betweenthelines
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- Location
- southwest
I can remember my father phoning the local pub if he needed help to "pull a calf"
Kit one used to see
- Thread starter Oliveau
- Start date
I can remember my father phoning the local pub if he needed help to "pull a calf"
- Location
- JanDeGrootLand
I was in a similar situation, almost 16 and made partner (1967). First cheque was for 200 gallons tractor diesel, £12 can;t remember the shillings and pence. That autumn bought a Foster D1 ditcher digger, think it was £330. 4ft ditching bucket was another £20 made by local blacksmith. Then a year old Ford Cortina a few months later was £600.
Cant say exact year but remember buying "Nitram" for about £23.a ton, and a week old calf for £14.
Anyone remember the wooden 30 dozen egg boxes taken every week to the egg marketing board. Previous weeks paid in cash/
- Location
- Berkshire
Things that were common in Hants/wilts in the 80’s (when I were an impressionable lad 
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Parmiter Denver harrows
Parmiter Utah discs
Parmiter zig zag harrows
Wiberg spring tine harrows
Dowdeswell DP6’s
Tive air drills
Wartsilla Falcon drills
Sampo turbo tillers
Tive trailed pneumatic spreaders
Schering sprayers
Typhoon 96 bale squeezes
Two four wheel bale trailers hitched together
Two six wheel siderakes hitched together
Ropes for tying bales on
Tape in the windscreen for matching up fertiliser bouts
Rigid lorry bulkers converted to grain trailers
MB Tracs with de mount sprayers
Grain cart lorries, usually 4 wheel Ford D series or Bedford TK’s
TB turbos
Cans of easy start
Manitou MB25 forklifts
Bamlett vertical folding rolls
Kidd gang flat rolls
Kidd straw choppers
Farmhand flat 10 hydraulic bale sledges
Zetor Rur 5 muck spreaders
Forschritt 516 combines
Landrover 109 loaded with little bales, someone on the back chucking them off for the cattle while a kid steers it while set on the hand throttle ( and always parked on a hill to start ) maybe this one is specific to our family
)Parmiter Denver harrows
Parmiter Utah discs
Parmiter zig zag harrows
Wiberg spring tine harrows
Dowdeswell DP6’s
Tive air drills
Wartsilla Falcon drills
Sampo turbo tillers
Tive trailed pneumatic spreaders
Schering sprayers
Typhoon 96 bale squeezes
Two four wheel bale trailers hitched together
Two six wheel siderakes hitched together
Ropes for tying bales on
Tape in the windscreen for matching up fertiliser bouts
Rigid lorry bulkers converted to grain trailers
MB Tracs with de mount sprayers
Grain cart lorries, usually 4 wheel Ford D series or Bedford TK’s
TB turbos
Cans of easy start
Manitou MB25 forklifts
Bamlett vertical folding rolls
Kidd gang flat rolls
Kidd straw choppers
Farmhand flat 10 hydraulic bale sledges
Zetor Rur 5 muck spreaders
Forschritt 516 combines
Landrover 109 loaded with little bales, someone on the back chucking them off for the cattle while a kid steers it while set on the hand throttle ( and always parked on a hill to start ) maybe this one is specific to our family
michael N123
Member
I’ve a old bomford root chopper I should really tidy up
Red Fred
Member
- Location
- Hants/Dorset border
Everyone used to have a Triple-K cultivator. Was it a levelling bar, spring tines and crumbler roller?
Bogweevil
Member
Yes to the wooden boxes for Thames Valley Eggs and mother cleaning the white eggs one by one with some sandpaper.
- Location
- Berkshire
We had several but they were just plain spring tines
Lots of KV Slodharvs about like you describe
Red Fred
Member
- Location
- Hants/Dorset border
I think the one we had had the three bits so dad told us that was the Triple in the name, but he might have made it up.
We still have a Twose spring tine we must have had for 50 years and it is still looking pretty good in its original paint. A lot of the old Twose stuff was pretty good.
- Location
- Near Beeston Castle
My Triple K still says Triple K on it and has no levelling board or crumble roll. Does have depth wheels.
Red Fred
Member
- Location
- Hants/Dorset border
Roll-along Wilder/Parmiter bale wrappers. we had one in the '80s and thought it was the business but after a few thousand bales, my hip and knee disagreed. I used to roll the bale along the ground in reverse with the B250 while the wrap arm went round and round.
Originally it had a canvas strap to tension the 500mm wrap and a push button heating element to cut the wrap at the end. With a modern 750 tensioner and a redesigned trap arm, it actually worked perfectly well on a flat meadow, but by heck it was a tedious job counting the rotations.
Originally it had a canvas strap to tension the 500mm wrap and a push button heating element to cut the wrap at the end. With a modern 750 tensioner and a redesigned trap arm, it actually worked perfectly well on a flat meadow, but by heck it was a tedious job counting the rotations.
- Location
- NSW, Newstralya
Lazy Sod
Member
- Location
- Warminster Wiltshire
Before bale wrapping came along, bales were put in big plastic bags.
- Location
- Exeter, Devon
We used to call them elephants condoms!
Then tie them off with a couple of Elastrator rings
What a tremendous set of pictures, thank you for sharing them
Eggs in boxes to Yorkshire Egg Producers at Drighlington long since gone.
That sounds easy. All we had was a pitchfork. Onto trailer high trailer so it was easier on lift off into loft above cattle. David Brown baler that chucked bales out at side. Dad always wanted to make a couple of fields of hay even after we built silo pit. Changed his mind after I disappeared once when it was time to shift them.
- Location
- Exeter, Devon
Does anyone else remember the old bale hooks? I think I only worked on one farm where they were used but the guys would never handle small bales without them
Yes I have used them when I was about 17/18
When the flat eight loader run out of reach in the barn , then the elevator would come in to finish off the top in the barn.