Classics Earning their keep.

Two Tone

Member
Mixed Farmer
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All built circa 1992 and still going strong. As well as being an absolute pleasure to use!
 

glasshouse

Member
Location
lothians
I’m posting from the situation of having a contracting business for 32 years and spending my working life on other people’s farms day in day out when all these Ford TW’s were on the large southern estates in there pairs and Your Marshall was bought new. The TW’s finished many estates relationships with Ford and Marshall buyers never repeated the move either.
Wash your mouth out with soap!
The Tw s were untouchable in their day, and bulletproof to boot.
They only went wrong when they started putting powershift boxes on them
 

glasshouse

Member
Location
lothians
Those estates that owned them moved away from Ford when the tw’s We’re replaced, the side of the engine said hello to a big hole at around 5500 hrs, saw it time and again.
Bu the time the tws were getting replaced there was a lot of choice in big tractors, not so ten yr earlier.
Most of those big estate tractors never got near 5000 hrs, i bought a ten yr old tw30 with 3000 hrs on it
Cheap raw power, you cant buy that today.
 

Two Tone

Member
Mixed Farmer
Bu the time the tws were getting replaced there was a lot of choice in big tractors, not so ten yr earlier.
Most of those big estate tractors never got near 5000 hrs, i bought a ten yr old tw30 with 3000 hrs on it
Cheap raw power, you cant buy that today.
We had a TW 25 when I was in Suffolk. It would pull the bolliks off anything!
A fantastic tractor that sounded like a hurricane as it came towards you and chucked lumps of coal out of the exhaust when the going got tough. But it just wouldn’t give up.
We tested against the equivalent MF 2725 and a JD (can’t remember the number) on the same Dowdeswell DP7E+1 (14”) and it absolutely left them for dead!
 

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Expanded and improved Sustainable Farming Incentive offer for farmers published

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Expanded Sustainable Farming Incentive offer from July will give the sector a clear path forward and boost farm business resilience.

From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and The Rt Hon Sir Mark Spencer MP Published21 May 2024

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Full details of the expanded and improved Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) offer available to farmers from July have been published by the...
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