May-Aug 2013 Vol 22-1 #85

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Hand washer on slurry reeler keeps tractor steering wheel cleanHandwasher on
 slurry spreader

 

This Orkney contractor prefers driving with clean hands when spreading slurry with his umbilical machines...  read more

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grain-dry-trailerTrailer modified to
dry peas / grain

 

This farmer grew white beans in 2011, and the merchant called for them while they were still 16% moisture. He didn't want to use his mobile drier as the beans would split. The man who did the job before was tied up with green beans and didn't want to clean out the machine.  So our farmer converted an old 10t trailer, and got the moisture down in a couple of days. Click to get this issue Vol 21-1    Or get it for £1.00 with your subscription

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Front mounted pack-cultivator gets Vaderstad Rexius working a gear higher
Made it Myself front
cultivator/press

 

In 2008 two large arable farms  joined forces to share the work nearly 4,000 acres. While one farm was combining, the other was ploughing and then working the land with a 5.5m Vaderstad Rexius cultivator. The John Deere 8530 carried ballast on the front. Over the 2007/8 winter Jim Tarry built a 5.5m folding cultivator-press for the front linkage, which cut the number of post-plough passes from two to one, a huge saving in diesel and time. Click to get this issue Vol 17-3   Or get it for £1.00 with your subscription

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Fencing using a track-mounted post knockerPost driver
on tracked dumper

 

A contractor wanted to give his drivers work in the winter, instead of laying them off, and knew there was fencing work available. Fencing in wet conditions with a tractor cuts up the land, and so he fitted a front linkage to a used Yanmar C30 tracked dumper. His design has the post driver to one side, so he drives down the fence line, no need for turning and reversing. The machine also pays out wire and netting.  Click to get this issue Vol 21-4   Or get it for £1.00 with your subscription

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