1989 picture's from Pershore.

[solo]

Looking back at my placement year it's a wonder I didn't get locked up for overloading
Fortunately I spent many happy hours on the Fendts 309LSA and 614.LSA. The turboclutch took a bit of getting used to but they pulled well.
The tanker weighed in at 35t on its own full of liquid nitrogen.

I spent several days lugging muck with the 20t trailer. Barn doors were a new concept to me.

It was a bit hairy tipping off on soft ground.

25t of wheat in this one.

 

[solo]

The snapped drawbar thread reminded me of these pictures, especially @Will 1594 loading muck post.

 

[No wot]

What part of the country , all arable ? Operation still going

 

[Muddyroads]

Looking back at my placement year it's a wonder I didn't get locked up for overloading
Fortunately I spent many happy hours on the Fendts 309LSA and 614.LSA. The turboclutch took a bit of getting used to but they pulled well.
The tanker weighed in at 35t on its own full of liquid nitrogen.
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I spent several days lugging muck with the 20t trailer. Barn doors were a new concept to me.
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It was a bit hairy tipping off on soft ground.
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25t of wheat in this one.
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Whereabouts ear Pershore were you?
I did part of my sandwich year next door to Strensham Services on an arable/veg farm in 1985. I clearly remember filling the car up on my way home as Status Quo opened LiveAid.

 

[Breckland Boy]

My sandwich was in Inkberrow circa '92.
Fond memories of a series III 6810,7810,8210. Also a sanderson 726 telehandler which was absolutely brilliant.

 

[solo]

Whereabouts ear Pershore were you?
I did part of my sandwich year next door to Strensham Services on an arable/veg farm in 1985. I clearly remember filling the car up on my way home as Status Quo opened LiveAid.

Allesborough Farm ( a former part f the Crome Estate) c900acres, wheat, barley, osr, potatoes, beef cattle, commercial and pedigree sheep, on the old A44, Worcester side of Pershore town. Farmer has since passed on and the farm complex is currently becoming houses.
I guess you may have been at Revells .

 

[solo]

My sandwich was in Inkberrow circa '92.
Fond memories of a series III 6810,7810,8210. Also a sanderson 726 telehandler which was absolutely brilliant.

I know a few folk around Inkberrow especially from Yfc days. Sanderson were a well liked machine in their day. Don’t recall how the company disappeared from manufacturing.

 

[spin cycle]

Whereabouts ear Pershore were you?
I did part of my sandwich year next door to Strensham Services on an arable/veg farm in 1985. I clearly remember filling the car up on my way home as Status Quo opened LiveAid.

i was doing my sandwich yr nr pershore in 1985 ...village called sherrifs lench....600ac combinable

 

[spin cycle]

I know a few folk around Inkberrow especially from Yfc days. Sanderson were a well liked machine in their day. Don’t recall how the company disappeared from manufacturing.

sanderson got bought by claas i think

 

[Breckland Boy]

I know a few folk around Inkberrow especially from Yfc days. Sanderson were a well liked machine in their day. Don’t recall how the company disappeared from manufacturing.

Colin Collins,
He ran the farm for Barley Farms.
The Collins family farmed on the other side of Inkberrow.
Phil Collins, Colins younger brother ran a chopper and combine contracting.

 

[melted welly]

I know a few folk around Inkberrow especially from Yfc days. Sanderson were a well liked machine in their day. Don’t recall how the company disappeared from manufacturing.

I have a letter from Roy Sanderson somewhere. I can’t remember, as was long time ago,but at the highland show, he gave me a toy teleporter or hat or something and mum had made me write a thank you letter to him. 30yr later I received a reply as he’d found my thank you letter whilst tidying out an old desk.

In it he said that a change of bank manager to one unsympathetic to the seasonal nature of Agri supply industries led to being pushed into administration. At the time of the letter I think he was involved in trading military surplus or something, I can’t really remember. But was quite taken aback that he took the time to write back to this “boy”.

It is a shame they went, as they were good British built machines.

 

[solo]

i was doing my sandwich yr nr pershore in 1985 ...village called sherrifs lench....600ac combinable

The liquid fert tanker is pictured at a farm in one of the Lenches where they mixed the fertiliser. All I remember was an extremely steep bank back down the the river with only a single hydraulic brake line. I was just grateful it was a dry road.

 

[spin cycle]

The liquid fert tanker is pictured at a farm in one of the Lenches where they mixed the fertiliser. All I remember was an extremely steep bank back down the the river with only a single hydraulic brake line. I was just grateful it was a dry road.

close but not the right 'lench' i think

 

[solo]

Colin Collins,
He ran the farm for Barley Farms.
The Collins family farmed on the other side of Inkberrow.
Phil Collins, Colins younger brother ran a chopper and combine contracting.

I used to be in an arable group with Colin 25 years ago . The Jordan family farms the land now I believe.

 

[stevedave]

We had a couple of Sandersons and they were really good machines. The Solo control on the 625 was as good if not better than any joysticks on the market today.

 

[Yale]

First telehandler i drove was a 622,worked on a farm for near 5 years in the mid 90’s where they had one.

Ford 66 engine and was a great machine.

 

[Bob lincs]

Our first Teleporter was a year old 622 , it had a few niggles but was loverly to drive .

 

[spin cycle]

i was put on a brand new sanderson 247 (?) in 1984 at a grain merchants....20 yrs old....no training...no ticket... just 'there you go boy load that lorry' ...i had loadsa experience on sb50 though

our first telehandler was a 622 in 1990...replaced a ford 3000 + loader.....wished i'd kept the 3000 though

 

[Yale]

i was put on a brand new sanderson 247 (?) in 1984....20 yrs old....no training...no ticket... just 'there you go boy load that lorry' ...i had loadsa experience on sb50 though

Saying that we had a student on farm and we were carting muck with trailers,one trip I looked across to where he was loading from a field heap on uneven ground.

The student had the bucket boomed out and up in the air,he span around and dropped in a hollow.

How that machine didn’t go over I don’t know.

Handbrake didn’t work in latter years so would leave it in forward shuttle up a hill through a gate.

Did this one day and the torque converter must have been short of oil and as I went to close the gate it passed me.

Eventually it came to a sticky end when a worker after I left the place was coming down a steep hill between yards and the machine had no brakes.It ran away with him so he jumped off and it turned over.Cab was bent over the boom.

Can you tell H+S wasn’t a priority there.

 

[v8willy]

We went from a tow start 4 cylinder 35 with a trip loader to a 227 Sanderson, was a bit of an upgrade alright, snapped the chassis on it as the bucket was too big for it, was an easy enough fix but then the 6600 engine went porous so got a 6610 short motor.

Was a pig to handle on the road tho.