glasshouse
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- Location
- lothians
A new spreader with all that tech is £20k
Mine cost £2k twenty yr ago
I remember when.............
- Thread starter Oliveau
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Mine cost £2k twenty yr ago
The best thing with one that should be driven at a constant speed is they are variable rate.
when it looks like you may run out you knock it up a gear or two
- Location
- West Kent
I remember seeing a neighbour driving his ford on a hot day with all the windows closed and wondering how he could stand the heat. I couldn't believe that air conditioning could be fitted to a tractor.
Exfarmer
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- Location
- Bury St Edmunds
glasshouse
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- Location
- lothians
I got a 1981 ih 684 this yr to work wrapper
My young assistant asked how it was legal to sell a tractor with no fan in the cab.
Back in the day was lucky to have a cab fan or not when twas raining
glasshouse
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- Location
- lothians
Thats what i said to him
I said i drove a tractor just like that after leaving school, which was a big step up from the cabfree 434
glasshouse
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- Location
- lothians
Rain wasnt the worst
Dust of the cage wheels was
Goodness you were spoiled, I had a 65 to drive with a bent axle as described above and one brake that worked, nearly put it in the river when dad sent me out rolling in grass seed as I had such a job to steer it, lucky I stopped in time and he had to drag it out sideways when he got home as it was nearly tipping in, I went on happy as Larry next day though, still have the 65 but it has power steering and wet brakes now
Didn't have any of that but enough dust from the haybob when the wind was wrong way
Oliveau
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- Location
- Indre et Loire, France
Or dust and barley awns down your back when the wind was blowing straight up the arse of a cabless combine
- Location
- Hereford
glasshouse
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- Location
- lothians
And the stones pinging past
glasshouse
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- Location
- lothians
Cue the violins
glasshouse
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- Location
- lothians
I jammed a wooden plank across the top of the roll frame and bolted a radio to it.
If i hit a big bump the whole lot landed on my head
If i hit a big bump the whole lot landed on my head
I loved it,Cue the violins
Oliveau
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- Location
- Indre et Loire, France
And now for a real blast from the past: Picture the mid-1950’s and a little 9 year old kid recently moved into the village.
I could hear ‘mechanical noises’ in the distance, so I set off on my bike to investigate. I eventually found a diesel Major pulling a Bamford baler which had it’s own engine. Also there was another machine in the distance. I stood watching, as kids do, until a little grey Fergie appeared towing a 4 wheel trailer, and carrying another man. The tractor stopped and the young driver, who turned out to be the farmer’s son asked, ”Do you want a ride?” So that was how I got hooked on farming. The job that evening was to pick up the sacks of corn dotted around the field, dropped off the machine I’d seen in the distance. This I got to know quite well as I spent most of the summer holiday riding on the bagging platform.
The combine was a trailed Minneapolis Moline, pulled by a diesel Major (and in later years by a D2). It was powered by it’s own cantankerous Meadows petrol/tvo engine, which was hand cranked and kicked like a mule. The whole thing pivoted around it’s axle, so cutting height was controlled by a wheel on a platform in front of the bagging platform, so the operator (the cowman’s son n his school holiday) turned the wheel following the tractor driver’s hand signals. The ‘MM’ as it was known had 2 interchangeable reels - a sort of pick up reel, and plain bat reel which was used in wheat. To move the combine the reel had to come off and the cutter bar then folded up vertically - by hand of course. I guess it was no more than 6 ft cut. The MM wasn’t very good with oats, so they were still cut with a binder & the sheaves put in a rick for threshing in the winter.
The sacks were dropped in groups off the bagging platform, and there was a rotary screen grader, so sacks of ‘seconds’ were identified with a swatch of straw tied in the neck. The cow man was sent out with the farmers son after tea to pick up all the sacks which were loaded onto 4 wheel trailers.
There was a home made drier which consisted of 50 holes with mesh grids over a chamber onto which the sacks were placed. Once the corn was dried the sacks were taken off the drier & emptied into a pit in the floor from where an elevator fed the dresser. From here wheat was bagged into 2 1/4 cwt sacks while barley for malting went into 2 cwt sacks. I vividly remember wheeling sacks of wheat to a Lister elevator to load a lorry, and the local haulier, one Percy Moore, would take these sacks on his back and carry them the length of his lorry - probably a full load was about 6 tons. Men were men in those days!
I could hear ‘mechanical noises’ in the distance, so I set off on my bike to investigate. I eventually found a diesel Major pulling a Bamford baler which had it’s own engine. Also there was another machine in the distance. I stood watching, as kids do, until a little grey Fergie appeared towing a 4 wheel trailer, and carrying another man. The tractor stopped and the young driver, who turned out to be the farmer’s son asked, ”Do you want a ride?” So that was how I got hooked on farming. The job that evening was to pick up the sacks of corn dotted around the field, dropped off the machine I’d seen in the distance. This I got to know quite well as I spent most of the summer holiday riding on the bagging platform.
The combine was a trailed Minneapolis Moline, pulled by a diesel Major (and in later years by a D2). It was powered by it’s own cantankerous Meadows petrol/tvo engine, which was hand cranked and kicked like a mule. The whole thing pivoted around it’s axle, so cutting height was controlled by a wheel on a platform in front of the bagging platform, so the operator (the cowman’s son n his school holiday) turned the wheel following the tractor driver’s hand signals. The ‘MM’ as it was known had 2 interchangeable reels - a sort of pick up reel, and plain bat reel which was used in wheat. To move the combine the reel had to come off and the cutter bar then folded up vertically - by hand of course. I guess it was no more than 6 ft cut. The MM wasn’t very good with oats, so they were still cut with a binder & the sheaves put in a rick for threshing in the winter.
The sacks were dropped in groups off the bagging platform, and there was a rotary screen grader, so sacks of ‘seconds’ were identified with a swatch of straw tied in the neck. The cow man was sent out with the farmers son after tea to pick up all the sacks which were loaded onto 4 wheel trailers.
There was a home made drier which consisted of 50 holes with mesh grids over a chamber onto which the sacks were placed. Once the corn was dried the sacks were taken off the drier & emptied into a pit in the floor from where an elevator fed the dresser. From here wheat was bagged into 2 1/4 cwt sacks while barley for malting went into 2 cwt sacks. I vividly remember wheeling sacks of wheat to a Lister elevator to load a lorry, and the local haulier, one Percy Moore, would take these sacks on his back and carry them the length of his lorry - probably a full load was about 6 tons. Men were men in those days!
- Location
- South Wales UK
Tractor mounted Finger bar hedgecutter with lister engine ?
Now that was a tool?
Now that was a tool?