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<blockquote data-quote="robbie" data-source="post: 7304120" data-attributes="member: 7037"><p>My grandad on mums side started out contracting between the wars with a fordson model F on spud wheels. He offered ploughing, cultivating, hay mowing and binding.</p><p>His sevices were so popular that he bought a second tractor a international 10-20 on rubbers with the intention of his younger brother driving it but in grandads words" he was a lazy bugger" so he sold the model F and just used the 10-20 but when the war arived he struggled because of fuel and rubber rationing. </p><p></p><p>My great grandad on dads side took delivery of two Massey harris 21 combines just after the war. They arrived in crates and a chap came to assemble them with the help of the farm staff. Both were tankers with canvas beds with sail reels but one had an electric table lift!!!!!!!</p><p></p><p>After they'd been assembled a lorry arrive to take away the packing cases, presumably to re use but great grandad said hed bought the combined with the crates and if they wanted to take the crates away theyd have to take the combines aswell. Needless to say they left the crates and and they were made into chicken sheds. </p><p></p><p>Grandad drove one from new and his cousin the other cutting over a 1000 acres a year. Everything was bulk into lorries/trailer, a pair of ford V8 lorries were the main haulage, then it was put through the dryer which was powered at that time by coke and was all put through a dresser aswell before being bagged and stored.</p><p>It had to be bagged as no one had a means of loading lorries with bulk and non of the merchants could handle bulk.</p><p></p><p>The 21's were powered by Chrysler straight 6 petrol engines which were later converted to tvo.</p><p></p><p>Everytime one broke down great grandad would drive across the field to see who to send for and apparently his favourite quote when they broke was to say "course they've gone and broke down, there isnt two bloody wheels turn the Same way" a saying we still use today when w have problems with the combine.</p><p></p><p>They were replaced by a pair of silver class SFs in the late 50s early sixties</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="robbie, post: 7304120, member: 7037"] My grandad on mums side started out contracting between the wars with a fordson model F on spud wheels. He offered ploughing, cultivating, hay mowing and binding. His sevices were so popular that he bought a second tractor a international 10-20 on rubbers with the intention of his younger brother driving it but in grandads words" he was a lazy bugger" so he sold the model F and just used the 10-20 but when the war arived he struggled because of fuel and rubber rationing. My great grandad on dads side took delivery of two Massey harris 21 combines just after the war. They arrived in crates and a chap came to assemble them with the help of the farm staff. Both were tankers with canvas beds with sail reels but one had an electric table lift!!!!!!! After they'd been assembled a lorry arrive to take away the packing cases, presumably to re use but great grandad said hed bought the combined with the crates and if they wanted to take the crates away theyd have to take the combines aswell. Needless to say they left the crates and and they were made into chicken sheds. Grandad drove one from new and his cousin the other cutting over a 1000 acres a year. Everything was bulk into lorries/trailer, a pair of ford V8 lorries were the main haulage, then it was put through the dryer which was powered at that time by coke and was all put through a dresser aswell before being bagged and stored. It had to be bagged as no one had a means of loading lorries with bulk and non of the merchants could handle bulk. The 21's were powered by Chrysler straight 6 petrol engines which were later converted to tvo. Everytime one broke down great grandad would drive across the field to see who to send for and apparently his favourite quote when they broke was to say "course they've gone and broke down, there isnt two bloody wheels turn the Same way" a saying we still use today when w have problems with the combine. They were replaced by a pair of silver class SFs in the late 50s early sixties [/QUOTE]
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