70 & 80's kit still doing good work, how about 30's kit

[Devil's advocate]

In this mixed farming area with many small farms, there is a remarkable amount of 50 to 30 years old tractors & kit doing a good job. Maybe not working hard but there when needed.

Haybobs to help out when needed.

That little handy trailer for fencing work

The old bale spike on the David Brown

Beet drills & hoes working on fodder beet.

Lister elevators for the calf hay/straw

1957 MF 35's still scrapeing out

Born in 1964, I don't remember lots of 20's kit in the area during the 70's. Maybe there was??? I do remember using a horse rake behind Grandad's Ford 3000 that was converted from horse drawn!!! Not many threshing boxes working in the 70's we did have a trailed combine that seemed incredably old but only 20 year old when scrapped.

 

[DrWazzock]

We still have a corn dresser ( winnowing and sieving) in our granary that gets used when we grow beans to separate out the weed seed. It was manufactured in the 1870’s. It had an electric motor fitted in the 1960’s. Does an excellent job. It still has the stamps on the side of it denoting prizes that it won for innovation at an exhibition somewhere I think in Scotland.
Grandfather was still using threshing machines into the 1970’s but when he died my father torched the lot. I was a little lad at the time and remember jamming my finger in the gears of one of them when I spun the drive pulley. Lesson learned.
We have a fergy drag and a skerry from the 1950’s that still get used and the beet harvester is 1970 and still harvests all our beet (DB 780 power unit). I have also been driving the same MF135 since 1978 and an MF565 for a similar time. The main ploughing tractor here was a late 1940’s Fowler / Marshall crawler into the mid 1970’s. It was replaced by an MF165 which couldn’t actually pull as much even with spade lugs on. I am just old enough to remember that old crawler mole ploughing the mains water pipe in here after a Muir Hill failed to do the job. I was sat up out of the way in the Muir Hill cab while they got the crawler going so had a birds eye view of it. The crawler had a single cylinder horizontal two stroke Diesel engine which could really ring out and dad reckoned the vibration helped pull tines through hard ground. Wish we hadn’t sold it but the gearbox casing was patched up with araldite after a ball bearing came out through the side.