Are your blades not double sided? I run pottinger mowers over in Canada, and if I bend a blade a little bit, I can just flip it upside down and then the bend will go up and you’ll have a fresh sharp edge to cut with. It might cut the grass 1/2 an inch higher where that blade mowed but saves money and waste. Great videos! I find your content super informative and interesting, and I appreciate the realistic approach you take to showing the world how farms work. You’re not afraid to show your mistakes, and you seem to take input from others with gratitude. 👍
Try some farm yard manure on that over compacted ground. Look for stuff with loads of worms in it,that should get some air to the grass roots.great video today👍
Surprised how the grass isn't growing despite all the rain, but it is noticeably cold as you said, so it seems to be going into Autumn mode already. I loved the way you talked you talked yourself into mowing despite an unclear forecast!
Hi Andrew, tough times no doubt. Ground needs to be dry for pan busting but has huge benefits. I would recommend to run a direct drill into your patchy Italian rye grass to rejuvenate it. No need to burn off and cut it as usual in your next cut.
We farm just on the other side of omagh to you and I think a way to fix some of your fields could be a grass subsoiler. We just bought one and we have seen the effects on others farms. Great job
Try some endurance technisward grass seed from agrovista. We’ve been using it for 3 years and getting excellent results. Far higher yielding and more robust than straight Italian. Excellent quality silage too 👍🏻
The weather is very strange. Some mornings showing 10 degrees and feel baltic and some reading 5 degrees and don't feel as cold. It's a grab silage when ya can type of year
I wonder would there be much of a difference with a set of row crop wheels with weight on the back, on a tractor as opposed to the compactor on the pit for compaction ??.
Stich it in to the worst parts only. With out spraying. It will not be a total success but it will be better than letting it fix it self. And you may be lucky and it may work quite well
Hi Andrew. You have some tough decisions to make but better to plan ahead now rather than later. Grass growth will improve with more heat. Would you for goodness sake mow the backing swathe anti-clockwise before you end up coped in a sheugh! Cheers🤣👍
It might be an idea to think about a backup lighter tractor, flotation tyres, single mower on your wetter spots. Even a silage pickup wagon for the lifting. Based on your location and the possibilities of higher rainfall episodes it would be a bit of insurance for poor conditions and time factors. Extra faff of course but it could stop you compacting, sinking, trenching the field, and time wasted on the towing front.
@@FarmTheoryNI If you look at the Castlederg long term charts, June and July are becoming wetter on average over the last 60 years. Funnily enough May looks drier on average now. You need your own automatic weather station on the silage ground. You can better manage what you measure is the old saying.
why can't you just broadcast some seed as soon as you picked it up on the bad places in the last field at the top and just chain harrow it , you only would need a few bags but I really don't get the yellowing and then dark green , its like the fertliser has not spread right or something , , just seems very odd , If it is compacted why not try a sward lifter like your friend Tom Pemberton did , that looked like it worked , Italian Rye is bad if compacted agree , i always use perennial ryegrass I know its not so high yielding but will withstand a bit more , Just a thought with that bad patch would help a bit , I am going to try 12 acres of these SFI clover lays this autumn i think got an advisor coming out in 10 days to see what he says as that 12 acres needs to be ploughed up this year
@@FarmTheoryNI they say Great minds think alike , Good to know it was the fertilizer at least you know what it is , you will get it right I think your very good at what your doing , love watching and learning from you as well , Thank you
Are your blades not double sided? I run pottinger mowers over in Canada, and if I bend a blade a little bit, I can just flip it upside down and then the bend will go up and you’ll have a fresh sharp edge to cut with. It might cut the grass 1/2 an inch higher where that blade mowed but saves money and waste. Great videos! I find your content super informative and interesting, and I appreciate the realistic approach you take to showing the world how farms work. You’re not afraid to show your mistakes, and you seem to take input from others with gratitude. 👍
Try some farm yard manure on that over compacted ground. Look for stuff with loads of worms in it,that should get some air to the grass roots.great video today👍
Shakerater over it be easier
I’m a Dairy farmer in New Zealand and I find your channel really interesting. Keep it up
Thank you!
Surprised how the grass isn't growing despite all the rain, but it is noticeably cold as you said, so it seems to be going into Autumn mode already. I loved the way you talked you talked yourself into mowing despite an unclear forecast!
When blades in good order just bent , use a decent pair of adjustables and bend them back , saves time and blades!!!
Can't risk them breaking
Hi Andrew, tough times no doubt. Ground needs to be dry for pan busting but has huge benefits. I would recommend to run a direct drill into your patchy Italian rye grass to rejuvenate it. No need to burn off and cut it as usual in your next cut.
Happening tomorrow!
Would you not be better to take the pressure of the pins before greasing? To get grease where it’s needed
A sward lifter has worked well for us but ground conditions must be right Dry enough on top for grip soft underneath to pull through
We farm just on the other side of omagh to you and I think a way to fix some of your fields could be a grass subsoiler. We just bought one and we have seen the effects on others farms. Great job
The 'Pan Buster'
is only good for uprooting stones ,
#CosmeticExercise /
Beach Blonde 😂 😂
I agree.
A few farms here in Derry have only took their first cut last week. 4weeks behind from last year
G coupler. That's the grease end you want, it's bout 20quid.
Try some endurance technisward grass seed from agrovista. We’ve been using it for 3 years and getting excellent results. Far higher yielding and more robust than straight Italian. Excellent quality silage too 👍🏻
The weather is very strange. Some mornings showing 10 degrees and feel baltic and some reading 5 degrees and don't feel as cold. It's a grab silage when ya can type of year
I wonder would there be much of a difference with a set of row crop wheels with weight on the back, on a tractor as opposed to the compactor on the pit for compaction ??.
Yes, tyres are all designed to be low pressure. You wouldn't make it far across a field on solid steel wheels
Another great video, we're did you get your drainage channels on the lane? I could do with a few
Great Video, I'm not 100% with you on your logic yes it's to late to change the grass, but surely more "n" will help, thanks fir sharing
great video bud.i new you where going to forget that strip of grass .😂
Stich it in to the worst parts only. With out spraying. It will not be a total success but it will be better than letting it fix it self. And you may be lucky and it may work quite well
Hi Andrew. You have some tough decisions to make but better to plan ahead now rather than later. Grass growth will improve with more heat. Would you for goodness sake mow the backing swathe anti-clockwise before you end up coped in a sheugh! Cheers🤣👍
Why do people do that? I don't get it. 😅
Great video thanks
Lock&lube brand grease end for the win it’s all I use
Need a milwaukke electric grease gun
Lovely clean crop😍. What are your thoughts on marking the ground? Just superficial?
Only wet spots are being damaged, small area of the fields.
What’s your opinion on forage wagons
It might be an idea to think about a backup lighter tractor, flotation tyres, single mower on your wetter spots. Even a silage pickup wagon for the lifting. Based on your location and the possibilities of higher rainfall episodes it would be a bit of insurance for poor conditions and time factors. Extra faff of course but it could stop you compacting, sinking, trenching the field, and time wasted on the towing front.
It's been an exceptional year. We normally don't have any issues
@@FarmTheoryNI If you look at the Castlederg long term charts, June and July are becoming wetter on average over the last 60 years. Funnily enough May looks drier on average now. You need your own automatic weather station on the silage ground. You can better manage what you measure is the old saying.
Did you spray them fields for weeds ? Savage clean
They have the forefront look.
Correct
Yep, makes a big difference in a few months
why can't you just broadcast some seed as soon as you picked it up on the bad places in the last field at the top and just chain harrow it , you only would need a few bags but I really don't get the yellowing and then dark green , its like the fertliser has not spread right or something , , just seems very odd , If it is compacted why not try a sward lifter like your friend Tom Pemberton did , that looked like it worked , Italian Rye is bad if compacted agree , i always use perennial ryegrass I know its not so high yielding but will withstand a bit more , Just a thought with that bad patch would help a bit , I am going to try 12 acres of these SFI clover lays this autumn i think got an advisor coming out in 10 days to see what he says as that 12 acres needs to be ploughed up this year
Overseeding tomorrow, decided while I was mowing. The banding is the fertilizer, need to figure out what caused it.
@@FarmTheoryNI they say Great minds think alike , Good to know it was the fertilizer at least you know what it is , you will get it right I think your very good at what your doing , love watching and learning from you as well , Thank you
Good stuff
'I'm looking for two to three weeks of really hot weather to crack the ground open'
Not asking much
#Prevailing Westerlys
🌞 🌦
Yeah, I don't think it's going to happen. 😅
#GlobalWarming ❄️ ☃️
Do you look at oil prices and buy in advance?
Sometimes but oil prices are impossible to judge at the moment.
Love the vids m8
Thank you! 🫡
Try get a deep grassland subsoiler
What you think of kneverland mowers andrew
Really really like them
What hp the puma
250
Hi man you must be getting fertiliser cheap you only cuta few weeks ago
Fertilizer has an excellent return on investment
By the way get yourself a macnaught single handed grease gun. Far better than an expensive battery gun
Why not get your man who sows your grass seeds with the grass harrow seeder to overseed any poor areas?
The grass seed is arriving today to do just that. 🤣