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Post by GO30 on Jul 9, 2024 11:45:26 GMT 12
A thread for those Unicorns we run into from time to time.
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Post by fish on Jul 9, 2024 12:29:33 GMT 12
I'm waiting for the punch line now?
In the UK it was a popular pass time at work to go hunting for rocking horse shit. Apparently it is really hard to find.
(In the context of contractors being able to meet all of the clients stated requirements, the contractors would grumble it was easier to find rocking horse shit).
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Post by GO30 on Jul 9, 2024 12:50:40 GMT 12
One for the farmers out there. And if Fish has seen the search he'd understand why I use the term Unicorn  More the life sentence and small blockers but maybe handy for those with bigger holdings for better targetting, small spots or between contractor visits. Being a small block getting contractors to roll in for only a few ton is very hard work and understandable. So we are often left to our own devices hence the search. I wanted a lime/fert spreader and I want to use a slow release natural type fert along with std Ag lime. Both are powered not palletised or prill so standard broadcast spreaders tend to bog up and perform a bit blaa if at all. Sussed here there and even way over there inc terrorising Field Days to find no sales person willing to say their spreader will do powered OK. Arse I thought. But then on sussing one I glanced over closer I noticed it had a wobbly floor as opposed to everyone elses small hole with a stirrer the size of a 1yos willy. So I went for a suss, liked what I saw and grabbed one. Used it to do 2.5t yesterday and it works just like a SAM spreader but only smaller, the hopper takes 480kg so of course I dropped a 500kg bag into it. It's got the wobbly floor plus a big agitator both sitting under a screen so it has no problem with powered products and would cruise standard prilled stuff. Very controllable out flow and 1st paddock I got the rate almost perfect first go. I got the one with the flow that can be controlled via hydraulics but there is a manual for 5 hundy less. Hangs off your 3 point, powered by the PTO, 540 not 540E unfortunately. But it's spread is determined by PTO revs. I sat on 540 for the exercise and they threw the shit everywhere and generated a good cloud at the same time, very much like a SAM in action. When it ran the hopper out I had a suss and I'd be hard pushed to find a teaspoon left inside it. No sticking or clumping. From Implements Direct in Albany (watch out, it has a Javelin sailor lurking in the yard) and only 3.5K + gst so cheap enough.
I have advised Ben and the ID team to change their key words to feature 'powered' as it is the only smaller one I've managed to find in the sth Hemisphere.
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Post by fish on Jul 9, 2024 13:52:32 GMT 12
I can understand why farmers in Ukraine and other parts of eastern Europe would want to put Surface to Air Missiles on their John Deere's, but why would someone in the mid north of Tai Tokerua want a SAM?
Unless this acronym stands for something else?
Noting that in the Falklands war the Argentines built DIY Exocet launchers on an agricultural trailer and very nearly sunk a British warship with it. I can see the strategic and cost advantages of putting a load of SAM's on a John Deere in the hope of taking out some Tupelov Bears and not getting stuck in the mud at the same time.
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Post by GO30 on Jul 10, 2024 12:59:20 GMT 12
On my place my latest SAM weaponry is this 410 pump. Effective as well, ask the 5 Peacocks that it chatted to last week, Opps you can't
The SAM I was referring to above is not quite as exciting.
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