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[Dead Rabbits]

Yeah, end transport

Our transport wide regulations on public roads are quite restrictive. Anything over 4.6 metres wide we need 2 escort vehicles on most roads.
Anything over 6 m also need a police escort
Although I can sneak around back roads with almost anything, I do also have to travel on main roads at times.

12 m linkage planter, end transport the cheapest simplest way to stay within transport restrictions
Even the stack fold planters from JD, Kings, White etc all still have a folded width of over 6 m

Only other option is to go with a trailed narrow transport machine, but then I lose the compactness & maniuverability of a linkage machine . . .

That makes sense for you then, my dad has an old eight row JD end transport kind of a PITA.

Did not know you were so limited on width. That makes no sense in your country.

 

[Farmer Roy]

You have end transport on that? Surprised it doesn't fold

We also have very flat country, so the frame doesn't need to have any contour following ability

 

[Farmer Roy]

That makes sense for you then, my dad has an old eight row JD end transport kind of a PITA.

Did not know you were so limited on width. That makes no sense in your country.

It makes no sense on quiet back roads, but makes a hell of a lot of sense on main roads / bitumen roads where you have traffic travelling at 100km / hr + with no concept of road sense or anything that is happening outside of the car cabin . . ,

Even with narrow transport, I find travelling on busy roads a very stressful experience - as an oversize vehicle if anything goes wrong it is us who are more likely to end up in the sh!t.
Even though there is a perception Australia is a wide open rural outback rough sort of a place, the reality is that we are the most urbanised country in the Western world. Even Japan is more "rural" than we are

End transport would be a pain if you were doing it multiple times a day, but fields / farms big enough I'm not doing it very often

 

[Farmer Roy]

@Dead Rabbits - transport mode

 

[James W]

@Dead Rabbits - transport mode
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i like the end tow... back to the future , i see Triton Seed Drills make a 6m end tow direct-drill, gives rigidity in work i guess

 

[Dead Rabbits]

@Dead Rabbits - transport mode
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Hm, guess I don't get tags anymore. Is the oversized load sign a requirement?

 

[Dead Rabbits]

It makes no sense on quiet back roads, but makes a hell of a lot of sense on main roads / bitumen roads where you have traffic travelling at 100km / hr + with no concept of road sense or anything that is happening outside of the car cabin . . ,

Even with narrow transport, I find travelling on busy roads a very stressful experience - as an oversize vehicle if anything goes wrong it is us who are more likely to end up in the sh!t.
Even though there is a perception Australia is a wide open rural outback rough sort of a place, the reality is that we are the most urbanised country in the Western world. Even Japan is more "rural" than we are

End transport would be a pain if you were doing it multiple times a day, but fields / farms big enough I'm not doing it very often

I'm just remembering the picture of the 212 foot airseeder I saw over there. Pulled by 2 tracked JDs

 

[Farmer Roy]

Hm, guess I don't get tags anymore. Is the oversized load sign a requirement?

Yes, oversize sign front & rear
Oversize flags at widest points
Flashing orange beacon
Headlights on
Only during daylight hours

 

[Dead Rabbits]

Yes, oversize sign front & rear
Oversize flags at widest points
Flashing orange beacon
Headlights on
Only during daylight hours

Bit different to here. If there are any laws about machinery on roads, I'm not aware of them. I think they like you to have a smv sign or a light.

 

[Kiwi Pete]

How do you charge that beast out Roy? Per ha or per hour?

( Just so I can beat the local contractor over the head )

 

[Farmer Roy]

How do you charge that beast out Roy? Per ha or per hour?

( Just so I can beat the local contractor over the head )

Hectare

Generally $45 / ha
That's me & machine.

Farmer supplies diesel

 

[Kiwi Pete]

Bit different to here. If there are any laws about machinery on roads, I'm not aware of them. I think they like you to have a smv sign or a light.

I had heard they were pretty lax on most farmer owned stuff at least. Good stuff.
At least some countries don't want to see you suffer out the orifices just for trying to scratch a living off the land.
Here it is largely up to discretion and common sense, contractors get told to turn on the beacon whereas me in my 25year old tractor gets the thumbs up.
Bit different at night but, who does that??
But a farm truck (lorry, jalopy etc) has just the same rules as anyone else.
Oh and they like you wearing a helmet on a bike, too. Must think our heads are worth something!!

 

[Kiwi Pete]

Hectare

Generally $45 / ha

Farmer supplies diesel

You want some work?



I charge 75/hr with a 3 metre machine!
I supply fuel, me and machine.
Fuel 91c/litre though
..plus side is my dinky tractor burns about 5 per hour

 

[Farmer Roy]

Err, that $45 for planting

Cultivating usually less, $25 - $35 depending on implement etc

 

[Farmer Roy]

I'm doing $450 / hr when wheels are rolling.
With no fuel costs

 

[Kiwi Pete]

Err, that $45 for planting

Cultivating usually less, $25 - $35 depending on implement etc

Yeah, I had to edit mine for my drilling rate.
Mostly very small stupid paddocks that no-one else wants to do, add in travel and calibration etc and I realised there was f all in it for me. So up went the rate. Then the paddocks got bigger and I calibrate on last times' seed from the notebook.
Ka-ching!
Think the going rate here for a 6?7? row planter is similar to you.

 

[Kiwi Pete]

We also have very flat country, so the frame doesn't need to have any contour following ability

This was the first paddock I "direct drilled" with my machine. The other contractors are softcocks.

It's getting thistles sprayed next time the helicopter is down here.
I could even get the binos out and check my stock from the top 'Mount Misery'

 

[Brisel]

Claydon strip tilled Picto osr sown 2nd September with a companion crop of berseem clover and vetch supplied by @Great In Grass

Lots of hedge mustard and thistle in it so the Astrokerb next month will probably need a top up of March Galera to clean it up.

 

[Warp Land Farmer]

Claydon strip tilled Picto osr sown 2nd September with a companion crop of berseem clover and vetch supplied by @Great In Grass
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Lots of hedge mustard and thistle in it so the Astrokerb next month will probably need a top up of March Galera to clean it up.

Let that dog off!

 

[BenB]

Claydon strip tilled Picto osr sown 2nd September with a companion crop of berseem clover and vetch supplied by @Great In Grass
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Lots of hedge mustard and thistle in it so the Astrokerb next month will probably need a top up of March Galera to clean it up.

Has that had any BLW herbicide at all Tim?