Classics Earning their keep.

[Vincent]

A few from during the week.

 

[bumkin]

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like your fords do you? they look a good bunch

 

[hendrebc]

Did anyone else go to oswestry show and see the ford 7810 silver jubilee edition in with the vintage tractors today
Made me feel old seeing it there though. A tractor i wanted from when i was a little kid in a vintage tractor show
Ill have one one day or a blue 7610 like the little pedal tractor i had

 

[bumkin]

Did anyone else go to oswestry show and see the ford 7810 silver jubilee edition in with the vintage tractors today
Made me feel old seeing it there though. A tractor i wanted from when i was a little kid in a vintage tractor show
Ill have one one day or a blue 7610 like the little pedal tractor i had

around here a 7810 is a go to member of the working fleet not something to be looked at, one knows you need to update when your machinery is found in museums some years ago i was sowing fodder rape with a fiddle a neighbour stopped and told me he had just seen one in a farm museum half the people didn't know what it was for perhaps i should update my operation

 

[hendrebc]

around here a 7810 is a go to member of the working fleet not something to be looked at, one knows you need to update when your machinery is found in museums some years ago i was sowing fodder rape with a fiddle a neighbour stopped and told me he had just seen one in a farm museum half the people didn't know what it was for perhaps i should update my operation

Id call a 7810 a member of a working fleet too. I still have a 4600 in regular use and i dont think ive seen one of those in a show yet. I still have a fiddle too. Its not been used in a long time but its going to he pressed into service sometime this week or next to fill in some turnips that have been eaten by slugs
Oh and if/when i do get my 7610/7810 it will be for using. Wheres the fun in buying one to look at

 

[Happy hillbily]

Youngest in my fleet is 28 years old (bar the loadall, but even thats 18 years old)
Have inbetween 3700 hrs and 15000+ hrs on them, all bought to do a job. Not much point having a tractor sitting in a shed gathering dust !

 

[Courier]

fudgeing joke when they would pay for a whole tractor if you let it go.
A new wiring loom was £1200 (or something ridiculous like that) so dad got his mate to cut the loom and join it back together. Works as well as it did before and its not been on fire since

Reminds me of when our 1494 Hydrashift had been stopped and parked up in the yard 2 hours previously - started itself up and then burst into flames - Albert Hurst sorted it and sent the NFU Mutual the bill.

 

[Marshall 100]

 

[Vincent]

 

[Lincsman]

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For the other thread on loaders... an extending quicke loader.

 

[Marshall 100]

 

[startinghandle]

Exactly like the one we had with the O/S rear tyres. Unfortunately ours wasn't very 'faithful' at all (In fact it was a lemon) and it got traded in a for a Renault after 5 years. It was one of the last 674 tractors ever built and at the time IH were turning out some real rubbish, having a fair amount of 'Industrial action' by their workers didn't help matters much.

Around the time I was at mid wales IH
Main dealer ... I don't recall any real rubbish yes there were problems

 

[Roy_H]

Around the time I was at mid wales IH
Main dealer ... I don't recall any real rubbish yes there were problems

Not long after we shifted it we bought a new Accord drill from the same IH dealers. They sent a a guy to set it up for us and show us how to run it etc. The conversation went something like this. Him : "You don't have any International tractors down here then?
Me: "Well actually, we DID have one of the last 674 tractors ever built"
Him : "Oh, now l know why you don't have any International tractors down here!"

 

[Vincent]

My old baler with it's new owner.

 

[salers]

Youngest in my fleet is 28 years old (bar the loadall, but even thats 18 years old)
Have inbetween 3700 hrs and 15000+ hrs on them, all bought to do a job. Not much point having a tractor sitting in a shed gathering dust !
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What's the frame on the front of the 4600 for?

 

[Happy hillbily]

For a small atkinson snow plough i got for £20 years ago.
Dont see the council snow plough till after lunch, by that time, traffic has turned a couple of inches of snow to ice, and getting the milk tanker here can be a problem.
If i can clear the road before anyone has been on it, it makes getting the milk tanker a doddle

 

[diesel1]

Thought the track marshall would come in handy one day

 

[tomlad]

Reminds me of when our 1494 Hydrashift had been stopped and parked up in the yard 2 hours previously - started itself up and then burst into flames - Albert Hurst sorted it and sent the NFU Mutual the bill.

U rating nfu mutual then ??

 

[Happy hillbily]

For a small atkinson snow plough i got for £20 years ago.
Dont see the council snow plough till after lunch, by that time, traffic has turned a couple of inches of snow to ice, and getting the milk tanker here can be a problem.
If i can clear the road before anyone has been on it, it makes getting the milk tanker a doddle

Then when we get more snow, or wind. The V plough comes out

 

[Flat 10]

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Like the 1530?