ftz313
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Aug 12, 2011 20:40:34 GMT
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The pictures are great but for me when I stayed in a farm cottage in Berwickshire it was the noise of the tractors and combines. Raw power.
Combines are only used for maybe a week a year? Where I stayed they bought new every 3 years.
Happy days and may go back to country life cos as we speak the local tink that stays a few doors away has just reappeared in his transit with no road tax.
Downside to farm life was the mouse that took refuge in my rs turbo....aaargh.
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Aug 17, 2011 19:31:35 GMT
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Just had to share another pic, looking out over the harvested fields. Now anyone can try to tell me we are fools for living out where we do..... 0.5mb download speed on the internet, mobile reception that comes and goes, and three cats that bring in all sorts of wildlife daily. However, we do have some of the most amazing sunsets, and the sunrises are as good over here.  |
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the new lexion 770 I was playing around in the other day on the farm has an air-conditioned seat lol
I honestly don't see the point.
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I share your pain on down load speed, I've done my time farming that's all I will say. Bloody long days start as soon as the moisture is gone and continue until it returns late in to the night, we had been know to work from before 5 till gone 1 in the morning. Cracking pay at 18 years old but my god after 4 months you feel like death, couple of my mates travel to New Zealand when it's out of season here, but if you do Havest, Pea's, taties and few others you tend to carry all year round. My kids love the farm machinery, but myself am more in to the vintage side of it, how ever I wouldn't say no to a Case Magnum still  |
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Some days you just need to take a grinder to an inanimate object, just to make your day a tiny bit better!!
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Cool write-up - thanks for sharing! Brings back a lot of memories as we get a similar view from my mother's house - two sides of the garden are separated from farmland by just a large ditch. Haven't been there around harvest time for quite a while though. As for dairy, where my father lives, the other side of the farmyard is a dairy farm & those staying in the spare bedroom are often woken by the mooing at milking time  |
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Sept 11, 2011 10:11:29 GMT
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working on the farm there is nothing nicer this time of year than the smell of the grain dryer as it heats and dries the grain... (the old fergie tractor that spends its life running it would probably disagree though)
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Mark
Club Retro Rides Member
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Sept 11, 2011 10:58:51 GMT
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Great thread Grizz - can't believe I didn't see it.
Our move to Australia has resulted in a lot of new experiences. I worked on a dairy farm for 3 months where I did a lot of tractor work - mostly seeding paddocks. I think I did about 50Ha while I was there.
Now my day to day work is visiting farmers so I have come across every sort of industry. I was out with a guy last week who had a pretty small (400 acre) cropping farm, but he had some SERIOUS equipment. I reckon the toys are half the appeal of farming ;D
I'll have to dig up some photos of work on the farm!
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Sept 14, 2011 13:45:50 GMT
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Great thread Grizz - can't believe I didn't see it. Our move to Australia has resulted in a lot of new experiences. I worked on a dairy farm for 3 months where I did a lot of tractor work - mostly seeding paddocks. I think I did about 50Ha while I was there. Now my day to day work is visiting farmers so I have come across every sort of industry. I was out with a guy last week who had a pretty small (400 acre) cropping farm, but he had some SERIOUS equipment. I reckon the toys are half the appeal of farming ;D I'll have to dig up some photos of work on the farm! Hallo Mark, Just sitting here at Cork Airport in Ireland, been at a work meeting for 3 days..... knackered now. Home by 8pm tonight, then up at 5am to take a train to leeds for the day tomorrow. Just been able to access this thread from the work PC, my private PC would not let me look at this thread. Sounds like you have settled well in Oz. You know the saying, "He who dies with the most toys.... wins" |
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Last Edit: Sept 14, 2011 13:58:28 GMT by grizz
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iant
Part of things
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Sept 15, 2011 12:46:39 GMT
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Great thread. I used to live in a farm cottage 6 years ago and loved the peace and quiet. The only noise you heard at night was the owls. Would love to live in the countryside again. One day I will!
Have a good trip home Grizz!
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Sept 15, 2011 16:30:58 GMT
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Thanks Ian,
It was a choice we made, mobile phones are dead, internet slow.... but a great place to live.
Just on train homeward from Leeds now. Pretty much 4 hrs each way, but work day was educational, so great.
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Sept 17, 2011 20:56:34 GMT
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brilliant pictures grizz, we had this little beast on hire this summer:  its a 1994 new holland tx68, has a 24' cut header and 5 straw walker system with 3d sieves for hill side work aaaaaaaaaaaand it took my combine driving virginity this summer ;D also working alongside out current combine a rotary john deere CTS hillmaster which pivots the entire machine on the front axle so it all operates on a complete level, (handy for the driver but not so handy if offloading on a steep hillside!!) and our contractors beast of a 7810 john deere, very simple american enginering, and plenty of power (and a manual fuel pump which is very easy to fiddle.... )  also another with one of our last set of tractors, a valtra t151, we now have a valtra 162 advanced with 170 hp and has no gear levers at all and a terrible electronic clutch, I would have my john deeres back in a flash if they werent so expensive!!!!  |
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 1969 massey ferguson 135- running, with a minor fuel leak 1989 vw polo squareback- scrapped 1988 toyota hilux with rollcage, landrover running gear and soon to be v8 1997 peugeot 306 dturbo -for sale- pm me 2007 toyota hilux invincible - fast and modern!!! |
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Sept 20, 2011 11:53:20 GMT
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Read a bit about the Valtra, seems they custom build tractors as well.
Nicola like the look of them.... she went "Oooooohhhhh, Pretty " over my shoulder.
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Sept 21, 2011 21:48:13 GMT
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they did have an online build program where you could custom spec it and see a picture of it when done, zebra print with flames down the side, air horns and all....
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1969 massey ferguson 135- running, with a minor fuel leak 1989 vw polo squareback- scrapped 1988 toyota hilux with rollcage, landrover running gear and soon to be v8 1997 peugeot 306 dturbo -for sale- pm me 2007 toyota hilux invincible - fast and modern!!! |
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dubzi
Part of things
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Sept 26, 2011 20:02:06 GMT
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brilliant pictures grizz, we had this little beast on hire this summer: Is that a tool for supervising the contractors?  We have all sorts of heavy machinery go on in the field behind us. I don't mind the machinery going on late into the night. Especially when they plough in the winter. The tractor dragging a plough with lights all along it looks like a ship going by when it's up the top of the field, quite impressive. I do mind the annual visit by the lunatics in a Landrover shooting things too near the house at midnight after harvest though....  Oh, and the time the farmer stored about 30 tipper loads of limed human sewage in the field for a month or so! It used to really stink at night when it got damp. Neighbour contacted the council who came out during the day and couldn't smell anything. He told them it was worse at night, council man replied "yes but we can only come out during office hours, so if we can't smell it there's nothing we can do". Typical council jobsworth! |
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Last Edit: Sept 26, 2011 20:03:39 GMT by dubzi
Happiness ain't at the end of the road. Happiness is the road.
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