Selectamatic's Farming Thread.

DeeGee

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North East Wales
I hope you taught her how to reverse correctly [emoji6]
Need an honours degree in engineering to even engage reverse on a David Brown; everything else seems to be back to front doesn't it?
That's assuming you are a limbo dancing contortionist to be able to climb into the cab in the first place.
Can I have another tenner off that scrap spinner Emyr?

Cofion garedig.
 

The_Swede

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Arable Farmer
Really enjoyable thread, best of luck to you this year. Re the haybob, did you get it sorted? Just on the off chance could it have an odd tine on the LH rotor? These 360's run different ones to a normal haybob. Ours did something similar on arrival and that was the cause.
 

Selectamatic

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Location
North Wales
Need an honours degree in engineering to even engage reverse on a David Brown; everything else seems to be back to front doesn't it?
That's assuming you are a limbo dancing contortionist to be able to climb into the cab in the first place.
Can I have another tenner off that scrap spinner Emyr?

Cofion garedig.

Sorry, price increase, or you could call it a David Brown Tax, +£100
 
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Selectamatic

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Location
North Wales
Really enjoyable thread, best of luck to you this year. Re the haybob, did you get it sorted? Just on the off chance could it have an odd tine on the LH rotor? These 360's run different ones to a normal haybob. Ours did something similar on arrival and that was the cause.


I've been looking into this recently, and suspect you are right, standard haybob tines are different to 360's so it seems...
 

Oat

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Location
Cheshire
Not with chain harrows...

Lesson 2 is reversing...
good luck teaching her how to reverse with the chain harrows;)

I remember first learning to drive a tractor (incidentally that was a DB). I was sent to flat roll a field. Unfortunately trying to be a perfectionist, I wanted to get right into the corners, so tried to reverse. The back wheel caught the frame as the roller jack-knifed and the front the tractor went up a couple of feet:eek:
 

Selectamatic

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Location
North Wales
@Selectamatic - I've only just found this thread, and have really enjoyed reading through it. Actually it's a shame I've got to the end.

How many DB tractors do you have in all?

Good luck this year,
NP.

Thanks very much, It's as much of a little diary for me as anything, quite enjoy doing it really, adds a bit to TFF for the bit I take out. :)

How many DB's? Impossible to tell, it's a constantly changing number!! Dad brought his first DB, a red 880 12 speed in the early 1960's, we've been DB all the way to now.

Looking forward to this year, hopefully I will have got my feet under the table this year so to speak, and will have a better feel of what's going on, I also have a shed build that will hopefully happening soon. Slowly but surely I feel like I'm getting somewhere... :)
 

Selectamatic

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Location
North Wales
Something a little different today... @Cab-over Pete might recognise it...?

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I saw something for sale on TFF, and because I have more money than sense (and I have no money, so i'll leave you to draw your own conclusions :D) I brought a David Brown Backhoe Loader, known back then as a David Brown Ditcher Digger Loader.

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Off and on now for a while I've been building it back to one piece, sorting any issues out on the way.

I have a small patch of rough ground on my rented land, when you only rent 6 acres, every little bit counts! I thought it was a good idea to give the digger a test drive and level the rough bits out a bit before ploughing.

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In honesty I was not expecting much, its old, with a lot of play in the joints, and has a tiny oil pump on it, but I was pleasantly surprised! It comes nowhere near the standard of something like a 3CX or similar, but for a cheap digger, it digs, lifts, slew's etc. I'm told that the DB one was the best of the bunch back in the day, but again falling short of a self propelled version, Dad remembers his short lived Twose version without much fondness, only being marginally better than a pick and spade!

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Shame that a hose started to leak, so we abandoned the job until a new one is sourced later this week.

It will do me for jobs like this, and will stay on the 996 for the foreseeable future, at least until I've finished my shed. Who knows, the Big Cheese of Mc Alpine might be reading this, looking for someone to take on a significant civil engineering contract... :)
 

Boohoo

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Location
Newtownabbey
They are surprisingly capable, definitely one of the best available at the time. More than just a bit jealous, you've got the proper brackets for a 996 and it's in the right colours. Mine is yellow and came with 885 brackets that we modified.
 

Selectamatic

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Location
North Wales
They are surprisingly capable, definitely one of the best available at the time. More than just a bit jealous, you've got the proper brackets for a 996 and it's in the right colours. Mine is yellow and came with 885 brackets that we modified.

This 996 spends plenty of time with it's nose pointing skyward, I have a set of weights to add to her when I get a chance. The idea of putting this on a 880 or a 885 makes me shudder!
 

SFI - What % were you taking out of production?

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

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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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