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Ring him, he has them on offer from time to time. Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk

About £1800 actually, it will make the tractor a much more versatile tool. Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk

I'd fit a front linkage from linkages direct, then you can stick any winch you want and unhitch it when not in use, would save a lot of wear and tear. Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk

I wouldn't jump to what the neighbour says, funny how the neighbour tells you this just as you are near completion of the job eh? And as the neighbour is so bitter it is a safe bet that if his / her facts were true then he / she would have reported you and your customer to the council and whoever else it would concern. Also, how is it the neighbour is such a land ownership expert? How can he / she prove or even know who owns where / what? Take it with a pinch of salt, if it was fact, your customer would have been served notice long ago, and that is a fact. Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk

Check the battery terminals are tight first, don't short the starter unless you know what you're doing, and FFS, if you do, use a screwdriver that 1. Has a good insulated handle and 2. You don't want to use as a screwdriver anymore. As if you do it wrong with a spanner, it will burn your hand like that German bloke in raiders of the lost ark.

The exact same figure as a Scania 440 with 12 tonnes of live chickens on.

This sort of topic comes up on the farming forums alot "I have had my pants pulled down via EBay, please help" eBay is some sort of 21st century cultural thing where someone takes the rusty radiators out the back garden, broken kids bike, burnt out fan oven, and in some hope of profit, "put it on eBay" it leaves little to the imagination what chaos goes on amongst the honest sales on there. I keep clear of it myself, saves grief.

You will need straining posts each end dug in to a depth of about 2'6" and set stay struts in line with the wire. Pack the strainers with stones and obviously soil. Use high tensile plain wire along the bottom, about 3" off the ground, tighten it with a wire strainer, this will act as your line for the posts also, remember a trainer is needed at every corner to take the tension of the wire as it changed direction. Make holes for your intermediate posts with a bar, and knock them in at intervals of 2 - 2.5 m, then, leave the job for a day or so to let the ground settle around your strainers. 6" diameter strainer posts will be great. Then come and hang your netting, leave a square length out to fold over your staples on the straining post, fold it over and hammer the folds flat, then staple the spare square to the post, strain the netting a strand at a time with a lever starting from the bottom, staple it and work your way up, leaving the narrow squares at the bottom, set it 2" above your plain wire. If the plain wire is tight enough, the dog will not get under, if its a Doberman or nasty dog use barbed wire on the bottom, better that than it escapes and eats someone's children!

The Merlo Multifarmer is a clever concept, but after a couple of miles at 40k you have to stop and let the transmission cool down.

Have / do you drive an Artic? 1000 acres these days barely justifies a decent combine, plus you won't get a lorry on a stubble field, or off it either. (Them chaser bins at LAMMA weren't half pricey) What happens when your driver is I'll or has enough of you and tells you to go ram it? At 2k a pop HGV training is too costly to train more than you +1 staff member. As far as return loads go, thats hire and reward, so a full OL is needed, plus a transport manager hired in weekly or you do it your self =more training cost, then theres full time hauliers to compete with for work with, and plus theres plenty of hauliers who will haul for you cheaper than you can do it yourself. Fertiliser prices and spot grain prices are just as good with a truck or not, because any premium you make and saving you save gets swallowed by the lorry costs. Hgv's don't suit everyone, I drive them, I see what is needed as far as maintenance costs go, a thirsty tractor for 20 mile radius work is nothing compared to the headache of owning and running a HGV. 5000 acres and big boys toys maybe, but even so you have depreciation to contend with or pay £400 a week plus lease. That's alot of money for any business to find in this day and age before you even think of Wages.

The savings of using a tractor as opposed to a Hgv are plainly not in fuel- no need for six weekly checks, MOT, tyres, training for CPC, HGV licence and no need for an operators licence where you need 20k minimum cleared funds and prove a load of other intrusive things to obtain, more than make up for poor fuel economy. Up this end of the woods a building firm could use a fendt and dump trailer instead of a six wheeler full time on red without fear of VOSA even acknowledging them as they pass on the road. To me the system is wrong, a lorry of reasonable size should be cheap to own and run to save folk using the tractor loophole.

Absolute waste of time, their brakes aren't really up to it and they end up overheating the transmission oil, and pretty shyte on hills. Ok short journeys and around the farm, but wouldn't expect one to last day in day out on the job.

Another thing I would say, is if you have a self propelled chipper, would trading it in for a pto one be a satisfactory option as far as comparable capacity goes? A tractor makes machines like chippers cheaper to run as no engine to service and less to go wrong, maybe you would get more bang for your buck trading in an a self propelled chipper for a pto one?

Tractors will give poor mpg as opposed to a lorry, I run a JD 6310 se as an ag contractor, it punches way above its weight, and isn't too horrendous on fuel as opposed to its modern versions, 20 and 30 series Deeres won't be as frugal, and you won't find any 30 series in much shape for 25k. A 6010 series will prove a good buy for your budget, including a loader you'd get a tidy reliable one. Had ours since brand new and no problems ten years down the line. A 100 hp tractor will be much more versatile with a loader, but your maintenance will be a fair bit, oils and filters plus grease costs me 75 pence per working hour over a year. That said, my tractor is in immaculate condition and has never broken down. Always always always use a decent ag trailer with good brakes, with 8 stud axles minimum as the brakes on six stud axles are too puny for road work - you want to avoid over heating the brakes on any tractor, don't ride them constantly down hill, use them to slow down then let off to let the oil cool them, that's key, because when brake linings give up the resulting swarf contaminates the hydraulic oil resulting in a big repair bill. Good trailer brakes mean no wear on the tractor's, buy a decent plated trailer, not a converted lorry body or home made rubbish, a good trailer will pay you back for years to come.

I can see what you mean, you'd expect that on a saw that has had a lot of use as age and heat do that to aluminium.

I'm of the opinion Facebook et al are dangerous for business promotion, as you will always get a loser who will post bad press about you on your page, and by the time you have seen it, so has everyone else.

I would say as far as the emergency stop button is concerned, wire it to the fuel cut off solenoid if your tractor doesn't have an ipto switch, it really isn't ideal but its there. If you are going to run it on a same or an international with pull to stop then you would have to discuss an alternative mechanical device with the manufacturer, I'm willing to wager a company like ryetec would make you a bespoke machine, it may cost more, but it would be worth it.

What exactly are you looking for? Simply a log splitter? Or a processor? You can pick up brand new 11 tonne plain log splitters for a tractor for near as damn it £500 these days.

That is very interesting, I worked a harvest on a farm nr kings Sutton, Oxfordshire 10 years ago, and the cherry grain bucket was bowed as you describe, but the farm manager blamed it on a full timer using it to level some ground, I couldn't see how as it was hardly anything a grain bucket would struggle with, three bucket fulls at most. Bloke got a bollocking and it wasn't his fault.

Got a 441 on the farm, run it with 25 and 18" bars, and have no bother, and had no bother since I bought it brand new in 2009. It runs the larger bar with no bother and faster than expected. In fact, it's an animal of a saw and p155es over anything else in comparison.

I had a bright idea, lock all tools in a bloody great van vault in the barn, and when showing a 70 odd year old friend of the family who does some joinery in our barn my new anti theft system, how heavy it was he said "you'd be shocked what a couple of Irishmen can shift lad" if they come across a tractor they can't steal, they vandalise it to bits because its your fault they can't steal it. B'stards indeed.

How do you think all the big fat gypsy weddings, Xmas, cars, gypsy anything in fact is payed for? They steal for a living. Fact. How some people are naive in thinking "how can they be rich robbing the odd chainsaw?" It's economy of scale, they rob "the odd chainsaw" several times a day and night, all week, every week. Every crime has a victim. In my opinion those who buy stolen equipment might as well have stolen it themselves. They will fence alot of kit out of the country, same places who buy stolen tractors etc.

Alcohol is obviously a drug. But, it's effects do wear off, eventually. Worked with an alcoholic once, great guy, then he'd have a binge after staying dry for a few weeks, and have a day off sick, at least I didn't have to put up with him drunk. Unpleasant experience was working with a man who claimed to use cannabis for "medicinal purposes", my backside, he was hooked on it, and was hard work, had to put up with his extreme paranoia and tantrums, temper flaring up to psychopathic levels. Also almost killed by an idiot with a back actor of a JCB whilst he was smoking a joint at the time. A lot of drug and alcohol users will deny they have a problem, cannabis users especially, always bang on about how ganja is safer than beer etc, and can't see they have issues themselves, shrugging off criticism of their beloved drug and skinning up another joint. Says it all really.

I have this problem. We own a few acres of woodland as part of our farm, with a public footpath running through it. No one has any right to take wood from there except me, although, since millions of britains are fitting wood burners, people don't seem to mind bending the law and entering our wood via the footpath with a chainsaw and helping themselves as if they own the place. I will guarantee that 99% of forest and woodland on this island will be owned by someone, and removing timber of any kind will be theft. The log business is a good earner for some, but a nightmare for others.

Be sure to register all with the tax man. Also, you want to look at your hourly rate. Self employed with own tools ain't gonna be the same as your boss pays you now.