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Just wondering if any one knows which year in the early '70s did Ford change from large oil filters to the smaller type on the 3 and 4 cylinder engines.

The only way to drill cereals after potatoes is in the same direction that the potatoes were planted. After several seasons of drilling and spraying, it's the only way. We used to subsoil about 25 degrees across the ridges and drill in the same direction as planting. Trying to drill 90...

Thanks for the thoughts, the front mounted booms I mentioned were mounted on an International 885 tractor. Any ideas how many machines he made and what eventually happened to the company?

Remember having a demo of a self propelled sprayer and cannot remember the make. It was built by a chap by the name of Pickton(?) British built, purpose built and not a conversion, hydrostatic drive with clearance, Deutz engine, possibly blue and white livery but may be green(!). He then went...

Remembering circa '84 on the estate I was working on then having 20 50 kilo bags of basic moulon seed and being asked to fill the drill in the field so any spillages would grow, it was going to be the answer to high wheat yields and it crashed. Armada winter wheat and Panda winter barley two...

First post, so here goes.. Found an old mid-eighties drilling note book with the following varieties: Moulon, Galahad, Mission, Brimstone, Fenman, Avalon, Brock and Norman. The question being has the job moved forward?