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What size tyres on the 64? Look a bit wider than the standard 18.4 and 16.9.
600s on back and 540s on front. It was originally on 14.9 r38 when new as it did all sugar beet drilling and spraying on 60 inch centres! Put new wheels on when gave up Beet this enabled drilling grain without need for dual wheels which we used to do.What size tyres on the 64? Look a bit wider than the standard 18.4 and 16.9.
@jf850 If the rate is good we will travel . I sow my own and a friends the sower does an hour's work a year.I haven't had any problems . Lea needs to be ploghed early .
Are you available to do similar size plots ??
2 hours each way ...
@oakleaf The 3cx carried out the seed I was saving the back that day.Looking well but did you really need a 3cx to dig it??
Wonder if someone still makes a copy of the 30 drill. Somewhere in the world ?I'd think there's plenty about yet, just not fashionable now. there's a 4 meter one beside me hasn't moved for 20 years.
600s on back and 540s on front. It was originally on 14.9 r38 when new as it did all sugar beet drilling and spraying on 60 inch centres! Put new wheels on when gave up Beet this enabled drilling grain without need for dual wheels which we used to do.
Yes certainly more grip than power now!Grip pretty good with them on I'd imagine.
@jf850 If the rate is good we will travel . I sow my own and a friends the sower does an hour's work a year.
Consider a light footprint with a sip of fuel. Once said 'if you need 4WD, you shouldn't be on the land'. Power harrows force a seedbed with a diesel cost. A wet Jan/Feb became a dry March/April, adapt.View attachment 871180
Was this a publicity shot?
Hugh Grant driving, but Norman Wisdom was a mistake from a H&S point of veiw
It was the job for boys and old men.I lnow of one place who had a man on the back all the time
our first drill was an albion with iron wheels the man on the back had to lift it out and drop it in , the harrows on the back were a bit of a danger thoughIt was the job for boys and old men.
I covered hundreds of acres on the back of an MF 29 and 30.
When l became old enough to drive the tractor to harrow and roll behind the drill , it was Grandad who then stepped up on the footplate.
Same on most family farms around here "back in the day".
Totally ocd thoughIt was the job for boys and old men.
I covered hundreds of acres on the back of an MF 29 and 30.
When l became old enough to drive the tractor to harrow and roll behind the drill , it was Grandad who then stepped up on the footplate.
Same on most family farms around here "back in the day".
Correct , I can barely recall the number of times I had to holler at the tractor man to stop because a seed tube was blocked , perhaps just once or twice a season. The fert did get blocked more often though.Totally ocd though
No need for anyone on a 30