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- mid wales
What size tyres on the 64? Look a bit wider than the standard 18.4 and 16.9.
Classics Earning their keep.
- Thread starter Tha Ulsterscot
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What size tyres on the 64? Look a bit wider than the standard 18.4 and 16.9.
600s on back and 540s on front. It was originally on 14.9 r38 when new as it did all sugar beet drilling and spraying on 60 inch centres! Put new wheels on when gave up Beet this enabled drilling grain without need for dual wheels which we used to do.
Vincent
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- Location
- Kildare Ireland
@jf850 If the rate is good we will travel . I sow my own and a friends the sower does an hour's work a year.I haven't had any problems . Lea needs to be ploghed early .
Are you available to do similar size plots ??
2 hours each way ...
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Vincent
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- Location
- Kildare Ireland
@oakleaf The 3cx carried out the seed I was saving the back that day.
76masseyman
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- Location
- Lincolncestershire
Not mine, a mate been topping a paddock or two.
- Location
- Huntingdon
Wonder if someone still makes a copy of the 30 drill. Somewhere in the world ?
- Location
- mid wales
Grip pretty good with them on I'd imagine.
Yes certainly more grip than power now!
Vincent
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- Location
- Kildare Ireland
No where open to even cash in a thank you these days
Veryfruity
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Was this a publicity shot?
Hugh Grant driving, but Norman Wisdom was a mistake from a H&S point of veiw
- Location
- Lincolnshire
That was a standard thing, I just remember dad having to get a set of guards and stuff for the model before the 30 to protect the "rider", it wasnt allowed if you were towing harrows though.
glasshouse
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- Location
- lothians
I lnow of one place who had a man on the back all the time
glasshouse
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- Location
- lothians
Classic simbas
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oakleaf
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- Location
- South coast of Ireland
It was the job for boys and old men.
I covered hundreds of acres on the back of an MF 29 and 30.
When l became old enough to drive the tractor to harrow and roll behind the drill , it was Grandad who then stepped up on the footplate.
Same on most family farms around here "back in the day".
- Location
- pembrokeshire
our first drill was an albion with iron wheels the man on the back had to lift it out and drop it in , the harrows on the back were a bit of a danger though
glasshouse
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- Location
- lothians
Totally ocd though
No need for anyone on a 30
oakleaf
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- Location
- South coast of Ireland
Correct , I can barely recall the number of times I had to holler at the tractor man to stop because a seed tube was blocked , perhaps just once or twice a season. The fert did get blocked more often though.
I can remember my Grandad saying that the success of the harvest depended on me ensuring all the rows got the fertiliser. It was a big weight to put on the shoulders of a small boy.
When I progressed to drillman , there was no one left to go on the back so naturally I carried on fine without. Then we changed to air drills and the man on the back faded to a distant memory.
I think the old timers who grew up with a man operating the machine, be it a reaper and binder or hayrake or doing the bags on a combine actually believed the step on the drill was put there for an operator rather than to facilitate loading.
Not a tractor or even an implement to go behind one but it's old and it earned its keep today. Inherited this off my grandfather 20 years ago but it's not had much use, if any, since then. Dad almost always helps to tag calves but not today because he has to isolate for 14 days. So dragged this out of the nettles and used it to hold the calves instead of wrestling with them. Why the hell haven't I used it before? definitely earned its keep today. Might even replace the rotten floor in it
definitely earned its keep today. Might even replace the rotten floor in it