Machinery Photo/Discussion Thread II

ml100 wrote: »

@Reggie. How do you find the tuffmac dump trailer, I think I saw your landini on their Facebook page.

Believe it or not its sat in a shed since that day. Never used it yet but it's mainly used in winter for dung and the likes.

Looks good at a glance and only issues I've had were a few oil leaks from fittings and a few missing grease nibbles that I noticed when I went looking over it

Shes all ready for the morning

Base price wrote: »

Hope the weather stays good for you. Awful rain on the way.

To stay dry here till tomorrow evening or so it says

Base price wrote: »

Are the two tyres that are flipped over some sort of dept gauge?

Yep. They flip forward and the ripper runs on them as a kind of depth guage

Reggie. wrote: »

Shes all ready for the morning

Those tyres have to be worth a few quid. I wouldn't like to be buying them new anyway...Advertise them now, while they're still on the tractor. If you get a buyer, it wouldn't take too long to fit the new ones.....

NcdJd wrote: »

Neighbours potato harvesting rig. Out this morning harvesting kerrs pinks.

will be some mess harvesting spuds the way the year is going. just aswell theres plenty of money in it!!

Well its sown anyways

Mooooo wrote: »

Who does the driving for ya while you take pictures?? :P fairplay hopefully twill work out alright. Would ye spread granlime with that as well or did it get just ground lime?

The farmer spread granlime and fert as I was going over it. Need to get someone to film some moving shots now

Reggie. wrote: »

Well its sown anyways

is he going putting slurry on it by any chance. mu uncle tried that before and it was a complete failure, the new seed's never took off, the boss man here reckoned if he put slurry on it afterwards, it would help the seed get a grip. but that was nearly 8 years ago maybe things are different

Gillespy wrote: »

Bidding war kicking off between Grassmen and Farmflix to have the rights to film Reggie now.

I'll be worth money yet

NcdJd wrote: »

Them lads are well used to the muck. Won't be a bother to them ha.

Ransoms 2 row chain digger, and lots of traveller families emptying fertilizers bags of spuds into bulk boxes...
Good man on the artic shovel getting full boxes to the headlands, and the jobs a good un..

Reggie. wrote: »

Was going for 600s and the man in agrigear reckons the rim would take it no bother

Would you not just run the mich at a slightly lower pressure to increase area or why go wider? Landini won't have the weight for big tyres, she wont get the power down, looking at their brochure they're 4.7T at operating weight. Just something to consider. Similar weight to the valtra and I wouldn't go past a 520 and I'd be on wet ground with very few hills.

Reggie. wrote: »

Oh she will have no hassle getting the weight down with the powerharrow, guttler or tanker

Also that running weight is without any oil or fuel in her so you add upto 500kg extra onto that weight. My girl is running roughly 5.5ton at least full of fuel and myself in the cab.

After that you have the brackets for the loader

Not gonna admit how much weight I add

Quoted as operating weight rather than shipping weight so I would have thought that was oiled up and ready to go but I may not be right there. P/h & Guttler wont be adding weight once they are in the ground and the tanker will have most of its weight on it's own axle, especially going uphill. Just something to consider is all, if you have no issues now I wouldn't change but you will do more damage on a greasy bank with wider tyres if she isn't biting, not to mention the dangers of it.

There is a big push in tyre sizes in the last few years, throughout all sizes of machinery, 650/65/38's have become 650/65/42 or 650/85/38's and even the farmers tractors have gone from 460's to 520/540's with some going to 600's. More expense and no extra performance, less if anything. Might be worth inquiring with dealer if any of them have gone out on 600's. One advantage you would get is a bit more weight on the backend from the tyres alone might help with road work on the tanker. But I would best 540 michellens will grip better than 600 BKT's, clean better and be able for more weight at lower pressures.

Each to their own though, you know your setup best. Let us know how you go with pricing, if youre thinking of selling your own try and sell while they are still on the tractor at least then people buying will know theyre genuine.