Robert in NY

Any pictures? I am not in a postition to be doing conversions but I enjoy seeing other conversions based on NH equipment.

The 10 series has a lot of fans and there are a lot of 10's running around here still. The small 30 series Utility tracors also have a great reputation but the larger 30 series have a very bad reputation. My 7710-II has been great up till I messed up the motor with 5200 hours :'(

Finally, your coming around ;D ;D ;D I personally like all brands of tractors (well, I am having trouble warming up to Kubota still) Ford/NH , Valtra and Massey Ferguson/Harris are more or less my favorites. Actually, I like almost all of the Agco and CNH lines current and originals. I don't dislike Deere but everyone here is all stuck on them. You go to Wal-Mart and that is the only toy they carry, they have dishes and clothes with the Deere logo, fabric with the Deere logo and I am sure you can probably find toilet paper with the Deere logo (that would be nice ). I guess I am sick of Deere being marketed so heavily and all the brain washed kids on forums spewing garbage about how Deere is the greatest brand ever I do have a John Deere M and a 3300 though in real life but the M came with my farm and I love that little tractor and I bought the 3300 because I needed a small straw walker and I can't find a NH straw walker anywhere here.

The North American version of the John Deere 9630 has a little stub sticking up on the drawbar and that is the entire hitch system. For the hp over here it would basically be found pulling pull type implements.

I have been away for a while so this may have been asked but are there any implements out there to hook up to the JD 9630 (either the Euro or US versions) or is it just to look pretty on a shelf (well, as pretty as a JD can look )

This is a blast from the past but has anyone done a conversion of this FX yet? I would imagine it would be easier with the Ertl FX models being released. I have been away from this site for some time now so forgive me if a conversion has been done and posted at some point in time. Thanks.

Now I remember what I have been missing since I have been gone. Great work, there are not too many Ford/NH guys over on this side of the pond so to see any great Ford/NH custom (conversions) I have to hang out with you talented gents.

Now why wouldn't google or yahoo just find that for me Thank you I appreciate your help. Robert

Can someone tell me what Vicon's website is? I use to be able to find them via the kneverland website but now I can't even find that website. Google and Yahoo are useless right now. I would hope they still have a website. Thanks.

Either Bill Walters or Jason Hasert would be the guys to ask about the real model. I think there was but am not positive. However, I am quite certain it is an RC2/Ertl model.

Marky, RC2/Ertl made the 1/16 and 1/64 MF Spirit of America tractors for the Toy Farmers Show tractor a few years back.

The only livestock we have are some whitetail deer and a few chickens. All of my hay gets sold to the horse market unless I have an order from a local grape farmer. I am going into straw this year as straw bales are very rare in my area and bring a hefty price. I do have some corn but just to tame the field down so I can plant barley. The one nice thing about selling all my hay is that most of it is sold out of the field, so all I have to do is run the baler and the customer unloads the wagons

I often wondered why some equipment is offered over there that isn't offered here. The powers that be know best

The newer self propelled stack wagons can hold 160 bales and travel 60 mph which makes it quite handy to get the bales out of the field with less labor and equipment. They are quite popular in the US and Canada but so are the smaller setups that stack 8 bales together for the grab to pick up and put on a truck.

Around here the high school kids don't want to work. And even if they do they would rather work at the coffee shop then in the hay mow. I did have a couple kids helping me this year and when I had to haul the hay any distance I would have one kid in the wagon stacking them. They just don't pay attention so I had to really be careful with the thrower. Even then they would walk in front of a bale from time to time. The bales don't really hurt when you get hit by them as I was curious and let one hit me just to see. But they do save a lot of time as you can have one guy running the baler and all the help can be unloading the wagons. Some day I will get a New Holland stack wagon but I don't have a barn big enough to unload it in yet

I bought the 575 used a couple years ago. It is a mid 90's machine. Don't know the exact year though. It is a good machine. I have aquainted myself with just about every part of her in the couple years I have owned it. Nothing major, just minor wear items that annoy you when you want to get the hay off the ground. There are quite a few small round balers here. The small dairys use them. But the majority of round balers are medium size machines. The big dairys either chop their hay or have a custom baler come in and do large squares. The round bales I do up are used to protect the grape roots. The grape farmers unroll the bales down the rows so the bales need to stay narrow.

Here is one pic after the thrower had ejected the bale. It is a lot of fun to run the thrower, the only time I get upset is when I am trying to toss a bale in the back corner (it is a game) and I over shoot the rack. Have to stop and pick the bale up. What safety concerns were there to prevent them from being used?

I bought the 7710-II last year. It has over 6000 hours on it and the motor had been replaced once in its lifetime. So far she has been great to me, of course I only have about 100 hours on it since I bought it so I can't tell you much. However, the 7710 has a great reputation around here and I have a great dealer. When who ever replaced the motor in this one, they decided to turn it up some. Right now she is putting out 110 horses at the pto. It is a lot of fun to run the discbine with this tractor. The only thing I don't like is where the shifters are. When I was round baling I kept bumping the gear selector when I changed into reverse. So I had to put the tractor back into gear quite a few times. There is not much room between the range and gear shifters.

Thanks, that is Lake Erie. I enjoy that field as you can watch the storms move in and pray they don't hit you before you are done

Here is a pic of a Ford 640. Can't remember where I got it from though

I can't provide any more then what was already posted. However, I never noticed the marketed thru Ford dealers sign on the combine before. The earlier Ford/Claas combines were blue painted over the Claas green with no Claas names on them. There are a few of them around here still but they are all parked in the weeds :'( The only only complaint anyone had about them was it was hard to get parts for.

Just thought I would post a couple of pics showing some of my bigger toys. First pic is my 7710-II pulling a Hesston 540 that I rented from my NH dealer. Second pic is a group shot of when I borrowed a TL 100A from my NH dealer (I couldn't stand the cab on it, way to short for my liking). The other tractors in that pic are a TN 65 and Ford 1920. Last pic is the TN hooked to the 575 baler after a short day of baling

Hi Denis, you have some good points and for all we know it could be what is happening. But if CNH is trying to drop NH from North America then why change the colors for the European markets? I wonder if they will adjust the Case-IH brand also eventually. As it is right now the Case-IH tractors and equipment are the same. They are just a crazy company but hopefully they have a plan. Bill, you are correct in regards to recent years. But all the New Holland haying equipment (except for recently and the D1000 deere-est pointed out) has always been red and yellow. Even the current New Holland self propelled swathers are red and yellow (as I am sure you know). It never made sense why they would want to change. Maybe next time you talk to the CNH folks you can ask them for me. I can see the point of having yellow combines to make them stand out from MF and Case-IH but the rest doesn't make sense (well at least to my simple mind). Oh well, Have fun and great work on these new balers. They will be added to my collection as soon as they are released.

You are right. I just did a search and found a pic of one. What I do know is that New Holland did not paint their hay equipment that is produced in the US yellow. Now you can go by the assembly plant and see lines of yellow and lines of red equipment. This all happened just a couple years ago. Who made the D1000? Was it a New Holland item or did they rebrand another make? Also, do you know where it was built?

New Holland hay equipment has been red and yellow since their inception. Only recently has CNH changed the New Holland hay equipment to the yellow color for the Euro market. Does anyone know why they changed? Seems strange they would spend money on painting the same machine two different colors for no obvious reason.