Bombproof old bus to pull 6 furrows.

[Chae1]

How do you find driving a crawler when it gets wet?

When I drove one you lost traction on one track and it started to go sideways. So impossible to keep straight.

When were 100hp crawlers last sold new in the uk?

 

[Bury the Trash]

I would prefer a tidier looking magnum than that one to be honest. They are out there.

wouldnt like 6 ive seen a 5 on a 5130, relativly light weight Rabe with slats but even a 5150 wouldn't do 6 its not a patch on a 6810

 

[tr250]

How do you find driving a crawler when it gets wet?

When I drove one you lost traction on one track and it started to go sideways. So impossible to keep straight.

When were 100hp crawlers last sold new in the uk?

I don’t drive one but bloke I’ve been working with today drove a track Marshall pulling 6f dp1 for our neighbors in the late 80s/90s

 

[yellowbelly]

When were 100hp crawlers last sold new in the uk?

Track Marshall 100 and 105 finished in about 1985 when Charles Nickerson packed up in Gainsborough.....

Aveling (Track) Marshall 100

Engines:- Perkins Six 354 Direct Injection Diesel

Output:- 100 hp

Production Years:- 1975 to 1985

Colour:- Yellow

Price New:- £19,939 in 1979

Replaced Track Marshall 90. Available as an Agricultural or Bulldozer model 100D.

Aveling (Track) Marshall 105

Engines:- Ford 2715E Direct Injection Diesel

Output:- 105 hp

Production Years:- 1975 to 1985

Colour:- Yellow

Price New:- £20,254 in 1979

TM 135 and TM155 were produced up to about mid 90's.

 

[Wellytrack]

My old t7040 would do, 11k hours hedgecutting, tidy with good tyres, the only problem is I don’t want to sell it!

You must have a fairly big hedger on that?

 

[ARW]

You must have a fairly big hedger on that?

8 metre bomford, it’s been a great tractor

 

[Chae1]

Track Marshall 100 and 105 finished in about 1985 when Charles Nickerson packed up in Gainsborough.....

Aveling (Track) Marshall 100

Engines:- Perkins Six 354 Direct Injection Diesel

Output:- 100 hp

Production Years:- 1975 to 1985

Colour:- Yellow

Price New:- £19,939 in 1979

Replaced Track Marshall 90. Available as an Agricultural or Bulldozer model 100D.

Aveling (Track) Marshall 105

Engines:- Ford 2715E Direct Injection Diesel

Output:- 105 hp

Production Years:- 1975 to 1985

Colour:- Yellow

Price New:- £20,254 in 1979

TM 135 and TM155 were produced up to about mid 90's.

Bet there will be a queue of people lining up to drive that.

@melted welly how big a plough did you pull with yours?

 

[ollie989898]

Little bit of haggling and you might get it in budget View attachment 908051

If that is the tractor I think it is I would avoid it.

 

[ollie989898]

wouldnt like 6 ive seen a 5 on a 5130, relativly light weight Rabe with slats but even a 5150 wouldn't do 6 its not a patch on a 6810

MX170 would lift and pull 6 furrows ok. I've seen it done.

 

[ollie989898]

How do you find driving a crawler when it gets wet?

When I drove one you lost traction on one track and it started to go sideways. So impossible to keep straight.

When were 100hp crawlers last sold new in the uk?

Those things were never that popular and for good reason!

 

[rob h]

Those things were never that popular and for good reason!

They were round hear.every farm had 1 or 2 back in the 70s most got replaced with 4wd tractors by the late 80s.but kept at the back of the shed just in case.theirs still a few around hear we still have a 90 and. a 120

 

[yellowbelly]

Those things were never that popular and for good reason!

Round here they were on farms that had land 'like bull's liver' and were mainly driven, as straight as a dye, by old blokes who constantly had a fag in the corner of their mouth and carried their dinner in an old WW2 gas mask bag.

Most were 90hp models with 5f Dowdeswell plough with UCN bodies and full sets of skeaths.

 

[yorkie]

wouldnt like 6 ive seen a 5 on a 5130, relativly light weight Rabe with slats but even a 5150 wouldn't do 6 its not a patch on a 6810

take your 6 and raise you one

 

[ollie989898]

Those 51 series tractors must have seemed like absolute mustard when they arrived.

 

[melted welly]

Bet there will be a queue of people lining up to drive that.

@melted welly how big a plough did you pull with yours?

6f dowdeswell DP1.

I’ve sat in nicer cabs

 

[Stuart J]

Track Marshall 100 and 105 finished in about 1985 when Charles Nickerson packed up in Gainsborough.....

Aveling (Track) Marshall 100

Engines:- Perkins Six 354 Direct Injection Diesel

Output:- 100 hp

Production Years:- 1975 to 1985

Colour:- Yellow

Price New:- £19,939 in 1979

Replaced Track Marshall 90. Available as an Agricultural or Bulldozer model 100D.

Aveling (Track) Marshall 105

Engines:- Ford 2715E Direct Injection Diesel

Output:- 105 hp

Production Years:- 1975 to 1985

Colour:- Yellow

Price New:- £20,254 in 1979

TM 135 and TM155 were produced up to about mid 90's.

Quite a significant price even then surely?

 

[Will 1594]

Round here they were on farms that had land 'like bull's liver' and were mainly driven, as straight as a dye, by old blokes who constantly had a fag in the corner of their mouth and carried their dinner in an old WW2 gas mask bag.

Most were 90hp models with 5f Dowdeswell plough with UCN bodies and full sets of skeaths.

Can you find me one of each

 

[David.]

Skeaths?
And I bet the old boys had a beret clapped on the side of their heads, and a gaberdine mac fastened with a belt..

 

[Will 1594]

Skeaths?
And I bet the old boys had a beret clapped on the side of their heads, and a gaberdine mac fastened with a belt..

Bottle of tea in front of rad , and couple sleepers to park on if really frosty ,

 

[David.]

Yet those old boys were content with their lot.
Just grateful they were not being shot at I expect.