Today at work

[Fraserb]

I’ve never seen a Tedder that huge before!!

Neither had I until yesterday

 

[Will 1594]

Samming down a bit of wild bird mix

 

[SilliamWhale]

Just another day in paradise View attachment 882205View attachment 882206
Only seemed like yesterday I put new discs on it. ...View attachment 882207View attachment 882208 so full strip down. New greaseless bushes will be going in all 3 spots , new main pins and bushes as well, and a pretty smick gauge wheel arm and new spindle set up to take all the play out of the t handles. Photos to follow next week when Collin from Aricks Australia turns up.

Above quadrant has plenty of mates.....
Below is new one waiting to go on with an oem one in my hand. Aricks ones are double the thickness.View attachment 882209

I'm wating for Aricks to produce their main pin removal tool

 

[cows sh#t me to tears]

I'm wating for Aricks to produce their main pin removal tool

Exapta have some. Dont know if they are supplied by Collin or just made locally?

This is what they use here

 

[Tomtrac]

That can only do half the job a haybob can, I've the machine for the other half.

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Its a good job its not a haybob i wouldn’t like the job off altering all the tines from spreading to rowing up

 

[grim]

Last bed of the season in Nz

 

[Gerbert]

Sold some wood destined for chipping.

Chipped the smallest stuff, nice and tidy. The piece on the right in the back will be done next year.

Took a look at the springbarley. Dug a hole in the middle of about 15 cm, zero moisture.

Winter rye for the dutch version of nature england, or naturel england, whatever.

Looking very good but I do not have a use for it. Maybe we'll mow and bale it just for straw.

Some old gateway to the field of barley, I love these old paths.

 

[grainboy]

Finished, !! Loading to its new home Monday

 

[puppet]

Helped a neighbour. This field is a bit of a roller coaster

 

[Pan mixer]

Following yesterdays raking the baler dude came along this morning, I was seriously expecting not very many bales and was a bit relaxed about starting to cart and wrap them, only just finished at 9 pm.

10 acre field, festololium, year 3. 165 solid bales av mc 31%.

Really pleased with that.

Top row on the near side the only bales that I had left for the bulls and the butchers beasts.

 

[B R C]

Out of container and then on to customers trailer. Glad of the loader for these awkward 160kg dragon boats

 

[benny6910]

got my 7 acres of grass wrapped up today 36bales in total last year I had 45.

 

[Steevo]

Out of container and then on to customers trailer. Glad of the loader for these awkward 160kg dragon boats
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Interesting you changed from pallet forks to bag loader - I'd have thought forks would have been easier and given more space between the headstock and boat to save risking damage.

 

[Robert K]

Interesting you changed from pallet forks to bag loader - I'd have thought forks would have been easier and given more space between the headstock and boat to save risking damage.

I thought that too

 

[Deerefarmer]

Meanwhile up here we are still running the drill at full steam, I thought I saw a patch of green grass on my way home! View attachment 881651

How do you find the 8700 series MFs?
Did they improve much from the 8600s?
Looking at one of those to update our 8650

 

[fieldfarmer]

Interesting you changed from pallet forks to bag loader - I'd have thought forks would have been easier and given more space between the headstock and boat to save risking damage.

I thought the opposite, what a good idea considering the width of the boat the straps cant slip off the far side of the bag lifter.

 

[Farmer Roy]

Some may remember about a month ago I was using a Kelly Disc Chain to knock down my free summer “cover crop” of Roly Poly ( like Tumbleweed ) & Sow Thistle.
Well, in some places the Roly Poly was too tall & too thick & I ended up with some big turkeys nests of it across the paddock.
Plan to be planting chickpeas in this in a week or so ( once I finish my durum, which I will start in the coming week ), so took the opportunity to deal with them today. Because it’s our winter & we have clear skies & heavy dews, I only have a window of about 4 hours a day when anything will burn. After about 3.00pm & the chill starts in the air, game is over . . .
As a rule, I never stubble burn, ground cover is one of the greatest assets I can maintain here & I am not a fan of burning or anything that leaves the soul bare, but this is about dealing with the big lumps the planter won’t be able to go over ( especially at night when the dew has come in. At this time of the year we have fairly short days due to the dews ).
The drip torch I’m using is the tool the RFS ( Rural Fire Service, our “Bush fire” brigade ) use for lighting fires for back burning & creating fire breaks.

 

[B R C]

Exactly that the bag loader has longer arms and so the sides of the boat don’t get pinched and strap can’t fall off. Had to use fork tines to get it out of container as the end of the boat was several feet in and couldn‘t get bag lifter in. It’s amazing the uses you find for a bag lifter though!

 

[Farmer Roy]

Now the heat has gone out of the day & things won’t burn vigorously anymore, bringing my tractor & planter home after the little planting job for a neighbour mid week ( about 8km by road )

 

[Farmer Roy]

Cameras in the airseeder bins
Bought them on eBay a few years ago for about $200 - one of the best value for money purchases I’ve ever made