A few toys from the past

[Heathland]

@Will 1594
Recognise that Xerion + 9400

 

[JWL]

Stretching the mx135

Seems a few of us have tried stretching the odd tractor in the past

 

[Heathland]

Trying to download some pictures,biggest heap of I've ever tried,It was the drill that was on demo tho.

 

[Philip Watkins]

Trying to download some pictures,biggest heap of I've ever tried,It was the drill that was on demo tho.

Here you go

 

[Will 1594]

Seems a few of us have tried stretching the odd tractor in the past
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Shall have to try and find some pics of two old flat track cats ploughing together they ploughed hundreds of acres yoked together when sticky going after beet

 

[Will 1594]

@Mr Charisma you will like this , one of the early 6m into country

 

[Ray]

Come on @Will 1594 let's see some pics of 698 an 602b I'm sure you must have some..

 

[Heathland]

Here you go
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Ruddy hell I've been stuck on my PC this afternoon scanning pictures in, I gave up in the end,I'm hopeless with tech.
I'll have to try again.

 

[Philip Watkins]

Ruddy hell I've been stuck on my PC this afternoon scanning pictures in, I gave up in the end,I'm hopeless with tech.
I'll have to try again.

You must have your scanner set to make PDF's instead of JPG's. Open them in your PDF reader and save them as JPG's.

 

[Ray]

Here's a couple from 1992 The 40 series had just been launched. The 7840 cost 23k new and I remember having to fit a TB turbo kit to turn the Standen turbo four beet harvester pictured. It was a good tractor and served us well

 

[Spud]

Here's a couple from 1992 The 40 series had just been launched. The 7840 cost 23k new and I remember having to fit a TB turbo kit to turn the Standen turbo four beet harvester pictured. It was a good tractor and served us well

Skew bar toppers? Same harvester as that on the 956 in my pics above, it had a TBTurbo too. 4 rows, 17" apart, then a 20" wheeling. Worked well.

 

[Ray]

Skew bar toppers? Same harvester as that on the 956 in my pics above, it had a TBTurbo too. 4 rows, 17" apart, then a 20" wheeling. Worked well.

Skew bars were no good to us when on wold land, too many big stones. This had feeler wheel toppers and four 20" rows. Tractor set at 80" with 12" tyres. I didn't have this harvester long as it took too much pulling. Might have been better on duals looking back.

 

[Spud]

Skew bars were no good to us when on wold land, too many big stones. This had feeler wheel toppers and four 20" rows. Tractor set at 80" with 12" tyres. I didn't have this harvester long as it took too much pulling. Might have been better on duals looking back.

Now I'm on puter instead of phone, I can see your pics more clearly. The one I was involved with was a Standen Spectrum - maybe the successor to the turbo4?

 

[Ray]

Now I'm on puter instead of phone, I can see your pics more clearly. The one I was involved with was a Standen Spectrum - maybe the successor to the turbo4?

Spectrum replaced Turbo 3 and 4 along with their Sceptre harvesters in around 94 IIRC. They did indeed have skew bars or scalper topping along with various different cleaning options. They never really caught on though as by that time 3 row trailed tanker and 6 row sp machines were well and truly in vogue.

 

[Rowland]

Some IH tractors one with the loader was 475 I think tractor leading off 674 one getting loaded 784 if memory serves me

 

[Rowland]

John Deere 5380 I think with a peterbuilt early 90’s

 

[Cab-over Pete]

Ain’t nothin’ so sweet as a Long Nose Pete.


But I think that’s a Freightliner!!

 

[Rowland]

Come to think about it your probably right the Peterbuilt was red and black that worked with me. The pic was taken near Roswell airport which I was told at the time was one of the longest runways in the world meaning they used to test planes there , they could land a plane do all the landing bits then take off again in one run time after time

 

[beltbreaker]

View attachment 636126 Some IH tractors one with the loader was 475 I think tractor leading off 674 one getting loaded 784 if memory serves me

Loving this we had almost the same outfit. 684 instead of 784, Marshall trailers conditions were normally substantially worse. Broken webs, broken hardy Spicer's on the topper, worn discs, elevator jamming. 25 years ago. FIL has just bought one Neighbour bought 2 row Thyregod. No topper but 2 rows . Also had an Elbar turnip bucket on a 2525C International forklift. Had to fill it manually as stones jammed it 3-4 tonne a day over winter. I filled it dad emptied it seemed like a good deal to dad

 

[Rowland]

That was one of our best turnip fields very light land with not too many stones . Dad often didn’t think about how we would harvest them and grow them on hills and heavy stoney land . If you got to close to the trailer the turnips went over the far side and if too far away they just got into the trailer. I think If we had changed the cutting disc more regularly there would have been less problems . The topper never worked. Often used to have to pull them by hand if it was too wet . Imagine telling the young ones to do that now!!
We got a chopper too came from the borders we also had to fill by hand to avoid the stones ! Great job on Sunday afternoon if whoever had filled it on the morning. Chopped stuff for the cattle. The trailer getting loaded would be for the sheep .