Oldest machine on farm, dead or alive.

[roscoe erf]

Floor mounted pillar drill, made for the Air Ministry in 1942, had it rewired a few years ago and working fine.
Chaff cutter in barn, no idea of age. Nicholson hay turner - never seen it work but remember father talking about it.
oh, nearly forgot the hay pole and sweep stored in the shed.

I’ve got a ten ton trolly jack ex wd 1945 bloody thing must weigh all of that

 

[moretimeforgolf]

This 1934 International crawler has been on farm since new. Dad has given it a light restoration and gives it an outing once a year at our local ploughing match.

 

[startinghandle]

This 1934 International crawler has been on farm since new. Dad has given it a light restoration and gives it an outing once a year at our local ploughing match.View attachment 994526

Is that a Ransome Motrac ?
Do you run it on straight kerosene?

 

[Pennine Ploughing]

1943 International W4, lovely to drive.

 

[Serup]

Must be my bale trailers. Made from lorries from the sixties. And my mf 35 from 57.
In use every day, it is a 1992 deutz fahr agrostar 6.11 on my tmr mixer.
We don’t have a scraper tractor but a rope system - cost about the same per month to keep running as a mf 35 would cost to buy!

 

[Highland Mule]

.303 Long Lee from around the 1880s

 

[moretimeforgolf]

Is that a Ransome Motrac ?
Do you run it on straight kerosene?

Sorry, I’m not really into ploughs.
I know he used to prime it on petrol then run on kerosene or tvo I think. This year he has just run it on petrol to make life easier.

 

[Fish]

How far do you want to go back ?
50 years ago dad found a stone axe head in one of our fields, in another we have a medieval stone cross.
On the vehicle front, got a 1944 Bedford 3 ton flat bed with only 6k miles on the clock, it hasn’t moved in 50+ years, but the tyres have still got air in them

 

[bravheart]

Grass seed box converted from shafts to drawbar but dates and settings written inside the lid from the 1920s iirc.

 

[Finn farmer]

MF 135, farms first tractor (also bought new). Engine rebuilt, so probably still works.

 

[Courier]

Got a hammer mill installed 2nd hand in the early 60’s with an electricians certificate from 1942 ?

 

[Barleymow]

Farm office in house built in 1450 dies that count

 

[Courier]

My land has been here since before the dinosaurs ..... Beat that...

 

[Henarar]

My land has been here since before the dinosaurs ..... Beat that...

I wouldn't think it has, it was probably somewhere else as it does move around

 

[bluebell]

what about all the ex ww2 bits and pieces from metal strips that made ground cover by linking them together, ex military nissan huts, re erected on many farms after the war, we had a 4 wheel ex raf brockelhouse trailer, now gone?

 

[essexpete]

Not of agricultural origin but loaded hay and straw for years with a flat 8.
1955 Weatherill 8H based on a Major.

 

[robs1]

Those flat roller late 1960's, oldest kit that I bought must be a allbut bucket and Collins trailer, both about 87, both have a few holes in trailer awaiting a refurb

 

[Goweresque]

My land has been here since before the dinosaurs ..... Beat that...

Mine is all made from matter created in the Big Bang 13 billion years ago.

 

[Goweresque]

Still in use:
1958 MF35
Various hay trailers made out of pre-war lorry chassis (though heavily rebuilt)
A number of workshop machines that are probably wartime or earlier.
Rack saw bench, must be 50s at least, probably earlier. Originally flat belt drive, converted to PTO drive using a gearbox and V pulleys I stole off an old Salopian baler from the 50s that was lying around for years until finally scrapped..

Stuff lying around in sheds:
Various bits of old farm equipment like cake crushers and rolling mills.
Several items ex-great grandfather's steam powered sawmill/wagon works - bandsaw, pillar drill and circular saw bench. Could be Victorian/Edwardian.
The wheels on an old bale elevator that came off a Supermarine Spitfire, must be pre-'49 as that was when the last one was built.
Various things built with timber that came from some local WW2 aircraft hanger doors, lovely pine planks.
'Wilmo' fertiliser distributor, made by Alexander Shanks in the 50s.

I did have the chassis of a 1920s American sports car, a Stutz, but that was sold some years ago to a car restorer.

 

[Speedstar]

Oldest tractor MF690 from 1986
Oldest machine a teagle cement mixer from the 1960 both still at work today
But the Tower at the farm dates back to the 13 hundreds and the one that was there before that one goes back to when Noah wàs a boy