Kit one used to see
- Thread starter Oliveau
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clbarclay
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- Location
- Worcestershire
I guess the UTV has taken a lot of the link box sales?
Red Fred
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- Location
- Hants/Dorset border
Do folks still use blob-markers? They are a memory of my student days in the '80s along with Silade and Propcorn.
Lazy Sod
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- Location
- Warminster Wiltshire
I had a blob marker in the seventies. It didn't have an air compressor, but used the tractor exhaust for the pressure. From memory, there was a sprung loaded restrictor that fitted onto the top of the exhaust pipe, with a three quarter inch pipe coming from it for a hose to pressurise the foam reservoir. It worked ok, but everything got a bit hot!
I used to buy 30 barrels of Sylade a year. Nasty stuff to handle, 15% sulphuric acid and 23% formaldehyde. People were always after me for the empty barrels to use as water butts.
I used to buy 30 barrels of Sylade a year. Nasty stuff to handle, 15% sulphuric acid and 23% formaldehyde. People were always after me for the empty barrels to use as water butts.
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We use this regularly especially feeding sheep
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Red Fred
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- Location
- Hants/Dorset border
I have a Twose linkbox with the flip over top. It's still very handy for picking up calves and things.
Red Fred
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- Location
- Hants/Dorset border
Our Twose one is OK with a little tractor like the B250 but I put a quick hitch triangle on it so I can swap it with the yard scraper.
- Location
- East Essexshire
Probably so that when the hydraulics drop you can still carry on and get home.
- Location
- Near Colchester
At least with a blobber on a 12 m sprayer (or 40 feet as it was then) you could prove to the boss that it was too windy to spray when you brought the tractor home with the side windows covered with foam.
I still use a 12m sprayer with a blobber.
Spraying in a "breeze^ was fun when using a non cab tractor, as you turned on the headland you got a " refreshing " face full not lol
Dad had an old sheep dog that used to follow him spraying and would trot along under the boom especially when it was warm lol.
Spraying in a "breeze^ was fun when using a non cab tractor, as you turned on the headland you got a " refreshing " face full not lol
Dad had an old sheep dog that used to follow him spraying and would trot along under the boom especially when it was warm lol.
- Location
- LINCOLNSHIRE/KENYA
We had a Labrador that would do the same.
Exfarmer
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- Location
- Bury St Edmunds
We had a neighbour whose dog used to do that until they bought out Avadex liquid ( i think it was) . Poor dog faithfully trotted along for 20 minutes and dropped down dead
front loader bucket or telehandler
Enry
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- Location
- Shropshire
did they have a separate oil supply and pto pump?
Yes
- Location
- Near Colchester
I think that I put a picture of my two hauling a Ford 400 out of a ditch earlier on in this thread.
They are long gone thank goodness, my left knee is bad because of them.
County ones had a torque converter shuttle
