Today at work

[Forever Fendt]

You will have to watch when loading gravel/stone
Its not got a front guard on the top front to stop the chrome on the ram getting warn with stone going over the top when curling the bucket back
The tilt rams can soon where damage if you know what i mean

exactly , its very well made probably best I have seen but could do with a spill guard to protect pipes as you say

 

[Farmer Roy]

Kiwi Pete said:
It looks like a lot to get going, with living cultures and all.
Bit different to putting "a few kgs of drilling super down the spout" or am I overthinking it?

Nah, you just chuck the seed in the front bins & everything else goes in the liquid tank It can be as simple or complicated as you want to make it My only issue there is that “base camp” where the water supply is, is about 2 - 4 km from where I am planting & being on my own, wasting time running back n forth. It’s about a 2 hour turnaround
But that’s ok, that gives me about 5 hours of planting.

No, my biggest issue is all my gear is getting tired & fûcked & desperate need of rebuilding maintenance, which I have been avoiding spending ANY $$$$$ on for about 3 years now. Apart from absolute essentials, or hodge ups . . .

I am seriously considering getting my harvest contractor mate to plant my wheat & chickies for me this winter, when we have shorter days & a bigger area to plant . . .

Now that I’ve given up contracting myself, I’m finding it increasingly difficult to justify spending money on machinery


In actual fact, a large proportion of my contract planting clients when I was in full swing either had another job, or didn’t want to own machinery, which is why they used contractors
Modern gear is very expensive to justify on just a couple thousand acres - which is why I went contracting in the first place years ago

 

[Farmer Roy]

Here’s one for the FA brigade
My spraying contractor filling up

 

[Farmer Roy]

 

[Farmer Roy]

The in furrow liquid application

 

[Farmer Roy]

 

[Muddyroads]

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Are front mounted booms standard in your part of the world? What’s the benefit over rear mounted?

 

[Farmer Roy]

Are front mounted booms standard in your part of the world? What’s the benefit over rear mounted?

Just off the top of my head, I think it’s only Miller that have a front mounted boom.
I think the main benefit is visibility for the operator

 

[colhonk]

Your sprayer man would be hung drawn and quatered over here, plus you as well for spilling fert on the ground . wish we could just get on with farming over here.
Hope you have a good crop

 

[Farmer Roy]

Your sprayer man would be hung drawn and quatered over here, plus you as well for spilling fert on the ground . wish we could just get on with farming over here.
Hope you have a good crop

serious question ?

how do you calibrate a liquid output ( ie my fertiliser ) or check that all the outlets are working, WITHOUT spilling it on the ground ?

EVERYTIME I fill with seed & fert ( liquid or granule ) I ALWAYS run some out on the ground to check that all outlets are clear & everything is working. How else do you do it ?
Anyway, what’s the difference between that or broadcasting granular fert through a spreader or spraying our foliar applications of liquid ?

by the way, about the only thing Paul was doing wrong was not wearing gloves, but that is HIS choice . . . He probably should have been wearing long sleeves & long pants as well, but from memory that’s the only PPE listed on the chemical label he was using

 

[Farmer Roy]

Tbh - the little bit of fert I spilled is NOTHING compared to the amount of herbicide applied today, but that would be OK ?
If anything, personally, I’d have more issues with the herbicide application . . .

 

[GeorgeK]

Organic silage looking tidy after evicting the woolly maggots

They are now at work tidying up the nectar pollen stewardship

Beans bit thin on headlands but overall plenty good enough

Dang it even the OSR looks good despite getting flooded

As you can imagine, now I'm worried, there's always a disaster of some sort... But no sign of it yet

 

[REStracTORATION]

100pages behind
Sheesh

Heres a few we've done and got to do.

Before pics

After

To do

Done

And nearly there...

 

[Boothy]

100pages behind
Sheesh

Heres a few we've done and got to do.

Before pics
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After
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To do
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Done
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And nearly there...
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Nice work but that 1455xl is a lovely tractor always wanted a cherry and white one like we used to have.

 

[REStracTORATION]

Nice work but that 1455xl is a lovely tractor always wanted a cherry and white one like we used to have.

Thank you
Yea I like the ih ones too a bit of character

But I'd take the case one too it only had 2800hrs

 

[Devon James]

Gone in worse conditions. Anyone up for some rook shooting? Better way leave the white ones!

 

[mtx.jag]

You dump it,we pump it

 

[Lowland1]

Every morning when we drive round my wife has been telling me that tree is going to fall. Well today she’s right.

 

[chaffcutter]

@mtx.jag has that slurry pit really got absolutely no fencing around it, looks like a death trap to me !!!

 

[Hesstondriver]

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im guessing out there your first thought wasn't 'great more logs'??