Farmers weekly 1966

[Pilgrimmick]

Nowt much in it really - we had a 6700 and a 7700 at the time.............
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........................7710....................................7700..................TW20...............6700
The 7700 had spent a lot of time on the hedgecutter and the N/S guards were a bit chipped, so when the 6700 went on the hedgecutter we swapped the guards so we didn't have two sets that were chipped

Bloody ell, bet the sky went black if you started that lot up all at once!

 

[yellowbelly]

Bloody ell, bet the sky went black if you started that lot up all at once!

Yeah, but they all pulled everything that easily and quickly we got the job done in half the time

 

[REStracTORATION]

Yeah, but they all pulled everything that easily and quickly we got the job done in half the time

No smoke.... No poke

There is special place in my heart for them old big fords

 

[yellowbelly]

No smoke.... No poke

There is special place in my heart for them old big fords

Mine too - they all stayed here until they were on the second lap of their hour clocks

 

[Red Fred]

I found another FW in the office and funnily enough it is just 2 weeks before Colhonk's as it dates from Nov.1958. Quite a few good ads:

 

[Red Fred]

More:

 

[Red Fred]

 

[Pint]

Nowt much in it really - we had a 6700 and a 7700 at the time.............
View attachment 604210
........................7710....................................7700..................TW20...............6700
The 7700 had spent a lot of time on the hedgecutter and the N/S guards were a bit chipped, so when the 6700 went on the hedgecutter we swapped the guards so we didn't have two sets that were chipped

That 7700 .Second from the left.
Is that a contraption for getting your widths right spreading and spraying.??

 

[yellowbelly]

That 7700 .Second from the left.
Is that a contraption for getting your widths right spreading and spraying.??

Yep - it was our version of 1970's GPS
It made you sit in the correct position to line up a pointer in your last wheeling. If you were in the right place, all you saw was the white dot.......

........if you were wrong, you could see the blue part of the arm and adjusted accordingly. We used to spread a bit of lime for a local quarry and one of their drivers liked it that much he made one for his Terragator. I seem to remember it won a YFC competition for 'A new or adapted mechanical idea', back in the day

 

[sawdust]

Yep - it was our version of 1970's GPS
View attachment 606166 It made you sit in the correct position to line up a pointer in your last wheeling. If you were in the right place, all you saw was the white dot.......
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........if you were wrong, you could see the blue part of the arm and adjusted accordingly. We used to spread a bit of lime for a local quarry and one of their drivers liked it that much he made one for his Terragator. I seem to remember it won a YFC competition for 'A new or adapted mechanical idea', back in the day

we couldnae afford such fancy contraptions, we had to make do with a bit of electrical insulation tape struck on either side of the windscreen only problem was, you had to make sure you sat at the correct height in the seat to bout width

 

[76masseyman]

Yep - it was our version of 1970's GPS
View attachment 606166 It made you sit in the correct position to line up a pointer in your last wheeling. If you were in the right place, all you saw was the white dot.......
View attachment 606170
........if you were wrong, you could see the blue part of the arm and adjusted accordingly. We used to spread a bit of lime for a local quarry and one of their drivers liked it that much he made one for his Terragator. I seem to remember it won a YFC competition for 'A new or adapted mechanical idea', back in the day

I remember that attachment on the Singleton Birch spreaders. The one I saw was, I think, two washers welded on a rod. Set up that you looked down it like a gunsight.

 

[yellowbelly]

I remember that attachment on the Singleton Birch spreaders. The one I saw was, I think, two washers welded on a rod. Set up that you looked down it like a gunsight.

Yeah that was it - I never did get my patent royalty payment from Geoff

 

[SMID]

we couldnae afford such fancy contraptions, we had to make do with a bit of electrical insulation tape struck on either side of the windscreen only problem was, you had to make sure you sat at the correct height in the seat to bout width

Bottom bracket of the mirror arm of the 399 bobs yer uncle 12 meters no problem

 

[mikep]

For spraying twenty yard of bale twine on the end of the boom, turn and line up the string look up the field for a target and off you go. Was OK in the days of manual fold booms but really couldn't be arsed to keep getting out when we got hydraulic fold just used 'the force' after that.

 

[colhonk]

Some more pics from the old FW`s I found

 

[colhonk]

There`s one there that @Pan mixer might like

 

[76masseyman]

Some more pics from the old FW`s I found
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I see it's the 'Northern Edition'

Does that mean it's cheaper than the southern one ?

'How much !!!

 

[essexpete]

I see it's the 'Northern Edition'

Does that mean it's cheaper than the southern one ?

'How much !!!

I think the language was modified a little as well with a few t', the odd reet, and aye (eye).

 

[Pan mixer]

There`s one there that @Pan mixer might like

I had one of those. Apart from being small it had a terrible habit of releasing its load when you went round the corner after we had fitted a safety frame to the MF 135 which fouled the tipping mechanism on a sharp bend.

Lots of tidying all over the farm.

 

[colhonk]

There`s one there that @Pan mixer might not like