What % of winter crops not planted or destroyed

[Two Tone]

Just a rapidly disappearing hoar frost this morning, so still no good for spreading.

Did the front wheel stay down long enough

I tried a Honda trike first, before I bought a quad.
The problem with the trike was that mud would build up between the front wheel and the forks, then act like a brake.
But it proved the concept of ultra lightweight LGP was a good one.
Having built my own fertiliser spreader chassis, I then bought a small mounted 12m Hardi sprayer with LGP wheels and a linkage-drawbar with a Honda engine to drive the pump.
Eventually, I also needed up with a Logic Chassis with a Honda engine which I attached a Ransomes mounted sprayer to. But it ended up with a Holstein Farmery Avadex spreader on it.

Wish I hadn’t sold it all now.

 

[Two Tone]

1984 was the year I got married, it was very wet until.mid Jan then was frosty until late March, virtually every night was -4/5 never got really cold but just continuous, we didn't have any corn in those days but all those round us had bare fields until April but then the sun came out and it grew very quickly, all the disease had been burnt off, we only turned our cows out a few days before I got wed on the 25th, ground was still frozen six inches down early April but soft on top. I think it was the highest average wheat yield the country had had until many years later.

That’s how I remember it. It was 1981, the year Aldaniti won the Grand National that was a very wet Spring.

Early drilled stuff really doesn't look hungry though?

This is the surprising thing to me.
After all that rain, where is it getting enough nutrients to stay green and especially the Barley, not go yellow yet?
It must be because it has been so mild.
However, It will soon get hungry and the fert needs to go on to encourage the roots, stop it getting hungry and promote, rather than abort tillers.

 

[Nearly]

I'm in the foggy bit there.

 

[Renaultman]

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I'm in the foggy bit there.

Bloody horrible this morning, I've headed east to the coast

 

[robs1]

That’s how I remember it. It was 1981, the year Aldaniti won the Grand National that was a very wet Spring.

This is the surprising thing to me.
After all that rain, where is it getting enough nutrients to stay green and especially the Barley, not go yellow yet?
It must be because it has been so mild.
However, It will soon get hungry and the fert needs to go on to encourage the roots, stop it getting hungry and promote, rather than abort tillers.

I remember 81 had some really cold weather the it turned wet and silage making was a nightmare couldn't start till into June and even then had to miss out bits as under water, thank goodness we only had five tonne weeks trailers then

 

[colhonk]

Naahh, can`t have been, man made global warming had not been invented then so we only ever had perfect weather

 

[britt]

Naahh, can`t have been, man made global warming had not been invented then so we only ever had perfect weather

It was all about the acid rain then

 

[Wombat]

Fecking crows on the Feb beans, buggers keep calling in on their way home

 

[David.]

Best hope they don't get lazy, and call in the mornings and stay all day

 

[serf]

It was all about the acid rain then

Didn't get much traction with that propaganda machine in the end and cried wolf to many times so they had to change its title and bark up another tree to create some revenue ...

They even wrote a song about it

 

[Cowlife]

It was all about the acid rain then

Don't forget the hole in the ozone layer

 

[Devil's advocate]

I did the same after that 1981 spring.
I put a Vicon wag tail onto a home made chassis and LGP wheels, with a Kawasaki engine and 6-1 reduction shaft to drive the spreader at 540. All pulled by a Honda 350TRX quad.

But I was young then and didn’t feel the cold and wet so much.
And we could still buy fertiliser in 50 kg bags then, to just put a few in the hopper to keep the weight down.

I sometimes wonder about a Tafe 45 four wheel drive maybe even on spade lugs for extreme conditions, not sure if it would help or not.

I do remember in late teens using a cab less David Brown 780 & it could go before the neighbours bigger tractor. But in those days kit was smaller, would need a dedicated sprayer little Jarmet would be ok, I think my small Kuhn spreader would be ok, just put half a bag in.

 

[czechmate]

I did the same after that 1981 spring.
I put a Vicon wag tail onto a home made chassis and LGP wheels, with a Kawasaki engine and 6-1 reduction shaft to drive the spreader at 540. All pulled by a Honda 350TRX quad.

But I was young then and didn’t feel the cold and wet so much.
And we could still buy fertiliser in 50 kg bags then, to just put a few in the hopper to keep the weight down.

we get some contractors here with quads pulling trailed spreaders… but what is most popular here is piston bully’s.
normally see them this time of year, not this year, there are no crops

 

[czechmate]

That’s how I remember it. It was 1981, the year Aldaniti won the Grand National that was a very wet Spring.

This is the surprising thing to me.
After all that rain, where is it getting enough nutrients to stay green and especially the Barley, not go yellow yet?
It must be because it has been so mild.
However, It will soon get hungry and the fert needs to go on to encourage the roots, stop it getting hungry and promote, rather than abort tillers.

plane/helicopter….

 

[4course]

1984 was the year I got married, it was very wet until.mid Jan then was frosty until late March, virtually every night was -4/5 never got really cold but

Glad to read further on that you didnt get married in feburary its often frosty here but not in a leap year

 

[Two Tone]

I sometimes wonder about a Tafe 45 four wheel drive maybe even on spade lugs for extreme conditions, not sure if it would help or not.

I do remember in late teens using a cab less David Brown 780 & it could go before the neighbours bigger tractor. But in those days kit was smaller, would need a dedicated sprayer little Jarmet would be ok, I think my small Kuhn spreader would be ok, just put half a bag in.

When I build and had the quad pulling my home made Chassis with the Vicon Wag tail on it, my neighbour thought it was a good idea, but didn’t want to stretch to a quad bike. He built his own Chassis with a wag tail, but pulled it with a Caterpillar D2.
Quads were quite new in those days and a bit novel. But I have to say that I’d have his D2 any day now!

 

[colhonk]

All pulled by a Honda 350TRX quad

Maybe your memory is a bit hazy on the year,Don`t think Honda made the 350trx quad until 1986?

 

[Surgery]

Planted November after maize , most of the wheat looks like it but do have 20 acres which is rotted off across the farm

 

[Wombat]

Planted November after maize , most of the wheat looks like it but do have 20 acres which is rotted off across the farm

Better than anything here, infact if my good stuff looked like that i would be happy

 

[Surgery]

Judging by the weather forecast no planting here for at least another 2-3 weeks , running out of time fast