jf 850' s pics

jd-baz said:
Missed you there today jf,I presume you seen the 3 zetors?
Very good friend of mine owns that dodge ram and the 946.
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I don't think that I've met that friend of yours , though he lives within 15 miles of me . I was talking to 3 other friends of his there , including the former Dodge owning rancher member of F4F .

I've often seen those 3 Zetors , and possibly guts of a dozen more of theirs. Most still put in a shift .
 
jf 850 said:
I don't think that I've met that friend of yours , though he lives within 15 miles of me . I was talking to 3 other friends of his there , including the former Dodge owning rancher member of F4F .

I've often seen those 3 Zetors , and possibly guts of a dozen more of theirs. Most still put in a shift .
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I met in with the famous dp himself and our ed,
I have to say the 3 zetors were very well done,a credit to the owners,
 
agreid said:
That tractor was the one pass tractor following a reverseable plough the tyres are American import 2nd hand on Heston rims . It originally pulled a rotaspike and a bridge link 2.8mt mf drill later a 3mt power harrow with some of the outside blades removed.
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Was it a local tractor?
Considering it's workload, it must have been fitted with a turbo, to give it a boost.
Back in the mid 1990's, I can remember the Alexanders having a few similar tractors, drawing silage from a Hesston 7650 harvester, if my memory serves me correctly.
 
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agreid said:
Your memory is correct.
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Agri-Eng said:
I haven't been up that side of the country in many years. Are they still cutting their own silage? They always appeared to be men with great drive.
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agreid said:
One lives in Cork . The other still cuts his own silage Krone front and trailed mower ,Sturtman? wagon and a Kramer on the pit.
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Would they have made slurry agitators 20 maybe even 30 yrs ago ?


I bought a mower from a man who had the mower on 1 tractor , the wagon on another , and a JCB loader .
He used to pick 3 loads , let out the 1st two on the slab , shove up 2 , then let out the 3rd and shove it up . The repeat the cycle .
He said the really desperate part , was facing into covering the pit by himself...
 
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agreid said:
One lives in Cork . The other still cuts his own silage Krone front and trailed mower ,Sturtman? wagon and a Kramer on the pit.
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The Hesston has been retired so, by the sounds of it.
The wagon would be a less labour intensive means of cutting one's own silage.
Even back in the mid 1990's, they were finding it hard to get drivers.
From what I recall one of the lads, worked in Jamiesons back in the day, in the stores/parts side of things, so would have had a good knowledge of Hesston equipment.
They had a well equipped workshop and did a bit of fabrication work too. Propellor type slurry agitators were a speciality by them.
 
@jf 850
Yes, they seemingly did make and sell a considerable number of propellor type slurry agitators.
I was in their workshop once back in the day, to collect a bearing pullers.
They actually had a well equipped setup and did a good bit of welding and fabrication work.

I feel that man's pain operating a one man show, with his wagon.
My late grandfather had 3 Pottinger wagons, in the early 1980's. At the time, each one was usually worked as a stand alone unit. The farmer in question would usually do the mowing. A tractor, wagon and loader would be dispatched to the farmers yard. The driver of the wagon would bring in the grass, with the wagon and push it up too. An MF 50 loader or a Zetor 5545 with a buckrake usually pushed up the silage.
I can vaguley remember accompanying my grandfather in his lorry, to drop off the MF 50 to a cousin's yard. Our cousing was mowing with a Zetor 5511 tractor, with no cab, only a roll bar and a 5'6" mower and my uncle was picking up the silage, with my grandfather's Ford 4000 and Pottinger wagon. Slow but steady progress was the order of the day. The man on the Zetor and mower earned his crust that day, as he was under a lot of pressure to keep ahead of the wagon. While it is nearly 45 years since those days, those memories are still fresh in the head. However, it would have been nice to have had the benefit of a camera phone, to capture those moments in picture format.
 
Agri-Eng said:
@jf 850
Yes, they seemingly did make and sell a considerable number of propellor type slurry agitators.
I was in their workshop once back in the day, to collect a bearing pullers.
They actually had a well equipped setup and did a good bit of welding and fabrication work.

I feel that man's pain operating a one man show, with his wagon.
My late grandfather had 3 Pottinger wagons, in the early 1980's. At the time, each one was usually worked as a stand alone unit. The farmer in question would usually do the mowing. A tractor, wagon and loader would be dispatched to the farmers yard. The driver of the wagon would bring in the grass, with the wagon and push it up too. An MF 50 loader or a Zetor 5545 with a buckrake usually pushed up the silage.
I can vaguley remember accompanying my grandfather in his lorry, to drop off the MF 50 to a cousin's yard. Our cousing was mowing with a Zetor 5511 tractor, with no cab, only a roll bar and a 5'6" mower and my uncle was picking up the silage, with my grandfather's Ford 4000 and Pottinger wagon. Slow but steady progress was the order of the day. The man on the Zetor and mower earned his crust that day, as he was under a lot of pressure to keep ahead of the wagon. While it is nearly 45 years since those days, those memories are still fresh in the head. However, it would have been nice to have had the benefit of a camera phone, to capture those moments in picture format.
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There was an old lad locally who would pit his silage alone. With a double chop.
Fill trailer, drag to the trailer tractor, unhitch from harvester, then to trailer tractor, tip and push up each load.
They say there was one year so stop start that he just kept going into second cut on the same field as he finished the first.
Not sure if that bit is true mind!🤣
 
AYF said:
There was an old lad locally who would pit his silage alone. With a double chop.
Fill trailer, drag to the trailer tractor, unhitch from harvester, then to trailer tractor, tip and push up each load.
They say there was one year so stop start that he just kept going into second cut on the same field as he finished the first.
Not sure if that bit is true mind!🤣
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I've multi tasked the wagon and the pit a few times myself. A few years ago I picked up and pushed up 22 acres of second cut by myself one day.
 
A friend often tips away himself. Big wide pit so he can tip 3 loads and push them up at once then. The farmer he works for is very easy going. It is a cheap way of putting in silage for the farmer.

Funnily enough, the silage always goes in, in good weather. 9/10 times the farmer who will cut whenever it suits the contractor, gets his cut in the good weather.
 
Tekscrew said:
A friend often tips away himself. Big wide pit so he can tip 3 loads and push them up at once then. The farmer he works for is very easy going. It is a cheap way of putting in silage for the farmer.

Funnily enough, the silage always goes in, in good weather. 9/10 times the farmer who will cut whenever it suits the contractor, gets his cut in the good weather.
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Jh? Some grafter for work
 
Tekscrew said:
Funnily enough, the silage always goes in, in good weather. 9/10 times the farmer who will cut whenever it suits the contractor, gets his cut in the good weather.
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It’s an odd one alright.
It’s good while since I went at silage but invariably the man who said “Yerra throw mine in when you’ll be working nearby” got it done in perfect order, whereas the fella who said to come next Thursday, not to mow before 1pm and let it wilt for 36 hrs, don’t chop it less than 30mm and don’t knock any gates or tear down the electric fence ended up with the poorer conditions.
 
Peter said:
I've multi tasked the wagon and the pit a few times myself. A few years ago I picked up and pushed up 22 acres of second cut by myself one day.
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What does your wagon carry Peter? Would it carry something around an acre of first cut or how many bales lets say?
 
eddie86 said:
What does your wagon carry Peter? Would it carry something around an acre of first cut or how many bales lets say?
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I've weighed a load before and it's bringing around 9 tonnes in a well packed load. I reckon around a load to the acre in first cut and a bit with in second cut.
 
Peter said:
I've weighed a load before and it's bringing around 9 tonnes in a well packed load. I reckon around a load to the acre in first cut and a bit with in second cut.
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Did something happen the rotor of your wagon Peter ? Did you get it fixed , or what did it involve ?
Maybe I'm thinking of someone else.
 
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