selling up

[7610 super q]

can you give us the maths of how it's going to take 16yrs

Well, contractor cost £1500 ish per year, so 10 years to pay cost of the machine back + running repairs ?
Could also potentially save at least £1k per year in drying costs by cutting when I want at 15-16% rather than 18% + ?
Probably swopped the stress of getting a contractor when I want, for the stress of keeping an oldie running, But at least it's all under my control.

 

[carbonfibre farmer]

Well, contractor cost £1500 ish per year, so 10 years to pay cost of the machine back + running repairs ?
Could also potentially save at least £1k per year in drying costs by cutting when I want at 15-16% rather than 18% + ?
Probably swopped the stress of getting a contractor when I want, for the stress of keeping an oldie running, But at least it's all under my control.

@spin cycle is the kiddie if you need any tips on bodging it keeping it going

 

[DRC]

@spin cycle is the kiddie if you need any tips on bodging it keeping it going

Or ask @bobk

 

[spin cycle]

Or ask @bobk

@carbonfibre farmer is taking the pee

 

[carbonfibre farmer]

@carbonfibre farmer is taking the pee

I don't know what you mean...
(That block on the auger was a thing of beauty )
Father tends to attack ours with a chiesl and lump hammer

 

[Flat 10]

@carbonfibre farmer is taking the pee

And so are you- no diary entry since tuesday!!!!!!!!!!!!
(Ps hope admiral ok)

 

[spin cycle]

i thank you charlie ..in my defence ,for some reason the original tensioner wouldn't fit with new chain so i 'fashioned' a smaller tensioner at home out of kerrung...got to field and it still wouldn't fit....cue 'feck it'...hack until it did

 

[bobk]

Or ask @bobk

I do have a penchant for getting things going , as long as it doesn't require knowledge

 

[David.]

8 series are easy to own.

 

[carbonfibre farmer]

I was going to ask @7610 super q if it had air con but then remembered he was in crapweathershire that doesn't see the sun let alone heat
That's the one thing missing on ours , gets a sauna inside, in the arid east. On particularly hot days a bucket of frozen water gets placed inside the cab......

Anyway, I seem to have dragged the thread massively off topic

 

[7610 super q]

I was going to ask @7610 super q if it had air con but then remembered he was in crapweathershire that doesn't see the sun let alone heat
That's the one thing missing on ours , gets a sauna inside, in the arid east. On particularly hot days a bucket of frozen water gets placed inside the cab......

Anyway, I seem to have dragged the thread massively off topic

I don't know TBH. It'll probably only get used for 3 days per year, and it never gets that hot here ( Or even that sunny ) Got aircon in the 7840, and Manipoo, neither work, just not worth spending the money on getting it working.

 

[7610 super q]

To take things more off topic, wouldn't it be nice to have the 6 week spring dry spell in July/ August instead......

 

[spin cycle]

I was going to ask @7610 super q if it had air con but then remembered he was in crapweathershire that doesn't see the sun let alone heat
That's the one thing missing on ours , gets a sauna inside, in the arid east. On particularly hot days a bucket of frozen water gets placed inside the cab......

Anyway, I seem to have dragged the thread massively off topic

you fekkin melt

To take things more off topic, wouldn't it be nice to have the 6 week spring dry spell in July/ August instead......

i'd like wet july/ august.....actually exactly same weather as last year

 

[carbonfibre farmer]

you fekkin melt




i'd like wet july/ august.....actually exactly same weather as last year

Ahem.

The old fella does most of the combine driving.

35° plus heat for a near 80 Yr old ain't bad going

But you've met him so know what he's like

 

[spin cycle]

Ahem.

The old fella does most of the combine driving.

35° plus heat for a near 80 Yr old ain't bad going

But you've met him so know what he's like

can't blame him...i mean who'd trust you on the combine

 

[kiwi pom]

That is the sensible option but with my family having been here over 100 years, first as tenants then having the chance to buy it followed by me having to pay out again for over half on my divorce plus bits I have added the heart wants to keep it. Having it makes me happy and money cant buy that, I was lucky having old parents who retired when I was 27, my own kids used to spend hours on the farm with me but now have well paying jobs but I'm very lucky my eldest stepson loves the farm as much as I do so there is a future

There's no way your children would want to come back and take over the farm when you retire?
Just curious as it seems from many of the threads on here, you're only worthy to take over if you're there from leaving school.
One thing I've noticed since living here is its very common for farming children to go off and have their own lives but then all get together and talk about the future when mum and dad want to step back. There's often at least one keen to have a go, money earned in their own career helps them set up. If no one wants to take it on the For Sale sign goes up.

 

[DrWazzock]

Well.......I haven't actually " Got " yet. Taken rather a long time to get it delivered, but I did ask for it to experience the inside of their workshop. All I can offer is a screen shot.....

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Greet minds think alike. Just replaced our 40 year old JD1085 with a 24 year old Dominator.
Found the arm off a Puffa jacket wedged down the side of the grain pan. Thought for a moment it had ingested a body but no actual arm in the jacket sleeve.

 

[carbonfibre farmer]

Greet minds think alike. Just replaced our 40 year old JD1085 with a 24 year old Dominator.
Found the arm off a Puffa jacket wedged down the side of the grain pan. Thought for a moment it had ingested a body but no actual arm in the jacket sleeve.

You as well!! Blimey!
What model have you trumped for @DrWazzock ??

 

[FG.]

I upgraded from an 83 Dominator to a 97 Dominator for 2019 season with great ideas, then promptly stuck all but 40 acres in stewardship the next year and binned ideas of cutting neighbours, after help and health issues.
An afternoons cutting now and even less next year, hopefully.
Wish someone would build houses on one of our fields, pay off mortgage, reduce the acreage of hay making and maybe enjoy the summer for the first time in decades.(Can't see it happening)
Sell up?? Born here, absolutely love the farm and its location, but no kids and partnership with sister(get on fine), makes it a situation I enjoy sometimes, I hate sometimes and makes me sad sometimes.

 

[robs1]

There's no way your children would want to come back and take over the farm when you retire?
Just curious as it seems from many of the threads on here, you're only worthy to take over if you're there from leaving school.
One thing I've noticed since living here is its very common for farming children to go off and have their own lives but then all get together and talk about the future when mum and dad want to step back. There's often at least one keen to have a go, money earned in their own career helps them set up. If no one wants to take it on the For Sale sign goes up.

It's always a possibility and with where we live plenty of opportunities to run other businesses from the farm, we had ideas of setting up a around a lake involving a cafe, log cabins etc but while it would have been a good earner we decided after years of being tied to the farm we wanted to take it easier, the next generation could always do it