The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Smallholding => Techniques and skills => Topic started by: jbthecamel on February 18, 2016, 06:02:54 pm
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Todays lesson was not to attempt to roll a field when it is boggy even though you are excited to use your new roller. The lesson continued with recovery of the a tractor and roller with a tracked excavator, which also got stuck. The field now looks like something from the Somme :o
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Oops :eyelashes:
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Oh no!
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Awwwwww I know the feeling, happened to me a few times :rant:....... :roflanim:
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:roflanim: :roflanim: :roflanim:
Thanks for sharing ! At least now you've got somewhere to give it a really good test - when things dry up a bit! :roflanim:
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Todays lesson was not to attempt to roll a field when it is boggy even though you are excited to use your new roller. The lesson continued with recovery of the a tractor and roller with a tracked excavator, which also got stuck. The field now looks like something from the Somme :o
You are not alone :-[ did this 30 years ago with the fergie 35 , hooked up the land rover that sunk too ,next door "started" to pull me out with his major, then we chained sleepers on the majors rear wheels ! then... next door came over and looked, came back with his massy 65 and quite a few webbing straps and a couple of words of advice...."If your going to pull something out of the mud find hard ground for the towing vehicle , and have lots of rope or straps . One day I'll tell you all about the land rover the snowdrift and the milk pan :-\ :-\ :-\
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We've all done it! The last time I tried to roll our fields, one half was useless because it was too hard, so I went over to the other half and promptly buried myself up to the axles. What's the point in owning a few acres of mud if you can't go out and play in it though? ;D (Oh, and strike up the banjos!! (https://youtu.be/pDY6bWT5oTM?t=14s))
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Ah this explains why my friendly local farmer won't fertilise the fields on the day that suits my diary but insists on waiting until the field is in the right condition. Clever chap.
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I'm just disappointed that there is no photographic proof of the event that you can share with us ;) ;D
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:idea: Next lesson perhaps .
Use said excavator to put in 600 x 1 mtr deep land drains filled with 40 mm clean stone and covered over ?
A local farmer close to here has truly changed a 12 acre field from a bog full of " Welsh Corn & mud " into a reasonable grazing field four years later on by doing it .