Do contract harvest or just your own out of interestView attachment 60555 View attachment 60556 This is what we have now and do around 20-25 acres a day
We have our own beet and harvest for others too... I hope nobody thinks we have rubbish like that in our own beet..Do contract harvest or just your own out of interest
The pictures of the hino hotels and long timber trailers bring back flashbacks.
Same trailers down here but usually pulled by Dafs.
A friend from west cork often reminds me of an acquaintance who took a load of beet to mallow after too much drink. Not sure if it was a Hino or DAF but he had to ring the boss and tell him that the wing mirror got broken.
When asked how did it happen, he informed the boss that the lorry had leant down on it......
The Hinos were over time replaced with mostly Daf 95's, a Volvo FL10 and a MAN M90-292 most of which ended up exported after the demise of Irish Sugar.The pictures of the hino hotels and long timber trailers bring back flashbacks.
Same trailers down here but usually pulled by Dafs.
A friend from west cork often reminds me of an acquaintance who took a load of beet to mallow after too much drink. Not sure if it was a Hino or DAF but he had to ring the boss and tell him that the wing mirror got broken.
When asked how did it happen, he informed the boss that the lorry had leant down on it......
Careful your customer might see that comment!We have our own beet and harvest for others too... I hope nobody thinks we have rubbish like that in our own beet..
The Tame contractors man used to wake up at 4am to see if it was dry enough to get up at 6am to go pull beet.Land is starting to get soft with all the rain. Went to four different fields today with the armer before I found one dry enough to work in
I’d well believe itThe Tame contractors man used to wake up at 4am to see if it was dry enough to get up at 6am to go pull beet.
Land is starting to get soft with all the rain. Went to four different fields today with the armer before I found one dry enough to work in
We got a lot of rain. A few inches in the last few days I’d say. The tops are still ok we weren’t leaving any beet at all today. I have the thyregod in Meath for the last few weeks pulling a couple of days a week in between the armer pulling in Wexford. Tops seem worse up thereYou must have got more rain down there, there were lads pulling a wet field up here earlier.
There's very little drying these days either when it's not raining. Are the tops getting bad yet?
We got a lot of rain. A few inches in the last few days I’d say. The tops are still ok we weren’t leaving any beet at all today. I have the thyregod in Meath for the last few weeks pulling a couple of days a week in between the armer pulling in Wexford. Tops seem worse up there
How come everything was left there, as opposed to being sold or weighed in?Purple car is an old Jaguar that was converted to diesel, the Hinos would stay going just to spite you, a 6 speed gearbox with 4th struggling to do 30mph and a big step to 5th which would pull 50 mph, 6th was for downhill or empty, there were 3 that had Eaton 8 speed that came from Scotland, View attachment 60814Google brought up one of them with Lairds and I think our man bought 3 of them at the time, a different Ryans and no relation to the lads you know, the 8 speed was a better job if you could remember where the gears were, 1st was where 3rd would usually be located, 2nd at 4th, 3rd at 2nd and 4th at 1st, flick the switch and go round the box a second time so effectively clockwise to go up the gears and anticlockwise to go down. The trailer axle is still there, just the wheels missing on the middle one.
Good question, there were changes of ownership going on and while that was happening the price of scrap collapsed so missed the boat.How come everything was left there, as opposed to being sold or weighed in?
I was in sandy type land todayI know all about the rain down here!! 45mm the other night alone. I'm only a few miles from you but still surprised land is soaking as well.
We a Mercedes tractor unit drawing the beet for years in the eighties and ninetys and it had the same setup for the gears,everything upside down.It took me ages to get used to it. I found out after the lorry was gone from a mechanic that worked on them that it was a very simple job to change it.Just remove the two arms on top of the gearbox (that are attached to the gear lever) and rotate them 180 degrees. It would have saved me a lot of grief if I had known that.Purple car is an old Jaguar that was converted to diesel, the Hinos would stay going just to spite you, a 6 speed gearbox with 4th struggling to do 30mph and a big step to 5th which would pull 50 mph, 6th was for downhill or empty, there were 3 that had Eaton 8 speed that came from Scotland, View attachment 60814Google brought up one of them with Lairds and I think our man bought 3 of them at the time, a different Ryans and no relation to the lads you know, the 8 speed was a better job if you could remember where the gears were, 1st was where 3rd would usually be located, 2nd at 4th, 3rd at 2nd and 4th at 1st, flick the switch and go round the box a second time so effectively clockwise to go up the gears and anticlockwise to go down. The trailer axle is still there, just the wheels missing on the middle one.
Nice outfit there. Tops look really good. They’re starting to deteriorate around here had a lad on today he says his are disappearing fast. We’re close to the sea the salt air Knocks back the tops from now onView attachment 61099 View attachment 61098
Getting another few tonnes out today. Leafs in good order and beet coming out better than expected. Ground conditions are better than expected too considering we had 60mm in one night last week.
The sea is less than a half mile away so I know what you're saying about the salt air and Atlantic winds.Nice outfit there. Tops look really good. They’re starting to deteriorate around here had a lad on today he says his are disappearing fast. We’re close to the sea the salt air Knocks back the tops from now on
a silly question but what are the wheels at the back of the harvester for ?We do get a bit of good going sometimes too... This was earlier this evening...
Not a silly question at all.. The wheels are designed to help carry the weight across the full width of the machine especially when in soft wet land. They are linked to the hydraulic circuit and lift in and out of work with the front end lifting gear. More or less hydraulic pressure can be applied as necessary. There is also a soil leveller incorporated too to level out a soil ridge left by the front turbines.a silly question but what are the wheels at the back of the harvester for ?
This matrot avalible?I’ll soon have this Matrot M41 here for sale if anyone’s interested.
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