Back in the day

[fingermouse]

The canal always looked a lot narrower after a few beers, got wet a few times.:-(

At least the water would be a bit cleaner back then

 

[Muck Spreader]

Geoff Vickers was a pioneer in his day ,he was one of the first to grow it , always remember Clive Goodwin buying a Massey 525 combine with a maize header in the late 80's so they could cut some for the grains don't think it ended to well though think they cut 2 acres then parked it up at the back of the farm where it stayed until it rotted away ...funny really maize was Vickers down fall in the end, when the farm went organic he was still trying to grow it ,he couldn't farm without his sprayer and liquid feet

A photo of Peckforton Estates in the late 70's I took from Beeston Castle.

 

[Muck Spreader]

I few photos of a couple mate's on their bikes outside Beeston Cafe in the late 70's

 

[blackbob]

I seem to have posted most of my photo collection on TFF already but on a silage theme..

taken while working for a contractor. I was probably in a Crystal 12011. I remember arriving at this customer's farm to start chopping for the first time... and the first job was to partly dismantle his trailer, as he had assembled his to fill from the opposite side to ours
This 9600 was hired for a few days, it possibly replaced a 7600 (hired from the same dealer) which got round the field once before boiling I also remember a hired IH 955, fast on the road but also boiled on the Grasshopper mower - replaced by a JD3130 which had been tweaked I think, and could mow as fast as you could tolerate trying to stay in the seat

 

[RobFZS]

Geoff Vickers was a pioneer in his day ,he was one of the first to grow it , always remember Clive Goodwin buying a Massey 525 combine with a maize header in the late 80's so they could cut some for the grains don't think it ended to well though think they cut 2 acres then parked it up at the back of the farm where it stayed until it rotted away ...funny really maize was Vickers down fall in the end, when the farm went organic he was still trying to grow it ,he couldn't farm without his sprayer and liquid feet

haha i'll mention that to clive next time i see him

 

[fingermouse]

I few photos of a couple mate's on their bikes outside Beeston Cafe in the late 70's
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Timeless , apart from the bikes ,motors and fashion and the tin shed by the old entrance to the auction being black could have taken them pics yesterday
Fair feet wheeling there that bend by the bridge is bloody sharp

 

[fingermouse]

I seem to have posted most of my photo collection on TFF already but on a silage theme..
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taken while working for a contractor. I was probably in a Crystal 12011. I remember arriving at this customer's farm to start chopping for the first time... and the first job was to partly dismantle his trailer, as he had assembled his to fill from the opposite side to ours
This 9600 was hired for a few days, it possibly replaced a 7600 (hired from the same dealer) which got round the field once before boiling I also remember a hired IH 955, fast on the road but also boiled on the Grasshopper mower - replaced by a JD3130 which had been tweaked I think, and could mow as fast as you could tolerate trying to stay in the seat

Everything boiled back then ,trips to water troughs were frequent occurrence s least you could retrieve your pop bottle keeping coolish in it

 

[RobFZS]

Timeless , apart from the bikes ,motors and fashion and the tin shed by the old entrance to the auction being black could have taken them pics yesterday
Fair feet wheeling there that bend by the bridge is bloody sharp

go to the raven on classics day and them bikes are all there , like being back 30 years

 

[blackbob]

As a follow-on to my post above...
John didn't trust turbo's for some reason, and stories used to circulate about how much fuel a rival contractor's 7000 and 7600 used while chopping - I think he used to inter-ficher with their pumps, because they certainly smoked more than anyone else's Fords at the time
So in spring 1985 we got a pleasant surprise when 2 of the newly-launched (possibly at Smithfield '84? he usually went to that) 7910's appeared. Lovely tractors, air-con etc, and comfortable with the Grasshopper, Claas 44 balers, 10-tonne trailers etc which we used at the time.

No more hiring junk after that

 

[ProDrive]

Timeless , apart from the bikes ,motors and fashion and the tin shed by the old entrance to the auction being black could have taken them pics yesterday
Fair feet wheeling there that bend by the bridge is bloody sharp

Bridge looks a bit different, be a few foreign arctics stuck under there nowadays?

 

[fingermouse]

Bridge looks a bit different, be a few foreign arctics stuck under there nowadays?

Yer shows how much notice I take (even went under it yesterday ) its got great big girders across its front now ,
Heres a snap I took last year ,nearly mirrors the one @Muck Spreader took back then
I reckon between us we have both worked in a lot of them fields

 

[ProDrive]

That's Ryders place isn't it?

 

[fingermouse]

That's Ryders place isn't it?

Was . Rob Evans now

 

[ProDrive]

Peckerforton home farms on the left behind the castle and the one Muckspeader took is the farm in the distance on the right?

 

[ProDrive]

Was . Rob Evans now

Looks a fare place now.

 

[ProDrive]

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Yer shows how much notice I take (even went under it yesterday ) its got great big girders across its front now ,
Heres a snap I took last year ,nearly mirrors the one @Muck Spreader took back then
I reckon between us we have both worked in a lot of them fields

Between Ryders, Peckforton and Kinseys I've probably been in most of the fields in that picture. And I've been towed by the dog up the castle a few times too.

 

[fingermouse]

Peckerforton home farms on the left behind the castle and the one Muckspeader took is the farm in the distance on the right?

yes here is the Home farm , you can just see the shady top left

 

[ProDrive]

Sure your not Google Earth? Cut the hedges round the Shady car park a couple of years back, seemed a bit strange not full of GTIs, XR2 and 3s.

 

[ProDrive]

That's the lad , the others I remember are Warwick Platt and Tim Ellis

Did you used to work there or were you a customer?

 

[BAC]

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yes here is the Home farm , you can just see the shady top left

Very close to a friend of mine, archers??