Whatever happened to.........

[Barley man]

They need to be basic for my dad and some of my staff

 

[Roy_H]

Roy_H. Our renault is type 7591 all orange and I have a few older renaults a 304e just got mag done up , a 3042 petrol and a D30 with a Perkins p3 with French type fuel injection pump all interesting stuff I'll try to get some photos

Ah Happy memories of pulling one of Severn Trent's slurry tanker wagons out of one of our fields with her after the clown of a driver had shunted it backwards and forwards in the wettest part of the field so many times that it's chassis was well and truly at ground level , the ruts he had made were full of water and you could not see the tyre treads for mud . Afterwards he looked at me in total astonishment as he unhooked the chain from the front of his wagon and said " Do you know you have just pulled 22 tons out with that little bugger!" ( Apparently the tank was still full, he had not started spreading yet when he got it stuck .) OK he was amazed but not half as amazed as I was. I must admit when I first saw what a state his wagon was in my heart sank and I thought to myself "Oh this is when I die of embarrasment"

Some time ago I read ( in "The Weekly" ) about a guy who still has a 95.14 ( 84 hp) that has done over 21000 hours and still going strong . He said that when his dad first bought it he totally hated it because of all the gear levers etc. sticking out of it all over the place. After a week though he changed his mind completely In his words "It made my MF 690 seem gutless in comparison"

 

[jakeboy]

A young jakeboy!!? Early 60s on my grandfather's Major in Andover, with my Mum.who is now 83! Wonder if tractor is still about!!! Tractor belonged to The Brecknock Estate!

 

[Roy_H]

I have never seen a tractor with a guard covering the belt pulley before. I remember one agricultural engineer telling me a story about an incident involving an old Field Marshall tractor. He had gone to visit a farm where a guy was doing some threshing with one and apparently he had been having a bit of trouble with the tractor around the belt pulley area and he was trying to explain to the engineer where the problem was. As they stood watching the tractor work this guy ( who was standing VERY close to the pulley) reached out his hand and said "Thats where the trouble was, just there Geoff" Then drawing his hand back again as if he had just had an electric shock he exclaimed " Oh Christ its just taken my bloody thumb off!"..... indeed it had

 

[jakeboy]

I have never seen a tractor with a guard covering the belt pulley before. I remember one agricultural engineer telling me a story about an incident involving an old Field Marshall tractor. He had gone to visit a farm where a guy was doing some threshing with one and apparently he had been having a bit of trouble with the tractor around the belt pulley area and he was trying to explain to the engineer where the problem was. As they stood watching the tractor work this guy ( who was standing VERY close to the pulley) reached out his hand and said "Thats where the trouble was, just there Geoff" Then drawing his hand back again as if he had just had an electric shock he exclaimed " Oh Christ its just taken my bloody thumb off!"..... indeed it had

Nasty!! Yes these early majors had guards!! Seen a few old shots with them fitted, my grandfather was a gamekeeper my family tree was farmers gamekeepers!! He had a nissen hut workshop with all the tools you could shake a stick at!! And the tractor was stored undercover every night! Every visit we made would result in a drive through the estate woods with trailer, on complete with the rest of the family on board! Happy times!!
He died in 1972, I returned to his home last year after about 40 years, I was amazed to see the hut still standing!! And being used still as a workshop! The owner was in there! And came out and asked me what I wanted? I said sorry to intrude I'm just revisiting a place and memories from the past, and showed him some pictures I had of hut and house and tractor, he was amazed, I think he seemed more upset than me!! But he said boy you better come and have a cup of tea!!
Walking into the house was very emotional as my dad died only 3 years ago and despite my efforts he wouldn't go back to see his home, as he sadly did not have happy memories there as a teenager, before leaving to join the parachute regiment.
But I somewhat felt that I'm so very glad I returned and feel my father saw through my eyes that it was a happy place today and despite those troubled days he had,we shared our lives with him and perhaps that made it all worthwhile!!
Funny what just a single picture of a tractor will do chaps!?
Regards everyone jakeboy

 

[Vizslaman]

We were almost neighbours then back in the 60's
We were at Chandlers Ford.
When I left school I worked at Percy Hendy the ford tractor dealership.

 

[ford7000]

massey 130 reg no eey336d sold farm sale about 1985 anglesey

 

[Magnum Man]

Does anyone know the whereabouts of Ford 7710 Force II 2wd C739 EGS? Carries Gates of Baldock stickers and believed to have recently passed through Oakfields Ag of Royston, Herts.

 

[Mark C]

Does anyone know the whereabouts of Ford 7710 Force II 2wd C739 EGS? Carries Gates of Baldock stickers and believed to have recently passed through Oakfields Ag of Royston, Herts.

I remember seeing that at the Kimpton ploughing match many years ago Magnum Man