Exfarmer
Member
- Location
- Bury St Edmunds
Post knocker of the manual variety 
Kit one used to see
- Thread starter Oliveau
- Start date
- Location
- South Wales UK
All over these parts that's why??
Lazy Sod
Member
- Location
- Warminster Wiltshire
Binder and the threshing machine.
- Location
- 200 miles N,NW of New York
I got all of them and more,Real men now with sciatica, tinnitus, arthritis, the list goes on........
The good old days,
We're they feck, who would want to go back to them,
I have either used or still have half the stuff on this thread,
But now give me something quiet and comfortable, unless is Beth dutton, then I'll put up with the noise and the ride
spark plug
Member
David Thomas post knockerPost knocker of the manual variety
alomy75
Member
We still use a cooper springtine. It’s blocking a gateway. It does this job perfectlyTo get back on track
Hay rakes anyone?
finger bar mowers
Whizzler
Cab less tractors, gorgeous used with any of the above except the whizzler
Fan ted
Howard Rotaspreader
Coopers equipment, yellow, apparently because a large amount of paint turned up the wrong colour so it was rejected but manufacturer did not want it back
Belt driven saw bench
pitch fork
- Location
- N.Lincs
I know a fella who used to do that - but with his Landrover.....We used to drag a burning tyre around with a three wheel Honda bike . All the fun stuff is banned now
.......got a load of straw wrapped round the propshaft one day and stalled it.....
......had to get out and watch it burnto a cinder along with the rest of the field.
no litter in the country side slim people , the lads and lasses who dressed tidy
no big corporate super markets any one remember hillards on hull road york not far from tye trailers
a proper village bobby , and a community who where in the war or could remember it ,
the list could go on
to many to list
and not the selfish meme want it today attitude
no big corporate super markets any one remember hillards on hull road york not far from tye trailers
a proper village bobby , and a community who where in the war or could remember it ,
the list could go on
to many to list
and not the selfish meme want it today attitude
Exfarmer
Member
- Location
- Bury St Edmunds
We had a neighbour do that , next year he did it again with his new oneI know a fella who used to do that - but with his Landrover.....
.......got a load of straw wrapped round the propshaft one day and stalled it.....
......had to get out and watch it burnto a cinder along with the rest of the field.
Thank gawd, I know longer see any of them still.....
I know a fella who used to do that - but with his Landrover.....
.......got a load of straw wrapped round the propshaft one day and stalled it.....
......had to get out and watch it burnto a cinder along with the rest of the field.
Late Uncle got carried away burning wheat stubble one time, and was lucky, very lucky indeed when the wind direction changed as the inferno was pulling air in. Just made it out!
- Location
- N.Lincs
Yeah, it did a good job, but was fraught with danger at times
Late Uncle got carried away burning wheat stubble one time, and was lucky, very lucky indeed when the wind direction changed as the inferno was pulling air in. Just made it out!
Like all things, it started with good intentions but by the mid 70's we'd got 'so good at it' (using all sorts of techniques, like over-spraying with Gramoxone, to get a 'total' burn) that there realistically was only one possible outcome.
Exfarmer
Member
- Location
- Bury St Edmunds
of course straw spreader on back of combine did a cracking job for the burn and much less diesel than a chopper
Lazy Sod
Member
- Location
- Warminster Wiltshire
Hay sweep on the front of a Fordson Standard or in my father's case previously, an old car. The elevator to build the hay or corn rick, powered by a stationary engine, or horse gear.
Willie adie
Member
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Hymac diggers.
McConnell ditch digger for 3point linkage.
Cock pheasant hay turner,
MF finger mower.
McConnell ditch digger for 3point linkage.
Cock pheasant hay turner,
MF finger mower.
spark plug
Member
MF19 muck spreader, yet again dragging the snapped bed chain along behind.
betweenthelines
Member
- Location
- southwest
Getting a howard rotaspreader was a leap forward.
Hay gear was a finger bar mower, a bomford wuffler and a Vicon Acrobat. Then the IH B45 baler dropping individual bales
What a difference when we got a drum mower, Fahr Centipede and a B46 with bale sledge.
And the bale trailers were old lorry conversions
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betweenthelines
Member
- Location
- southwest
McConnel finger bar hedge trimmer-someone had to follow it round throwing the parings up on top of the hedge.
Does anyone use a scoop nowadays to "draw up the voired"
Or a "bar iron" rather than a mounted post driver when fencing?
Does anyone use a scoop nowadays to "draw up the voired"
Or a "bar iron" rather than a mounted post driver when fencing?
2wheels
Member
- Location
- aberdeenshire
shower? when i were a lad it was a splash in't horse trough.that's cos we were young....long day int cab...shower then off 'chasing tail"
- Location
- LINCOLNSHIRE/KENYA
Kidd muck spreaders
Forklifts on back of tractor ( watveare, sanderson or mcconnell )
Howard rotavators
Sellar bale hoppers
Forklifts on back of tractor ( watveare, sanderson or mcconnell )
Howard rotavators
Sellar bale hoppers