Historical photos from North Norfolk

sjt01

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Mixed Farmer
Location
North Norfolk
2015
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sjt01

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Mixed Farmer
Location
North Norfolk
2016, third load of maize for the season, and we find a con rod in the chassis. Hired a forager in from Ian Wilson. Although there was only 2600 hours on the engine, neither Merc nor Krone would stand by it. Local dealers managed to find a second hand engine from Germany, so fitted in machine and sold on.
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sjt01

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Mixed Farmer
Location
North Norfolk
Now coming up to date 2019, after which I will go back to the 70s and look at a career in agricultural engineering.
First, Brown Swiss triplets
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In the workshop, modified a 60" rotavator to 3 m, with 4 rings of blades, one behind each strip till leg.
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Using it drilling after a cut of grass silage sprayed off. I would like to narrow down the rotavator blades a bit, think we are doing too much to the soil.
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Tarmac silage bunkers
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First cut of lucerne
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New to us baler, needed a bit of learning on lucerne, it likes it much drier than the round baler did. Planning to put it all in a bunker next year to save plastic


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sjt01

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Mixed Farmer
Location
North Norfolk
1972/3 Newcastle University Cockle Park farm, experiment to treat pig manure with aerobic digestion, trickling the slurry over crinkly plastic sheets. Got some results but rather thwarted by pig bristles in the pump.

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Measured dissolved oxygen and recorded on paper chart recorder
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This is very close to the site where their anaerobic digester has been built, by the same team that built ours
 

sjt01

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Mixed Farmer
Location
North Norfolk
1974/5 National Institute of Agricultural Engineering Scottish Station, later Scottish Institute of Agricultural Engineering, Bush Estate
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One of the projects I was involved with was direct drilling - Bettinson 3D
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International 6-2
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Krone
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Howard Rotacaster
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Moore Unidrill
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JP1

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Livestock Farmer
1972/3 Newcastle University Cockle Park farm, experiment to treat pig manure with aerobic digestion, trickling the slurry over crinkly plastic sheets. Got some results but rather thwarted by pig bristles in the pump.

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Measured dissolved oxygen and recorded on paper chart recorder
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This is very close to the site where their anaerobic digester has been built, by the same team that built ours
I remember Cockle Park for their Blue Grey cows from my youth but we sell a lot of pig equipment to them today
 

sjt01

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Mixed Farmer
Location
North Norfolk
We had a soil tank for testing tillage equipment. That was fitted to the front trolley which was winched along. The rear trolley had an electrohydraulic backhoe to dig the tank out and refill in a known state of compaction.
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I got involved in setting up a test rig for a two axis vibrating share test rig, hydraulically actuated. There were two hydraulic pumps, 18 kW each if I remember correctly. Each drove a hydraulic ram of 1" bore and 1" stroke through a fancy Moog valve. I was setting up the control electronics (all analogue PID) and managed to get the ram to do very close to a 50 Hz square wave, which is why it needed so much power.
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sjt01

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Mixed Farmer
Location
North Norfolk
Computer room, with PDP 11 and line printer. In the corner on the wall is the GPO modem that connected us to the Edinburgh Regional Computer Centre's two ICL System 4s, which had a Calcomp plotter. I used to drive the plotter through a teletype terminal, but got in early as once the students got in, it took about a second to echo each character typed.
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Speedstar

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Location
Scottish Borders
Powered axle trailer experiments. We recorded data as a frequency modulated signal on multi-track tape, which was then digitised in a big rack system and output to punched tape. We found we could get up slopes which we could not safely descend.
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Great photo's, Great thread things have moved on a bit as we chop some of them fields for silage now, we all so have a lot of there work shop machines now as well,
 

sjt01

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Mixed Farmer
Location
North Norfolk
1975 Went to work in Malawi as Lecturer in Agricultural Engineering, Bunda College of Agriculture,, University of Malawi.
We had a Tinkabi tractor to try out. Pretty useless at ploughing, wheels too small, no diff lock (hydrostatic transmission). Noisy with an Indian Deutz clone air cooled engine alongside the driver.
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We took the students on a tour of agriculture and agricultural industries.
Rice scheme
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Sucoma sugar cane estate. Some cane cut by hand and winched onto trailers, some cut by mechanical harvester. The cane was burnt before cutting to remove leaf trash and evict snakes, lions etc.
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Mikolongwe livestock breeding project
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JP1

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Livestock Farmer
1975 Went to work in Malawi as Lecturer in Agricultural Engineering, Bunda College of Agriculture,, University of Malawi.
We had a Tinkabi tractor to try out. Pretty useless at ploughing, wheels too small, no diff lock (hydrostatic transmission). Noisy with an Indian Deutz clone air cooled engine alongside the driver.View attachment 843982
We took the students on a tour of agriculture and agricultural industries.
Rice scheme
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Sucoma sugar cane estate. Some cane cut by hand and winched onto trailers, some cut by mechanical harvester. The cane was burnt before cutting to remove leaf trash and evict snakes, lions etc.
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Mikolongwe livestock breeding project
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Picture 5 . I often see these 2wd tractors snatching clutches and the front axles in the air and think I should be a Spaldings clutch service parts and front weights salesman
 

n.w

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Location
western isles
Just seen this thread, loving it. takes me back to my young days in East Anglia. GFW from school, I would be interested if anyone remembers Ken Howard farmed in Galleywood Essex. A great teacher took me from lad to head Tractor/Combine driver.. Or Harold Jaggard [contractor] Dunmow, another great fella, I worked for him in the 70's. similarly Dave Clark Woodham Ferris
These were the best days/life a young man could want. cheers
 

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