Today's tractor.

TAFKAT said:
Different men so, there were men from Cork who travelled up around this country with combines in the 50's and 60's, I met one of them a few years ago, I was just wondering if there was a connection.
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There was a man/men from here who traveled as far as Kildare I believe. Spring barley was finished down here and wheat then ripened after it up there. Claeys harvester.
 
I think im right in saying there were lads from the Carlow/Wicklow border area used to travel to Shannon airport to do the square bailing years ago. Was apparently a bit of a pain of a job, you’d make a windrow then the call would come to say plane on the way all clear the area and the windrow would get blown out of it
 
drew said:
I think im right in saying there were lads from the Carlow/Wicklow border area used to travel to Shannon airport to do the square bailing years ago. Was apparently a bit of a pain of a job, you’d make a windrow then the call would come to say plane on the way all clear the area and the windrow would get blown out of it
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There was a man in the area that did that right enough
 
drew said:
I think im right in saying there were lads from the Carlow/Wicklow border area used to travel to Shannon airport to do the square bailing years ago. Was apparently a bit of a pain of a job, you’d make a windrow then the call would come to say plane on the way all clear the area and the windrow would get blown out of it
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i don't know who done the baling but a local haulage contractor used to transport and sell the bales, we bought a load one very dry year and we were burning up here at home.
more moss than grass in the bales and the bales like accordions the twines were so loose on them
 
Friend of my fathers used to cut hay on the country with a tractor & fingerbar mower in his younger years, some nights if he was far from home would just sleep under the tractor.
 
rustymcsocks said:
My fathers uncles on his mothers side were contractors and used to travel north thrashing corn. I know they used go as far as Lismore and surroundings.
Some of these majors are still in action with the next generation of contractors on that side of the family. One in particular is on a spud drill and does be out drilling spuds locally. @thorpe may have it in his archive.
Jim McCarthy would be the sons of one of these men.
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Sorry for my delayed reply, it was a mad few days at work (long week and weekend) I would have to go through some nearly forgotten files and hard-drives put I would fairly certain I would have a snap or 2 of it some where.

Oh and before I forget well wear with the new addition :hearteyes::hearteyes:
 
Jay Dee said:
Friend of my fathers used to cut hay on the country with a tractor & fingerbar mower in his younger years, some nights if he was far from home would just sleep under the tractor.
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“The first thing that I bought was a small grey twenty,
I went on hire mowing hay and I got plenty,
I’ve dropped hay near and far with a Ransomes fingerbar,
But it’s all cut and saved now and I’m weary.

(The late great Connie Collins).
 
Spotted this pet yesterday, not your average tractor for Nth Longford.
I have to declare that I'm very sceptical about this "green energy " When you think about what fuel this would consume and the digger to feed it and then trucks to cart the stuff away. 😒😫
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To chop up a pile of pine needles and clay
 
mixed fleet said:
Spotted this pet yesterday, not your average tractor for Nth Longford.
I have to declare that I'm very sceptical about this "green energy " When you think about what fuel this would consume and the digger to feed it and then trucks to cart the stuff away. 😒😫
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To chop up a pile of pine needles and clay
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Isnt the hitch very close to the ground on those xerions? Would catch a lot of straw in a row!
 
mixed fleet said:
Spotted this pet yesterday, not your average tractor for Nth Longford.
I have to declare that I'm very sceptical about this "green energy " When you think about what fuel this would consume and the digger to feed it and then trucks to cart the stuff away. 😒😫
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To chop up a pile of pine needles and clay
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Never seen tyres with that pattern before, your comment reminds me of when the beet growing in Ireland was on the way out the talk was of growing beet for ethanol, how much fuel would have been used to sow, fertilize and harvest the crop, haul it to a beet factory and end up with ethanol in a storage tank that had to be hauled to somewhere where it could be utilized.
 
Arthur said:
Never seen tyres with that pattern before, your comment reminds me of when the beet growing in Ireland was on the way out the talk was of growing beet for ethanol, how much fuel would have been used to sow, fertilize and harvest the crop, haul it to a beet factory and end up with ethanol in a storage tank that had to be hauled to somewhere where it could be utilized.
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The tyres are unusual, I didn't cop the brand 710's r42
You can add willow and miscantus, more diesel burning exercises 😡🤬
 
mixed fleet said:
Don't know, it's moved into a forest beside an outlying farm.
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I was saying it to a relation that does a good bit of the re for planting for TT beside you.
reckons it's great to get rid of the auld brash as it dangerous and a nuisance while trying to replant
 
mixed fleet said:
The tyres are unusual, I didn't cop the brand 710's r42
You can add willow and miscantus, more diesel burning exercises 😡🤬
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Tyres like these.. Nokian.
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Are they a good agri tyre or just some specialist type tyre for forestry ? Looks like you would have good grip but hold a lot of material too in sticky going
 
The Stig said:
Are they a good agri tyre or just some specialist type tyre for forestry ? Looks like you would have good grip but hold a lot of material too in sticky going
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They’re rubbish for agri use. All the guys hedgecutting the roads etc have them. Anyone using tractors for road haulage use them also.
Was offered a set that were barely used for small money but threw them off 6mts later because they’re no good for field work.
 
The Nokians on the Xerion are a hybrid tyre, a halfway house between a traditional field tyre and the block pattern you would see on road tyres. The latter also tend to have a stronger sidewall, making them suited to mowing road verges.
 
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