Tractors and Combines at Work - Please feel free to add your own pictures

[Bobthebuilder]

View attachment 70380 the 6150r on spraying stubbles

I bet that's fun at junctions :-/

 

[Roy Stokes]

College placement year up in Shropshire, '91 I think
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That was Frank Dakin and Son, just outside Shifnal, one of my neighbours, young Frank is a very successful farmer who now farms 2000 acres here and over 3000 near Berwick on Tweed, Northumberland

That ploughing outfit broke a TW 20 in half, heaving up the press at the end puts a lot of strain and twist on the chassis

IIRC the M54 is somewhere behind those trees ?

 

[BJW1967]

This pair of T7's was working on the same farm (The T7, I think, has been replaced by the T8 in the earlier post). These are from October 2011. One is 'Sumoing' (I like that word) and the other sowing grass.

 

[Chae1]

What does it say about the operator though? We had a 6300 which struggled with a full set of weights to stop the front end lifting with an EM85 4 furrow you must have half a transit full of scrap hanging off the front there.

Cheers BB

Doubt it would be auto reset like our ploughs up here and weigh alot less.

Just looked it is auto reset!

 

[BJW1967]

Weights ... I remember chaining 56lb weights to the front of a Ford 4600 when we first started wrapping silage using a three point linkage mounted wrapper. It was heaven after using those bloody bags. Had to keep the ones without holes in for the next season, no matter how much shipoopy they had on them from being on the slutchy bottom row. And then there were two or three of us sitting on the bonnet of an International B275 coming up a slope out of one particular field, so the front end would stay on the ground pulling a load of silage out of the field. That was when we first started round baling. You'd never dream of doing something like that these days and imagine the kerfuffle if Plod was passing and saw you coming out on to the road like that. Those were the days I bet the sumo weight on the front of the T7 is almost as heavy as the B275. How things have moved on in the last 30 years

 

[B R C]

That was Frank Dakin and Son, just outside Shifnal, one of my neighbours, young Frank is a very successful farmer who now farms 2000 acres here and over 3000 near Berwick on Tweed, Northumberland

That ploughing outfit broke a TW 20 in half, heaving up the press at the end puts a lot of strain and twist on the chassis

IIRC the M54 is somewhere behind those trees ?

Spot on, used to fly along with that set up, I used to do the late shift from evening to about midnight, I remember on one big field on the Ruckley estate there was a concrete drain cover that no one told me about a few inches above ground but covered in soil, got the fright of my life when bang, bang, bang tractor went straight over drain and broke first three shear bolts, took ages to get legs back in place.

 

[Roy Stokes]

Doubt it would be auto reset like our ploughs up here and weigh alot less.

Just looked it is auto reset!

ED 85 is auto reset but lighter in construction to the EG ploughs, ED is bolt type vari width EG is hydrualic vari width which adds quite a lot of weight,

6410 was just over 2 years old and showing roughly 4000 hrs at the time so still in it's prime

 

[Roy Stokes]

Spot on, used to fly along with that set up, I used to do the late shift from evening to about midnight, I remember on one big field on the Ruckley estate there was a concrete drain cover that no one told me about a few inches above ground but covered in soil, got the fright of my life when bang, bang, bang tractor went straight over drain and broke first three shear bolts, took ages to get legs back in place.

Ruckley has just had a change of plan and Dakin and Sons have lost it, seemed a shame that they had made a decent job of it for all those years, and hence the figure of 2000 acres down here, it was considerably more until very recently

 

[York]

This pair of T7's was working on the same farm (The T7, I think, has been replaced by the T8 in the earlier post). These are from October 2011. One is 'Sumoing' (I like that word) and the other sowing grass.
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nice pictures
but
is the farmer aware what he does with this "Sumoing" to the soil under this rather wettish condition?
sorry, for pooring in some vinegar.
York-Th.

 

[Haydn]

Fendt 820, 2009 plate
Fendt 720, 2014 plate

Carting on a 2000 acre estate in Cirencester this summer. In my opinion I took the 820 out each day, far better machine over the newer one which had ad blue on it. Even though they were rated at 200hp each, 820 was a lot more gutsy and pulled like a train with that 14 tonne richard western on

 

[Salopian_Will]

Ruckley has just had a change of plan and Dakin and Sons have lost it, seemed a shame that they had made a decent job of it for all those years, and hence the figure of 2000 acres down here, it was considerably more until very recently

Sold a bit too? Or are they still farming the ground near us on behalf of the new owners?

 

[jas]

4 furrows on the 6800

 

[BJW1967]

nice pictures
but
is the farmer aware what he does with this "Sumoing" to the soil under this rather wettish condition?
sorry, for pooring in some vinegar.
York-Th.

You'll have to enlighten me on that one, please. I do know that where I was standing there is a cart road between me and the tractor and it is quite often a bit sticky for twenty five yards or so, from water run off, hence the slutchy tyres. The picture beneath taken a few seconds before his tyres are relatively free of slutch and the ground was much drier.

 

[Roy Stokes]

Sold a bit too? Or are they still farming the ground near us on behalf of the new owners?

Sold quite a bit along the edge to finance the Northumberland land, they used to buy houses in Shifnal then sell them off when land by you came up, certainly make their money work for them.

 

[Wheater]

I bet that's fun at junctions :-/

Not as bad as you would think and it's better now with lights on and saves having a cab of avadex for the rolls or slug pellets for the spreader

 

[Mark C]

Started on the maize today

 

[holywell farmer]

Started on the maize today View attachment 70688

that's huge that field whats the acres ?

 

[rc mx110]

I'd guess, bigger than 3

 

[spanners]

that's huge that field whats the acres ?

Any fields like that in North wales?

 

[devonshire farmer]

We were on maize today too