Recent content by Lowland1

I don't know much either. My son installed the Field Bee set up fairly easily. There was a thread on here about someone installing their system and getting it to work and so I thought it was worth a try.

Connectivity really. Trying to get the right signal and mode settings. We’ve had a lot of trial and error to get it right. Probably we didn’t ask the right questions or they didn’t know we didn’t understand the basics. However now it’s working really well so we are putting them on two more...

About a month ago I had a visitor from Belgium. His father farms in Flanders they regularly plough up shells from either the first or second world war. They dump them at the side of the field and the military pick them up every now and again apparently.

Yes it's something like £180 a year.

I had six months travelling around China in 1991/2. It was a once in a lifetime experience. ie. Never again. Still it's amazing how it has advanced in 30 years and good on them. Yep they have labour camps and are mean to their people but go back to the UK a bit over a hundred years ago and see...

We have one and have just bought two more. It took us a while to get the first one working well but it is now and so have ordered two more for about £2700 each as we already have a base station. Having just paid £1500 for our RTX subscription for Trimble I think they are good value.

Everything is made there. The difference is they haven’t got the transport cost and the massive profit margins factored in by Western companies.

Writing that makes you a star to the majority of TFF members. They believe that totally.

Yes. £45,000 would have bought a TC 5-30 made in India a sort of modern 1540S

I bought a TC5-80 in 2022 basic spec.€ 120,000 ( £100,000 ) before Tax. A very basic spec machine but I thought it was a lot of combine for the money. It’s a bigger combine than a NH 8080 so it’s all relative. A 45 foot Claas varioflex header was £ 135,000 three years ago and that won’t do much...

I don't know about unsung. He was the subject of a few Power Farming articles. It was all a bit of a mystery to us from the low counties though.

Yep but the four hundred acres he started on was all arable. No potatoes now but beet instead. I could tell you the names of all who worked on the farms over the years no one got sacked they all retired or got other jobs.

In my experience bigger machinery comes to replace people who leave rather than pushing people out of work. In our village of thirty or so houses fifty years ago everyone would have worked on a farm or had some connection to the land today I doubt there is one person working on a farm or having...

I can't put fertiliser down with my machine but I'd like to and some time we will rig up a front tank. We will plant brassicas into striptilled only ground all the time but we find smaller seeds such as beans or maize might need a pre strip till cultivation depending on the previous crop. Wheat...

Pigs are better. Smoke from straw burning. Possibly because my mother was burning straw the night I was born apparently the nurses kept asking what was burning.