Well that’s over now for another season just the new year now and we can get back to some normality again, January will pass in a flash as normal and Wrighty will be reporting on the new lambing season and before you know it we will both be making haylage, seems to me as you get older the time passes you bye more quickly. As you can probably tell I am not a great lover of the festive period just people over indulging and probably spending money they either don’t have or can ill afford. Its onward and upwards now and roll on the spring, Buzzer.
Buzzer:
Well that’s over now for another season just the new year now and we can get back to some normality again, January will pass in a flash as normal and Wrighty will be reporting on the new lambing season and before you know it we will both be making haylage, seems to me as you get older the time passes you bye more quickly. As you can probably tell I am not a great lover of the festive period just people over indulging and probably spending money they either don’t have or can ill afford. Its onward and upwards now and roll on the spring, Buzzer.
What a machine that 141 pure class in every detail
robthedog:
Buzzer:
Well that’s over now for another season just the new year now and we can get back to some normality again, January will pass in a flash as normal and Wrighty will be reporting on the new lambing season and before you know it we will both be making haylage, seems to me as you get older the time passes you bye more quickly. As you can probably tell I am not a great lover of the festive period just people over indulging and probably spending money they either don’t have or can ill afford. Its onward and upwards now and roll on the spring, Buzzer.What a machine that 141 pure class in every detail
RTD here is another shot of that 141 the day I sold it, it was new too Sparks in Somerset and I bought it from Unit Commercials in Salisbury and I wish I still had it now as it was super clean, hindsight is a wonderful thing aint it, Buzzer.
Buzzer:
robthedog:
Buzzer:
Well that’s over now for another season just the new year now and we can get back to some normality again, January will pass in a flash as normal and Wrighty will be reporting on the new lambing season and before you know it we will both be making haylage, seems to me as you get older the time passes you bye more quickly. As you can probably tell I am not a great lover of the festive period just people over indulging and probably spending money they either don’t have or can ill afford. Its onward and upwards now and roll on the spring, Buzzer.What a machine that 141 pure class in every detail
RTD here is another shot of that 141 the day I sold it, it was new too Sparks in Somerset and I bought it from Unit Commercials in Salisbury and I wish I still had it now as it was super clean, hindsight is a wonderful thing aint it, Buzzer.
Indeed it is
Always wondered why they made the round balers. I assume there is a good reason but i would have thought the traditional
rectangular bales are much easier to stack / transport etc. Can anyone tell me the reason ■■? Over the last couple of years
it appears that the tradional bales seem to be getting more popular again.
Dean right here we go with round balers, they have been around along time as in 1910 a man called Ummo.F.Luebben patented a machine that made round bales and tied them with string, before this invention hay was stored loose in stacks and silage made in a clamp.Of course the bales were not the same size of todays round bales but a size which was manageable by hand and the main man at Allis Chalmers thought this was the way forward so they bought the patent and made a baler of there own, I can remember a chap in our village had one a Roto Baler as it was known and carting and stacking was not as easy as the later conventional bales,you needed racks on the trailers to stop them falling off when carting and a side on the barn to stack them against I know having helped him when a nipper.
As time moved on the big round balers came in and of course the big sqware balers also, the contractor I have uses both types and the one he uses on my haylage ia a McHale fusion model which first bales and wraps with net and then it goes to the second chamber where the plastic outer is added, usually about six layers, if the crop is baled a little green when it is encapsulated it cooks or makes inside its airtight capsule and thus making a preserved cured feed which can be stored outside and with todays modern handling machines can be stacked to great heights. Personally I like stacking my round bales on there ends for two reasons the first being they keep there shape better and the second the plastic wrap is far thicker on the ends of the bale so it stores better on the ground.
Of course you can get the sqware bales wrapped but they come into there own far more with hay and straw and with the modern machines the bales are far more dense so you can get the weight into them which helps any one transporting a distance as wrighty does quite often and enables him to get capacity weight on the truck, sorry if I have gone on a bit here and I hope it explains a little the evolution of the round bales, cheers Buzzer
Thank you, Mr D! A full and good explanation put simply for a townie like me!
I concur with the Bear… well explained JD , maybe a new carrer in lecturing at Sparsholt, or a phone in on Radio Solent?
Thanks chaps things in agriculture certainly have moved on a pace in the last few decades, some farms have now got electronic guide lines where there is no need for a driver to steer a tractor once in the field and do it with pin point accuracy especially important while spraying and the like, far from my days at home with a petrol/TVO Nuffield and little grey Ferguson and remember well getting a rollicking if I forgot to change over from petrol to TVO (tractor vaporising oil) once the engine was warm. On the hay front I can still remember haymaking when a sweep ( a frame with long pine tines about 8 feet wide) as it was called was attached to the front of a Standard Fordson for collecting the crop to a stack in the corner of the field where it took a skilled man to make an even rick which when completed was thatched, this was done by a multi talented casual farm worker who could also lay hedges, dig out the drainage ditches and hoe singling out kale and fodder beet among other things.
Can remember coming home from school and sitting on the mudguard of the Standard Fordson which was quite wide and putting my feet against the grab handle to stop me sliding off while the old man was ploughing no elf and safety back then, progressing with driving the tractors from the age of about 8 doing the chain harrowing and rolling in the Spring but a lot of kids on farms did the same back then so the old man could get on with the milking a job I hated, only did that if me dad had to go somewhere I never was a fan of ■■■ pulling well not the cow type anyway.
The end of another year is upon us and it for sure it does not feel like 20 years ago it was the Millenium so take care how ever you see the old year out and the new one in and will see you all on tuther side, cheers Buzzer.
Evening Buzzer
Well that’s another year gone and what a day to end on, just like spring up ere sunshine and not a breath of wind and the land is starting to dry up at last.
We’ve had a digger in today digging out for a new building at home, not sure it will be up before we start lambing but we will see.
All the best for 2020 I’d better go and get changed then off out to the pub.
Cheers Wrighty.
Buzzer .Wrighty, i would just like to say thank for your farming in put, it is like the ARCHERS in print.
We old drivers knew how important the Archers were.especially when you picked it up again , filling the missing episodes in your self until you meet another radio 4 world longwave serviceman… your input throughout the year has been 1st class and all the contributions of other members. happy new year to all, esp BORIS.
DBP.
Hi all, Well that’s another one gone the time doe’s go quickly when your on the down hill run. Happy New year to all on here hope you all had a good one and not too many sore head’s this morning. 
DEANB:
Morning Buzzer, Happy New Year.Thanks for the bit about the balers !
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Cheers Dean for the pic 
JD
Arternoon all…
a question or two for JD…
In some of the early pics of your motors they appear in a yard I’m not aware of …
Before you had Andersen’s Road ex LTS. Where was it?
I’d been meaning to ask Tone, but sadly can’t do that now 
What is the difference between Silage and Haylage??
I’m aware of Silage , I worked on a farm in Exton in me skool hols and the smell of it all these years later takes me back to those days learning to drive on a Fordson tractor ( some will say I never DID learn )
Lastly , I was thinking the other day about the great Jack Hargreaves and “ Out of Town “ … I watched it avidly as a young’n after moving from the Smoke to Hampshire… learnt a lot about Country Ways from him…
Although not as much as I learnt from the Vicars daughter in Droxford 
Happy New Year all. Balders.
HNY Balders my first proper yard was in an old farm yard in upper Northam drive just off J8 of the M27, several business’s ran from there including scrap, pallets and a car repair garage and I sublet a bit of a car and van dealer Alan Kirk but we only had 4 trucks then one of which was driven by TIR Tone RIP. later we had a slot in Lloraines lorry park and also parked in the road outside the back of Eurohaul’s yard and tha is when we saw the advert boards go up in the Andersons road site which was council owned we had nine years there before moving to Tracy Island at Segensworth in 2001 so nearly 20 years ago now.
Now the difference from silage and haylage is that silage is baled when only slightly wilted thus making a wetter bale and haylage is half way to hay mainly aimed at the horse feed market.
As for Jack Hargreaves he did do some programs about the Agricultural and forestry ways but did far more about fishing as I think this was his main passion, he lived in Minstead near Cadnam.
Hope this sorts out your queries and would be nice if you could post some shots of where you are at now, cheers JD.
Deceptively Spacious John…
Roger delivering returned Christmas presents to Lapland this morning, no only kidding it was pallets of pharma really what a start to 2020 wont get much higher than this for the rest of the year, Buzzer
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Buzzer:
Roger delivering returned Christmas presents to Lapland this morning, no only kidding it was pallets of pharma really what a start to 2020 wont get much higher than this for the rest of the year, Buzzer
Bet you had a good rate on that Buzzer ! 
Have the new cattle settled in now ?