Honestly your mower sounds like it needs replaced sooner than later. Not a good sound. You never need to apologize for emotional breaks. They're good for you and it's just your love for those who came before you and your family. God bless you.

Dont apologise richard your heart is everywhere on your farm well done if farmers had an ounce of your passion farming is in very good hands ❤

The trees are a sign for you and the boys to plant loads more and make some more memories and see it as a positive instead of a negative you still have some oaks you and your dad planted Rich 👍

Great video. Last year silage contractor cutting silage. He is simeny retired. 2 tool took over the set up. Started with 3 mowers cutting finish with 1 mower. Tractor with 2 mowers broke down Tuber went on tractor. Parked up for 2 weeks in field 2 harvester picking up. With 3 trailers. 1 came from local john deer dealer tfm for test run for 2 hours to get ready to sale on.

If you've a metal diesel storage tank then the debris in the bottom will be sludge and also rust from the unpainted inside of the tank, which is caused by condensation, best thing to do is invest in a plastic tank and use anti bug additives etc

No need to apologise richard, when you put your heart and soul in to something and it's been there for so long,it's heartbreaking to see,the one thing is when you replace them,Jack and Harry will be able to say in years to come that they helped you plant the new ones

Pick your wetter areas and plant walnut. Loves a bit of damp round their feet and might help dry things out a little bit. Chestnut likes things a bit dryer, as does beech, but they'll cope with most things. Get some bullace going, it'll grow quite well as a smaller tree. Crab apples. Losing old friends is just an excuse to make new ones.

Bought an 8ft krone disc mower this spring. Best investment I made in ages. I was at the same messing about with old mowers. They will break your heart.

Youre so down to earth Richard, Honest hardworking fabulously funny, l have loved the countryside all my life, and admire you farmers, l watch your videos and its like a medicine, all the best, wishing you a happy healthy future, bless you all,❤ crack on. Lots of love❤ Loved you Mr P and Sylvia x 😂😅😊😢

My aunt has had to have around 20 Ash trees cut down around her farm due to Ash die back. She was gutted, so I feel your pain about the trees

Wow lots of grass . Hope u get the mower fixed soon great video as all ways

Silage season always brings dilemmas. Keep up the good work Richard

Funky farmer he'll off crop of grass and a he'll off job you're doing. Good luck with the sillage.God bless you and your family

Richard, great to see your using smaller machinery on what seems like very large fields. Here in Northern Ireland they would be cutting a 2 acre field with triple mowers or a Big M

Best of luck with the silage making 2023 💪💪💪

Strange you can put away implements after the hay , siliage , harvest clean and everything in good working order , get out the following season , grease , check etc and something bloody breaks down ... guarenteed to happen lol !

Great video Richard it is such a good year for grass everywhere is so lush at the moment, its a shame about the ash i would look into chesnut as they have a diasese. They have been suffering for the last few years looking very sick around my area surrey hampshire border. Good to see harry's enthusiasm for the farm and his dad its magical great to see thank you

A beautifull tree iis a Tulip Trees fantastic for cabinet making with beautiful flowers after they reach 5 years old 😎😎😎

Buzzing... 44mins of the funky farmer. Crack on 👍🏻

It is a huge shame about the ash, i truly feel your pain. Great video as always!

Now you know why I never take Chocolate bars in my lunchbox in the tractor even though I have an Insulated cold box. I understand your sadness at all the trees dying, their what makes the British landscape what it is. Your fuel problems could be because you only use the tractor for short times over the winter and possibly water in the fuel because of condensation. A good idea to give the Tractors a good service just before you start heavy work. Craic On 👍

Good video, straight from the ❤️, you're a good man👍 don't need to apologise mate 😊. Sounds like you have some good options with the trees, yeah, I'm sure Jack and Harry will help their Dad, as you did with yours 👨‍👦‍👦...and see them grow for the future🌳🌳. Anyway, enjoy your drinking chocolate 😂🍫... What a lovely part of the world you have there, lovely day. Take care ... Looking forward to seeing the next one

Nice job of mowing. Grass looking good. You might need another mower sooner than you want. Always have issues on the farm.

I understand how you feel with regards to the Ash trees. We had a memorial tree for my step son and my late wife had her ashes scattered there also. That had to be cut down due to ash dieback. Not the same visiting just the stump, it was a glorious tree.

I love this farmer

Nothing wrong with being a proud Farmer caring and managing all living things on the Family farm. . Fair sandwich 😅 to . The boys need to go out planting some replacements so they also have the story's to tell.. stay safe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿.. ps. You should try ear buds for your music and sound canceling since you can work your Bluetooth in the tractor.. 😊

I remember loosing all the elms as a youngster and now the ash too, sad days, i've had to fell a couple before they fall on things...... Combi Filter (filters fuel and traps water) on your storage tank outlet is cheap and easy to do and saves on tractor filter probs. HTH

i have not had a beef sandwich like that for years yum

Going to make you jealous Rich - Farm up the road from me that has 1400 head of cattle have just done their 2nd cut. We didn’t get quite the amount of flooding this year but it was still very wet. The joys of Great Britain and its variations

There is a priceless value on sanity, worth more than any mower, I learned this after losing my hair. Mowing is a relatively simple job and should not be this difficult

Good morning the funky farmer

That was a fair impression of Blakey when you said "I hate you ash die back ". I can remember as a lad when the trees around our local hedgerows and lake were lost to elm disease. The whole character of the area was totally lost. I worked on the farm in that area, and although replacement trees had been planted, I'm sure the cattle missed the shade and protection. Anyway, on another topic, if you are making silage, perhaps the trailer crew could reverse the trailers into the clamp, instead of dumping in the crop in the muck like last year.

Had your money worth out of the mower lol😅

Got a similar drum mower. If the saucers are dented, the blades get stuck and leave a row of partially cut grass every now and then.

The mower will hopefully get you through this season and hopefully you get a Kverneland (best there is 😅) ps we use a filter sock from the parlour to filter the diesel when refilling

I hope you have a better day tomorrow! Crack on

Rich,you are gaining back what you lost last year from the drought.

had a zetor mower used to trow the belts off .........did it from new .......got a sh kuhn gmd 600 a rough one at that , and never looked back ..........!

Farming is a hard life but also can be fun as well

Check your belt tension. It could also be your pto clutch slipping in your tractor. Them drum mowers normally mow very well and give years of service.

Beach, silver birch, oak, maple? I feel gutted for you. a lot of effort put into that hedge. also if your mower goes boom, I am happy to lend my 3m side mounted Claas disc mower for your second cut if you need it. 90-100 hp runs it just fine. I am only in herefordshire, happy to drop it off to you if you need it. Keep up the good work Richard!

I can relate to this Rich, got the same problem myself, just an idea you can plant an Elm variety from Holland that is resistant to dutch elm disease and I am planning on planting a few. Jonathan

There might be a bearing collapsed,thats the knocking and now the belt has come off

You need a cool bag with ice blocks ! So sad about the trees 😢big hugs

I know those trees have been in a good few years but I think the main problem is so many trees are imported from abroad and diseases like this come with them infecting our otherwise protected island , something else we can’t seem to do for ourselves grow a few trees .

Ash die back is heartbreaking on my way to work last year they cut down loads of them along the A370 to Congesbury due to the risk of them falling on the road That mower sounds awful but youve got plenty of grass so thats a massive bonus

I new it was belts I can hear it and I am hurting hearing because I used to cut grass for my old work and I am happy your boss makes sure your doing your job right?

We have the same problem here in Cork with the ash die back.

Great video Richard, I won't say the obvious about the mower . But what you did so far seems to have gone well. A pity Hazza missed it. I would say maintenance is the key to all these problems you have, with the mower and the tractor. Maybe change the belts check the bearings ,certainly a lot cheaper than buying a new mower. As for the tree problems with Ash die back, it's decimated the countryside and as you said on your farm you've lost a few which I could see as upset you. 😢👍👍

I rambert seeing them tractors you got ten years ago wonder how many ours they got on

A sorry sight, those lovely Ash trees dieing back. 80% of European ash predicted to die. Woodland Trust have schemes with subsidised hedgerow and tree planting packs, I'm going to use them when our last few trees are felled here in Wales.

Hi Rich, I'd love to see a tree video, could u teach us how to identify all the different species of trees ? Another brilliant video as always, thank you. Does it help if we watch the adverts ?

Hell of a crop of grass

Have you thought about leasing a mower just for this year's cut?

Next week we have to mow over 200 acres for grass and we have a hell of a crop of grass so we will fill a few pits

You have nothing to be sorry about I think there's many many people feeling the same as you. We've felled nearly 80 ash trees so far around the farm and still finding more heart breaking but let hope they can breed some thats resistance to it. You certainly have a hell of a crop of grass. Crack on. Regards to the family

Keep it till lad

I think you should consult Hazza ;) Very sad about your trees,

I think the best thing to do is set aside a bit of a field and plant some trees with a nice bench in each one of your family plants two trees in this area crack on mr cornock

You need a cool bag for that chocolate bar buddy 😅

Got a mower the same and it leave strips in every field when we bale it and can’t figure out what it is

did you get the tractor sorted with the front loader control issues? or is this the ones your using. lost track of it all. good tip i was taught by my grandad for summer lunches, freeze a 1 or 2 l bottle of water, and wrap it in foil ,it still melts, but slowly, so keeps your lunch cold in the bag , and gives you an ice cold drink,keeps your cadburys nice and firm, , still use it now for work in the summer

A job for Farmer P, I could do with his Tree Service I have got a dead tree and before high winds brings it down on my shed, but as he would have to travel from Gloucestershire to Essex I think I will have to find someone just as good nearer.

Richard, is there any chance that Hedge’s could be causing the problem with the trees?

👍👍Great video. Hope you get the mowing sorted.

Felt for you with the mower in particular. Horrible feeling when you are trying to limp it through. Especially at such a critical time. I suppose the question is whether you can rely on contractors in your area. If not, give Harry a price and see what he can come up with. If he comes good the experience gained would be huge. If he gets to haggle, even if preagreed with the seller, even better.

All that talk about Richard not having a contractor to help, then today’s upload “boom”, Richard does have a contractor cutting his grass🙂

Never need to apologise for getting upset. Your life is on this farm. You need a new mower 😊. XXX

Nice crop

New belts

Richard so about Ash die back I worked in the woods as one of my past jobs I'm afraid sudden Oak disease is very bad here in Hampshire. We started planting walnut and beech

Selling my 2.4m disc mower, 4 rotor tedder and 4.2m single rotor rake. Vicon disc mower and fella tedder and rake.

We got a lot of ash die back here in Devon.....we seemed to escape it the first few years but the last couple of years there looking really sick now.....I'm worried that this could be the end of ash trees like it has been for the elm tree. Those drum mowers aren't as good as disc mowers......we had a drum mower once it only lasted two seasons

what is causing the Ash tree die back?

As if the day couldn’t get any worse!!!! Tractor playing up, mower playing up, trees dying and the final straw melted dairy milk omfg!!!!!!

You can put Ash back they have found some species that don't get the die back 😊

👀🙄🐾👍Oh dear poor Harry

How is cow 61?i met you at South Molton mkt keep on cutting 😅

Belts worn and one hell of a thick crop of grass it’s struggling a bit

Talk to an arborist maybe there’s something they can suggest you can try for the trees

Sounds like you may have a dish bearing on the way out… or maybe a loose blade holder!!

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You can get Asian Ash that seems to be resistant to it.

Sounds like a drum bearing or something like that going

The problem is the belts are not tight enough from years of use so they are slipping and not spinning as fast. there is a way to tighten them with a bolt somwhere I think

A new mower wouldn’t be a bad buy you might have to spend money on it but you’ll save money by cutting you’re fields faster krone have a very good affordable range of non conditioner mowers you’re tractor would be well able for them

Hi Dose your brother have his own farm?

Aparently there are signs that some young ash trees are becoming resistant to the dieback.. I have a giant ash in my garden and I dot know how it has survived, but no sign of the disease on it at all.. I was at one point surrounded by ash.. The field behind my house was an ash Forrest specially grown for making Irish hurleys, they all got the dieback and were cut down before it completely rotted the wood.. There is nothing there now, just grass... Sad..

You should get a mower on demo / loan for the season like some other farming KZfaqrs.. but at least your contractor can help out with the mowing.. Shame about the Ash trees. He’ll of a crop of grass👍

You should have done a deal on a new mower at the same time as the fertiliser spreader and traded all the worn out gear and put both on finance over 3 years , if you watch Tom pemberton he bought a Malone mower and says they are good

Good bit of kit our local farmer got one of these mowers but the swaf on the back

You didn't wash your diesol tank out with water Richard 😅

It seems inevitable that all the Ash trees will get Ash dieback. Would it be a good idea to cut all the Ash trees down and harvest the timber. There are people who have mobile saw mills who could come and plank the trees on site. Ash is a lovely timber to work with.

if i had the money i would be more than happy to help you buy a new mower

Nose hair Richard

Hi Richard speak to Mr p your ash trees

You need a, dare I say it new tractor with either a cool bin or fridge for your chocolate perhaps Jeremy Clarkson will do a swap with your McCormick for his Lamborghini😉

You would probably be better off just keeping those old mowers in the back of the shed and get the contractor to cut all the silage 👍🏻

Sorry about your trees, very sad after all your efforts planting and caring for them.

get farmer p to sort them out.