NIGEL FORD

Just released: RANSOMES TS59 4 furrow plough kit, see SCALEdown website. Note new semi-digger bodies from our AT9 & 10, 2 & 3 furrow kits with more ley style mouldboards. I used one when still at primary school weekends & holidays running downhill only behind Dad's Super Major in the early 60s before we went reversible soon after.

can't have been many of them over here, maybe the next after the Howard Bigbaler before NH & Welger big balers?

left-handed drills help, after a good overnight soaking with 50/50 auto trans fluid & Acetone well shaken.

about 70 last night, from a grey Fergie to one of the biggest tyred Fendts in the Westfield, East Sussex Christmas road run all lit up. The best being Cathy's cousin's JD 6215R with large illuminated leaping deer on the front weight box and string lights all over including the Spearhead hedger out the rear.

bout time they did the NC dump trailer in green. They did the Marston in several colurs.

really! ? Still some major errors...

and...if you already spotted it?.... not heard about these before? Anyone know about them, I haven't looked at the CLAAS website yet though!

at West Grinstead ploughing match last Saturday. Olivers, 200 years in business CLAAS Arion.

The tractors are DINKY and the trailer with "replacement" wire drawbar. Two MASSEY-HARRIS & the other is a Field Marshall, all early versions before they used rubber tyred wheels, except trailer- always had tyres. Lead animals contain some early BRITAINS items, other makes may be there too. Welcome to the Forum.

anyone got 4250 stickers ready for these? Gotta put 1050 rears and 700 fronts on one.

Hi Nige, on the website www.modeltractorco.net homepage and more on the DB page

I had one do similar on our 5000 and had to get a new kingpin and the castellated nut was sloppy from new! So cut through one castellation with angle grinder and squeezed it tighter around the thread and then welded the closed gap so nut was then a really good fit. When ploughing the nut has a big load on the land wheel as the wheel is angled to keep in the furrow and the outer hub bearing is pushing against it.

Oh! & a Fordson eating a big Mac....

Interesting Roadless 115 on 12 x 36 fronts and 15 x 30 rears.....probably near same circumference? at least the front drive is disengageable, hence why a friend from school had one with masses of roadwork to do between farms in the 60's.

and yesterday at the 47th Festival of Transport, Hellingly (just along the road from where Dad was born in '22) East Sussex. Recently discussed on here due to model being done by Dutch (? I think)firm. Belgian built EVA Ford 5095 and a beautifully done by Irish refurb guy Errol McGuinness, last of the Major based Does. Correct colours and plated wheel nuts (NOT BLUE!...ffs, if you're going to paint them, Silver NOT Blue).

Not Today but last weekend at Biddenden Tractorfest, Kent. Only one in Europe apparently a V8 Cummins powered JD 5020 around 300hp.

Put this kit of parts on my website but can't see how to add more images,so hope these will do for now. 1/16 enhancement parts for the early FORD 7600 launched last year by you know who with so many errors...

I have pics of a 4wd version with ZF style axle and cab at a secondhand dealers yard in Kent about 20+ years ago.Stuart may have even used it in one of his books (?) The Belgian 5100 by EVA was the 1st designation I think. I have a ROTERRA leaflet with one powering it.

try it as one word - wilkojaps, anyone remember them? Top and bottom thin layer of square liqourice with coconut candy middle sandwich. I said to him well the coconut drums with liqourice core (from allsorts) are the same ingredients.....you can get them separately.

spreader wheels driven presumably for tyres to be on that way?

why has that been asterisked, have the nips gone snowflake?

My brother has been trying to find WILKO **** sweets for years, I wonder if they would have any there.........😉 ?

We had a cheap-built mixer like that by Theakston Engineering (owned County for a short while, I think), took the top cover off so we could bucket the rolled oats/barley, minerals & "PRO-MAX" liquid feed (after progressing from molasses) into it easier from bins under the adjacent HUNT 10" roller mill. The chain links occasionally broke (when machine full of course and winding itself up with bent slats) resulting in much straightening and welding after bucketing out all the feed and untangling,but at least with no top cover far more acessible. So I found some "RUBIG" drop forged hardened link chain advertised in Farmers Weekly (long before intraweb...) and welded the slats to that, doing away with all the "stamped -out" link chain...problem cured. We had another mixer at the other farm much more expensive that never gave any trouble, blue, but can't remember the make....though probably Batch Mixer • Alvan Blanch 2023 (alvanblanchgroup.com) had a roller chain and box slats rather than angle-iron of the Theakston.

Boxing up our long-awaited new release 1969 DB 990 Selectamatic on wide wheels Ltd Edition kit now on the SCALEdown website (would prefer phone orders though please?) or place your order and I'll call for card details. (Postage won't be £14!!! unless you are abroad)

Hi Rob, that would have been the late Dennis Goodburn from Henfield, he built several of mine before I bought the company 25 years ago. He's been gone well over 15 years, maybe even 20 ?....died suddenly. Welcome to the forum, apparently I'm the "Grandaddy".....certainly one of the oldest (occasionally) on here.