smithy

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

1 hour ago, Jack390 said:

Ktwo have also gone into administration in the past week or so. Sold some great kit 

Yes thats true 

21 hours ago, phil phoenix said:

Just found out that Collings Brothers have gone out of business!!!   They were CASE dealers for Cambs area for years before being dropped in 2021, and then took on the Deutz brand and had a hugely successful first 24 months selling over 60 tractors, but things have really dried up in the past 6 months, and recently I noticed they had a one year old 7250 Warrior in the last Cheffins sales auction at Cambridge, that sounded alarm bells for me, as if they were a bit desperate for money!   Hugely difficult times now for dealers with a perfect storm of sh1t hitting the farming industry.  And Suffolk Agri bit the dust as well, another reknowned CASE dealer in the 90s.

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 .

11 hours ago, robbo said:

Its a shame you can't make it Smithy as we are going to see a collection that would be right up your street, it is over 50 International/McCormick and Farmall tractors, we had to come up with a different colour after going to the John Deere Museum last time.

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 👍 

2 minutes ago, jmd said:

I don't mind a bag or two Smithy have one or two in the collection 👍

 

glad to here it thought i was only werdio about 🤣

10 hours ago, phil phoenix said:

What I don't get is how huge quantities of wheat has come onto the european markets from Ukraine and yet according to Colonel Douglas MacGregor about half a million Ukrainian men have been killed during this american proxy war with Russia, leaving virtually no one left alive to farm the land???

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   

3 hours ago, jmd said:

Picked up this nice Ford 40 series and Tc combine carrier bag for my 40 series collection 

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

52 minutes ago, Gav836 said:

We have two fields of wheat that will be ripped up in April to put another crop in, there just isn’t enough viable plant cover there to leave them. The others will hopefully pull together enough to leave. Will come back to what the other crop is we’re putting in nearer the time as it’s a bit different. 

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

2 hours ago, phil phoenix said:

Whatever supposed wheat surplus the world has it ain't gonna last long, this biblical spell of rain that the worlds growers have experienced since last autumn seems designed to ensure a huge depletion of wheat stocks and a guarenteed famine not far up the road.  Virtually every farm around here has flood damaged fields of wheat. The only exception is A.L Lee & Son's who farm over 12,000 acres these days, and they religiously subsoil every harvested potato field as soon as the crop has been lifted. That means every field over 12,000 acres is subsoiled every 4 years, and their wheat crops have no flooding and are looking superb!! 

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 

10 hours ago, phil phoenix said:

Your over powered Smithy😁

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

10 minutes ago, robbo said:

It shows how much things have changed Gav, you are working 750ha with 3 tractors, the last farm that I worked on in 1980 was 1500 acres and had 7 tractor drivers, none of the actual tractors were over 100hp although the biggest was a Fiat 1000DT so was just at that figure

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

5 hours ago, phil phoenix said:

Sorry to hear it didn't work out at Case Gav.  I have no idea what local market share Case Nicholson's have around their area, but around Ely & district its single figures %wise.

I suspect that John Deere, Fendt & New Holland hold over 80% between the three of them, with the rest picking up a few sales each.

Good luck with the new job wherever it is.

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 👍

9 hours ago, Tractorman810 said:

i remember a john deere that did the rounds in the uk ,to have a laugh with someone,even i had a pic taken with it 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

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   

2 hours ago, James Joe Dewar said:

Aye it probably was smithy, I remember one of the models he did for the Newmaher show sold for £400, ??

Regards

Joe.

 

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

5 hours ago, Mark price said:

I don't believe that is a production number.  I honestly wouldn't see the manufacturing costs being worth while in only making 50.   More likely to be a sellers catalogue or item marker.

However,  I would still be interested in a price. I have a realistic price in mind.

Please can you tell me , condition,  boxed, and price please.

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 🤣👍👍