Selectamatic's Farming Thread.

[Ray996]

According to the online parts catalogue 885 arms are 30-1/2 inches long and there wasn't an option for extended arms, 1190 and 1194 are the same. 990/5/6 arms are either 35-1/2 or 38-1/2 inches long

Edit: Could the longer arm be off an 880? The parts catalogue doesn't say what length 880 arms are, but they have a different part number

Measured 2 different tractors,both 885s one had 30 and half inch arms, other tractor had 33 and quarter arms,need to get an 880 to measure now,total new one on me to?more used to 996 s and 1212s

 

[Crex]

Just wanted to say this is an excellent thread @Selectamatic, keep up the good work. Love the photos.

 

[Selectamatic]

I got a bit confused today, it was like any other, usual, normal day, but it did not rain. Do you think something's broken?!

I'm keen to push on and sow some spring barley, I've been keen since early March truth be told, but the weather has just been against us, as you all probably know!

The promise of a few drying days gave me the chance to start ploughing.

Last year I restored, and then had a go with, a new plough (To me anyway) A DB C Type, with Ransomes TCN bodies on it, I thought some sandy soil would help it shine up!

Drying out well, the soil was in lovely condition.

Ploughing stubble is easy, it's grassland that's the challenge! This is the field that I have gathered hay on the last few years, it's old, rough, dirty and tired. My Landlord does not remember it being ploughed, but he suspects that I am the first to plough it since just after the Second World War.

What is it in the soil that has not been ploughed for years that gives off that smell? Anyone who has ploughed old lea's will know what I mean.

 

[New Puritan]

@Selectamatic - blimey, you know what you're doing, that looks very good.

I started marking out for ploughing on Friday and got the tractor stuck (and got it out again, but it was close...) it was still so wet.

 

[Ray996]

I got a bit confused today, it was like any other, usual, normal day, but it did not rain. Do you think something's broken?!

I'm keen to push on and sow some spring barley, I've been keen since early March truth be told, but the weather has just been against us, as you all probably know!

The promise of a few drying days gave me the chance to start ploughing.

Last year I restored, and then had a go with, a new plough (To me anyway) A DB C Type, with Ransomes TCN bodies on it, I thought some sandy soil would help it shine up!

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Drying out well, the soil was in lovely condition.

Ploughing stubble is easy, it's grassland that's the challenge! This is the field that I have gathered hay on the last few years, it's old, rough, dirty and tired. My Landlord does not remember it being ploughed, but he suspects that I am the first to plough it since just after the Second World War.

What is it in the soil that has not been ploughed for years that gives off that smell? Anyone who has ploughed old lea's will know what I mean.

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Plough working well there ,got one the same parked up in shed,not been out working for a while,

 

[Suffolk Serf]

I got a bit confused today, it was like any other, usual, normal day, but it did not rain. Do you think something's broken?!

I'm keen to push on and sow some spring barley, I've been keen since early March truth be told, but the weather has just been against us, as you all probably know!

The promise of a few drying days gave me the chance to start ploughing.

Last year I restored, and then had a go with, a new plough (To me anyway) A DB C Type, with Ransomes TCN bodies on it, I thought some sandy soil would help it shine up!

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Drying out well, the soil was in lovely condition.

Ploughing stubble is easy, it's grassland that's the challenge! This is the field that I have gathered hay on the last few years, it's old, rough, dirty and tired. My Landlord does not remember it being ploughed, but he suspects that I am the first to plough it since just after the Second World War.

What is it in the soil that has not been ploughed for years that gives off that smell? Anyone who has ploughed old lea's will know what I mean.

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The smell of healthy soil!

I suspect that you're "slipping" every round rather than working in lands, to save matching your lands. Cheat!

 

[Selectamatic]

I suspect that you're "slipping" every round rather than working in lands, to save matching your lands. Cheat!

Bloody right!!

 

[Selectamatic]

@Selectamatic - blimey, you know what you're doing, that looks very good.

Thank you, but I am but the apprentice, my father has taught me (and given up trying to teach me! ) all I know about ploughing.

 

[New Puritan]

Just out of interest, what depth does that plough work at, and how wide do three furrows go? And is that a 990?

 

[Selectamatic]

Just out of interest, what depth does that plough work at, and how wide do three furrows go? And is that a 990?

In the photos it's 12ins wide by 6ish deep. 5 to 6 is plenty deep enough around here. 7ins deep is a flogging offence!

No, it's Dad's 880, he brought her about 2 months old in 1966, proper tractor!

 

[DeeGee]

Very tidy ploughing Emyr, chwarae teg i chi bachgen.

Just as you say, there is absolutely no need to go any deeper than five or six inches; you are just wasting plough metal and diesel for nothing.

Are you on some of that land in the middle of the Vale that is Grade 1?

 

[Selectamatic]

Very tidy ploughing Emyr, chwarae teg i chi bachgen.

Just as you say, there is absolutely no need to go any deeper than five or six inches; you are just wasting plough metal and diesel for nothing.

Are you on some of that land in the middle of the Vale that is Grade 1?

Diolch yn Fawr.

Truthfully, I do not know, this land is near Llandyrnog, I know of Grade 1 land between Denbigh and Llandyrnog, but I dont know about this, I doubt it is though, somehow...

 

[tepapa]

Are you on some of that land in the middle of the Vale that is Grade 1?

Only 0.2% of Wales is grade 1 and selectamatic is farming almost bang on in the middle of the biggest chunk of it.

 

[tepapa]

Light blue on right is grade 1. Top red dot inside it is Llandyrnog, lower red dot is hendrerwydd + gellifor. Selectamatic can work out where his land is.

 

[DeeGee]

If not Grade 1 then I am pretty sure it will be Grade 2 land that should grow almost anything anyway.

What will you be sowing there?

 

[Selectamatic]

If not Grade 1 then I am pretty sure it will be Grade 2 land that should grow almost anything anyway.

What will you be sowing there?

Spring Barley for a year or two, then reseeding...

 

[haggard143]

Thank you, but I am but the apprentice, my father has taught me (and given up trying to teach me! ) all I know about ploughing.

Don't be modest top marks there grass is always the devil to properly bury always good to see your photos

 

[JP1]

This thread is like going back to my Pre-College year in 81 looking at all the Broons

 

[Oat]

Bloody right!!

for the younger ones around, what is 'slipping'?

 

[Philip Watkins]

for the younger ones around, what is 'slipping'?

Running back to the other end of the field with the plough out of the ground, ploughing one way only.