- Location
- Near Beeston Castle
We were still doing that in the 80's, carried not wheeled though.
I remember when.............
- Thread starter Oliveau
- Start date
You must have been the last people bagging grain
two-cylinder
Member
- Location
- Cambridge
I helped an elderly neighbour bag some barley in 1984, it was to be stored in his disused farm house.
We filled the bags near the back door, then wheeled the bags through the kitchen, hallway and started filling the house in the living room
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We filled the bags near the back door, then wheeled the bags through the kitchen, hallway and started filling the house in the living room
.Oliveau
Member
- Location
- Indre et Loire, France
Yep - on a loader on a Fergie 20!
- Location
- Darlington
Wrap was used for wrapping pallets, often with a hand dispenser, used to do a lot for ICI visqueen then someone came uo with the bright idea of wrapping bales.
I bought a teagle one, basically a 3pt linkage muck spreader with tines instead of a drum and a bar to hang the wrap on. Used to do the barrel, push it off, with push off ram then walk around the bakes to do the ends.
- Location
- South Wales UK
On a fergi
- Location
- Ardrossan Ayrshire
I carried hundred wt bags of barley up stairs to the loft till about 1990, even worse it had to be carried back down!
- Location
- Isle of Man
Ran an Aktiv bagger trailed combine until 2001, doing 20 to 25 ac of oats a year. Some sold but lots stored in a loft and old barn. Low 2nd on the 35x cutting 5ft 6 I think!
Can just remember father had contractor came with thrushing machine and larg stand baler the bales had wire instead of string some where about mid 50s father had a pair of wire cutters he cried in his pocket still about somewere I think. Talked to the contractors daughter husband and not so long ago the thrasher is stuck in an old barn somewhere rotting away
tullah
Member
- Location
- Linconshire
Binder, thrash and wire elevator here into the mid sixties.
glasshouse
Member
- Location
- lothians
What???
- Location
- Moreton-in-Marsh, Glos
I can remember sitting on my Dad’s lap, when he was driving this
when I was 8, in 1968 in a field just between Sutton (where the Cambridge Machinery sales are held) and Witcham Tole.
I remember hearing him swear when he at the last minute saw the set of zig-zag harrows pulled by the drill, that were left in the crop by the gateway onto the A142!
I also remember that Combine pulling his Leyland tipper lorry being used as grain cart out, when it had got stuck at the bottom of the field.
It didn’t even cough as it did so. Maybe that was why the Combine was called a Bog-master
I remember the exact smell of that Combine. A sort of slightly burnt hydraulic oil smell mixed together with the smell of its rubber seat.
The roar of its Perkins L4 engine and the juddering of the traction V belts as the engine was started. The glowing red dynamo charging light going out as the engine came to life. And the squealing of the flat drum engagement belt as it was engaged and the drop in the engine revs and puff of black smoke she blew out of her exhaust.
This was the first time I knew for certain that I wanted to be a farmer!
when I was 8, in 1968 in a field just between Sutton (where the Cambridge Machinery sales are held) and Witcham Tole.
I remember hearing him swear when he at the last minute saw the set of zig-zag harrows pulled by the drill, that were left in the crop by the gateway onto the A142!
I also remember that Combine pulling his Leyland tipper lorry being used as grain cart out, when it had got stuck at the bottom of the field.
It didn’t even cough as it did so. Maybe that was why the Combine was called a Bog-master
I remember the exact smell of that Combine. A sort of slightly burnt hydraulic oil smell mixed together with the smell of its rubber seat.
The roar of its Perkins L4 engine and the juddering of the traction V belts as the engine was started. The glowing red dynamo charging light going out as the engine came to life. And the squealing of the flat drum engagement belt as it was engaged and the drop in the engine revs and puff of black smoke she blew out of her exhaust.
This was the first time I knew for certain that I wanted to be a farmer!
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glasshouse
Member
- Location
- lothians
I remember doing similiar about 1987 on a contract combining jobI helped an elderly neighbour bag some barley in 1984, it was to be stored in his disused farm house.
We filled the bags near the back door, then wheeled the bags through the kitchen, hallway and started filling the house in the living room
They were bagging it out the back ofa trailer and carrying it into a cottage
I said i could save time, just swing the combine auger over the chimney pot and fill er up
- Location
- Ardrossan Ayrshire
It would have been far to sensible to set the cornmall up below the loft or near enough that grain could move by gravity, instead it was at the opposite end of the barn from the steps!!!
Cowabunga
Member
- Location
- Ceredigion,Wales
You were lucky to get a model that had a sorted transmission. If you had the earlier 970 Agri King with virtually the same box but without the later modifications you would have had a tractor that spent more of its time in the dealer's workshop than in the field.
glasshouse
Member
- Location
- lothians
I was just too lazy to tolerate my forebears torture chambers.
……………this was just all fields
Cab-over Pete
Member
- Location
- Kenilworth, Warwickshire
Fantastic.
Oliveau
Member
- Location
- Indre et Loire, France
I did have a 970 before the 2090 & it was OK , but the 2090 was a much better tractor. The dealer, Nelson Drew, told me that he normally would export the s/h Cases back to the States where they sold better.
