Machinery Photo/Discussion Thread

_blaaz · 14-07-2019 11:23pm

Reggie. wrote: »

Never use hot wash here

Tbf yous wash regularly....but for caked in grease a hot wash will lift it

Sillycave · 14-07-2019 11:41pm

_blaaz wrote: »

Tbf yous wash regularly....but for caked in grease a hot wash will lift it

Don’t have access to hot pressure washer just a cold one...that’s why I was looking for degreaser to help the cold washer (prefer not to use diesel)...thanks for reply

_blaaz · 14-07-2019 11:53pm

Sillycave wrote: »

Don’t have access to hot pressure washer just a cold one...that’s why I was looking for degreaser to help the cold washer (prefer not to use diesel)...thanks for reply

They use red nelly in work....dunno where they get it now....just comes on a pallet

davidk1394 · 15-07-2019 12:11am

Didn’t wash the tractor yet. Find it gas, lads that wash the machine every day

X6.430macman · 15-07-2019 2:18am

davidk1394 wrote:

Didnâ€™t wash the tractor yet. Find it gas, lads that wash the machine every day

Ya I agree, can't help but make a funny face when I see a lad putting a pressure hose to the back end without hesitation, amounts of electrics and sensors there water had to find its way In

Sillycave · 15-07-2019 8:16am

X6.430macman wrote: »

Ya I agree, can't help but make a funny face when I see a lad putting a pressure hose to the back end without hesitation, amounts of electrics and sensors there water had to find its way In

Oh don’t worry there’s not much electrics on this one apart from the lights and it hasn’t see any water for a good few years apart from the rain...had oil leak which covered it so want to clean it down

hopeso · 15-07-2019 8:57am

Sillycave wrote: »

Oh don’t worry there’s not much electrics on this one apart from the lights and it hasn’t see any water for a good few years apart from the rain...had oil leak which covered it so want to clean it down

Did you try the cold washer on it? It mightn’t leave it spotless, but if it’s a tractor that’s not in pristine condition, it should do a good enough job of cleaning up the mess...

whelan2 · 15-07-2019 9:13am

davidk1394 wrote: »

Didn’t wash the tractor yet. Find it gas, lads that wash the machine every day

Aren't they lucky they have the time to do it

Reggie. · 15-07-2019 9:17am

whelan2 wrote: »

Aren't they lucky they have the time to do it

You make time

whelan2 · 15-07-2019 9:19am

Reggie. wrote: »

You make time

There would be a hundred things I would make time for but washing a tractor regularly wouldnt be one of them. Whatever floats your boat

Reggie. · 15-07-2019 9:22am

whelan2 wrote: »

There would be a hundred things I would make time for but washing a tractor regularly wouldnt be one of them. Whatever floats your boat

10mins is all it takes when done regularly

maidhc · 15-07-2019 9:39am

Reggie. wrote: »

10mins is all it takes when done regularly

Less even. At the end of the day you need to wash most implements when you are done with them anyway so why not give the tractor a rub of the hose too.

A tractor that is looked after, washed and stored indoors is worth 10k+ extra too after 10 years.

For me its a pride thing.

mengele · 15-07-2019 11:40am

funkey_monkey wrote: »

Can I ask why you are putting on dribble bars, yet keeping the moscha? Does different crops react to different types or is it for ground conditions?

You previously posted some photos of some grass you spread back to back with a splashplate and the moscha. How did they turn out?

Yes the results to this would be interesting to see

davidk1394 · 15-07-2019 11:57am

maidhc wrote: »

Less even. At the end of the day you need to wash most implements when you are done with them anyway so why not give the tractor a rub of the hose too.

A tractor that is looked after, washed and stored indoors is worth 10k+ extra too after 10 years.

For me its a pride thing.

Well if the tractor was covered in muck I’d clean it. At the moment it’s only baling and mowing so I just wiped the windows a dry cloth and use the air line to blow off any dust. Every machine is backed in at night. I clean the baler once or twice a year with a hose and brush. I don’t clean in around chains and bearings with the hose. I just use the air line

maidhc · 15-07-2019 12:50pm

davidk1394 wrote: »

Well if the tractor was covered in muck I’d clean it. At the moment it’s only baling and mowing so I just wiped the windows a dry cloth and use the air line to blow off any dust. Every machine is backed in at night. I clean the baler once or twice a year with a hose and brush. I don’t clean in around chains and bearings with the hose. I just use the air line

That sounds like a clean well maintained setup!

I never wash the baler mind, just blow it out.

patsy_mccabe · 15-07-2019 12:53pm

I powerwashed the muck spreader like I always do when I'm finished. Leave to dry, cover in black oil and put in shed for another year. I always grease the bearings when finished too. This year really noticed a lot of water coming out of them when greasing. Just goes to show how important to drive out the water with the grease. I turn the machine a few times then to work the grease around. I've been doing this now for over 30 years and the bearings only needed replacing once and that was about 5 years ago.

vincenzolorenzo · 15-07-2019 5:31pm

Panch18 wrote: »

you do if the guy is registered - but our bale fella is probably under the threshold for registering

I'm just saying that it adds some amount to costs of getting stuff done

What is the threshold for registering for VAT? Is it €XX turnover per year? Or how is it assessed?

Base price · 15-07-2019 5:46pm

vincenzolorenzo wrote: »

What is the threshold for registering for VAT? Is it €XX turnover per year? Or how is it assessed?

Unless there is a exception for agri contractors the threshold for supplying services is €37,500 (turnover).
Here is a link to the Revenue site explaining the thresholds and what is covered.
https://www.revenue.ie/en/vat/vat-registration/who-should-register-for-vat/what-are-the-vat-thresholds.aspx

GrasstoMilk · 15-07-2019 10:55pm

Silage crops a bit uneven this year in spots, it's a new spreader and I set the veins to the fert I'm using and use a gps.
Cant figure out why only that the veins are getting fairly worn.
They are a bit pitted, would the spread pattern be altered due to the veins?

mengele · 15-07-2019 11:13pm

GrasstoMilk wrote: »

Silage crops a bit uneven this year in spots, it's a new spreader and I set the veins to the fert I'm using and use a gps.
Cant figure out why only that the veins are getting fairly worn.
They are a bit pitted, would the spread pattern be altered due to the veins?

What make spreader. What width are you spreading? Problem with spreading a big width ieg 18 meters is any bit of wind will throw it off

GrasstoMilk · 16-07-2019 7:10am

mengele wrote: »

What make spreader. What width are you spreading? Problem with spreading a big width ieg 18 meters is any bit of wind will throw it off

Amazone, spreading 16m. 3rd year with it

GrasstoMilk · 16-07-2019 7:19am

GrasstoMilk wrote: »

Amazone, spreading 16m. 3rd year with it

Pictures of the long veins on both discs

Mooooo · 16-07-2019 7:30am

Can you get those trays to calibrate it? Any chance the fert was lumpy enough to block everyone often?

GrasstoMilk · 16-07-2019 7:56am

Mooooo wrote: »

Can you get those trays to calibrate it? Any chance the fert was lumpy enough to block everyone often?

It was yara fert for all the first cut which is supposed to be the best of the best. Last year and the year before she has spread very even crops of silage, I doubt its blocking tbh. The fert leaves the spreader at the very bottom of the hopper and the auger in the hopper keeps the fert moving along

patsy_mccabe · 16-07-2019 9:00am

GrasstoMilk wrote: »

Silage crops a bit uneven this year in spots, it's a new spreader and I set the veins to the fert I'm using and use a gps.
Cant figure out why only that the veins are getting fairly worn.
They are a bit pitted, would the spread pattern be altered due to the veins?

Are you double spreading? By that I mean are you spreading back to the middle of the tractor track from the last run. That way, any imbalance is cancelled out to some degree.

GrasstoMilk · 16-07-2019 9:27am

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Are you double spreading? By that I mean are you spreading back to the middle of the tractor track from the last run. That way, any imbalance is cancelled out to some degree.

You dont double spread with my spreader. Your last track is 16m from current track. My old spreader you would have double spread, wagtsils you would double spread too.

patsy_mccabe · 16-07-2019 9:34am

GrasstoMilk wrote: »

You dont double spread with my spreader. Your last track is 16m from current track. My old spreader you would have double spread, wagtsils you would double spread too.

Why not? Just drive 8m apart and reduce spreading rate to half what it was.
Check that the back arms are level aswell. I eye ball it on level concrete.

GrasstoMilk · 16-07-2019 9:39am

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Why not? Just drive 8m apart and reduce spreading rate to half what it was.
Check that the back arms are level aswell. I eye ball it on level concrete.

It's the way they're are designed now. Take teice as long to spread fert.
I've never had a problem till this year. Arms are level

blue5000 · 16-07-2019 9:56am

GrasstoMilk wrote: »

Silage crops a bit uneven this year in spots, it's a new spreader and I set the veins to the fert I'm using and use a gps.
Cant figure out why only that the veins are getting fairly worn.
They are a bit pitted, would the spread pattern be altered due to the veins?

Did you spread slurry as well? Might be the slurry going out unevenly and not the spreader at all?

If it was a blend of fertiliser the bigger granules might have made it out to 8m but smaller (N) granules might not have.

Reggie. · 17-07-2019 11:33pm

Well shes half on

visatorro · 17-07-2019 11:34pm

Don't block the indicators anyway!!!

Reggie. · 17-07-2019 11:35pm

visatorro wrote: »

Don't block the indicators anyway!!!

God forbid

visatorro · 17-07-2019 11:38pm

You know the way ploughing is not seen as carbon friendly any idea about the Harrow or disc Harrow? What's the scientific view

Reggie. · 18-07-2019 12:03am

visatorro wrote: »

You know the way ploughing is not seen as carbon friendly any idea about the Harrow or disc Harrow? What's the scientific view

No idea

bogman_bass · 18-07-2019 9:07am

Better than ploughing in that regard. You are exposing less soil to the air.

davidk1394 · 18-07-2019 11:38am

visatorro wrote: »

You know the way ploughing is not seen as carbon friendly any idea about the Harrow or disc Harrow? What's the scientific view

It’s seen as shallow inversion

Waffletraktor · 18-07-2019 1:40pm

Sumo trio type is maxi til
Ripper tine/ deep disc is min til
3” and shallower is scratch til

Buford T. Justice XIX · 19-07-2019 12:20pm

I'm starting looking for a new shear garb for next winter, looking for one that will do for bales as well as pit silage. 100hp 4wd tractor and I'm struggling to find a grab less than 600kgs weight.

Tanco are E4500 and Prodig are E5500 for a 1.5m grab with plastic grab which is a bit more than I'm hoping to pay. Rossmore aren't answering their phones so who else would be making something similar out there?

whelan2 · 19-07-2019 12:25pm

Do Tighe engineering still do them

Buford T. Justice XIX · 19-07-2019 1:42pm

whelan2 wrote: »

Do Tighe engineering still do them

I just looked there now. They do shear grabs from 5' up but no information on whether there's a plastic grab available for them.

I got a call back from Rossmore, they're off on 2 weeks holidays today. They have a 4'6" grab with plastic grab for E3200 but I'm not sure the strength would be in them like the other two above. It just looks like a normal grab with plastic grab attached.

visatorro · 19-07-2019 2:24pm

Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »

I just looked there now. They do shear grabs from 5' up but no information on whether there's a plastic grab available for them.

I got a call back from Rossmore, they're off on 2 weeks holidays today. They have a 4'6" grab with plastic grab for E3200 but I'm not sure the strength would be in them like the other two above. It just looks like a normal grab with plastic grab attached.

Do you not think that's very big for your tractor?

visatorro · 19-07-2019 2:32pm

https://twitter.com/visatorro/status/1151960844596666370?s=19

Buford T. Justice XIX · 19-07-2019 2:50pm

visatorro wrote: »

Do you not think that's very big for your tractor?

I have a 4'4" already on and it's plenty big for me, tbh. But it's getting shook now so I'm thinking of replacing it but ideally with something that can grab the plastic as well as doing pit.

The weights of 600kgs+ are putting me off going for a bigger grab but if that's the choice I have that can do both then I'll have to suck it up for a while and get a bigger tractor when I'm changing again.

jaymla627 · 19-07-2019 3:35pm

Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »

I have a 4'4" already on and it's plenty big for me, tbh. But it's getting shook now so I'm thinking of replacing it but ideally with something that can grab the plastic as well as doing pit.

The weights of 600kgs+ are putting me off going for a bigger grab but if that's the choice I have that can do both then I'll have to suck it up for a while and get a bigger tractor when I'm changing again.

Prodig grab is over 740kgs and is pretty severe on a tractor/loader combo, the loader bracket bolts sheared here after 2 seasons and that was on a t6140 that was over 6 ton weight and it wasn’t even the boss of the grab you’d have to be careful on slopes our you’d tip over handy enough too...
Useless for bales aswell as the Hardox times don’t spike the ball so you have to try and scoop it up, alright on concrete base but a disaster if bales are stored on clay.....
Paid 4600 for the 1.5m grab so they have gotten dearer too

Timmaay · 19-07-2019 6:29pm

Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »

I have a 4'4" already on and it's plenty big for me, tbh. But it's getting shook now so I'm thinking of replacing it but ideally with something that can grab the plastic as well as doing pit.

The weights of 600kgs+ are putting me off going for a bigger grab but if that's the choice I have that can do both then I'll have to suck it up for a while and get a bigger tractor when I'm changing again.

When you say grab the plastic what do you mean? Are there shear grabs out there that can split bales also? I could do with replacing mine also, however I need something that can do pit silage/maize and lift bales.

Buford T. Justice XIX · 19-07-2019 7:08pm

Timmaay wrote: »

When you say grab the plastic what do you mean? Are there shear grabs out there that can split bales also? I could do with replacing mine also, however I need something that can do pit silage/maize and lift bales.

Tanco I75 Multi shear

Prodig Megabite

Prodig Shear Genius

Rossmore Multishear

That's all I've found so far anyway.

stanflt · 19-07-2019 7:56pm

Gone to the red side-

Buford T. Justice XIX · 19-07-2019 8:00pm

stanflt wrote: »

Gone to the red side-

Well wear.

Did you trade in the NH?

Muckit · 19-07-2019 8:38pm

Well wear with the tractor stan. Fine outfit.

God that sulky is starting to go bit. But tis used a lot and not idle

kevthegaff · 19-07-2019 8:49pm

Muckit wrote: »

Well wear with the tractor stan. Fine outfit.

God that sulky is starting to go bit. But tis used a lot and not idle

Bro has one too rustin after 3 yrs

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