Welcome to 1982, somewhere in England..

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Phila
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Re: Welcome to 1982, somewhere in England..

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Last autumn the contractors use a FIAT/IH to deep subsoil a field they had rented for potatoes. Now springsso have come to plant it, field clean enough to not need destoning but they are deep rotavating it ahead of the planter. They are leaving a stubble headland on purpose so easier for harvesting.

The Renault and the two Fords are all 'period authentic' though the 6810 Ford is more early 90#s than late 80's. The planer is not - I could not find a two or three row planter , except for a 'rust bucket' 1950/60s item. And hard to pull so hence why the big TW on it! As you may gather, I'm using the 'contractors' as a way to get more varied 80s/90s kit on to the screen.

(note that the Renault mod is a bit cranky with CP)

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Phila
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Re: Welcome to 1982, somewhere in England..

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Also thus spring , switched from hay to big bale silage. (research tells me that how I use Seasons may have been leading to my haymaking fail, but anyway a switch to silage is 'in period').

Needed a new bale squeezer to handle the wrapped bales , the 'plough' Fiat is now my baler tractor, and as wrapping is quite new and specialist, I have a contractor do it. Wrapper is a bit modern but not that different, while the Fendt on it is a spot on 80's 'Farmer' model.

IRL when an outfit I lambed for switched to big bale silage they would bale and transport is as grass, then bag it with actual big bags and ties (loader would hold bale just off the ground and two of us would slide bag on, stack it ten tie it off. And same in reverse when taking it ouf of the clamp/pile, when we would save and reuse the bags if possible - looks better now in the age of over use of plastics !

if you are reading this , thanks for letting me indulge in some therapeutic nostalgia!

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Phila
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Re: Welcome to 1982, somewhere in England..

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small break in posts as need to grind out cash to buy a new tractor and somewhat reduce the bank loan.....
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Re: Welcome to 1982, somewhere in England..

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While I grind out some cash.... the contract potato harvest happened. Ford 7000 on box lifter/rear forklift, Zetor on a Marshall trailer, JD1030 on old potatoelifter (and on topper first), Ford 76xx on the new fangled bulk lifter. The two lifters are working different varieties (in my role play world).

Bar the deliberately diverse selection of late 80s/early 90s tractors , this was set up on a RL farm near me in my youth. The bulk harvester needed a couple of pickers on board, and would unload into boxes or a soft lined tipper. The smaller machine laid the potatoes on the ground to ne picked through and sorted by hand by hired helpers and put in the boxes, which are then shuttled to a waiting flat trailer.
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Phila
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Re: Welcome to 1982, somewhere in England..

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Though I'm not a Ford fan, I do like some blue tractors! Contractor's County doing some heavy chisel ploughing, you might call it sub soiling , the 'Angry Milk Float' FWC County is just out of shot lime spreading.
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Re: Welcome to 1982, somewhere in England..

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So I now have a Plan.

There is big dairy farm up the road with a huge unused shed . I am going to buy that and turn the big shed into a flat floor grain store (using the FS19_FreeCountryHeapStock mod that I have adjusted by removing floodlight and resize, and with Place Anywhere) (PS Place Anywhwere does NOT conflict with Global Co, ignore that warning). And still space for my arable kit. The current yard will become my lifestock operation , silage bale clamp and food store for my increasingly mega sheep operation, 1200 breeding ewes, a flock I help run for real as kid.

I also want to start a beef operation. Buy a another pasture and put in the outside paddock mod as I did for the sheep. But in UK we tend to bring cows inside so the current black barns will become cow sheds. (In same way as I fudged with Heaps to make an grain store inside a shed, will so same with a cattle paddock). Also a way to use my straw and and get muck.

But to that old unused shed has to go (as trailed) so I called in the JCB contractor to demolish (and then work magic on Editor of course( as below . But mainly an excuse to show off a revamped MF135 , a great mod by Peter J (?) that has reinvigorated my pet. Shown below hauling cleaner, small rubble to firm up gateways and tracks and also in its roll as all purpose yard tractor, has also been picking up grain spills etc. There is an existing 188 out there too that just needs a polish, nudge nudge.. :)

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Re: Welcome to 1982 er now maybe 1992 , somewhere in England..

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The livestock expansion is done, the grain operation has moved off the Old Yard (more on that later) and we have some beef beasts on farm (used the cow breeds mod for my Angus 'single *censored*' operation role play but modders - no horns on modern cows! And do we need four types of Brahman? What about Hereford or Jersey or another French breed?).

The late spring, summer, early autumn pastures (hmm must edit out the milk machine). I'm fencing off half this field as cow pasture the other half for silage , with Old Trusty as my fencing tender, though a post driver would be handy....
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Re: Welcome to 1982, somewhere in England..

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I'm using the exisiting barns as RL farmers have to: I squeezed grain bins in before but now made the cows winter quarters. I took an 'old cow shed' mod and after several tries and errors used Editor to remove the buildings in that mod , leaving only the manure (not slurry) , animal , food and straw triggers which I relocated. Then with Placeanywhere put that mod inside the shed. The animal trigger is just inside the door, the straw and feed triggers in the space between the gate and the door. I use a pump and the water pipe mod so no need for a water delivery.

RL had to dig out some holes in the concrete /gravel to put in the bit of fence and gate, that allows some air into the building though in RL , would take out another piece of 'tin' on building side and cover with mesh.

The water trough is rear right , not visible. The food is front right, the original mod had food on the floor so I used it some concrete barriers around it as a trough. I was trying to find a ring feeder to use but no joy yet. will work on that . The manure 'heap' is stretched along left hand wall so when I put the cows out in spring I will muck out the shed as in RL

Not perfect but getting there.
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Re: Welcome to 1982, somewhere in England..

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A wider shot of the revised yard.
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Silage bale pile bottom right just gets a tarpaulin/sheet thrown over them, the barn middle right is the one adapted to cow sheds, the Pet MF is busy strawing down. The yard is much more open with the old building demolished, and gives me room for a straw pile under a 'home made' pole barn. I did cut trees , by chainsaw and then hauled and sold using existing trailers , but forgot to take photos duh, until I half the the price of this barn then role played I self built it using the wood I cut shaped by the sawmill, pile of left over timber visible behind loader bucket. The shed to left is now (roleplay) the lambing shed and I'm in there setting up with square bales I bought in and some hurdles (when I find them..)

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Re: Welcome to 1982, somewhere in England..

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Finally, third shed is now general purpose workshop, and store for the cow and sheep supplemental feed (sheep nuts to you!). Hmm and some leftover ferty I must move... Also the dry storage for the silage kit.

A delivery of pallets from my feed merchant would normally require the main loader tractor, but that was busy so the MF135 can just about do it with a really BIG weight on the back - spot the bulging tyres, such a good mod! No self leveller on loader so tricky (not sure in RL if MF hydraulics would cope...!)
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Phila
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Re: Welcome to 1982, somewhere in England..

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Disaster. Whatever I was doing to the fudge the ‘heaps’ mod or whatever to make a new big grain setup in the big shed on the old dairy farm has stuffed the save file and the back up file is waaaay back. I may need a moment to pluck up the enthusiasm to redo.

Meantime before the crash. I added a big plough tractor and new lemken plough (should be a Dodswell really). The MF is an 8140 , really mid late 90s . 2740 or another of the MF2000 big V8s would be perfect but the only mod , though great , is 2wd only.


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