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Stooking ....... The worst was barley which needed long sleeves and you ended up with boots full of barley awns .
Best forgotten about really..
Best forgotten about really..
I remember my dad spending best part of a week trying to cut a very laid field of grass for hay with a fingerbar mower before inviting our local MF salesman to demo a new fangled disc mower- a MF 51? I think. An hour later the field was cut and the mower stayed on the farm!
can you remember 1d fish tails? them were the days.And I remember after going to YFC, - fish was 6d and chips were 3d. I could only afford chips! Total less than 4p. I think that's what they call inflation!
oh my god id forgot about that heap of shi1 burgesses should never have gone bust after the £s they made out of spares for them things!The Bamford 4 drum Wizzler. Ground breaking revolution in grass cutting, could hear the squealing gears in the next parish, then very soon the gears were in the next parish.
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A bag of scraps with salt and vinegar . No charge.can you remember 1d fish tails? them were the days.
yum yum!A bag of scraps with salt and vinegar . No charge.
Blimey that name is a blast from the past, my old man had a 970, bought it in 1973 iirc, paid just over 3 grand for it, remember him saying to my mother that he thought he must be mad paying that much for a tractor, came from wiltshire farmers not Drew's though.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.
Nelson certainly was a character, always a fag on the go, and his dad George was a nice old chap as well. Nelson had quite a sense of humour. I always remember that he had 2 calenders for customers each year: There was the nice pretty one, then there was the 'girlie' one that Mother never knew about - until somebody showed her one "No that's not ours; My Nelson would never do a thing like that."Blimey that name is a blast from the past, my old man had a 970, bought it in 1973 iirc, paid just over 3 grand for it, remember him saying to my mother that he thought he must be mad paying that much for a tractor, came from wiltshire farmers not Drew's though.
I bought a couple of bits of kit from him, he was a right character
I’m 52 and can remember dad having a few bomford wizzlers Back in the day. Worst part was the sauser bearings. Our farm was very Stoney and the nearing would beat out. it Set a new standard in grass cutting and paved the way for a multitude of drum and disc mowers designsI cut a lot of permanent grass with a fingerbar and it certainly paid to keep them in absolutely tip top nick, we often changed knives every hour for a freshly sharpened one, but the most important was to have the fingers set absolutely perfectly and sharpened regularly. The Whizzler was a very welcome arrival but did not last long. We were lucky to get an early Vicon prototype , which was replaced 2 or 3 times as they developed them, eventually ending up with a full blown Olympus , we were certainly cruising then
A rummageOr even a "tamper"
Remember the Ransomes PTO mower? If it was on a Major, you had to have the PTO in gear for the hydraulic linkage to work. I wonder how many wooden pitmans got broken when the cutter bar was in transport position with the PTO shaft connected .Even the PTO driven fingerbar mower was a revelation compared to a wheel driven version