FEL when using 3pt implements
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olPete
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It keeps life exciting. Without wishing to derail the OP's thread, here's a few cows grazing kale a couple of winters back. You can see the benefits of individual bales put out in the summer in a system like this.. here I mowed tracks through the crop to put the fence out. Saves shorting out the electric fence and cows can see it.I hear ya. I'm my own worst critic too.
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olPete
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That's half the reason I follow TBN. And most of of the other forums on my list. It's like travelling the world and amazing how people do things and what with.. all these little snippets of info come in handy one day.Awesome picture. I totally understand that. Thanks for posting.
Sorry to the OP. But hey, we don't get pics from NZ very often!!!!
Next project is to design and build a 3pt attachment that can scoop up and throw manure, straw, chop pumpkins into pieces and spit it into my feedout wagon, and I may try to incorporate a woodchipper chute in there somewhere. We have a small wintering barn here and I'd like to be able to build one machine to do all these things. Really just a scoop with a pto chopper/flail drum up front, that I can tilt with a hyd top link. Keep you posted!!
Along the lines of this but about 8' wide at the scoop end and much more enclosed towards the tractor so to keep the pumpkins in there til they break up. First year here but the idea is to add the pulp to silage to raise the energy value and make better use of the barn over summer. Hopefully the really sloppy stuff in the barn, can be scooped up and spread on the pasture to raise the fertility, and I can also put straw out before jamming the cattle back in.
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olPete
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Built by a company in Ireland. Looks really effective, they have a YouTube video of it in action. Google 'self loading manure spreader'.Another attachment I've never saw!!!!
I'm sure my old SAME will handle it, it has 4 pto speeds and 40 gear ratios. Very versatile and maneuverable tractor with split brakes front and rear.
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In the Utility sized tractors Americans are way behind. I've not been to NZ but European countries and some Asian countries expect much more from their tractors than we do. One tractor does it all. First time I ever saw a tractor running 35 mph down the hiway was in Germany. Didn't catch what brand it was. Pulling a trailer full of potatoes.
olPete
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Sounds to me like a big fendt. Yes you have hit the nail square on there I think. I do have an old JD 3140 here as a backup tractor but I can turn my tractor around inside its inside wheel mark. 4 wheel braking is awesome, I can turn off the front brakes but never bother to. Will lock a front wheel and slide the nose end around like a skidsteer! The only reason those SAME's became extinct was the fact that, being aircooled, they didn't warm up fast enough for Californian emission laws. Wonder how many there are in California... electric cab heater is great in wintertime. Lowest gear means 200 yards per hour and top means 25mph.In the Utility sized tractors Americans are way behind. I've not been to NZ but European countries and some Asian countries expect much more from their tractors than we do. One tractor does it all. First time I ever saw a tractor running 35 mph down the hiway was in Germany. Didn't catch what brand it was. Pulling a trailer full of potatoes.
50° steering angle on a 4wd tractor with a FEL!