- Location
- Dorset/Wiltshire
Dragged the old girl out the stinging nettles for the last day or two. I think when it starts raining tomorrow we will knock it on the head for this year!
Drilling anyone?
- Thread starter kevindb880
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Dragged the old girl out the stinging nettles for the last day or two. I think when it starts raining tomorrow we will knock it on the head for this year!
- Location
- Cirencester
Got going with the combi, actually quite surprised how well it's going considering when you try and walk on the ploughing. First bit of WW sown...!!
Why the Claydon? Beans? Needs ripping?
- Location
- Dorset/Wiltshire
Ripping mainly, it’s quite tight and this soil sort of runs together when it has a lot of rain on it so hopefully it will stay a bit more open because it will take a long time to emerge
gone up the hill
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- Location
- Devon
Trouble is what happens if you don't get a decent dry spell at the end of Feb/start of March to get them in??
I think if it comes dry in Dec/ Jan a lot of farmers will chuck the normal rule book out of the window and drill as you just don't get the weather windows these days when you need them and many people have no end of acres still to drill!
- Location
- south norfolk
Bit of topic but pic shows all the mud /soil I’ve had to cut and wash of my combination drill this year.this is not including what’s been dug out in the field
Nick...
Nick...
Hindsight
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- Location
- Lincolnshire
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When they were new and shiny, about 104hp (less now I'd think!) putting in 7mtrs
Photo of the thread. Made me quite nostalgic for 1982. Do you have Simple Minds on the radio?
APJ
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- Location
- West Midlands(Shropshire borders)
Totally agree, better off not looking at these pictures, I’ll be back in March!!
del_boy
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- Location
- Herefordshire
Maybe this will remind you what your not missing
probably had the PSI down to get grip and spread weight and the rim span round and let the rest of the air out
Been thinking about this since I saw it, I'm curious to know how that lot was recovered without knackering the tyre, which presumably will go again.
Reckon I'd be on with digging out enough to gain access to jack tractor, remove wheel, and refit with tyre re fitted?
Reckon I'd be on with digging out enough to gain access to jack tractor, remove wheel, and refit with tyre re fitted?
del_boy
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- Location
- Herefordshire
What happened was, i got stuck in a wet hole the other end of the field, i managed to reverse out after some faffing unknowing to me that the soil inside the wheel broke the valve stem off. Off i go back down the field lifted up and turned on the end in another wet hole and tractor went over and tyre came off rim. This happened in the dark so abandoned it and went back yesterday morning with no idea what to do.
I managed to unhook the drill and we got a big strap around the right hand link arm, attached to manitou and the manitou picked the back end up and we drove out quietly. Carried it half mile up a farm drive washed everything all off, took wheel off the tractor fitted new valve and put tyre back on, no damage at all luckily. Was drilling again by 12pm.
- Location
- south norfolk, uk
- Location
- West Suffolk
Radio doesn't work....
(I prefer early era new order anyway
I had a Britain’s one of them! Don’t remember seeing a proper one in real life.
Or a real life sanderson..........
3 wheel tractor with Del boy at the wheel.
I take it you had to get Rodney and Grandad to help? Grandad on the telehandler 'when your ready grandad'. I take there was no ' chandelier moment'?Well recovered.
Looks like you’d be better leaving it in barn , than rowing about in that sh!t , or is it just a mullered potato headland