Centre ,but we have bought a good second hand 6 row and only got 500 acre to lift so could come and do some could do it for 85 acre but if you rally stint my arm will di it for 80 , this comment is very tongue in cheek but in reality this is what happens is it not So no chance of getting your 90 . Just done some ploughing for neighbour He drew breathe at price ,so said does he want it ploughing at 10 inch as he requested or do it for less and plough it like his last man at 4/6 inch ,
No doubt and they can fill their boots. Again it comes back to years when the soil is so hard that inadequate or old tech cannot get the beet out of the ground or the other end of the scale when it is so wet that you end up with nothing but soil in the heap, poorly tipped heaps and a mess getting them loaded. NFU are quite concerned that the skilled operators are quietly packing up, British Sugar should be too as it will be the difference between them getting a constant supply of beet in adverse years. Like i said it is the tricky going that sort the men from the boys and there is no doubt now that beet is being grown on some very heavy land.
Aaah but a skilled man like you say could pull beet with an old Rapide used to put spade lugs on to keep going and just been playing with old cyclone ,just sold it to a collector , As I have always said it's the man make th the machine what ever it maybe A modern harvester will shovel it up And then the f**kers ran all over neighbours stewardship because it's easier than going round field he was not happy ,and is to sort out , don't think the giant machines are the way forward Smaller and more attention to detail ,
3000ac? Gonna be busy at that, unless the fields are big and the going is good. If it doesn't stack up at £90 over 2000ac, jobs a bad un. Too much shiny 'professionalism' shoving the costs up.
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I think this is already beginning to happen.very little secondhand market for massive machines that are often worn out
Few going back to 3 row and doing their own
Dont know anyone doing that but with lack of labour on farms and only huge tractors normally available i really cant see that happening.would be far more compaction on fields aswell.can you still buy new 3 row harvesters
Quite possibly.
Thought he brought it spring time at a sale I saw advertised. Showed him the advert on my phone and then I promptly forgot all about It.....
