Your lucky to have a spare 2 wheel drive. I can remember when the farm scraper tractor went down and I had to scrape with a 4wd 7610, fine for the yard and it would just make the turn into the two narrowest cubicle passages using the independent brakes! The problem with it was the tires rubbed the sides of the cubicle passage throwing muck up onto the beds. I had to scrape the beds of after scraping the passage and was glad when things were back to normal. People throw scorn on the old scraper tractors most farms have but they are nimble and small for getting into the tight cubicles and a vital tool on the farm no matter how old or shit covered!
+Paul F I made a 4 ft wide squeegee out of round baler belt for the few times the skidloader is down. It works but slower. There's a concrete grate & 10,000 gallon holding tank under the center lane of the freestall building, then it's pumped daily to the big pit. The 2 parlor holding pen exit walks by the footbaths get froze up hard here in mn even though 400 cows are milked 4 times/day so it's going to be chisel/shovel time in a few weeks. Every fall we have to pull up that grate and backhoe out the sand that didn't get agitated/pumped and i get the unpleasant job of climbing down a ladder to get anything that's been dropped down there.
+Paul F yes we are lucky to have the 265. I was thinking we might sell it but now we've used it for this i think we will hang onto it, especially as it's not loosing any money at it's age. You are right about these old scraper tractors, worth their weight in gold for the job they do
Jason, that makes sense. I don't envy you the cold weather one bit. Geographically I live fairly close Richard (funky Farrmer) it's really rare we get snow or any prolonged Cold spells as we are close to the Severn Estuary. You have to be careful going bellow the level of the grating (we call them slats) as there can be a build up of methane gases. Every year I seem to hear of a fatality on a farm from this.
you have great videos richard im a farmer and i do paperwork for farmers and i love watching your videos. i think a second hand milking robot would be a great investment for yourself and your brother. You could arrange the milking area with a room overlooking the milking robot and have tours of people pay to see your farm! frank
Thank you, Richard. Now that was a video of skillz and moooo-vie magic (couldn't help myself there!). Multiple cams, multiple angles, and even look-alike stunt doubles thrown in for extra scene footage. Random characters placed throughout to add authenticity. MOOOre please, and thanx. :-D That Massey just started right up as if it hadn't been ignored for too long. It's going to make the 135 jealous when it returns as it seems to be filling in just fine.
brilliant video richard, Love the farming videos on your channel more than anything. i see on your farm you have about 5+ tractors which is useful, we have 4 on ours 2 2wd and 2 4wd
+Paddy Costello thanks Paddy. we have quite a few tractors but only 4 that are really used regularly. we could probably do without a couple but preffer to keep them
Good tractor for scraping the yards. Power steering. sealed brakes, cab. I would have thought you would have chopped the straw as you seem to have a lot of waste. Silage looks good. Have you thought about a lagoon maximize the nutritional value of the slurry.
+Graham Roberts we don't really waste that much straw, i hand scrape the cubicles before i use the tractor, any straw with muck on it gets pulled off. I would like a logoon but we don't have the money to build one at the moment and the way the milk price is now i'm scared to spend anything
great video! keep up the good work on the farm! quick question , when you get the 135 back will it go back on the scraper or will u keep the 265 on it?
When my 135 needed an engine rebuild we had to put the scraper on to the MF 390T (4 wd ), nowhere near as handy for the job. 135s are the Queens of scraper tractors, I'm 46 and the 135 is 2 years older than me, I get she'll still be working when I'm long gone!
+John White you are right there John, 135's are great scraper tractors. I'm 48 and (i think) this tractor is the same age as me. Like you said they will be around long after we have gone
+thefunkyfarmer we used to have a 35x years ago but she was a 4 cylinder and very hard to start. Our 135 is a 3 cylinder and starts first time every time. During the very cold winter a few years ago it went down to -15 here ( north coast Northern Ireland ) and our modern tractors all died, but the old girl kept going! Thanks for all the time and effort you put into your great videos, not to mention replying to viewers!
Do you do much damage to your land when spreading the slurry? It's a nice simple system you have. We had similar years ago but the Nitrates was the death knell of it for us. How are you guys coping with the current depressed milk prices? It does feel gloomy but we have to stay upbeat I guess.
+einn32 Its not ideal but we side unload in a heap when its too wet to go on the land. Ideally we would put in a store but the way things are at the moment it's too risky for us to spend any money.We are putting a read bed dirty water system in at some point this spring though (grant funded). Things are pretty gloomy at the moment, i just hope we can hold on till things improve (whenever that is?!)
+thefunkyfarmer I forgot that...I've seen it in another video! I used to clean the cow yard with a 135 also. Wet weather made it a nightmare as slurry flows everywhere. Twice a day cleaning probably makes easier handling. I wish I knew when milk price would turn positive!
@@thefunkyfarmer in canada we have dairy and chicken marketing boards only ones making a profit american trying their damdest to dump their products on us american dairy farms in a mess especially with covid 19 maybe be America will see the wisdom in our cNads ways hehe fat chance we will see who lasts longer
If you clean twice a day I am surprised you do not have a skid steer. Way more maneuverable than a tractor. All that shifting would drive me nuts. Then have a second bucket for feeding so you dont have to use the McCormick. Are skid steers not popular in the uk?
Yea skid steer are popular around here he could just weld some skid steer brackets to the scraper and a grab and bucket for it would be brilliant for Richard around that farm
Ah good, we have had 3 positive TB cows all milkers. We had a lot of rain last night. We are on marsh. So we just flood, espcially on the road and in the feilds.
+thefunkyfarmer yes, sawdust is good, it keeps the mats nice and clean and you can put it in an ag dispenser (just a glorified wheelbarrow)and it spreads it in for you its alot quicker than straw bales!😉
Can we see a scene of what happens to the much one it is tip over the.........slope thing (no idea what it is called but I presume it has some clever name.)
how come you guys in Europe dont use skid steer loaders? on my families dairy in Wisconsin we use 2 skid steers and we cant imagine life without out them
+thefunkyfarmer thats all we use ours for some folks use old earth mover tires on the front. bobcats where originally invented for cleaning barn yards in the 60's
i can see why the cluch went on the 135 your very aggressive on the clutch not being mean just take it easy i know your trying to get the job done fast but easy on the clutch lol grate vidio
+liam hennessy yes we had the 265 as our main tractor loader for quite a while.Before that we had a 35 with a loader on it but we sold that when we bought the McCormick. Wish we had kept it now. We don't really use the 265 or its loader much but i can't bring myself to sell.I remember the excitement as a boy when it turned up brand new at the farm in 1979!
+thefunkyfarmer we've a 35 at the back of the shed. I must pull it out. There an easy tractor to work on. Don't sell the tractor but what about the loader off it? great u have those memories. had the 35 a cab?
+liam hennessy i think i will keep the loader with it as i doubt it's worth a lot.More use to me with the tractor. The 35 used to have a cab but i never saw it on it, dad took it off when i was a small kid and it ended up being scrapped
Man, you're giving her the gas aren't you mate! Don't mean to criticize or anything, just pointing that out. Sure looks like you get the job done quick, but doesn't that cause a lot of wear on the machines?
What do u do with the slurry in the spreader during the slurry ban? I'm from Northern Ireland and I have never seen that System being used we just use dung hills
+thefunkyfarmer the slurry ban is not to bad over here the grounds alway to wet during the ban. We have an old type 290 with that same lay out but see would not take the same abuse as the 148/135 the Flexy cab on your 135 will not rust as quick as the 265 will as 290 cab as bad rust problems
+Christopher McCracken i'm glad to get the 135 back, i didn't like using the 265 in the muck as it had been kept clean for a long time. There is a bit of rust in the cab but not too bad
+thefunkyfarmer are 290 has a fork lift on the back and we adapted a shear grab to block cut the silage out of the clamp she has good power for that but on the scrapper she's just to big and sluggish. I know what u mean about 135 is just off the line no prob and is light enough to side brake.
Richard I enjoy watching your videos and like the way you farm but why are all your tractors and machinery in such a filthy codition surely it's nicer to sit a nice clean cab and use clean machinery please don't take these comets the wrong way and keep gthe vids coming
+thefunkyfarmer nice nice have you videos about what you do with it? Growing fly larva on it, feed chickens with that larva as example or opposite thing how you prevent that fly larva to happen
ive seen manu a cow eat the grass up close to a pole of fresh shit !!! my grandpappy used to say there is two things i got lots of cow shit and bank loans
