Old Time Greats

[Derrick Hughes]

Saw one over these today, sure bought back memories
What would be your choice

My other choice was a Simplex Milking Bail

 

[snowhite]

i drove one with a dx6.50 , and hubby was on the pit was cheap silage but stones was the problem

 

[IANTO]

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Saw one over these today, sure bought back memories
What would be your choice

My other choice was a Simplex Milking Bail

Going back 55+ years, I remember the Hay Harvest on my Grandfathers Farm in the Towy Valley.

I can't remember what the Tractors were, but I remember at the age of 5 being sat on one in low gear, and told to keep it pointed at a marker, while the others loaded bales on the trailer.

By the time I was 8 they had modernised, and were more efficient. A low 30ft Trailer (ex construction pipe carrying trailer) was hitched to the bailer, and the bales, came straight onto the trailer. There were three of us on it, and stacked to 5 layers.

Once the trailer was full, another was hitched up.

At the time, it was highly efficient, but they did have the advantage of large flat fields on the valley floor.

 

[RobFZS]

could do with one of them, only have a inline rotaflail at the moment.

 

[wdah/him]

i drove one with a dx6.50 , and hubby was on the pit was cheap silage but stones was the problem

we had same out fit, u didnt draw with a leyland by any chance?

 

[grumpy]

i prefer to drive the most modern stuff possible,but would like a go on an a4 pacific class sir nigel gressly was a genius.

 

[snowhite]

we had same out fit, u didnt draw with a leyland by any chance?

no a belarus ,

 

[Derrick Hughes]

HOSIER INVENTIONS LTD WEXCOMBE, MARLBOUGH, WILTS OPEN AIR MILKING MACHINES PATENT Nos 304361 303914 298893 1589733 19801 RAS SILVER MEDALS 1928 1929 1934

 

[Derrick Hughes]

 

[Muck Spreader]

i prefer to drive the most modern stuff possible,but would like a go on an a4 pacific class sir nigel gressly was a genius.

They were a bit limited for silaging on wet ground . There was a farmer on the West Coast who used to own one of the A4's can't remember his name or if he still has it?

 

[Derrick Hughes]

no a belarus ,

Nuffield 10/60

 

[roscoe erf]

Class matador combine just you and the cough fresh air cough

 

[Walterp]

HOSIER INVENTIONS LTD WEXCOMBE, MARLBOUGH, WILTS OPEN AIR MILKING MACHINES PATENT Nos 304361 303914 298893 1589733 19801 RAS SILVER MEDALS 1928 1929 1934

Dunno what the photo's for, there's plenty of those left around here. I can take you to two in Martletwy and one in Wiston, and that's just in radius of a few miles. Must be hundreds still standing in West Wales.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Dunno what the photo's for, there's plenty of those left around here. I can take you to two in Martletwy and one in Wiston, and that's just in radius of a few miles. Must be hundreds still standing in West Wales.

1963 dad moved to Wales left every
type of farming behind just bought the cows, bought a milking bail fixed on a concrete pad and never looked back,

A young man by the name of Alan Tooby had just started out and dad bought a Fullwood bail from him one of the first he sold

 

[rob1]

Db 885 with a loader as a 13 /14 year old was the dogs do do's

 

[Davos]

International 434 and 24/1 loader

 

[endeavour]

1963 dad moved to Wales left every
type of farming behind just bought the cows, bought a milking bail fixed on a concrete pad and never looked back,

A young man by the name of Alan Tooby had just started out and dad bought a Fullwood bail from him one of the first he sold

FT still a Tooby and Williams trading in St Clears today.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

FT still a Tooby and Williams trading in St Clears today.

Yes, he started life I believe as a milking machine fitter then branched out on his own selling milking parlours , he fitted our first Herringbone Parlour

 

[Paddington]

If we're looking way back, then a young,rosy cheeked milkmaid would be a boon............supposed I'd have to buy a cow though.