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I am sure there will be someone here that stopped their grey fergi or major or Nuffield or even allis charmers or E27N to watch the moon landing
I think the newest tractor my father would have had then (farming in the Fens) was a Massey 165. We also had a couple of 135's and 2 175's. We also still had a couple of Fordson Majors and a grey Fergi. A Track Marshal with a Turner linkage did most of the ploughing and we also had a Roadless Major Crawler, called buttercup, because it was painted yellow.I am sure there will be someone here that stopped their grey fergi or major or Nuffield or even allis charmers or E27N to watch the moon landing
I think the newest tractor my father would have had then (farming in the Fens) was a Massey 165. We also had a couple of 135's and 2 175's. We also still had a couple of Fordson Majors and a grey Fergi. A Track Marshal with a Turner linkage did most of the ploughing and we also had a Roadless Major Crawler, called buttercup, because it was painted yellow.
We had 2 Ransomes TS 82 ploughs for when we did plough with wheeled tractors (with Lambourn cabs!).
The combine was a Claas SF and we were about to upgrade to a Clayson M140. But cereals were a break crop from growing all the veg and sugar beet. All delivered using a Bedford TK artic with Scammel hitch and single axle trailers carrying 10 tonnes at a time. The beet was washed off the trailers at Ely Sugar Beet factory, as they did not tip.
There was no such thing as Rough Terrain Forklift, so we built our own out of an old lorry in the farm workshop. Tandem axle trailers were unheard of. As were Power-harrows. Seed and fertilisers came in 112lb sacks and spraying was done in pints and gallons/acre.
There was still such a thing as a 10 shilling note! Sixpence bought you a bag of chips that fed at least 2 people.
it was filmed in Arizona at night, all the props were towed out with Farmalls, it was to pee the Russians off doing it with Belrus, as they would not start,
More computer capabilities and capacity in your mobile phone these days than that moon lander?
You don't see many washing machines on the moon though......Your washing machine has more computer processing power than the moon lander!
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Could be the way our's" waltz about", on fast spinYou don't see many washing machines on the moon though......
In 1969, when Apollo 11 landed on the moon, NASA had more computer power than had existed in the world 10 years earlier.Your washing machine has more computer processing power than the moon lander!
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Even link box has 3 rams on it these days?In 1969, when Apollo 11 landed on the moon, NASA had more computer power than had existed in the world 10 years earlier.
In 1978, BMW launched a car that had more computer power on it than existed in the world in 1969.
In 1986, Massey Ferguson launched the 3000 series Datatronic tractors that had more computer power on them than existed in the world in 1978.
Windows computers hadn’t even been invented by then.
And yet they went all that way ???Your washing machine has more computer processing power than the moon lander!
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Why did'nt they build a Space Station on the moon?And yet they went all that way ???
Odd no ones ever been back
Nobody has seen a moon lander on it either...You don't see many washing machines on the moon though......