Classic plant

newholland

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Location
England
I thought the vc15 may as well find a home on here as well.
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jakeboy

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Location
somerset
Massey Ferguson 450s spent a few hours on these machines in the 70s the company I worked for then had 6 ,prefered them to the hymac,very rare now although I would like to find one to restore, but spares wouldn't be easy!! This machine had the 6354 Perkins engine as fitted to the 500 series combines, many times if I was tracking machine across fields I would set the machine moving the tracking levers alongside your seat a little like handbrake,they would stay in gear, and I would walk back to get me van and park up and wait for machine to catch up!! However one particular occasion the machine struck an ant hill sending it of course through a hedge into a crop of barley of a neighbouring farmer who the customer unfortunately didn't get on with!! Took some explaining to him, his neighbour and also my boss who had to pay the damages !! This is what you do when your in your twenties, perish the thought now!!!
 

Henarar

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Somerset
Massey Ferguson 450s spent a few hours on these machines in the 70s the company I worked for then had 6 ,prefered them to the hymac,very rare now although I would like to find one to restore, but spares wouldn't be easy!! This machine had the 6354 Perkins engine as fitted to the 500 series combines, many times if I was tracking machine across fields I would set the machine moving the tracking levers alongside your seat a little like handbrake,they would stay in gear, and I would walk back to get me van and park up and wait for machine to catch up!! However one particular occasion the machine struck an ant hill sending it of course through a hedge into a crop of barley of a neighbouring farmer who the customer unfortunately didn't get on with!! Took some explaining to him, his neighbour and also my boss who had to pay the damages !! This is what you do when your in your twenties, perish the thought now!!!
I would never do that:)
 

Renaultman

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Arable Farmer
Location
Darlington
Does this count ? My 70's Hydrovane compressor, really useful bit of kit.
I have a 50s Ingersol Rand, I think with a ford engine in. A self loading cement mixer with a 2 cylinder lister petter and a dumper all a similar vintage, all currently residing in the long grass, will get round to doing something about them one day. And then there's my Dad's 6D which is still in regular use.
The frightening part of this thread is the fact that I have driven a lot of the stuff on it, some of it new at the time :(
 

jakeboy

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Location
somerset
@jakeboy how bad do you need one to restore ..............
Well it's like this I started out operating these around the country in my twenties on pipelines and road jobs construction sites also farm work ,I have nothing but good memories of them I even had a Smith's electric heater under seat !the tracks would regularly come off and I was well used to putting them on on me own! Had one off in a slurry pit September 1976 yes I even remember date! It was at Stanton prior just south of Bristol the fitter who came out that afternoon has not forgiven me even to this day !!!people who know me has always said can't make out why you haven't restored a piece of plant, well perhaps it's time now, but and its a big but, any of these I have seen would drain the resources of someone a lot richer than me and it would start with the seller saying he wants 3/4 grand for it! That's the main reason my real that it probably won't happen.
 

Mursal

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The Smiths heater takes me back, never mind the plant ..................
Yes it is a rich (some might even say foolish) mans game, especially the big stuff. But we have to leave something to do in heaven .............
 

jakeboy

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Location
somerset
The Smiths heater takes me back, never mind the plant ..................
Yes it is a rich (some might even say foolish) mans game, especially the big stuff. But we have to leave something to do in heaven .............
I don't know if it's foolish mursal!!It is whatever floats your boat I guess,I have met many who wouldn't do this and wouldn't do that and had every opportunity put before them but they would rather earn there living criticising others that do, I have a name for em dream stealers, never should anyone talk anybody out of what he wants or think is right to do, pretty well everything I have put mind to do others have poured scorn on, but the alternatives available the so called normal life has never appealed to me!!
 

How much

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Location
North East
I don't know if it's foolish mursal!!It is whatever floats your boat I guess,I have met many who wouldn't do this and wouldn't do that and had every opportunity put before them but they would rather earn there living criticising others that do, I have a name for em dream stealers, never should anyone talk anybody out of what he wants or think is right to do, pretty well everything I have put mind to do others have poured scorn on, but the alternatives available the so called normal life has never appealed to me!!

+ 1 To that you spend your hard earned on what you like and if that's classic plant or tractors so be it I for one admire anyone who makes that commitment to keeping the dream alive.
Sure New or should that maybe be Newer is maybe more comfortable more frugal with greater output but memory's of time passed when things where a bit simpler less complicated and not as rushed can and should be savoured. I am pretty sure there is a good bit of rose tinted glass wearing in there but surely there is some truth in that also .
I bet that users of today's cutting edge kit will in 20 yrs time be hankering after there current mount in the same way as is being done here
 

jakeboy

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Location
somerset
+ 1 To that you spend your hard earned on what you like and if that's classic plant or tractors so be it I for one admire anyone who makes that commitment to keeping the dream alive.
Sure New or should that maybe be Newer is maybe more comfortable more frugal with greater output but memory's of time passed when things where a bit simpler less complicated and not as rushed can and should be savoured. I am pretty sure there is a good bit of rose tinted glass wearing in there but surely there is some truth in that also .
I bet that users of today's cutting edge kit will in 20 yrs time be hankering after there current mount in the same way as is being done here
Many people have said they they can understand classic cars , bikes,etc.. but combines ? Tractors? Don't get it, well I suppose a psychiatrist might point out you may be surrounding yourself with machinery of your younger days because of the fear of getting old!! Well for sure I don't fear age, but feel dam lucky I'm still here to experience it and what it has to bring, but it's true about the rose tinted glasses when I remember Sat on tractors soaking wet freezing cold, looking over at the neighbour who had a Lambourn fitted to his, now we seem to worship this equipment and forget all this!! But I think it teaches us how far we have come good or bad.
To be honest I met a chap at the Dorset Show a couple of years ago who had a large collection of washing machines on display !!?? Right from the first models, I think that might of taken some explaining to the missus!!
 

Henarar

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Somerset
Well it's like this I started out operating these around the country in my twenties on pipelines and road jobs construction sites also farm work ,I have nothing but good memories of them I even had a Smith's electric heater under seat !the tracks would regularly come off and I was well used to putting them on on me own! Had one off in a slurry pit September 1976 yes I even remember date! It was at Stanton prior just south of Bristol the fitter who came out that afternoon has not forgiven me even to this day !!!people who know me has always said can't make out why you haven't restored a piece of plant, well perhaps it's time now, but and its a big but, any of these I have seen would drain the resources of someone a lot richer than me and it would start with the seller saying he wants 3/4 grand for it! That's the main reason my real that it probably won't happen.
Apart from the cab that is made of folded tin the rest don't really hurt outside, the cab on the green one isn't to bad and could be put right easy enough, the other one was more or less gone when I got it
I don't like machinery that is all done up and not used always seems a shame to me
Ive got a ford 5000 that spends all winter on the straw chopper a 65 on the scraper 35 i use for the topper and saw bench much better this than all done up and parked in a shed IMHO
 

jakeboy

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Location
somerset
Apart from the cab that is made of folded tin the rest don't really hurt outside, the cab on the green one isn't to bad and could be put right easy enough, the other one was more or less gone when I got it
I don't like machinery that is all done up and not used always seems a shame to me
Ive got a ford 5000 that spends all winter on the straw chopper a 65 on the scraper 35 i use for the topper and saw bench much better this than all done up and parked in a shed IMHO
i completely. Agree with you everything i have put paint on has to work and pay its way a piece of plant would be no exception albeit it might be a busmans holiday in my case!!? The idea of restoration isn't just to do up and park in a shed but to use very occasionally and be happy that you have prolonged that piece of machinerys life, unlike your own unfortunately.
 

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