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[Frozo]

Whats it like to work on a farm?

I always wanted to work on a farm lol <<< was meant to be a sheep sound

Edited by Frozo, 09 April 2010 - 10:05 PM.

[gregh55]

ermmm,

dirty,smelly,messy, but still cool!

you spelt sheep wrong by the way LMAO

[Teapot]

Is it common practice to fill rear tractor tyres with water as a counterweight to front end loads? How do you get all the water out again?

[Frozo]

ermmm,

dirty,smelly,messy, but still cool!

you spelt sheep wrong by the way LMAO

lol

Wow so i did :/ i feel stupid now

[The_Mistro]

being a farmer is awsome!

[The_Mistro]

Is it common practice to fill rear tractor tyres with water as a counterweight to front end loads? How do you get all the water out again?

its common practice on all types of tractors, not just to counteract the weight of a front end loader, its to help maintain maximum traction i believe!! if you really want to get it out, you need to basically take the tyre of the rim and scoup it out, you obviously only need to take one side of the tyre of the rim though!

Edited by The_Mistro, 09 April 2010 - 10:39 PM.

[Teapot]

its common practice on all types of tractors ... to help maintain maximum traction i believe!!

Cool. So do tractors have a big power surplus then, so that the extra weight of the water doesn't affect the performance?

[Meland4]

Couldn't resist adding to this one!

As a farmers wife was just thinking it's school holidays, the sun is out.....and hubby is working all hours spraying a fertilising!!!
I must be the only person hoping for some rain this weekend so we can go and collect my NEW MINI!!! Woooooo!!

[davidv]

I love going to the familys old farm.They all work all hours.When someone phones up and asks for uncle when will he be back?-No Idea.

[The_Mistro]

its common practice on all types of tractors ... to help maintain maximum traction i believe!!

Cool. So do tractors have a big power surplus then, so that the extra weight of the water doesn't affect the performance?

with tractors its about getting the power down, and the only way to do that is to add weight, theres no point having a tractor that weighs a tonne and have 500hp, as its just going to sit and spin if there is any weight behind it, if however it weighs 20 tonne, then its going to have a lot more traction and be able to pull a greater weight! tractors gearings are so low that it will take quite a weight to make any difference to it!

[roberts]

Since this is the farming thread... any of you going the AGM in a couple of weeks?

We could have a few TMF drinks

[Teapot]

tractors gearings are so low that it will take quite a weight to make any difference to it!

Gotcha, cheers for that.

*makes note in little book*

[minimad01]

the combine you can see in my sig, the best bit of kit the boss ever brought![/quote]
an i thought our new massey 6480 was nice wow there huge lol
live on a farm with 10 acres an over 1000 pigs an 100 calfs have a right laugh
ill be driving in the summer aswell either bailing or spreading lime lol
[/quote]
that's a lot of animals for 10 acres! They must be a right mission to look after! You do contract lime spreading then?

takes about 2 hours to muck the pigs out every morning then about 30 mins to top the calf milk powerder machines up in the morning an again at night
an we are just genral contractors we do abit of everything lime spreading muck spreading tractor hire trailer hire fertalising what ever comes up really
just bought a fastrac ill try get a picture up later
Edit forgot bailing lol

Edited by minimad01, 27 April 2010 - 01:22 PM.

[Mini Man Dan]

about 30 mins to top the calf milk powerder machines up in the morning an again at night

How are you getting on with the automatic calf feeders? Do you know how high the mortality rate is in your calfs? I assume you are rearing them for beef?

Dan

[Teapot]

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