Thorpes Pic's

[thorpe]

A bit light on maize this year, only managed to get 2 crews in action this year due to work and a few other projects. Also nice to get a Bateman in action spraying a crop of potatoes

 

[nashmach]

A bloody lorry drawing maize

 

[thorpe]

A bloody lorry drawing maize

Not my first time seeing this crew doing the same and it doing the job perfectly. To be fair ground conditions were near perfect and not a spec of mud on the road out side the field.
A snap from 2020 with the same crew

 

[thorpe]

A few Potatoes being lifted

 

[thorpe]

A snaps of the Vervaet self propelled beet harvester from last November. A first time for me as well in finally getting an Armer Salmon TR2000 Twin Row Beet Harvester with a very nice New Holland 8560. Also a first in getting a Sumo DTS Seed Drill working sowing a crop of East Cork

 

[thorpe]

A little more beet from the last few months

 

[thorpe]

Last selection of Armers and only Thyregod of the season that passed in front of the Nikons lens

 

[thorpe]

A bit of slurry spreading, fertilizer spreading and crop spraying

 

[thorpe]

A bit of early ploughing from earlier in the year

 

[nashmach]

Nicely snapped older O+K loader!

 

[Paw]

Nicely snapped older O+K loader!

Took me a while to find that.

 

[Mid cork]

Nicely snapped older O+K loader!

That loader would have some amount of work done, it’s been on the same big dairy farm for the best part of thirty years and still going strong.

 

[thorpe]

A bit of ploughing & early sowing of Spring Barley

 

[nashmach]

Unusual to see an Alpego power harrow.

 

[thorpe]

Unusual to see an Alpego power harrow.

Not a very common sight to be honest. There a few around. I think Kearney's are the local distributors

 

[thorpe]

A bit more spring tillage work and a classic MB Trac

 

[thorpe]

A bit more Spring Tillage work

 

[thorpe]

A bit more Spring Tillage work

 

[thorpe]

More Spring Barley going in a few weeks back

 

[thorpe]

Some more spring cereals going in and the first of the main crop potatoes being planted

 

[thorpe]

Still continuing with the Spring tillage work theme for another bit

 

[thorpe]

A bit more from the past Spring tillage work and the first baler of the season

 

[thorpe]

A bit of dust rising with potatoes going in

 

[thorpe]

A bit of beet going in over the late Spring this year

 

[nashmach]

A 6215R is a bit overkill on a six row sower!!