I remember when.............

Billm

Member
Location
Dumfriesshire
Spraying 70acres barley with super major and ransome crop guard junior sprayer, filling sprayer 30 gallon tank with a bucket from a bigger tank on a trailer. Spraying one tankfull per acre. Loads of time to do it in those days. Also filling 10 stone bags of barley from the spout of a massey 788 tanker combine. Happy Days!! but I really think they were. Did me no harm.
 

chaffcutter

Moderator
Arable Farmer
Location
S. Staffs
First crops combined here were cut by a contractors M103 bagger, he was cutting wheat in road gear and we couldn’t change bags fast enough, just hold it in place open the slide and slam it shut, bag full!
Some years later we had a 103, filthiest machine to drive as the dust came straight up in front of the driver. But we could never get it to cut as fast as old Jack could!
 
First crops combined here were cut by a contractors M103 bagger, he was cutting wheat in road gear and we couldn’t change bags fast enough, just hold it in place open the slide and slam it shut, bag full!
Some years later we had a 103, filthiest machine to drive as the dust came straight up in front of the driver. But we could never get it to cut as fast as old Jack could!
Yes -we called them dust boxes! Best ouput was 2nd gear and 2 good pumps on the variator - In 3rd gear it must have been shovelling grain out of the back!
 

Lincs Lass

Member
Location
north lincs
I remember the baler chucking out the old rectangular bales and then as a kid, stacking them up 4 upright to make a triangle and then one across the top.
I remember falling of a load of those bales and finding I couldnt move my arm as the pitch fork had followed me and went through my arm, I was pined to the floor ,,we used to stack 10000 hay and straw bales every year
 

Banana Bar

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Bury St Edmunds
Dust? What about the days of incorporating stubble burns with the likes of a JD2030 and Duncan cab with a Bomford Turbotiller? Didn't matter if it still possessed the back window or not you were still going to come home black.

This reminds me of the time a now departed ( as in gone north ) ( hopeless ) tractor driver exited the cab of a new Deutz glass door tractor in 1987 with a lump hammer in his hand which he put through the door before he pushed the handle. He had to drive that tractor for days with a chisel plough in burnt stubble before the new door arrived!

BB
 

Martin Holden

Member
Trade
Location
Cheltenham
I remember when we first had quick fit snap connectors on the silage trailer tipping pipe, replacing the Dowty screw on unions. They seemed to save no end of time when doing maybe 20 + trips in a day.

And when Dad welded a three foot piece of steel rod onto the top of the drawbar pin so you could hook/unhook without getting out of the cab.
Cab? You had a cab?? Used to love straw stacking and carting with a cabless MF175 with Farmhand F11 loader. Oh and it had the after market Selene 4 wheel drive front axle. Shocking steering lock mind!
 

Muddyroads

Member
NFFN Member
Location
Exeter, Devon
This reminds me of the time a now departed ( as in gone north ) ( hopeless ) tractor driver exited the cab of a new Deutz glass door tractor in 1987 with a lump hammer in his hand which he put through the door before he pushed the handle. He had to drive that tractor for days with a chisel plough in burnt stubble before the new door arrived!

BB
I did a lot of stubble burning abed 17/18 in Herefordshire on my pre college year.
Round the outside headland and any in-field trees with a turbotiller on a Ford 4000, then a lorry tyre with an inner tube and straw inside it, with a car tyre, tube and straw inside that as well, chained to the back of the tractor.
Find the down wind point of the field, light the straw inside the car tyre, and once it was burning well, drive round the field leaving a burning trail behind. Get the wind direction wrong and things took an uncomfortable twist.
I can remember more than 1 tree getting singed and a very near miss when fire headed for the woodland that led to the back of the estates Manor House.
 

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Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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