Do you think she’ll restore ok?

When I was a kid I remember hot nights with the window open and hearing these tractors baling a mile or so away long into the night, the rhythmic groan of the big lump driving the ram of the Hesston 4900 balers back.

Dad would only have had the MF 165 at the time, neighbours ran Leyland and an International 684 and my uncles big tractor was a Ford 7600, so these were massive machines to us.

The owner was well ahead of the game years ago.

On other evenings we could hear a Steiger Panther droning away at full chat a couple of miles or so across the fields. It belonged to the Moreton family of Moreton Tyres and they farmed a block near us.
 
Is that number on the mudguard or the cab? What do you think it is anyway?
Big numb 3 speed powershift ,awesome case 2 wd , richard lane in cambridgeshire used to big bale with them ,
think they chuck out more than 115 though
 

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@Cab-over Pete Henry Moreton now farms the other side of Horncastle. I have met his Dad the first importer of Steigers!! there were several in Lincolnshire at one time!
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I think Henry’s Panther is owned by a TFF member out Lancashire way now.
His was one of the tidier Panthers still working at the time, only know of one other now.
Henry actually drove his from Warwickshire to near Woodhall Spa, obviously with the dual wheels off.
 

JWL

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They used to run a couple of those big Cases out at Lodge Farm, Kineton. Then you had Forsyth's the other side with their big kit. First time I had seen Fw60's being used to the full.
 

Netherfield

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West Yorkshire
Martin George who started the David Brown Tractor Club had something like, not sure which though, maybe a 2090, he pulled a forager with it.

I can recall seeing some outside the factory at Meltham.
 

Manny

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In the middle.
Those old 2390 were great old busses. I wish I had taken more photos of the pair of them running heston baler. I think the gearbox problems become to great in that one and it was broke for part to keep the other one running. I think a good bid on the one that is left may get someone a nice toy. I think they were putting out around the 160hp. They always went well on the balers, great on a 4m power harrow and very interesting on a big silage trailer in a wet maize harvest. I got one stuck on a steep bank with a heston on, going up hill a bale dropped out and the wheels spun and it dropped in. Couldn't reverse as I had a bale right behind, couldn't put it in park and go for help as if it rocked back in to park you couldn't get it out and no mobile phone. lucky for me there was a lad 20 mins behind me stacking the bales who came and rescued me in the end.
 

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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