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Title: New toy at work
Post by: piggysteve on May 04, 2008, 09:04:42
Bring on harvest look what I've got to play with this season.

(http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn249/piggysteve/002.jpg)

Trouble is it's thar complicated I think it will take me till harvest to work out how to drive the thing. :)

Steve
Title: Re: New toy at work
Post by: UKJeeper on May 04, 2008, 09:12:11
Those aren't weights on the front, those are the instruction manuals!  :shock:
Title: Re: New toy at work
Post by: piggysteve on May 04, 2008, 10:16:42
Cheers mate I'll take them home to study them.

Bet I still get stuck in it  :twisted:
Title: Re: New toy at work
Post by: 3laner on May 04, 2008, 22:53:38
know what you mean I got a brand new Massey 6480 to play with last harvest, still hadnt worked out all the gadgetry by the end of the summer! mind you anything goes wrong and you cant do anything untill a man with his laptop comes!
What combine are you using?
Title: Re: New toy at work
Post by: piggysteve on May 05, 2008, 05:36:44
I can't remember the number but the combine's an axial flow case, the lad I help over harvest has a bit of a case fixation  :)

Steve
Title: Re: New toy at work
Post by: old joe on May 05, 2008, 07:02:58
whats wrong with A FORDSON MAJOR OR A FERGEY. :lol:
instructions were on the back of a rizla paper.

oh how i wish i was back in farming. :(

Dazza
Title: Re: New toy at work
Post by: andrew2986 on May 05, 2008, 09:28:56
Hi Steve, you going to borrow that and bring it laning next time ??
Title: Re: New toy at work
Post by: joe90 on May 05, 2008, 10:41:14

oh how i wish i was back in farming. :(

Dazza

Well having grown up in the country side, and working in the city...ive started applying for jobs to go and work in farming/amenity works....yea the money may be rubbish but if your lucky enough to get a job you love thats all that counts.

Got an interview in a week for a company in Hertfordshire

BTW we just had a Class 696 ATZ at work - on turf tyres - now thats a machine to get your head round!
Title: Re: New toy at work
Post by: piggysteve on May 05, 2008, 12:18:09
Good luck with the interview Joe,as you say the pay is rubbish but I would'nt do anything else I love being out and about in the countryside all day.

Andy if I scratched that laning I'd be back to a horse and cart  :D

Steve
Title: Re: New toy at work
Post by: beast5680 on May 05, 2008, 12:30:21
nice looking machines arent they :afro: we just sold 5 155 and a 210 version of them
Title: Re: New toy at work
Post by: joe90 on May 05, 2008, 12:41:30
Thanks mate means working away from home but SWMBO seems happy with the thought of it .....but if i get the job and after my probation period theres a small house tied which is quiet a perk these days.
Title: Re: New toy at work
Post by: piggysteve on May 05, 2008, 13:34:39
We traded a Maxxum 135 in for it. That was a good machine till I pulled the top link casing off the back ploughing last season  :oops:

We've always lived in a tied house as you say quite a perk we could never have afforded to live in some of the houses we've had. The only drawback of livestock farming is of course that no one has yet bred a pig who can look after itself  ;) so we end up working a lot of bank holidays and weekends, it's a way of life, not just a job, is'nt it ?
Title: Re: New toy at work
Post by: joe90 on May 05, 2008, 18:08:59
, it's a way of life, not just a job, is'nt it ?

Oh yea but what a way of life....the job ive applied for is on arable farm but they've diversified into amenity/sports turf.

Case - nice machines - always been a John Deere man myself!
Title: Re: New toy at work
Post by: piggysteve on May 05, 2008, 18:24:07
I'm the same, we have deeres on the farm I work on for the day job, I'm a pigman on a pig/arable farm.

The Case I drive for a friend in the village, we farm a 400 acre arable farm in the evenings and weekends. Does'nt leave much time for anything else in the summer  :P

Steve
Title: Re: New toy at work
Post by: Tommo on May 06, 2008, 21:39:59
you know what they say...

john deeres for quee...................... [-X
Title: Re: New toy at work
Post by: 3laner on May 06, 2008, 22:46:47
never been a fan of queers deeres, im a massey man myself. combine wise though its nothing but a claas lexion! got a 600 last summer with 35ft header.
Title: Re: New toy at work
Post by: ian_s on May 07, 2008, 23:15:00
not much ground clearance on it, needs some bigger tyres....
Title: Re: New toy at work
Post by: piggysteve on May 08, 2008, 05:41:23
mmmmm  I'd better see about a snorkel as well
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