Vincent
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- Kildare Ireland
like your fords do you? they look a good bunch
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 operationDid 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
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 slugsaround 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
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
Around the time I was at mid wales IHExactly 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.
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?Around the time I was at mid wales IH
Main dealer ... I don't recall any real rubbish yes there were problems
What's the frame on the front of the 4600 for?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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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.
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