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Pto guard will cost more than you might have paid for complete machine. Most replacement plastic guards cost more than a completely new ready to use replacement pto

Yes thats true

yes its sad phil , i was supposed to go to there open day but i could not make it then about a week later they closed up , dont think it was money problems why they shut , it is going to be tough for a lot of dealers going forward . manufacturers push dealers to have loads of stock which has to be paid for at some point . There will be more close up before the years out .

Sounds really good ,yes would be right up my street , i nearly turned as green as the tractors last time 🤣 , i did enjoy looking at both collections last time

If it do go back to November i would make plans to go but its right in the main busy periods on farm and with the weather we have been having farm is not in the condition it should be and with a minor health problem it would be difficult to get there at moment . Will miss you lads on the boat ,had a great time 2 years back with you lot , a big thanks to Robbo and Andy in helping out as well as David , Barry and Sean 👍

glad to here it thought i was only werdio about 🤣

There is a lot going on that they dont want us to now about . Its a job at the moment for us to find a home for the wheat that is in my barn , Bird flu closed up a lot of poultry units and a lot of pigs was not replaced when they was building up on farms and was just killed and chucked in landfill sites , last October 3 lorry drivers told me a boat full of Ukrainian wheat come into Ipswich docks and was offloaded and tipped into stores around the area , the 3 drivers that told me had been carting it , it come in as it was cheap and also by the uk buying it it was a way of ukrainian getting money to buy more arms

I thought it was just me and BC that was collecting carrier bags , they do look in good condition

i have a few acres to rip up and replant with spring barley

Yes phil the surplus wheat stocks are getting smaller around the world apart from Russia and China , china buys loads in and stockpile to feed its own , Russia produce a lot but also are helping themselves to a lot of Ukraine wheat

where is the air fed from , is it from a pipe from unit around waist or is it a stand on the floor job and trailing pipe

I been called a few things in the past but not over powered before 😅

i have 4 tractors on 170 acres ,and a 541-70 jcb

Nicholsons"s was selling a lot of case tractors Phil , as well as Gav i had another mate there and sales was good .

Nice bit of hedge cutting there Gav 👍

3 food stands all together up corner where there was digging hole , you didn't miss much £8 for a not to good cheeseburger

Paint was dry this morning so bolted on the bracket and lifted the small unit on top for storage

Smaller unit that holds wire and torch will spend most of its time on the floor as lighter to move whilst welding but it can sit on top of main unit but fixing brackets are missing,I expect my mate at forge chucked it away anyway I made one this afternoon which will bolt into existing holes and top bit will sit on it for storage but it can swivel around if needs to

Got mig welder in above posts up and running then my old gauges started leaking expect rubber seal are perished as it's old so nipped to local machinery mart and bought a new gauge as we wanted to carry on with some welding, welder runs a treat. Man in shop asked me what Clarke's welder it was going on ,I said it's not,he said they only fit Clarke's welders 🤔 anyway I pulled out a piece of paper that I had made a note of numbers on from website and said to man do these numbers match up he said yes so I said well that's the one we need and it will fit any welder as it goes on the gas bottle anyway 🤣 he took my money and said if it doesn't fit I could bring it back 👍

It was over in Zwolle Sean , we all had a photo taken with it by the end of the day ,cant remember what year it was

Thats bad news for me and goody and 2 other mates that go over with us , we booked hotel on the day we left from previous show as its only 10 minutes from venue and its a very nice hotel . we have stayed at it 2 or 3 times now . Not sure if goody had already booked tunnel crossing

was that £400 one the one that was on ebay or was it a sealed bid type of auction on the day

There was only 50 of these models done, one in photo is no 27, can't remember was no 1 raffled off for charity

A couple of years ago I had 3 to sell but have since sold them all, sorry

Very nice and good glass cabinets as well, is that a dedicated model room or dining/living room,very good to sit down to a meal and look across the table at the tractors other side 🤣👍👍