- Uwchaled, North Wales
The old faithful. Hasnt moved since february when it was used on the log splitter usually gets ised with a transport box over lambing as a sheep ambulance but been too wet for it and ive had to use the quad
My case with a loader used every day for loading stuff and quite a bit of everything fieldwork wise. Was our main tractor since new but we put a loader on it in 2010 when we sold our ford 6610 that the loader came off. @Happy hillbily or others locally might have seen my old 6610 in the yard in Corwen forestry.
My 4600 does 20 minutes twice a day every day, used to do more with the teagle tomahawk, but bed the cows on dust now.
Still got all its windows, but could do with a heater in winter !
Theres a LOT of 4600s about. Ours came up from cambridge at about 6 months old with a farmhand loader on it which we still use sometimes. We had another one bought new in about '75 but dad sold it to a friend when he bought the case and they f**ked it very soon afterMy 4600 does 20 minutes twice a day every day, used to do more with the teagle tomahawk, but bed the cows on dust now.
Still got all its windows, but could do with a heater in winter !
New Puritan
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- Location
- East Sussex
Got the plough on and did half a whole f**king acre before I gave up. It's still like Noah's Ark round here. It gave me a chance to fiddle around with the plough's set-up though.
Selectamatic
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- Location
- North Wales
Got the plough on and did half a whole f**king acre before I gave up. It's still like Noah's Ark round here. It gave me a chance to fiddle around with the plough's set-up though.
Give up. Don't be scared to give up and wait for better weather (which is due this week, according to the weatherman earlier...)
Plodding on when it's not fit does nothing or anyone any good.
Worry not, it will come in it's own time!
New Puritan
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- Location
- East Sussex
Give up. Don't be scared to give up and wait for better weather (which is due this week, according to the weatherman earlier...)
Plodding on when it's not fit does nothing or anyone any good.
Worry not, it will come in it's own time!
I know, I know... Doesn't help having someone breathing down my neck saying that I need to 'get on' every time I see them. We're meant to have some dry weather here for the next couple of weeks, so that will hopefully allow it to dry out a bit.
Contrarily I find it’s often better to lump it over so it can dry inside...Give up. Don't be scared to give up and wait for better weather (which is due this week, according to the weatherman earlier...)
Plodding on when it's not fit does nothing or anyone any good.
Worry not, it will come in it's own time!
New Puritan
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- Location
- East Sussex
Contrarily I find it’s often better to lump it over so it can dry inside...
I was working on that assumption, but getting the tractor stuck repeatedly and having to lift the plough out of work all the time made me realise I've got to wait a little while yet. Your soil looks to be a little kinder than mine by that photo.
What's the frame on the front of the tractor for?
- Location
- Moreton-in-Marsh, Glos
I’ve got to plough some that looks the same as yours.lqPloughing bird cover today.
But ours won’t go for a couple of weeks as it is far too wet yet.
Haven’t got discs on my plough except on the back furrow.
Yours with discs on every furrow looks like it is doing a fantastic job.
How important is having them on all furrows do you think it is?
I was thinking of topping ours off before we plough, but I’d rather not. Some of it is so flat that it won’t help. I’m so impressed with your pictures that I’m tempted to wait till the surface has dried enough that the straw is held by the soil, enough for it not to bulldoze and block. But do I need discs on every furrow?
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renewablejohn
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- Location
- lancs
Contrarily I find it’s often better to lump it over so it can dry inside...
My father used to have this philosophy and was always busy in a wet winter ploughing on spade wheels on his and neighbors land when rubber just went out of site. Makes you wonder if we have actually progressed with heavier tractors and more rubber panning the soil.
Selectamatic
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- Location
- North Wales
Contrarily I find it’s often better to lump it over so it can dry inside...
Fair enough, but if @New Puritan's tractor is struggling for grop, I would suggest that perhaps its too wet...?
Either that or he needs to hire a David Brown...
Vincent
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- Location
- Kildare Ireland
That was the kindest field I could find. Front frame is for front mounted beet hoe. Sorry to hear it’s so wet with you. I often plough my heavier land for spring drilling after beet in very poor conditions on the basis that the weather will help me. I would be much less keen to make a mess at this time
Loftyrules
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- Monmouth
CrevisbigX
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- Location
- Cheshire
Will have to retire from this thread soon over the last 6 weeks we have sold 3 699s, 690, 2 6290s and a 3070.
high plains drifter
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Think i did my telehandler certificate test on that machine,in 1990 iircDon't suppose it will ever be classic status, industrial things never seem as collectable. Just on 30 years and we have owned for 20 years. Students at WAC from 1988 to 98 may have driven it!
- Location
- mid wales
This is our classic. Bought and delivered to the yard just before Christmas for less than what our quad bike cost, 14600 hrs, a few small oil leaks that'll get fixed some rainy day, runs like a watch, bargain.
New Puritan
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- East Sussex
Either that or he needs to hire a David Brown...
Do you know anyone who could hire or sell me a DB, @Selectamatic ?