- Location
- Hockley Essex
Did that used to belong to Bakers?
MF 1200 or 1250 artic tractor?
- Thread starter Stoxs
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- Location
- East Essexshire
That's it, and it was down at Nipsells before that. I was down there when it came new, they bought a turboed 595 and a 525 combine too!
- Location
- Hockley Essex
I can remember watching this work as a boy after a stubble burn (or was yours the one on the sprayer) I am less than a mile from there place, they still have one of the bigger ones. I will have to come and meet you and try to persuade you to let me have a go on it one day!
- Location
- East Essexshire
I drove it back from Hullbridge, and called in at Crawfords for a set of filters on the way (I might have been showing it off a little bit too!) and enquired about a workshop manual. Turned out AGCO had only ever printed one, and it was on the shelf at Woodham! (On the shelf in my workshop now!)
- Location
- Hockley Essex
I think that they had 3 1200's didnt they? One is/used to be at Gt Wakering but may now have been scrapped, another is possibly at Leigh cockle sheds
- Location
- East Essexshire
Mine was on the sprayer, but I think they both were at different times. The other one was a lot rougher than mine I think.
That 1505 sounds a beast! That used to be Fishers, opposite me. It spent weeks one autumn split in two just over the road from here. You can see clearly on it where Keebles plated it up. I think it was swiftly replaced with an FW60!
Was it you rode in my Axial Flow a couple of harvests ago, opposite Joyces farm? I'd got it to replace my NH 8080.
- Location
- Hockley Essex
No,I kept meaning to come over but something always cropped up! I have started up contracting again for 2015, so you will definitely get a visit!!!
- Location
- East Essexshire
You're welcome to call in.
With the Joyces classic day no more, I keep thinking about having a mid harvest Sunday play with all the toys...
Ford FW60 and 4000, MF 1200 and 130, JD 4455 and 3050, Case 1056 and International 1056, and a yellow David Brown loader tractor!
With the Joyces classic day no more, I keep thinking about having a mid harvest Sunday play with all the toys...
Ford FW60 and 4000, MF 1200 and 130, JD 4455 and 3050, Case 1056 and International 1056, and a yellow David Brown loader tractor!
- Location
- Hockley Essex
Oh, what happened there then? I didnt think it had been advertised the last couple of years? Shame, it used to be a good day out.
- Location
- Hockley Essex
I used to have a limited edition IH 956XL had a load of fancy stripes on her. Fantastic puller!
- Location
- East Essexshire
I know the decal pattern you mean. Someone on one of the Facebook pages was asking about them the other day, wanting a set for repainting his tractor, I think.
I think Joyces had got a bit too big to be enjoyable for the organisers, amongst other things. That's the problem with getting something so right, it gets too popular, too big, and therefore not what it was that made it so right in the first place!
- Location
- Hockley Essex
was the Plough Match held at Ed Carrs this year? I did a lot of Baling & Packing there this year and it didnt really twig at the time when he said that there was a plough match there first weekend of September!
- Location
- East Essexshire
Yes. I think they've tried to go back to what it was before it got all popular!! It used to be down at Butterfields years ago, and it's been back there the last two.
- Location
- Hockley Essex
I still didnt get a chance to go! I was too blinking busy!
multi power
Member
- Location
- pembrokeshire
I have a 1200 in similar condition but a done a lot of hours. Clock showing nearly 1000 hours so I'm assuming it's round the clock. It's got a steering problem too. it's fine in low multi power but steering heavy in high
- Location
- East Essexshire
That's how mine started, now it's like trying to arm wrestle Popeye just to move it round the yard.
It's on the list, but it's going to be the spring before it gets in the workshop to get looked at. (It's a very long list!)
- Location
- Hockley Essex
Have you hauled it on that trailer yet @multi power ?
multi power
Member
- Location
- pembrokeshire
No it's still in the yard. The man who was ment to fix it always is busy when I have a chance to take it to him. In hindsight I should have just asked local low loader man to drop it in his yard next time he is passing.
They were advertising on eBay a couple months ago, they looked spot on!! Not cheap over £200 I think for pair, but looked identical.