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    #512
    zetecescort
    Registered Users Posts: 5,089 ✭✭✭zetecescort


    restored our Ford 5000 a few years ago, found the doors and lower rear window in the back of a shed in mint condition. regardless of weather the doors were never fitted.


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    #513
    Blackgrass
    Closed Accounts Posts: 735 ✭✭✭Blackgrass


    Grand if you don't care driving with window open but not on if your driving someone elses tractor, shouldn't expect someone else to drive in a **** pit just because you don't care.


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    #514
    Dawggone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,506 ✭✭✭Dawggone


    Blackgrass wrote: »
    Grand if you don't care driving with window open but not on if your driving someone elses tractor, shouldn't expect someone else to drive in a **** pit just because you don't care.

    Agreed. But as Conor said there are times when the back window should be open : mowing/tedding/raking backswarths...ploughing rock etc etc


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    #515
    davidk1394
    Registered Users Posts: 4,097 ✭✭✭davidk1394


    Quick question. i have a Jcb 3cx and was asked there earlier to clean up a few ditches for a lad. Whats the going rate to hire a digger and driver per hour ?


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    #516
    CloughCasey1
    Registered Users Posts: 2,741 ✭✭✭CloughCasey1


    davidk1394 wrote: »
    Quick question. i have a Jcb 3cx and was asked there earlier to clean up a few ditches for a lad. Whats the going rate to hire a digger and driver per hour ?

    Bout 30 for JCB man and hire. He may cover ya on diesel on top of that


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    #517
    MFdaveIreland
    Registered Users Posts: 588 ✭✭✭MFdaveIreland


    http://www.farmersjournal.ie/brian-horner-the-krone-big-x-man-176971/

    worth a read


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    #518
    davidk1394
    Registered Users Posts: 4,097 ✭✭✭davidk1394


    ready for battle


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    #519
    AntrimGlens
    Registered Users Posts: 1,082 ✭✭✭AntrimGlens


    davidk1394 wrote: »
    ready for battle

    Did Ye not LISTEN - Close the FCUKING window...


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    #520
    AntrimGlens
    Registered Users Posts: 1,082 ✭✭✭AntrimGlens


    I was using a post driver as a harvest student in England, had a chain on the pulley instead of a rope. Well some smart arse farm worker broke a link in the chain and instead of fixing it he stuck as 6 inch nail through the link.
    There i was driving in posts sitting in the cab with the back window closed and the nail broke and the chain came whistling through the back window and missed my ear by about an inch, showered me in glass. Had I been turned around in the seat looking out as was normal i'd have got it straight in the face.
    Hate them yokes ever since, use the track machine now to drive in all posts.


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    #521
    Nekarsulm
    Registered Users Posts: 11,204 ✭✭✭✭Nekarsulm


    davidk1394 wrote: »
    ready for battle

    Scary looking attachment to the tractors lift arm. You are relying on a 50 cent linchpin. Would you not double up the brackets and use proper implement pins?
    You wouldn't find me standing within 15 foot of it. I've seen the mess when a post driver comes off on one side.


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    #522
    davidk1394
    Registered Users Posts: 4,097 ✭✭✭davidk1394


    Nekarsulm wrote: »
    Scary looking attachment to the tractors lift arm. You are relying on a 50 cent linchpin. Would you not double up the brackets and use proper implement pins?
    You wouldn't find me standing within 15 foot of it. I've seen the mess when a post driver comes off on one side.

    What are they ? Never seen them before


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    #523
    foxy farmer
    Registered Users Posts: 3,194 ✭✭✭foxy farmer


    AntrimGlens wrote: »
    I was using a post driver as a harvest student in England, had a chain on the pulley instead of a rope. Well some smart arse farm worker broke a link in the chain and instead of fixing it he stuck as 6 inch nail through the link.
    There i was driving in posts sitting in the cab with the back window closed and the nail broke and the chain came whistling through the back window and missed my ear by about an inch, showered me in glass. Had I been turned around in the seat looking out as was normal i'd have got it straight in the face.
    Hate them yokes ever since, use the track machine now to drive in all posts.

    Cross Engineering use a roller chain and a hydraulic motor to wind the chain.


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    #524
    pajero12
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    severeoversteer wrote: »
    so for the price of 2 back windows ye could have bought a telescopic pick up hitch

    im only sayin
    not tryin to start a war

    telescopic pick up is a great invention

    Wouldn't it still break the window when pulled in?

    *edit Ah you mean you wouldnt need to have it open to see out? :o


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    #525
    Nekarsulm
    Registered Users Posts: 11,204 ✭✭✭✭Nekarsulm


    davidk1394 wrote: »
    What are they ? Never seen them before

    Like this. The full pressure of the driver won't be directly against the actual lynchpin.


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    #526
    joejobrien
    Registered Users Posts: 470 ✭✭joejobrien


    Nekarsulm wrote: »
    Like this. The full pressure of the driver won't be directly against the actual lynchpin.
    That mechanism is for leveling the post driver on a slope. ......:D


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    #527
    Nekarsulm
    Registered Users Posts: 11,204 ✭✭✭✭Nekarsulm


    joejobrien wrote: »
    That mechanism is for leveling the post driver on a slope. ......:D

    Let me explain........


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    #528
    vincenzolorenzo
    Registered Users Posts: 1,229 ✭✭✭vincenzolorenzo


    Nek is right. That current set up is likely to fail at some point, particularly with the stub shaft bent down like it is. I've seen linch pins/R clips break with less load on them than the weight of a post driver. With the other type of design the load is supported by the two steel plates either side of the lift arm


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    #529
    yellow50HX
    Registered Users Posts: 1,828 ✭✭✭yellow50HX


    AntrimGlens wrote: »
    Hate them yokes ever since, use the track machine now to drive in all posts.


    I use a sledge hammer....ha ha ha

    Use the front loader for the heavy poles.


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    #530
    Mad4simmental
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,580 ✭✭✭Mad4simmental


    The home girl. No fancy bells & whistles but she done the job!

    f0jLqfnl.jpg


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    #531
    Reggie.
    Registered Users Posts: 24,399 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Mad4simmental wrote: »
    The home girl. No fancy bells & whistles but she done the job!

    f0jLqfnl.jpg

    The auld 784. Drove one for a few years


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    #532
    td5man
    Registered Users Posts: 3,081 ✭✭✭td5man


    Reggie. wrote: »
    The auld 784. Drove one for a few years

    Used to drive one with a loader that had no brakes and dodgy gears. :-((


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    #533
    davidk1394
    Registered Users Posts: 4,097 ✭✭✭davidk1394


    A friends investment for this year

    tZFP1vUl.jpg


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    #534
    yellow50HX
    Registered Users Posts: 1,828 ✭✭✭yellow50HX


    davidk1394 wrote: »
    A friends investment for this year

    Ah yes the 7610's Are a great yoke alright....... :D:D:D


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    #535
    Reggie.
    Registered Users Posts: 24,399 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    davidk1394 wrote: »
    A friends investment for this year

    tZFP1vUl.jpg

    How much was the rake


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    #536
    davidk1394
    Registered Users Posts: 4,097 ✭✭✭davidk1394


    yellow50HX wrote: »
    Ah yes the 7610's Are a great yoke alright....... :D:D:D

    A famous machine. That 1 is actually column change 84 reg with totally original paint work with 8000 genuine hours


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    #537
    davidk1394
    Registered Users Posts: 4,097 ✭✭✭davidk1394


    Reggie. wrote: »
    How much was the rake

    I think it was 6k


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    #538
    Reggie.
    Registered Users Posts: 24,399 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    davidk1394 wrote: »
    I think it was 6k

    Big money for them in fairness


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    #539
    yellow50HX
    Registered Users Posts: 1,828 ✭✭✭yellow50HX


    davidk1394 wrote: »
    A famous machine. That 1 is actually column change 84 reg with totally original paint work with 8000 genuine hours

    Same as the one here, but I'd say closer to 10k on the clock now. Actually pulled one of those tenders with 2 years ago to rake in hay for a neighbour and it worked it fairly well too.


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    #540
    davidk1394
    Registered Users Posts: 4,097 ✭✭✭davidk1394


    yellow50HX wrote: »
    Same as the one here, but I'd say closer to 10k on the clock now. Actually pulled one of those tenders with 2 years ago to rake in hay for a neighbour and it worked it fairly well too.

    Tis a good tractor and a nice pur off them to


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    #541
    davidk1394
    Registered Users Posts: 4,097 ✭✭✭davidk1394


    Reggie. wrote: »
    Big money for them in fairness

    Another friends father bought a brand new 2800 claas i think it was 27k inc vat. Serious money for a piece of equipment thats parked up 7 months of the year


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