Machinery Photo/Discussion Thread

Waffletraktor

GrasstoMilk wrote: »

Days training a bit overkill unless he's going from an 885 into a quadtrac!
When we bought the new Massey the lads in the yard went through everything with us. It was simple enough. Although that was a simple enough one.
Looking at upgrading again and they've completely changed. So many features on the ones with the electronic arm rest

No driving on a quadtrac, 2 diffs/big revs lever with a few buttons is all thats needed.:cool

GrasstoMilk

Waffletraktor wrote: »

No driving on a quadtrac, 2 diffs/big revs lever with a few buttons is all thats needed.:cool

Looks like mr F has added a magnum to the fleet. Going from all green to red

Waffletraktor

GrasstoMilk wrote: »

Looks like mr F has added a magnum to the fleet. Going from all green to red

Pair of axial flows next?
He'll be in for a shock on running costs in a few years, Rubber tracks are £5.50/hr alone never mind rollers when they de-laminate from all ye're shaley soil.

GrasstoMilk

Waffletraktor wrote: »

Pair of axial flows next?
He'll be in for a shock on running costs in a few years, Rubber tracks are £5.50/hr alone never mind rollers when they de-laminate from all ye're shaley soil.

Sure the new customers are going to absorb his running costs.
Won't be buying one here even though It was the only make dad ever bought. If he wants land you can't compete and I refuse to help him fund it.

Mooooo

Anyone buy a spinner recently? Spreading around 80 tonne a year, occasional on road to neighbours or our own outfarm but mainly yard to field. Have a rauch atm

freedominacup

Mooooo wrote: »

Anyone buy a spinner recently? Spreading around 80 tonne a year, occasional on road to neighbours or our own outfarm but mainly yard to field. Have a rauch atm

I'm waiting on a couple of quotes from contractors for an hourly rate for fert spreading. We haven’t spread any fert ourselves for the past three seasons. Cost around 3k last year for similar tonnage to you. Just couldn't face going back to doing it myself.

White Clover

GrasstoMilk wrote: »

Days training a bit overkill unless he's going from an 885 into a quadtrac!
When we bought the new Massey the lads in the yard went through everything with us. It was simple enough. Although that was a simple enough one.
Looking at upgrading again and they've completely changed. So many features on the ones with the electronic arm rest

I think you were early 20's when ye bought the massey. The man I'm talking about is a bachelor in his mid 50's. Going from a ts100a.
It's what he told me.

Waffletraktor

GrasstoMilk wrote: »

Sure the new customers are going to absorb his running costs.
Won't be buying one here even though It was the only make dad ever bought. If he wants land you can't compete and I refuse to help him fund it.

Your probably right! I wonder how much of a sense of humor malfunction there was next door when they were awarded it.

If you heard of skark golf course outside of Ross, wouldn't have been far at all from home... Apparently it's now a corn field of theirs!

Mooooo

freedominacup wrote: »

I'm waiting on a couple of quotes from contractors for an hourly rate for fert spreading. We haven’t spread any fert ourselves for the past three seasons. Cost around 3k last year for similar tonnage to you. Just couldn't face going back to doing it myself.

Had looked at contractors but with a man here 2 to 3 days a week and at the neighbours the other day we will follow cows every week, spent about 2 days at it myself if say other than that he did it all. Did you get it at a bulk price and they bring it with them or was it your own bags they spread?

freedominacup

Mooooo wrote: »

Had looked at contractors but with a man here 2 to 3 days a week and at the neighbours the other day we will follow cows every week, spent about 2 days at it myself if say other than that he did it all. Did you get it at a bulk price and they bring it with them or was it your own bags they spread?

About half from the merchant and the rest from our own yard. It'll all be from our own yard this year. More flexible for contractors and I won't be covering the costs associated with the time wasting they have to deal with in merchants.

GrasstoMilk

Bought a new 1.8t amazone last spring. Probably costing the same as freedoms price there between, repayments on the machine, time and running costs.
Would be putting out similar level of fert as you

Zr105

kowtow wrote: »

When it goes into "choose mode" (after turning ignition back on) the display says Opt.. you need to fiddle around to get it to display no and then Yes in sequence.. but the up down buttons for the gears, which the manual says are used to make a selection, don't make any selection at all. The only buttons which change anything on the display are the two on the bottom right of the display itself and the one on the left.. the buttons which are normally used for changing the display brightness AFAIK...

I can get the display to show YES but I can't "save" the selection in any obvious way.

Puzzling, because it looks as though it should be there!

Strange alright, if you hold the left button then start the engine without turning off the key in between will it save it?

kowtow

Zr105 wrote: »

Strange alright, if you hold the left button then start the engine without turning off the key in between will it save it?

Finally figured it although I'm not quite sure how!

You press the hour or minute button to save the setting, the problem is you have to fiddle around a bit to get the correct value to display. The up and down gear select buttons have no effect.

Somehow I managed to get YES showing and then save it. I'd quite like to know what the other settings are HD for example? in case I managed to change them too but in any event everything seems to work as it ought to.

I think when NH changed to the new H/L ratio lever and moved the change buttons they forgot to connect all the connections...

cjpm

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lVDFVhfcKNk

Check out this genius

Slurry

Rain gun
From Roadway
Waterlogged ground
Complete with rushes

emaherx

cjpm wrote: »

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lVDFVhfcKNk

Check out this genius

Slurry

Rain gun
From Roadway
Waterlogged ground
Complete with rushes

No PTO shaft cover either.

Slurry spreading with a Difference!.... Watch next week's episode when we pump directly from our tanks into the nearest lake

Nekarsulm

Are rain guns banned in England?

emaherx

Nekarsulm wrote: »

Are rain guns banned in England?

Don't know, but I'm sure spraying it into a water logged swamp most be at least frowned upon!

davidk1394

Ye might get a good laugh out of this https://youtu.be/ccJ_z3jloIA

davidk1394

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QkjV6IBwzsg

9935452

cjpm wrote: »

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lVDFVhfcKNk

Check out this genius

Slurry

Rain gun
From Roadway
Waterlogged ground
Complete with rushes

Broken pto cover too.

tractorporn

emaherx wrote:

Don't know, but I'm sure spraying it into a water logged swamp most be at least frowned upon!

Unless things have changed recently rain guns are allowed in England. But spreading into a pond is not.

Agri spec

Lads I'm thinking of buying a new 6 rotor tedder this year I've looked at the majority of them but can't make up my mind just wondering what people's opinions are on them I've looked at Kuhn lely Malone krone and pottinger, Which do ye think is the best one

Never wrestle with pigs

Anyone know of someone around who deals with allot of second hand loaders? Thanks

White Clover

Never wrestle with pigs wrote: »

Anyone know of someone around who deals with allot of second hand loaders? Thanks

Isn't there a fella in monasterevin? Barry Fenton is his name I think.

Agri spec

Never wrestle with pigs wrote: »

Anyone know of someone around who deals with allot of second hand loaders? Thanks

Think there's a guy in macroom in cork Seamus Vaughan or the coogans in kildare

Nobbies

Agri spec wrote: »

Lads I'm thinking of buying a new 6 rotor tedder this year I've looked at the majority of them but can't make up my mind just wondering what people's opinions are on them I've looked at Kuhn lely Malone krone and pottinger, Which do ye think is the best one

I,m thinking the same thing myself. seen all them makes today except for the lely at a machinery show.don't know much about tedders but for me the pottinger looked the pick of them.strong and well assembled.they use the straight tine though as do krone.any odds in that verus the hook tine lely and Malone use?also I was thinking 4 rotor tedder, but was told you get a better Ted with the greater number of rotors? you hardly know the price of a lely new?

Agri spec

The lely is around €13000 inc vat they are all similar in price, for me I thought the lely was a very light machine compared to all the rest some people tell me the hooked tine are a great job but others tell me there not because they bring the grass around a 2nd time and it starts wrapping on the wheels, I thought the Malone was a very well built machine with very good width but I don't know anyone who has one or I don't know anything about them and I'd be afraid to chance one there's a lot of Kuhn and krone around and anyone that has one seems to be happy enough with them

Reggie.

Agri spec wrote: »

The lely is around €13000 inc vat they are all similar in price, for me I thought the lely was a very light machine compared to all the rest some people tell me the hooked tine are a great job but others tell me there not because they bring the grass around a 2nd time and it starts wrapping on the wheels, I thought the Malone was a very well built machine with very good width but I don't know anyone who has one or I don't know anything about them and I'd be afraid to chance one there's a lot of Kuhn and krone around and anyone that has one seems to be happy enough with them

Not a fan of the hooked tine myself. Bought a 7.6m kverneland late last year for €11500. Only did 10 acres so far and folds up nice and small too. Bit heavy at 990kg tho

Agri spec

Can I ask why your not a fan of the hook tines I've no experience with tedders so I'm interested in all opinions also is the kverneland a well built machine I haven't actually looked at one of them

X6.430macman

I can't imagine the hooked tines being any good in wettish grass. Lot of pressure on tines without putting a hook in them