nick channer

how much you lookin for it.. i think i was biddin on it.. i no i was watchin it a lot..

wasthat same trailer that was on ebay month or so ago??

pm sent.. i'll have it as long as i can load an artic bulker with a forklift and log grab

yeah but you dont get deafened with a fordson runnin at about 1500 rpm compared with a massey that'l be revin at 2100 rpm........

we've got an old 6 cylinder fordson major... runs at 440 rpm just over tick over.. all the major pto's were high geared so i'm told.. uses 5 gallon in 10 hours..

luckily we rented a farm round corner this year.. it was a dairy farm so theres a nice big silage pit with concrete floor which is gonna be my new log store for while.. logs season better outside...

my log store.... until we start cuttin some wheat anyway..!

we spray lot of our fields for ragwort but it has to be done when its only a few inches high i thought.. we do some twice... it seems to get rid of it but if you leave it the next year it still comes back..

transits... was doing over 1000miles a week deliverin in my 02 plate with 180000 miles on clock... not got the power it once had... bought a lower mileaged 56 reg new shapeand if all goes to plan will have them both out deliverin..

dont no yet as not put full load on... the wood is extremley dry so i;m hopin thats gonna reduce weight considerably..

i sell 1.3 cubic metres for £80... most people in my area are £70 a bag or loose metre.. i should be chargin 100 a load and prob could get it a lot of the time... but i want every load that calls and that little bit extra does seem to win the customer.. i was gettin 3 loads at time on my transit last winter and havin bought another truck i'm currently havin cages and partitions made to carry 4 loads.... i very very rarely go out yard without 3 loads on truck and i think that gives me the "edge" on others who charge 80 a metre but only take one or perhaps 2 loads at time...

looks like s tidy outfit...[sorry, shoulda mentioned its on ebay]

i refuse to go in YP since they put wrong phone no in and still made me pay for advert but the thompson is diff story... i've had over 80 grands worth of work through them since jan this yr..i guess it depends what area your in...

when i left school at 16.. 22 yrs ago wheat was £100 ton.. red diesel was 10p litre and average tractor was less than 20 grand.. rates for contractin in comparrison to todays prices were prob more then than now.. ploughing was £14 acre and theres some round here now doing it for 20... 20 yrs later... think the mid 70's to mid 80's is where the farmers made there money.. some kept hold of it.. or bought more land with it [like my dad and grandad did].. but some didn't.. now theres no way on this earth a farmer can justify payin up to 10 grand an acre for arable land unless they got other incone other than farming..

the small bales are placed 7 bales long and 3 high with 4 hesston strings tied round them... we just use a bale spike and place one on top of other and pick 2 up at a time.. that way we're pickins 42 bales up at a time.. instead of the usual 8... the bale baron wasn't cheap.. over £50.000 but the straw sales will soon pay for it meanin we get the hay done for nothing each year.. down here theres very little straw chopped.. we have 600 acres of our own arable and thats all baled and i buy another 4-500 acres off my cousin in swath behind combine..

yeah thats true.. stuff i had delivered today was freshly cut this week and load looked nothing like load i had last week that'd been cut months ago..

yeah mine was plus vat... well some of it was...

£50 ton sounds bit steep... just had 3 artic loads in 81 ton in total @ £52 ton delivered.. it was 50 last year and he's put it up cos of diesel increase..

yeah.. i'll bale em and they'l clear them with lorry and drag as fast as i bale them.. they get around 1300 at time on lorry... with the bales being in packs of 21 from the bale baron we can load lorry in less than 30 mins without touchin a bale by hand.. last year we baled some spring barley straw and got 120 to acre and the wheat straw that had been set aside the previous year and plastered with terra sludge before drilling did 4 ton to acre and 150 bales straw to acre.. when corn was 70-80 a ton the straw would net more than the corn.. last harvest we sold big bale oat straw delivered in off field at £25 bale for mini hasston and that also earnt more than the oats after rentin the land.. i'm hopin the winter barley is gonna do well over 100 bales to acre poss 130... we got customers for 10000 through the winter at £2.50 bale delivered in and dealers will pay £2 out the barn.. its not unheard of gettin £3 for bale wheat or barley straw delivered in... last year was our 1st year with doing any small bale straw so we kept price low to get customers.. now they've had these bales in packs and see how easy they are to handle they'l pay more this year..

yeah its through phil judge the hay and straw dealer... going to a donkey sanctury.. in exmouth i think... we did 20000 wheat and barley last harvest and sold the lot quite easily... but £1.50 a bale straight off the field is way forward...

my cousins got 450 acres to cut and there starting tomorrow.. we got 280 acres of our own and 100 to do for someone else but it was planted about a month after most drilled theres.. we only grow it for the small bale straw and was gonna put wheat in till we had order for 11000 small bales straight off field.. so we changed from wheat to barley.. think that did the yielda favour, all that rain we had end may brought it on a treat wheras others that drilled early didnt benefit.. all we're prayin for is some good weathere so we can get straw baled dry and bright... if its dull they wont takeit..

ahh.. now that sounds bit more serious.. i'm sure it'd be summin electrical or summin simple.. our 8630 lost all drive completly.. a valve on side of gearbox was stuck.. what area are you in?

i havent seen any winter barley harvested round here yet.. ours is still very green.. old mans spraying it off as we speak to get rid of the green..

yeah on our 8970 it was a loose connection on one of the switches.. pretty sure it'd be the same.. our link arms wouldnt go up or down though..

we been getting 150 to acre off some land.. did 6150 off 40 acres last week.. mind you the 100 acres we rent on that farm was a dairy farm for over 30 yrs till they packed it in few years ago and its been slurried twice a year all those yrs... we had 3 good cuts off it last yr.. our other land is all doing 100 bales to acre.. all that rain we had end may made big difference, before that it was lookin grim.. we've done 15000 bales so far and not half way through yet and the grass we cut early at end may is ready for 2nd cut.. we're hopin for 50-60000 bales this year.... and we dont touch a single bale by hand since we invested in one a those bale barons...they gotta be one of the best inventions in farming since the baler... unbelievable piece of kit.... we have lot regular customers and try and keep price to £5 bale delivered 6 through winter... although i was offered £4 straight off the fielf for 10000 bales last week.. makes you wonder if all these horsey customers will be as loyal in future as we are..