betweenthelines
Member
- Location
- southwest
A man using a spade or muck fork
Or a hoe!
Or a hoe!
Kit one used to see
- Thread starter Oliveau
- Start date
Use hand muck fork once a month to clean out back of bull’s pen.
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Aspiring Peasants
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- Location
- North Pennines
A fiddle, I can just remember a neighbour sowing grass seed with one of these. We have 2 in the back of the shed
- Location
- sw scotland
First tractor driving was collecting stooks age 9. Thought I was in heaven
Lazy Sod
Member
- Location
- Warminster Wiltshire
That was one of my first driving jobs, although I was a year or two older. Another one was driving the tractor whilst my father forked off kale and hay for the (then) outwintered dairy cows.
Forking kale off a trailer, there was a thing. That was the best thing about the old tractors with back entry cabs, you could set a course, and climb out onto the trailer along the drawbar, and back again, as the hedge the other end of the field drew nigh.
Good health and safety that
glasshouse
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- Location
- lothians
That was my first time steering a tractor, a dexta while my uncle shovelled turnips off to sheep
bravheart
Member
- Location
- scottish borders
Health and safety was definitely not part of the kit one used to see.Good health and safety that
Have done similar in the past. Next door likewise till while graiping Silage off the trailer one wet day the trailer slid away pulling the tractor with it through the fence and over a cliff. Obviously the man just jumped off but if he'd been in the tractor.....
- Location
- LINCOLNSHIRE/KENYA
I was home from school ill probably 8 but possibly 7 . Dad got me to come out and drive whilst they loaded bats on the trailers. The next day back at school I wrote about it in my story book. Mum and Dad got a call to explain themselves.
- Location
- Near Beeston Castle
Tell me you are in a Third World country without telling me you are in a Third World country.
That picture just makes me shudder! Got rid of ours when we packed up and it was one of the "glad to be rid of that" things very high up on the list. Probably spent more time trying to start it than using it.
- Location
- LINCOLNSHIRE/KENYA
It's a brilliant machine. 45 years old. I still have one in England that's older that we bought iñ 1979. The lifting they've saved us is phenomenal. When you talk about time spent starting I'd presume you mean one with the small international engine which were a pain but the one in the picture has a Ford 4600 engine.
I'm sure the one I used to drive in the 80's with the sliding counterweight had the gearbox from an International, 4 speed lever in a zig zag gate arrangement. Used to be easier to spin her round and go up hills backwards which would confuse people on the road as we had a really steep hill (Sunrising for those that know South Warwickshire)