Tarw Coch
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- Location
- Bottom of Wats Dyke
Thinking a bit more, it was definitely Jim Davidson, I had it on tape, allthough reality is it probably was the inspiration of a script writer not either of them.
I remember the time when...
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Tarw Coch
Member
- Location
- Bottom of Wats Dyke
I’ve posted on here before about tellling a mates dad some years ago about our routine to keep lower bactoscans, Aye lad he said, and which do you think will do you the most harm, a few bugs or them chemicals.
- Location
- Ceredigion
When dad left school in the 40ts he went to work on Betley Court Farm as Horseman . Boss used to buy unbroken horses in sales ,dad would get them used to pulling the plough then they were sold on to pull Brewery trucks in Crewe .
When he bought the first tractor a standard fordson the boss cut the seat off with a Hacksaw as he thought it wrong to pay his staff to sit down while working
When he bought the first tractor a standard fordson the boss cut the seat off with a Hacksaw as he thought it wrong to pay his staff to sit down while working
When my Gramp bought a new MF165, Rogers at Weedon had one in stock with power steering. He either had them remove the kit, or waited for another tractor that was non-PS, I forget.
His thinking was that drivers would turn the wheel more than necessary because it was easy, and hence wear the tyres out quicker.
It was sold in '76 for a Ford 4600, which still didn't have PS, or a PUH... because there was nothing wrong with looping a chain round the arms, and picking up trailers with that
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He did have the work life balance thing sorted though; always had a nice car in the garage, with all the extras.
His thinking was that drivers would turn the wheel more than necessary because it was easy, and hence wear the tyres out quicker.
It was sold in '76 for a Ford 4600, which still didn't have PS, or a PUH... because there was nothing wrong with looping a chain round the arms, and picking up trailers with that
.He did have the work life balance thing sorted though; always had a nice car in the garage, with all the extras.
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- Location
- Scottish Highlands
What was the tractor that had to have a smouldering wick put into the engine (somewhere) to get it started? One of my earliest recollections of a tractor was uncle starting one of those!
- Location
- Scottish Highlands
For some reason 'Field Marshall' keeps coming into my head. so, yes, probably. I can still remember the sound -- as if it only had one cylinder! I must have been about 10.
- Location
- South Wales UK
Or cartridge
I remember when accidents were just that.......
When children learnt about risk & consequence.......
When food was seasonal..............
When people graduated from walking, to pushbikes, to motorbikes to cars.
I also remember when lighting the gas taps in chemistry got you stood at the front and a ruler across the knuckles.
When children learnt about risk & consequence.......
When food was seasonal..............
When people graduated from walking, to pushbikes, to motorbikes to cars.
I also remember when lighting the gas taps in chemistry got you stood at the front and a ruler across the knuckles.
76masseyman
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- Location
- Lincolncestershire
Yes, single cylinder, two stroke. Only tractor that to start you either set fire to, or shoot it. Bloody awful contraption in my opinion.
- Location
- N Ireland BT47
To continue on Dad smoking the pipe and me learning to steer. Dad had a Mk1 cortina with a bench seat in the front. He would be driving with me in the front seat and would need to light the pipe,. So he would tell me to slide over beside him and steer while he lit the pipe and watched what I was doing, "up a bit, down a bit, keep her straight" at about 50mph. Funny thing is he never did that when mum was in the car. I would have been about six or seven at the time,
Av Gorritt
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- Location
- NE Ches / SE Lancs
A "fag end " used to suffice in the absence of a cartridge.
Av Gorritt
Member
- Location
- NE Ches / SE Lancs
I remember there was a single cylinder "Field Marshall " in the Preston area doing threshing work . There were 2 old chaps , a driver and a banksman . It was simply too noisy for normal conversation , and when it was on tick-over , the flywheel moved like the intermittent movement of a clock second hand. They used to communicate with a system of grunts and hand signs - telly-tubby sounding, no words . However , they'd done the setting up so often that it had got down to a work of art . They would have it lined up and the belt tensioned PDQ . They were a pretty irascible pair too , woe betide the one who was feeding the drum if he got a bit enthusiastic about it all and forked a bit too quickly and threw off the belt . They might not have used our kind of words when they were setting up , but the bad language when we threw the belt off was a bit universal .. Happy days indeed !.
Happy days indeed !.
Old Boar
Member
- Location
- West Wales
Tractors you could bump start by leaning over and pushing the tyre lugs to get her moving down the hill.
- Location
- Near Colchester
Standing on stage in my Norfolk primary school - some time ago - singing 'Polly Wolly Doodle'
For those of you who don't know the tune - it doesn't really matter.
Verse 3 or 4
'I came to a river I couldn't get across,
singing polly wolly doodle all the day,
So I jumped on a Ni****r cos I thought it was a hoss,
singing polly wolly doodle all the day.'
I don't remember our children doing that verse for some reason.
For those of you who don't know the tune - it doesn't really matter.
Verse 3 or 4
'I came to a river I couldn't get across,
singing polly wolly doodle all the day,
So I jumped on a Ni****r cos I thought it was a hoss,
singing polly wolly doodle all the day.'
I don't remember our children doing that verse for some reason.
johnspeehs
Member
- Location
- Co Antrim
My old neighbour always recalls the story about when he was in his early twenties and his father sent him out with the horse and horse drawn reaper ( they were one of the last farms round here using horses) to cut a field of hay but something spooked the horse and it took off over a couple of ditches and down a steep hill and wrecked the reaper. He went back to the yard to face the music and told his father what had happened.He asked his father " where will we go to look for parts for the reaper?" and the father replied " Where the hell else would you go but back up the same way you came down". My dad assures me its a true story as he knew the family well.
or a white object that turned out to be a sea gull and movedWhen 'GPS' meant lining up with a certain stone in a distant long stone wall - which soon started to look like several other stones
- Location
- cheshire
I remember a time when after getting
Plastered at local village or yfc dances the local plod would do a sweep round in his van and chuck any of us lads whom he thought where probably not going to get their / parents cars home in one piece into the back of his van and become the local taxi
Proper policing
Plastered at local village or yfc dances the local plod would do a sweep round in his van and chuck any of us lads whom he thought where probably not going to get their / parents cars home in one piece into the back of his van and become the local taxi
Proper policing
- Location
- Ceredigion
When you could claim Grant's for improving land
john432
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- Location
- Carmarthenshire
I remember a time, when the Grant's were paid at 70% of the standard cost, on a plan like that's evidence, with just the ditches cleaned out and a few yards of pipe fitted where the outlets were!
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