I started leading trailers in 1973 at 13 uncle and dad both bought a JF cf 80 side mounted chopper with the frame on the back for picking up trailers and a new 5tone Fraser trailer each so when uncle had finished his first cut he brought his Ford 4000 along with the new Fraser trailer and I lead trailers with the 4000. manual opening silage trailer doors, and a tipping pipe to put on every Load.our MF165 did the copping , following year we bought a 12-year-old mark 2 Massey 65 with T bar pickup hitch . Then in 1975 the new 5000 came and I lead silage with the 165.i was a great experience a lot better than going to school.
Trailed forage harvesters
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Chae1
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Amazing how much progress we've made.
do you think so watch farming diary’s in 86 what david walston has on you tube
german farmers full time 15 cows and part time off farm work and had from 1 to 5 cows
and big combines with 23 ft bed
Pity the anvil didn’t go up the chute!Had a horseshoe go into a 717 once.
My Uncle thought he could straighten the blades on the anvil...
- Location
- Cheltenham
Thank goodness we have
Not so sure rose tinted glasses an all that , a lot of people doing a lot of running just to stand still,some body,s milking 500 cows somebody else milking 1500. I have a neighbour, two lads in their 60s still milking 34 cows like their dad did before them. they don’t seem to have much stress I have no borrowed money either.
That looks idyllic!Enough of this SP talk- this is how we rolled in 1991
I was in a pushchair but i'm told the 390 on the forager had a TB turbo fitted. We've another video of it somewhere chopping at night with the manifold glowing.
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Reminds me of hauling for my mate, DB Case 1594( Commemerative Edition!) on a Mex 5, me using his Marshall 802 hauling West 8t trailers. Oh, the turbo whistle! His Dad on the pit with a JCB 410.
I thought that the 956 had been opened out until I saw the engine, our contractor ran one on a Mex 6, neat antifreeze apparently to try and keep it cool. Then replaced with a 2094 Case, which was abysmal on PTO work, before a succession of SPFHs.
My Dad had two Kidd in-lines, attached to a Warwick 4 ton trailers, both pulled by Universal 445 tractors , he drove one, a neighbour the other, the whole rig came back to the yard to tip when full.The postie remarked to my mother that he felt sorry for the tractor when he saws it working in the field as there was black smoke pouring out! Used to tip and then jump on a 35 to push up. It was good to do 3/acres between milking!
I told a chap who was working on a silage gang about it, he laughed so much he almost peed himself!
I think, for western countries peak humanity was in the 90’s. Technology had advanced far enough to make life easier. Society, in general, had become more tolerant. H&S was at a sensible level. Jet from gladiators was bang tidy. Mobile phones were just that. It’s been down hill ever since bending over backwards to appease everyone but actually appeasing no one, kids glued to there phoned, people identifying as cats…. And we are told to accept it! The list goes on.
farming was more fun too with less time pressure on everything and more people involved.
In my opinion, which you were allowed to have then without it needing to match a narrative
- Location
- Cheltenham
Scorpion 350 -EN
We have integrated into the Scorpion 350, technology only previously found on some self-propelled harvesters, without compromising the profitability.
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If only it wasn’t so wide!! Keep you trailed boys happy for a day or two. Looks good design and engineering.
Hilly
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- Location
- Scottish Borders.
Things have changed some better some worse, bigger new gear now dose more work but has to to pay and much more debt in agg now .. its not all good .
Oliveau
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- Location
- Indre et Loire, France
Late 60's Flywheel chopper with just a clevis hitch for trailers. 165 hauling with 2 Weeks 4t trailers.
So, arrive in field, get off tractor, disconnect Dowty coupling on trailer pipe and drop trailer jack to lowest point. Jump back on tractor and release pick up hitch. Lower tee bar of M-F pickup hitch under trailer, lift trailer drawbar, get back off tractor and wind trailer jack down to raise trailer to right height for chopper hitch. Guide chopper driver back onto trailer and drop pin into clevis. Wind trailer jack up.
Back 165 hitch teebar under drawbar of loaded trailer and lift it up enough to wind jack up. Get back on tractor and lower trailer down, then attach with pick up hitch. Get down from tractor again and lift trailer jack right up and screw Dowty coupling on.
You youngsters just have it SO easy these days..........
So, arrive in field, get off tractor, disconnect Dowty coupling on trailer pipe and drop trailer jack to lowest point. Jump back on tractor and release pick up hitch. Lower tee bar of M-F pickup hitch under trailer, lift trailer drawbar, get back off tractor and wind trailer jack down to raise trailer to right height for chopper hitch. Guide chopper driver back onto trailer and drop pin into clevis. Wind trailer jack up.
Back 165 hitch teebar under drawbar of loaded trailer and lift it up enough to wind jack up. Get back on tractor and lower trailer down, then attach with pick up hitch. Get down from tractor again and lift trailer jack right up and screw Dowty coupling on.
You youngsters just have it SO easy these days..........
- Location
- Cheltenham
I know all those feelings! Yup today you just sit back in the cab side loading and just drive load and tip. Easy!
Spent many years driving the chopper or trailers started mowing at 5am and picking up previous days cut grass around ten, finish chopping around 9.30/10 in the pub by half ten, silage took around two weeks in the early 1970's and four days when we went to contractors in 87/88. Was so much easier but less fun, then helped some contractor friends when I stopped milking in 2000, was really good fun being part of the gang but then the pressure to do more each day made it less fun, still made it to the pub some nights but wasn't sorry to give it up a few years ago