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 :'(

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I hate the bloody things... gimme a Ford 

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.

here you go Robert check the link below for info about them

http://www.masseyferguson.com/agco/mf/uk/products/agtv/250_500.htm

That is slick, I want one now  (I like to be different \)

They appear to be Artic Cats if I am not mistaken. I wonder why they are not sold here in the US

getting this lorry sorted for delivery must remind driver to get them jack legs lifted  :

What are these things hanging from the trailers in front of the wheels? Are they barriers to keep small cars out or something as I have not see anything like that over here. Once again, thanks for posting these pics as I am starting to get the bug to spend money on models again 

Does Massey really sell quads over there? I just came back to this forum and noticed this thread so I have enjoyed reading  it for the last hour or so and have plenty more to view but was curious about the Massey quad you sold to Cowboy on May 9th.

Over here Deere sold Bombardier's painted green and yellow but only for a couple years then quit. Right now I don't know of any OEM in the states that sells a ATV/quad. Deere sells Utility vehicles like the gator but so does Kubota and Cub Cadet.

You have been doing some great work and I would love to have a heated shop where I could do something similar with my current time off. Thanks for taking the time to play with your models and take pictures for all of us to enjoy.

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

blimey R.I.NY you lot really got that lot sorted . the only other thing i seen like that was an offset elevator which took single bales up to the chap stacking the load .

i wonder why they've never been marketed over here ?

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.

rubbish balers for a start & we had plenty of labour back then. even in the years gone by we made hard work for ourselves ,my bet is that we just didn't get it & somebody thought 'that would knock someone off the trailer that would !'? missing the point entirely?

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

Great pictures Robert. We had a FWA 7710 series 2, best tractor we ever had according to Dad and he's a Massey man.

Our neighbour had a Hesston 540. The origonal owner had it so he could roll bales through a doorway, are smaller round balers quite popular in your area?

How old is your 575? We have one of the early ones, sure beats the old 320s eh?

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

Claas Combines were marketed by Ford in the Colonies. Originally they were branded as Ford combines (Senator/Dominator).

If you look closely behind the cab it says "Marketed thru Ford Dealers".

Maybe Bob Turk can provide more info as they were quite popular in his part of the World.

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