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Wouldnt recommend the 531-70 torque lock model. Weak head gaskets and transmission wiring loom poor, good old parkinsons.
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Fleetguard
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526s Mate of mine has one on his sheep farm. 96 on the p plate, 11,000 hours, they look after it and it still has all glass, lights and mudguards. Headstock is as tight as it has ever been. What a little peach. In my opinion the rear engined models seems to be better than the side engined machines, but an artic jcb like a tm100 or similar is a good machine. Try and avoid ones from dairy farms
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Jcb everytime. Having worked on all makes and models and being unpartial to any brand, general all round winner would be jcb, followed by manitou. Jcb's are reliable, if maintained properly, if they do break easy and cheap to fix, good residual value and good for easily 10,000 hours plus.
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Ok, so if we had smaller fields, due to crops developing at different times you would forever be driving over everything, many times, increasing compaction, so increasing the amount of cultivation required, burning more diesel burning a bigger hole in the ozone and profits. Even at current methods of rtk and control traffic 80% of cultivation work done is removing the compaction from last seasons crop work. What about other chemicals then? Today i put on over a tonne of tri-allate, which when it comes wet will need spraying off with some form of glyphosate based product. This is after the pre emergants that have already gone on. But without it what would we have? A field full of black grass and weeds. I do agree something has to be done about the whole agriculture industry, but i just can not see how banning glyphosate will achieve anything, only poorer quality grain, less yield and more weeds year on year
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So in my forty acres you want me to have 3 acres of oats, 4 acres of linseed, 2.7 acres of barley, bit of grass, some maize. Do you realise the logistical, financial, time and ecological problems that would cause?
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As i said before. Other brands of glypho are available
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Shouldn't need to be Eastern Europeans though, we have plenty of folk here already that aren't doing a right lot. I agree. It shouldn't be eastern europeans doing a lot of things. But it would seem certain groups in this country dont want to work
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But in reality what are the options? Just suppose i have 40 acres of oil seed rape i need to harvest. Have 4000 eastern europeans hand picking weeds?
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It will be a p o s like the anorak and transporter
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Fine, ban round up. Plenty of other branded glyphosphate based products out there. Nearly all combinable crops are sprayed with the old 'liquid sunshine' before harvest. And again after to burn off regrowth, id rather eat crop been sprayed with glyphosphate than the old alternatives we used to use. Mainly acids on potatoes etc. You have to have it in agriculture otherwise you just would not get the yield or the quality. It would be such a dirty sample, youd be making your bread with thistles, docks and nettle seeds......mmmmmm. Sell it in health food shops for a fortune.
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Tesco going down what do you all think thanks
Agi-Smash replied to mendiplogs's topic in General chat
Good job. Maybe if they hadnt strangles the suppiers people would support them. Ah well, what comes around goes around. -
Richard Pocock is down your way. I have bought stuff off him in the past and hes good ole boy.
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Just had a look, they list several ford new holland tanks
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Have you tried sparex?
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Its toyota so it will be a mule, but it looks like one from oz like twenty years ago
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I was too busy to go. Any pictures?
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+1 for bfg's
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If there was any way to take part in trials or testing then i would do my best to help. I wont get too upset if they do die. But it would be nice to get one decent large tree that will live a fair while. All of the mentioned 'foreigners' are interesting but i was aiming for the more traditional, however if this isnt possible then the nearest equivalent would do. Mr. se7enthdevil, yeah, why not. If you dont mind. I suppose all i need do is chuck them in the ground and hope for the best. I will pm you in a bit, tea has just arrived. I am outstanded by all the input on this. Thank you all. se7enthdevil
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Alec, Many thanks for your input. You do seem to be a wealth of information on this. If some of the spanish hybrids to become available in the uk, where would be the best place to look for them. I may just bide my time for a bit then. I am in no rush. I may try and find another near home to borrow a bit from until a more commercial approach appears.
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Or is it actually rust? If they use lawn sand say, 7-0-0 3Fe. Then the iron in the lawn sand will literally rust if it has got wet. Did you notice any black moss?
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I like youre thinking. However i think practically a gallon of cherry and a pack of swan vestas would be infinitely cheaper and less maintenance
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????? Really ?????? Dont understand the question. Transit for a cabstar? Ok, whats your thinking behind this backward step?
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Never expected so many replies on this. All very interesting. Mainly aimed at the rather knowledgeable alec now but all input welcome. Just suppose you had a field and you wanted to plant some elm, what particular variety would you plant and what program of maintenance would you give it or would you wait to see results on the latest batch of hybrids? Is it sad liking an old traditional tree and wanting to preserve it or am i just trying to do my bit for the next generation Dave
