God no I've had my fill of outdoor winter feeding, into the shed on straw this year got a watson bunker feeder coming tomorrow so hopefully that will the silage feeding sorted. Just pulled the feeder out of the Ditch for the hedge cutterAre you planning on grazing that @Funkeyfarmer hence the feeder!?
Gosh if I was any closer I'd be offering sheep up to you to graze that off.God no I've had my fill of outdoor winter feeding, into the shed on straw this year got a watson bunker feeder coming tomorrow so hopefully that will the silage feeding sorted. Just pulled the feeder out of the Ditch for the hedge cutter
Gosh if I was any closer I'd be offering sheep up to you to graze that off.
Criminal not to man!😁
😂😂 wouldn't put it past some lads!I don't know if there is any truth in it but I heard one time that when there was headage on sheep they would transport them between Wales and Wexford on fishing trawlers to claim the headage in both places. Would any of the Wexford lads know if it was true or not
I did think about it when it was getting so high even as just a way to trample it down before ploughing, but any thing I read about it said either not to graze it or it was just unpalatable so I left it at that. Will look better into it next yearGosh if I was any closer I'd be offering sheep up to you to graze that off.
Criminal not to man!😁
I am not a fan of Mustard particularly if it goes through the winter and I do not think it does enough under the ground . Some plants take a bit of time to get going and I have seen good results from thin cover crops . All my cover crops were short term this year and were sown with winter crops either wheat or oats . Unfortunately between straw and lack of time I did not get covers into where spring crops are going .Some pics over the last 2 months of the mustard& pheclia I sat in August, as can be seen the mustard grew pretty well pheclia only ok
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Sorry missed this. It's a great job very little waste compared with a to feeding with the round feeder. only downside has been loading the feeder I was using a spike bale handler and trapped the bullocks head with when the bale fell in looking at a bale shear for this year plus it will be safer and easier for the person feedingHow’s the new Watson feeder going Funkeyfarmer? Thinking about purchasing one- I know I’m a bit late for this Winter but I perfer to think I’m early for next Winter!!!!
No choice could nearly open a quarry there 🤣🤣No better man, steady out
Liam still going strong!Winter barley 2021 has started for us
Liam still going strong!
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How's it doing?Winter barley 2021 has started for us
about 7.5 ac only 3.6t/ac 3 loads @ 16.3 67.6, 15.8 68.5, 17.1 67.9How's it doing?
Winter barley 2021 has started for us
You couldn’t pay me enough to get onto a cab less combine now, you’d be sneezing briquettes out of your nose until October after a month on a cabless.Did your uncle never think of putting a cab on it?
Operators like that are a dying breed now!
I don't know if he ever considered it only ever seen him with a dust mask a few times i half think he just like being able to listen to the mechanical noisesDid your uncle never think of putting a cab on it?
Operators like that are a dying breed now!
An uncle of mine got the air con fixed on his baling tractor, and the lad that fixed it told him he'd be right now, he could keep the back window closed when he was working. He said if he closed the back window he wouldn't hear the pick-up turning. That was the end of the air con.I don't know if he ever considered it only ever seen him with a dust mask a few times i half think he just like being able to listen to the mechanical noises
I think he bought it new in 1980 though It might be a year either side of that. It probably cuts 32 to 35 ac a year 5 of his own and what ever I have, been cutting that about for the last 15 years used to do a bit more before thatSuper pictures….fair play to the man. How old is that combine? Does it do much cutting still?