NIGEL FORD

Funnily enough.....no ( I'm not jd mad I can tell the difference, although it's over 30yrs since I was at schoo!!).Lets hope Fendt Power can help.My sons are working away at present,I expect they'de know what to do. It seems really strange that making a box round the main subject where it already dominates the picture can reduce 377KB to 1KB when it looks very little smaller when opened.

Attempt 4: I don't get it , my reduced file size says it's 1Kb & yet it says it's too large when I try & post it??!!! I'll try e-mailng you FENDT POWER, thanks for your help.

Who was it after my CLAAS 116CS by Gama? There's one finishing around 10pm on ebay tonight.

SCALE Models did the 9380 & another with no numbers on it. They do come up on ebay occassionally. I've had one from DT before, about a year ago.G & M might still have them for ?40 or so.

Gonna try and post some 35mm pics of the STX 450 STEIGER with the 27tonne tillage train I took last year Sep'04... been trying for many minutes to reduce file size of enprints from Paper Port scan but no joy. HELP PLease!! I've got lots of the Terra-Trac 580's aswell ready to post.

Mid 80's production, though mine is in a plain white box.You certainly don't see them often. Did you win this last week, I was watching one?

Anything Claas seems to be gaining popularity. We had a real one (JAGUAR 80 SF) do our grass in '77. Powered by a V10 DEUTZ, we were fortunate to take our 1st cut early as within a week we heard how the machine had got so hot (air-cooled engine in those days) that flames came out the dipstick hole when checking the engine oil-level. A few days later it blew up completely which severely disrupted all waitng for their crops to be harvested. In came a JD 5400 4wd as replacement. Sorry to get off-topic again:I guess it'll make ?40+ ( & yes I do have one!- & another awaiting conversion, along with contless other projects).

Managed to catch the last of the organic winter beans last week on the farm where I was for 45yrs. TF78 Elektra 370 bhp IVECO power. (Will have to wok out how to compress pics tomorrow as even one is 370kb). I was planning on takeing my 2 eldest lads over to see the 2 LEXION 580 Terra-Tracs at work together on Friday but the rain beat us, so at present I only have last years enprints-will they scan OK onto here?

Forgot to mention the stick-on nameplates are still on the paper on the left. I have one like this plus another with a damaged 1/2 jaw of the drawbar,that I have painted in the proper Ford Tractor Blue & Grey, with dull black tyres. ( Sorry no pics to hand as still boxed up from moving house 6yrs ago!!)

Right, here goes: MINI SET Ford 5000 all plastic assembled kit.

I've still got mine from boyhood (first one) but the box is in bits. I wasn't impressed with the speed of the" belt" so plugged it into the mains ( NOW CHILDREN- DO NOT DO THIS!!!) & of course it went bang not faster as I'd hoped! I wrote to Britains & complained the motor had packed up & they sent me a new motor,still installed & working last time I tried it about 20 yrs ago.

Hi guys, I'm trying to add some pictures but don't know how ( You know my age!!!) Please advise in terms I can understand!!.

Would the First Gear units not do? They're 1/35 I think. The low loader in JCB livery I have is superb, although I've not had it alongside any 1/32 farm machines for comparison. It's a Mack as far as I can remember & I seem to remember seeing bulk tipper trailers on ebay. The New Ray Peterbilt is'nt bad for the price, though don't know if there's a bulk version.

Probably DEUTZ-FAHR. Silver wheels?

There was a Renault prototype similar to this back in the 80's ( not sure of the date) somewhere I have a cutting of it featured in Farming News, the now extinct weekly free paper. I wondered what happened to it, could someone have re-clothed it? Or is it a Kramer 4wd 4ws in disguise? (see Warnes Transport Library - Farm tractors).

Not sure what you mean by squint problem, I can't find any of mine at the moment, but in looking I see the JD 9860 collector version "corn"/maize header has the same fault as the Norscot lexion 580 in that the flights on the auger take the crop out to the sides instead of the middle! Even more bizarrely the SIKU Lex 480 takes it all across to the offside of the table!!!!

Thanks NCC, but I just remembered, the CS Claas models[112,114,116 & 228 from memory] had about 8 threshing cylinders in sequence behind each other through the machine with no walkers & that was classed ( pardon the pun) quite rightly as a rotary. GAMA did a 1/32 CS116 with header trailer that I have in the collection. The CS stood for cylinder separation.

A conventional combine has a small rotating thrashing drum ( or 2 in some cases -one ahead of the main one) that runs in the same plane as the axles with straw walkers behind it/them that shake the grain out of the straw as it progresses through the machine, as was the design of the old "thrashing drums" (steam or tractor powered via a long flat belt) that preceded the arrival of the self-propelled combine. A rotary has a much bigger rotating drum {or 2} ( eg Britains NH TR models) that is situated 90 degrees different i.e. down the centre line of the machine , or either side of centre if 2, with no straw walkers. The grain is sifted from the straw by centrifugal force through the cylindrical mesh cage ( called the concave ) that surrounds the rotor entirely. The conventional drum has a concave that is only around about 60 degrees of its action, as the crop has to exit onto the straw walkers where the remainder of the grain that hasn't been thrashed through the mesh cage has to be jostled out before the straw is ejected over the back of the walkers.'hope that helps.

We used to swap tractors with the neighbouring estate in the late 60's before we had a foreloader to clear our dung yards out & they went from a SUPER DEXTA to a 5511 Zetor with an Alo Quicke loader which was mounted further forward than the Horndraulic was on the Dexta, so what with it being a much longer tractor it was so much less manouvreable & no power steering to boot. The gearshift was a stick in a bucket of mud that came up beside the small steering wheel ( adding to the steering pain!) I think the only improvement on the Dexta was the clutch being pushed forward rather than down: a bit of light relief on loader work. I drove a 8011 CRYSTAL one afternoon in the late 70's when the contractor came in silageing on a trailer (alongside a V8 Deutz powered Claas Jag 80) but found it so c lumsy compared to our pre-Q cab 6600 with Dual Power ( the Zetor had a similar transmission as standard). Main problem was back at the clamp with the cab as big as a greenhouse visibility around the buildings not good! My cousin had several inc. the 8045 (4wd). There are still a few around here, inc 12011 (6 cyl) & some 1980's 4wd's but I have'nt been in a Zetor for 20+yrs. The metal used to be soft & threads easily stripped.

You're quite right Fendt Power,driving the same distance away from ones last bout is not foolproof for any length of time even with narrow machines but the wider the equipment is the more problem it is especially in the dark.My main question about it is how does it fare on side banks where one has to drive up closer to ones work to allow for the crabbing that occurs as the machine tries to pull you sideways down the slope as you work across it?

1/43 is a train scale apparently (O gauge?) as was of course all the CORGI Ag. sfuff of the 50s/60s.

Hi IHP, if you're interested I can supply proper MUIR-HILL wheels that I made for a customer that doesn't use many. The fronts even have the raised triple lug on the half-shaft end peculiar to MH. The rear's centres are inside out, again as the real tractors, tyres are 18.4, 15x34. My pattern for this actually unbolts so I can produce wheels set at different track widths! ?8/pair for any of the settings as are FORD 7000 wheels with same tyres. Front wheels with 7.50 x18 tyres- ?2.50/pair ?p&p extra. By the way" jd mad" no 4 wheel steer MH tractors exist, only loaders like the B5000. Regards to all.

Hi FP ( Jason?) if the box is mint aswell, I'll be interested, well above the ?60 mentioned.Call/Fax me on 01424 838336/ 772361 or e-mail: ford_nigel@hotmail.com Regards Nigel.

Is it in a TW35 box?