What will you do with the hatch?
Archurchs had a depot at Ruskington and you had Platts as well all over the county.
We didn’t deal much with Achurch but I do remember my Dad buying a muck fork from them and picking it up on a Saturday morning when home from boarding school ( Kings Grantham). It was easy to work out whether an International had come from Achurch or Platts because a tractor from Achurch would have the owners name sign written on the bonnet which must have been a Horncastle thing as Friskneys did the same.
At the risk of taking this thread over I have another story for you. About three years ago I bought a Stanhay beet drill from a farm near the Belmont mast. Talking to the farmer about it he told me he was in Achurch’s when Bob Craven came in. He asked the farmer if he had started drilling beet yet to which the farmer said yes they’d been at it a couple of days. Craven told him that it was too wet for them to which the other farmer asked him what colour wheels he had on his drill Craven replied blue. ‘That’s your problem mine has the orange wheels they don’t stick as much’ the farmer told him. Straight away Mr Craven ordered a set of the orange wheels. My drill has blue wheels and never had any other colour.
as in what way? ive glassed it solid! from above, will look no different from inside the cab, just wont work as a hatch!
Thank you, it all turns over ok i think its ok. Its mainly going to be a show piece to match the tractor
small hands to get in the side. big hands ooohhh dear.thanks! but generally is it trumpet housings off/cab off?Depends on how big your hands are
