Happy New Year Andrew As a non farmer, I've found your videos, informative, educational and enjoyable. I think the balance of videos last year, has added to those points, your tour and explanation of your farm, crops, and processes, along with your off farm content, farm or show visits as well as topical coverage of flooding, or changes in policies and of cause the despicable treatment of industry by this government. I think you take all that into consideration, the balance is spot on Personally I've enjoyed the machinery, how it works, the repairs and maintenance etc as well as your explanations around, soil preparation, crop selection, storage and sales The superb condition of your equipment and machinery, is a credit to your farm, you wouldn't at a glance, realise the age of those machines, so obviously we'll maintained Still watching some of your back catalogue and very much looking forward to your updates as this year progresses Take care all Back UK Farmer's 🇬🇧 Geoff
HNY to you and everyone on the farm Andrew. I love how open you are about the business, the economics of farming and the challenges you have faced with the weather and poor drainage away from the farm. I think all the work you've done will pay dividends for years to come. Have a good one 🥃
I like seeing your farm but I also enjoy when you show others doing different things as well as the character of the countryside and things like old churches, etc and of course the personal narrative you bring to it. You do very well. Thank you
Love a your updates, and thoroughly enjoyed the detailed look at machinery. I play a LOT on Farming Simulator game, and love the look at the equipment and processes in real life. You are so open about everything you do on the farm. Thanks for my regular farming fixes. 👍
Apologies for the previous essay lol Your Simba machine tour is brilliant, explaining how each works, but more impressive, is how you've altered, adapted and expanded them to suit your farms requirements Really is an impressive machinery and adds to my comments on your video content Thanks Andrew Geoff
Details you explain, like the retainers to stop spring tine breakages most would never know. Thanks fir the detailed Information on this and similar stuff!
Happy New Year Andrew , Rhonda & the guys on the farm. A credit to you , Tom & Ruben for how well you look after your machinery, its nice to see them in that condition. Looking forward to video's this year.
Happy new year Wardy. I’d be interested in your JCB when you decide to move it on. Your machinery is a credit to you and your staff, especially that Simba kit, got to be the shiniest Simba steel around. From a fellow Ward in N Yorks
Happy New Year to you all Andrew . 6215r good tractor but I'd go for the 6250r we have 2 very nice tractor an just got the HP if you need a bit more rather than be on the limit with the 6215r .
Happy new year to you all on the farm. I particularly enjoyed the episode I was in 😂😂😂😂 Just keep doing the things that interest you as that's the brilliant content we all keep coming back for. Have you thought about farm open days or tours?
Happy New Year, Andrew, and all the crew there. Thanks for all the no holes barred content throughout 2024. I am looking forward to visiting your farm for Cereals event 2025. Alan
Hi Andrew, great content as always. Would be interested in seeing more about the sugar beet factory process. Byproducts from the factory, beet pulp and the limex product. Also the same with your neighbours chicken sheds, follow the whole process through to finished product. The chicken muck and its uses. Only my suggestion, keep up the great work and might see you at Lamma if you are going. Cheers Russell.
Happy New year Andrew and Ronda, You have some lovely kit. I always think the Bailey Trailer are well made. It's nice to see they all have air brakes. I remember using a 10 ton trailer behind a 956 and gently braking with hydraulic brakes and the axle twisted off ,I only noticed once I got to the weighbridge and something did not look right with the axle.
Cracking update again Andrew. Happy new year to you and Ronda. All your machines look like they’ve just come from a car show room all very well looked after very impressive.
Happy New Year Andrew thanks for a brilliant year of WardysWaffle your videos have been so entertaining and also very informative I love how you look after your Machines I do like seeing tractors and machines cared for because you can’t afford breakdowns You certainly do love your simba Machines it’s a pity they don’t make them anymore Andrew thanks once again for such fantastic videos hoping to see you when we come to visit your farm at the end of April I’ll be in touch nearer the time I hope 2015 is kind to you Andrew thanks once again Eddie
Best of luck with finding a tidy 6215. John Deere’s seem to be selling far cheaper in farm sales than advertised by dealers at the moment. I would enjoy tours of other farms in your area, where you interview the farmer as they show you round. Looking forward to Porters grain storage as one example.
Like stuff you do about drainage board, environmental issues, and think you said a while ago about going on a boat and something to do with the lock-system on river Whitham
Happy new year. Good to see the kit is looked after to the extent it looked as though the Bailey's had a coat of polish on them. You've got a RX, so you'll know the JD product, but those 6Rs are nice to drive. Shame about Simba's demise though.
Smashing update, happy new year and all the best to you and Rhonda to Tom and Reuben, and the supporting cast of Narla and Frankie, Barry Digger, Henry, Sam and the kids! Look forward to a 2025 when hard work is rewarded, the weather is favourable and Rachel Reeves quits politics to join the newly reformed Spice Girls, revealing her new identity, Clueless Spice…
Andrew, could you do a segment about how you got started in your farming career, I noticed on one of the video's you had a Track Marshall, well I've recently been involved with a farm clearance in Cheshire where we dug at least 6 Track Marshall's out of the briers, one of them had a Lincolnshire Motor's sticker on it and there was also a 6 furrow dowdswell plough similar to your picture, all the Track Marshall's have been bought back to Teesside along with a selection of MB tracks, if you google Calverley Hall you might find it very interesting 👍
Hi Andrew great update as always I do really admire how you look after your machinery and it pays off and it's all stored under cover. I'm personally looking forward to watching you filming the build up to the Cereals event and seeing the site take shape. And have you got any video or picture's of your time in the Ukraine with Simba that would be interesting to hear more about that. As I have mentioned before we came to your farm on a visit to Simba and had a very enjoyable visit and you made us very welcome as did Simba. And I came back from that visit and told my boss all about the unipress and he subsequently brought one so that visit to Simba and your farm done some good happy days.
Hi Andrew, personally looking at your land type I think you would be better off with a 6250r bit more hp than your looking for yes but you’ve got it if you need it, the fuel efficiency would be that little bit better because you wouldn’t be using all the power as for 6215r I just think it would be too much for it on your land type. We have one and we tend to use the 6230r more because it’s got that bit more power.
The cultipress is the hardest pulling machine it would be used for and when we tried a 215 for a few days last autumn, I handled it well but I take your point, I’ll have a look but the cost might also come into it.
Any more tips for Christmas like the Baileys coffee recipe on the last vlog ? Wife & I are hooked now especially with a slice of panettone !!! All the best for 2025 Andrew
Cheers Andrew - how about illustrating the circular nature of the food system? ie grass, the scandolous corporate food waste like fruit veg bread etc utilised by livestock that in turn provide milk meat leather pharmacueticals etc etc and of course muck. Similarly everything produced by a pig is used except the squeak, but folk often don't think beyond meat. Yes they eat grain but also lots of other things and supply important things like hearts that are transplanted into people! Muck instead of fert etc etc
Happy new year, if you sell 2 tractors and buy one how will you manage if say toms on the solo ,,rueben cultipressing, you wont be able do anything unless you use the old case which wouldn't pull much, a visit from james and cousin michael looking at the farm would be interesting.
Does the sprayer operator mix the sprays into the bower then? Not sure I would trust anyone else doing it if I was the sprayer operator could create few problems, Fetch and carrying water then not a problem.
hi andrew im looking to buy to a fastrac either 2 or 3 series to pull a lowloader trailer have a think what you would be asking for it and let me know many thanks
HNY team Ward. Content is good and varied. Some of your farm stuff (a small percentage) may be getting a little repetitive. A visit or two to other farms/business's would be a useful addition. Please don't take my comment as negativity, just constructive. I'm still a regular viewer. You're welcome here to do an episode from North Yorkshire. Not quite as tidy as your place sadly ! 😊
Good morning Andrew I’m in treated in your jcb 2170 please give me a bell when you have made your mind up on how much you want for it . Regards mark jones
@@WardysWaffleAndrewWardI’d be at a good guess thinking is it as here in Derbyshire we have some of the chicken muck from the units and they said there are building another farm one in Lincolnshire which would make sense to be the one that is being built near you.Very interesting set ups !
Just an alternative perspective Wardy. If the previous owner(s) had not sold the company, would it possibly still exist as Simba? What was the reason for the sale?
It's sad that Great Plains managed to destroy the brand. How can a large corporate get it so wrong? As quite often happens the buyer parachutes a new CEO in who is going to show them the way as opposed to fully understanding the business. The cost to Great Plains in reputation and ££ would be significant. I guess they have written the majority of the acquisition costs off. In the meantime the UK looses a once renowned brand and with it a lot of redundancies.
I wonder who owns the IP/design rights to Simba’s kit. You used the analogy of Tata purchasing Land Rover, well Jim Ratcliffe wanted to purchase the rights from JLR to continue Defender production, and upon their refusal to allow him to do so, he went ahead and made his own, admittedly surviving several messy court cases, giving the world the breathtakingly pretty Ineos Grenadier (Seen it? Tried it?)… be interesting to see if a company like the excellent Bailey Trailers could replicate Simba’s greatest hits or at least at least purchase the designs from Great Plains to continue production of Simba kit…
Interesting video,nice to see all the machines put away in the shed even if not cleaned fully which yours are dirt holds moisture and acids releases from plant material and eats out the paint,often see sills on silage trailers rusted out. I would think choosing a JD 6215R would a good one, our contractor pulls the beat harvester with one travels well on the ground more than enough power for the job with a high level of level of technology,GPS,variable transmission ect which is more than most farmers would need though there's a wide range of options on these tractors when new so take some time for the right one to come along. Happy New Year.
Well Andrew it’s important that you look after machinery as to replace in this climate in the uk at the moment it’s a case of Thinking carefully before you replace. I hope your next move on this Starmer and this bunch of incompetent MPs he controls will keep bringing the attention of more of the public towards him . He has got a place in history already as the worst British prime minister in the uk and it won’t change!!!!
Wouldn't you be better to sell all 3 older tractors and buy two newer johndeers. Than you have a spare . Or if the weather is dodgy you got a extra tractor. To get the crops in .
It’s all down to finances, that would be the best but we can’t justify/afford to do that with margins so tight and us having 1/3 of the farm this last harvest not growing crops. We’ll hire another for harvest and for a couple of weeks in the spring.
Andrew , I understand what two terrible years you’ve had , I had them as well in 75 and 76 plus others . So I know exactly how you’ve been feeling , you wonder if these massive problems will ever stop , and then you have that bloody ignorant Starmer and his even more stupid , and dangerous bunch of idiots to deal with, and if men like you and Olly don’t deal with them and bring them down , then god help farming and all other businesses . So I wish you all the very best of luck and good health for the coming battles with these destroyers of the U. K. 😤
No body wants to support 🇬🇧industry Land-rover will lose as if the Indios for wheel drive vehicles picks up all the military contracts for four wheel drive vehicles
Happy new year. How about a a sit down and talk with Tom and Ruben .
Reuben does not like being filmed!
Happy New Year Andrew
As a non farmer, I've found your videos, informative, educational and enjoyable. I think the balance of videos last year, has added to those points, your tour and explanation of your farm, crops, and processes, along with your off farm content, farm or show visits as well as topical coverage of flooding, or changes in policies and of cause the despicable treatment of industry by this government. I think you take all that into consideration, the balance is spot on
Personally I've enjoyed the machinery, how it works, the repairs and maintenance etc as well as your explanations around, soil preparation, crop selection, storage and sales
The superb condition of your equipment and machinery, is a credit to your farm, you wouldn't at a glance, realise the age of those machines, so obviously we'll maintained
Still watching some of your back catalogue and very much looking forward to your updates as this year progresses
Take care all
Back UK Farmer's 🇬🇧
Geoff
Thanks for the feedback Geoff, happy new year.
Absolutely agree with all your observations.
Great video as always Andrew.
Personally I really enjoy seeing your farm machinery working and your soil management
HNY to you and everyone on the farm Andrew. I love how open you are about the business, the economics of farming and the challenges you have faced with the weather and poor drainage away from the farm. I think all the work you've done will pay dividends for years to come.
Have a good one 🥃
Thanks David. HNY to you too
You've got the cleanest yard and machinery I've ever seen. HNY
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I like seeing your farm but I also enjoy when you show others doing different things as well as the character of the countryside and things like old churches, etc and of course the personal narrative you bring to it. You do very well. Thank you
Love a your updates, and thoroughly enjoyed the detailed look at machinery. I play a LOT on Farming Simulator game, and love the look at the equipment and processes in real life. You are so open about everything you do on the farm. Thanks for my regular farming fixes. 👍
Thanks Alan.
All the best for 25 Andrew, family and everyone on the farm.
Thank you.
Great look at your lovely well kept machinery, even better I'm watching this drinking a baileys coffee. 👌
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Happy New Year, Andrew.
Your kit, new and old, is in excellent condition. It is a credit to Ruben, Tom, and yourself.
Your housekeeping is top class Happy New Year 😊
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A very Happy New Year to you and all your loved ones - look forward to whatever you feel is worthy of waffle in 2025.
Thanks Trevor. 👍😊
Apologies for the previous essay lol
Your Simba machine tour is brilliant, explaining how each works, but more impressive, is how you've altered, adapted and expanded them to suit your farms requirements
Really is an impressive machinery and adds to my comments on your video content
Thanks Andrew
Geoff
Details you explain, like the retainers to stop spring tine breakages most would never know. Thanks fir the detailed Information on this and similar stuff!
Happy New Year Andrew , Rhonda & the guys on the farm. A credit to you , Tom & Ruben for how well you look after your machinery, its nice to see them in that condition. Looking forward to video's this year.
Thanks Peter, same to you.
Happy new year Wardy. I’d be interested in your JCB when you decide to move it on. Your machinery is a credit to you and your staff, especially that Simba kit, got to be the shiniest Simba steel around. From a fellow Ward in N Yorks
Would be good to keep it in the family! If you look at the comments to this vid and the last one, there’s a few wanting it!
Really enjoy your videos, great content, thank you 👍🏻
Thank you!
Thank you for this upload Andrew😊 wishing you and all good health and happiness for the new year😊kind regards👍👍👍
Thank you Shirley, same to you. 😊
Happy new year to you keep the updates coming
And you. 😊👍
Happy New Year to you all Andrew . 6215r good tractor but I'd go for the 6250r we have 2 very nice tractor an just got the HP if you need a bit more rather than be on the limit with the 6215r .
It’s the extra cost though that bothers me!
Great to see everything well looked after 👍👍👍
You certainly look after you kit Andrew👍
Happy new year to you all on the farm. I particularly enjoyed the episode I was in 😂😂😂😂
Just keep doing the things that interest you as that's the brilliant content we all keep coming back for.
Have you thought about farm open days or tours?
I’ll mention it in the next vid.
Happy New Year, Andrew, and all the crew there. Thanks for all the no holes barred content throughout 2024. I am looking forward to visiting your farm for Cereals event 2025. Alan
Thanks Alan, same to you.
Hi Andrew, great content as always. Would be interested in seeing more about the sugar beet factory process. Byproducts from the factory, beet pulp and the limex product.
Also the same with your neighbours chicken sheds, follow the whole process through to finished product. The chicken muck and its uses.
Only my suggestion, keep up the great work and might see you at Lamma if you are going.
Cheers Russell.
Look at update 108 and 109. I visited Newark factory about 2 years ago.
Tech hitch sorted thanks Andrew and a Happy New Year
Sorted!!
Happy New year Andrew and Ronda, You have some lovely kit. I always think the Bailey Trailer are well made. It's nice to see they all have air brakes. I remember using a 10 ton trailer behind a 956 and gently braking with hydraulic brakes and the axle twisted off ,I only noticed once I got to the weighbridge and something did not look right with the axle.
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Happy new year
Improved by the second edition with sound Andrew. Happy New Year. I am looking forward to another year of waffling.
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Cracking update again Andrew. Happy new year to you and Ronda. All your machines look like they’ve just come from a car show room all very well looked after very impressive.
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Hello! Happy New Year!
Happy new year also. 🎇
Happy new year Mr. Ward, your days must be 48 hours just to fit everything in.!!!
😊👍 Only 48?!
Happy New Year Andrew thanks for a brilliant year of WardysWaffle your videos have been so entertaining and also very informative I love how you look after your Machines I do like seeing tractors and machines cared for because you can’t afford breakdowns You certainly do love your simba Machines it’s a pity they don’t make them anymore Andrew thanks once again for such fantastic videos hoping to see you when we come to visit your farm at the end of April I’ll be in touch nearer the time I hope 2015 is kind to you Andrew thanks once again Eddie
Thanks Eddie, you’ll see them all first hand then!
Happy New Year to you all. I enjoyed it when you showed us round the sugarbeat factory also when you go to order farms xxx
Thanks Laura, HNY to you also. 😊
Happy new year Andrew and family, that's how to see after machinery.
Same to you. 😊👍
Happy New Year Andrew nice line up of kit and good policy to keep it clean and well maintained. Looking forward to coming years updates
HNY Bob. 😊
Happy new year to you all 🥃
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Best of luck with finding a tidy 6215. John Deere’s seem to be selling far cheaper in farm sales than advertised by dealers at the moment. I would enjoy tours of other farms in your area, where you interview the farmer as they show you round. Looking forward to Porters grain storage as one example.
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Happy New Year,, Andrew, compliance and good housekeeping seems to be your pet subject! Good to see, looking forward to your 2025 vlogs.
HNY John. 😊
Got your voice back 👍🏻
Don’t know what happened.
Cracking video Andrew👍👍
Really good video nice to go round the machinery happy new year to you and Rhonda
Like stuff you do about drainage board, environmental issues, and think you said a while ago about going on a boat and something to do with the lock-system on river Whitham
I still hope to do that.
Hi Andrew happy new year to you, I do love your channel and you have a very tidy farm.
HNY John. 😊
That’s batter Andy cheers 👍🏻
No idea what happened,
Happy new year. Good to see the kit is looked after to the extent it looked as though the Bailey's had a coat of polish on them. You've got a RX, so you'll know the JD product, but those 6Rs are nice to drive. Shame about Simba's demise though.
Thank you , a great video update .
Another great video Andrew. And wishing you all a Happy New Year
HNY Ken. 😊
Happy New year to you and your family really enjoy the updates keep them coming
Happy new year to you and all your family and staff always great videos.
HNY Edward,
Really good video nice to go round the machinery happy new year to you and ronda
Thank you Julian. Sand to you.
Smashing update, happy new year and all the best to you and Rhonda to Tom and Reuben, and the supporting cast of Narla and Frankie, Barry Digger, Henry, Sam and the kids! Look forward to a 2025 when hard work is rewarded, the weather is favourable and Rachel Reeves quits politics to join the newly reformed Spice Girls, revealing her new identity, Clueless Spice…
Thanks Rob, thanks for your ‘help’ with the articles. 😊👌
Andrew, could you do a segment about how you got started in your farming career, I noticed on one of the video's you had a Track Marshall, well I've recently been involved with a farm clearance in Cheshire where we dug at least 6 Track Marshall's out of the briers, one of them had a Lincolnshire Motor's sticker on it and there was also a 6 furrow dowdswell plough similar to your picture, all the Track Marshall's have been bought back to Teesside along with a selection of MB tracks, if you google Calverley Hall you might find it very interesting 👍
That sounds a really interesting clearance job. I have googled the hall, will read about it later
Have added to the list!
Great video Andrew Happy new year to all of you
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happy new year to you and your family
Thank you.
Hi Andrew great update as always I do really admire how you look after your machinery and it pays off and it's all stored under cover. I'm personally looking forward to watching you filming the build up to the Cereals event and seeing the site take shape. And have you got any video or picture's of your time in the Ukraine with Simba that would be interesting to hear more about that. As I have mentioned before we came to your farm on a visit to Simba and had a very enjoyable visit and you made us very welcome as did Simba. And I came back from that visit and told my boss all about the unipress and he subsequently brought one so that visit to Simba and your farm done some good happy days.
Those were the days, some very happy times.
Happy New year Andrew 👍🏻
HNY Philip
Nice to see your chemical store ,can we see what they are
Hi Andrew, personally looking at your land type I think you would be better off with a 6250r bit more hp than your looking for yes but you’ve got it if you need it, the fuel efficiency would be that little bit better because you wouldn’t be using all the power as for 6215r I just think it would be too much for it on your land type. We have one and we tend to use the 6230r more because it’s got that bit more power.
The cultipress is the hardest pulling machine it would be used for and when we tried a 215 for a few days last autumn, I handled it well but I take your point, I’ll have a look but the cost might also come into it.
Tillage, planting, water management content is enjoyed
You do love your Simba kit. 😊
What bits of kit are you missing from the range ?
Happy new year to you all.😊
A set of ordinary discs, top tilth harrow, tool carrier, and maybe something else.
from barbados I wach all the time
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Any more tips for Christmas like the Baileys coffee recipe on the last vlog ? Wife & I are hooked now especially with a slice of panettone !!! All the best for 2025 Andrew
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Cheers Andrew - how about illustrating the circular nature of the food system? ie grass, the scandolous corporate food waste like fruit veg bread etc utilised by livestock that in turn provide milk meat leather pharmacueticals etc etc and of course muck. Similarly everything produced by a pig is used except the squeak, but folk often don't think beyond meat. Yes they eat grain but also lots of other things and supply important things like hearts that are transplanted into people! Muck instead of fert etc etc
Interesting one! I’d need to go somewhere to help with that, I’ll have a think. 👍
YOUR TAKE ON THE SOLAR INSTALLATION YOU HAVE AND WAS IT AS VIABLE AS PREDICTED ANDREW WOULD BE AND INTERESTING SUBJECT.
I’ll add to the list, thanks.
Happy new year, if you sell 2 tractors and buy one how will you manage if say toms on the solo ,,rueben cultipressing, you wont be able do anything unless you use the old case which wouldn't pull much, a visit from james and cousin michael looking at the farm would be interesting.
Michael is out agronomist so here a bit, just shy when he comes here!
We’d hire a 2nd tractor when we’re busy.
How about an in depth look at the Bailey Trailer factory, like your film on Spaldings.
Yea! That’d be good! Also Cope seeds and Farols?
Agreed…! And Farols, Househams and Cope Seeds?
I’ve don’t one about a year ago!
Happy New Year Andrew and family.
How are the floods on Henry's farm and anything happening at Boston flood gates ?..
I’ll reply at the start of tomorrow’s vid.
Does the sprayer operator mix the sprays into the bower then? Not sure I would trust anyone else doing it if I was the sprayer operator could create few problems, Fetch and carrying water then not a problem.
Yes, we are all qualified and can spray so know how to mix,
more of the 8rx please
Making me dread going to work tomorrow to do the stock check lmao.
What quantity of capulate beans did you harvest,what is the plan this year?
About 3 tons, we’ll carry on.
hi andrew im looking to buy to a fastrac either 2 or 3 series to pull a lowloader trailer have a think what you would be asking for it and let me know many thanks
It depends if I can find a good enough used 6215 but I’ll keep you informed.
HNY team Ward.
Content is good and varied. Some of your farm stuff (a small percentage) may be getting a little repetitive.
A visit or two to other farms/business's would be a useful addition.
Please don't take my comment as negativity, just constructive. I'm still a regular viewer.
You're welcome here to do an episode from North Yorkshire. Not quite as tidy as your place sadly ! 😊
Thanks Philip, all comments I take as constructive! 👍😊
What size discs go on the Simba solo please? I’ve brought a 4.5m but it needs new disc front and rear.
Good morning Andrew
I’m in treated in your jcb 2170 please give me a bell when you have made your mind up on how much you want for it .
Regards mark jones
Hello Mark, I’ve not decided were definitely selling but I’ll add you to the list if we are, I’ve had quite a few express an interest.
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Hi Andrew
Thank you for getting back to me I’m not surprised in the interest look a clean fastrac
That Massey is NOT a Massey, it's a Feguson TEF 20 (TEA petrol.....TED petrol & tvo tractor vaperising oil)
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Hi wardy ,Is the outlet unit being built owned by George addset by any chance.
You mean Poultry?!
@ yes sorry 😂😂.Must have been autocorrect!
I only know him as George but I think that’s his surname!
@@WardysWaffleAndrewWardI’d be at a good guess thinking is it as here in Derbyshire we have some of the chicken muck from the units and they said there are building another farm one in Lincolnshire which would make sense to be the one that is being built near you.Very interesting set ups !
That’ll be them. 👍😊
Just an alternative perspective Wardy. If the previous owner(s) had not sold the company, would it possibly still exist as Simba? What was the reason for the sale?
I know the old MD well and still see him, I’ll see if he’ll come on camera and talk about it.
@@WardysWaffleAndrewWard Thank you
It's sad that Great Plains managed to destroy the brand. How can a large corporate get it so wrong? As quite often happens the buyer parachutes a new CEO in who is going to show them the way as opposed to fully understanding the business. The cost to Great Plains in reputation and ££ would be significant. I guess they have written the majority of the acquisition costs off. In the meantime the UK looses a once renowned brand and with it a lot of redundancies.
I see you have auto lube on two Simba machines. Is it worth considering retrofitting onto the others?
We have it on the machines which give us problems or have done. The design of the DD on the solo isn’t the best.
I wonder who owns the IP/design rights to Simba’s kit. You used the analogy of Tata purchasing Land Rover, well Jim Ratcliffe wanted to purchase the rights from JLR to continue Defender production, and upon their refusal to allow him to do so, he went ahead and made his own, admittedly surviving several messy court cases, giving the world the breathtakingly pretty Ineos Grenadier (Seen it? Tried it?)… be interesting to see if a company like the excellent Bailey Trailers could replicate Simba’s greatest hits or at least at least purchase the designs from Great Plains to continue production of Simba kit…
Did you get that diesel tank sorted on tractor
Not yet!
Interesting video,nice to see all the machines put away in the shed even if not cleaned fully which yours are dirt holds moisture and acids releases from plant material and eats out the paint,often see sills on silage trailers rusted out. I would think choosing a JD 6215R would a good one, our contractor pulls the beat harvester with one travels well on the ground more than enough power for the job with a high level of level of technology,GPS,variable transmission ect which is more than most farmers would need though there's a wide range of options on these tractors when new so take some time for the right one to come along. Happy New Year.
Thanks re the tractor, we’re not in a rush.
Hi Wardy, would you mx135 potentially be for sale? Would be interest if it is thanks
Not sure yet, keep watching and I’ll put it on here if it is.
Did you get sprayer window glass replaced Andrew ??.
Not yet, job for the winter while it’s stood
Wot would you change the combine for
Nothing, it’ll have to stay for now,
I WOULD TRY VALTRA TRACTOR BETTER VALUE THAN DEERE JUST a thought Andrew
Do those Ukrainian farms still exist or have they been destroyed?
They still exist,
Well Andrew it’s important that you look after machinery as to replace in this climate in the uk at the moment it’s a case of
Thinking carefully before you replace. I hope your next move on this Starmer and this bunch of incompetent MPs he controls will keep bringing the attention of more of the public towards him . He has got a place in history already as the worst British prime minister in the uk and it won’t change!!!!
Wouldn't you be better to sell all 3 older tractors and buy two newer johndeers. Than you have a spare .
Or if the weather is dodgy you got a extra tractor. To get the crops in .
It’s all down to finances, that would be the best but we can’t justify/afford to do that with margins so tight and us having 1/3 of the farm this last harvest not growing crops. We’ll hire another for harvest and for a couple of weeks in the spring.
Andrew , I understand what two terrible years you’ve had , I had them as well in 75 and 76 plus others . So I know exactly how you’ve been feeling , you wonder if these massive problems will ever stop , and then you have that bloody ignorant Starmer and his even more stupid , and dangerous bunch of idiots to deal with, and if men like you and Olly don’t deal with them and bring them down , then god help farming and all other businesses . So I wish you all the very best of luck and good health for the coming battles with these destroyers of the U. K. 😤
Thanks Stephen, we’re just planning now our next move,
No body wants to support 🇬🇧industry Land-rover will lose as if the Indios for wheel drive vehicles picks up all the military contracts for four wheel drive vehicles
Thats a shame
Dear.andrew.i.watch.your.vedios.on.you.tube.have.you.had.a.goid.christmas.and.a.happly.new.year.
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Happy New Year, Andrew and family. Keep up the great work.
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Happy New Year Andrew.
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Happy new year Andrew 👍
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