The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Smallholding => Equipment => Topic started by: Still playing with tractors on July 08, 2013, 03:04:07 pm
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Please Tractors and such like only. :innocent:
Have you got a lovley Ford or Massey or how about that favourite piece of firewood kit, size does not matter its just how proud you are of it.
I will start everone off with a few of my tractor photos and i hope to update them through out the year showing different kit attached.
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Oh wow, Can't even begin to compete. Its just OH with his strimmer :(
Still I can't complain as he does a good job and he never complains himself.
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I wouldn't mind the two attachemnts you've got one for ploughing the snow and the other for harrowing. Our harrow is an old chain one. :'(
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Hi thanks for the comments.
we upgraded last year after a long time using a chain harrow so nowt wrong with a grass chain harrow!
I got fed up withe snow 2 years a go, it took us a full day to clear our farm road with 3 tractors and trailers 2 loadalls and 3 13t excavators :relief:
The plow takes a bit to get used to with its width.
enjoy and lets see your toys :excited:
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something else to wet your apatite
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If you even need a hand playing with any of your toys...
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Yes more than happy for you come and have a look, it just might inspire you. :thumbsup: I do a fair amount of contracting for smallholders and fellow equine owners in and around the stirling area. it works out better for a lot of smallholders to get me into do selected jobs but while still being involved in the process and without them forking out all the cash for the bigger kit. charge a resonable price and everones happy :excited:
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Here is my crew planting potatoes in 2011 on my 1956 grey gold ferguson. I have a similar photo of the same tractor and planter with my dad at the wheel and me on the back in 1978....when the tractor was only 22 years old !
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Brillaint what a great picture and with so much family history, thats a great team you have there! Could you post a picture showing how the potato planter works?
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That all looks very clean and bright stufe35.
I so wanted to post a photo of our new little Truck but its on my I pad.....but one good bit of kit is the little diamond shaped log splitter.....that goes through tough logs easily, and our little truck can pull them along!
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Hi Happygolucky, it will be good to see your pics once you transfer them over. What kind of truck do you have?
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Something I wanted for years, although its for logs we could do all sorts with it, anyway, one day I may pluck up courage to go shopping with it!! :-J
My husband broke his small splitter..... :o
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Thats a very handy truck, i picked some of those ones you get in garden centers up in farm sale last year its not as big as yours but stillvery handy indeed.
Team up a quad with your truck and there will be no stopping you :excited: Just think how much shopping you could fit in that wow :thinking:
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Love it, I wonder if it will pull me along, we have it to use in the forests as we paid for a long awaited foraging permit and its such fun as we take the dogs along too!!
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Wagons roll :roflanim:
oh what a vision....
When we first moved to where we are we did the FC scavenging thing but found it a nightmare as its so difficult to get the wood out then we tried the road side pick up but they banned chainsaws...... so it ended up with the loader tractor and a long drive.
We have moved on to get lorry deliverys as its much easier and we can get the right size of wood for our processor.
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Its not the easiest way to get wood!!! :-J
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we have found that its cheaper to buy wood from the private estates rather than the FC.
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A chap who stayed with us a few years ago had a brother who bought all the kit etc to collect "free wood" in the long run it WAS cheaper to buy it, although we love the collecting bit and cutting bit and we have now covered our costs as we also use the time we would be taking the dogs for walks. I am glad there are no chain saws but I did suggest my husband hires some more functional stuff at the end of the season. Currently we have loads and loads of very good and dry wood, a lot of kindling too and its mixed hard and soft wood
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See if there is anyone in your area with a wood processor to help you out. Have a look on the net for your local machinery ring.
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Just picked up my new (SH) flail, our old one finaly expired :rant:
I will post some pics of it running and let you know how it works out. :fc:
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Happy can you tell us abit more about the foraging permit?
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I will let Happy come back to you about their system but here in scotland the fc have typically 2 permits, one is pick up ie the trash left from clear felling and road side collection is from the piles left over from the log lorrys going to the paper mills etc. If you go to your nearest fc office they will be able to tell where the wood is and the cost i think its about £20 for 6 months for pick up. Hope that helps.
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Is that all areas ?
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i would asume so but best to check with the fc.
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Out flailing a heavy reed infested field last Friday evening, using a McConnel Merlin 250 flail and NH TVT 155