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It was good to see you as well Zac ,yes it was a long day but well worth it , my photos will be same as Valley Axe Mans but i will get them on here anyway ,first up is this little gem

It was good to see you and jmd and that little fella 😂 in your group ,he did not seem dodgy to me haha. I hope you had a smooth drive back home . My day was 22hrs long in the end ,i now i said i was going to leave here at 3am well i got woken up at 11.30pm on the Saturday evening so i just got dressed and had left before midnight as if i had gone back to sleep i might have missed alarm ,anyway with a slight diversion on A12 because of road works it was a straight run down there hence why i went past turning of A303 for the venue as i was aware that a few more miles down the road at sparkford there is a 24hrs Mcdonalds so i pulled in there had a coffee then at 6am they do the breakfast rolls so had one of them and another coffee ,apart from the 3 staff i was only one in there till about 7ish .Anyway was a really good day at the show and i left a few minutes after you ,i had good run all way back to M25 apart from the rain ,as soon as on m25 we was going at 20mph as every few miles there was broken down vehicles in the lanes ,did not get back up to speed till well past Heathrow anyway rest of drive back was ok and after a 20minute break on A12 i got home about 9.30ish , should have been 7.30-8pm ,anyway was a good day out . I have some photos to upload on here but now got to nip off to a training course so will try and do them bit later on

Yes i have some britains ones in my collection ,not sure what shed i have them stored in ,some of them are on here as there is a carrier bag post ,cant remember what section it is in at moment ,using my phone to post this and cant find the link

At this moment sitting in Mcdonalds at Sparkford ,good drive down so time to spare

Will have my case coat and cap on

I got one of them new holland balers from Zwolle ,allow mine is a 575

Will have to steer clear of that weido tomorrow 🤣

At this moment (6-54pm) i am planning on leaving here at 3am and driving down to show , should be there with 1hr to spare as long as it goes to plan

One of the cab shock-absorber's on Puma been weeping so took both off to replace ,got 2 bits of wood in and knocked a metal wedge in to lift cab and get weight of shocks to get bolts out ,to fit new ones i had to get a bit of box metal and slide in box at bottom of cab and get a hydraulic jack with a long bit of wood on top to push cab up a bit higher . The 2 spanners with old shock is what mechanic at Does has lent me as there is 4 settings on shocks and need them to turn onto setting that you need

Got the tractors in barn ,took roof of the MXU135 as i had to replace a electric socket that is fixed into rear bit of roof ,only get to it by lifting up roof ,all back together now

While frost was still in ground other week i ploughed the bit that the sugar beet had been stored on and then went back with drill ,hopefully it will grow and catch up to rest of field . It was a bit wet down bottom end where all water had run too down the tracks that the mause had made but i got though it just

You dont find them in that condition very often , I thought only myself and BC collected carrier bags👍 must be someone else out there☺️

Just looked up if i go , A12- M25 Anti-clockwise -M3 THEN A303 , Its 4hrs 5minutes =226 miles , basically the same way as when i used to go to Wincanton . Not sure if i nip down will see how tomorrow turns out got a bit of roadside hedge-cutting to do

No problem on photo Phil ,i had email about real tractor yesterday but still cant find out about model

How long do it take you to drive down there ? Must be a fare milage

There used to be a IFOR WILLIAMS trailer loaded up of all sorts of spares ,mainly plough spares at one time

Big events like Zwolle might make big money but the bigger event do cost more to hold ,like i said before i do know Colin has had to put his hand into his own pocket more than once to cover cost of putting show on .

It costs money to hire the venue so cant be free if you bring your own tables . I know that colin has had to put his hand in his own pocket to pay the shortfall in takings on more than one occasion

A lot of people paid for items and never got them ,its a long story and i dont really want to say it all on this open forum ,allow i think Robbo put a warning up a long time back

You been a busy boy getting all that back together ,it sounds nice is that the straight though exhaust or one with baffles

Ford 7610 4wheel drive used to pull 4 furrows and push 2or3 ,probably 12inch furrows and Ransomes push-pull plough

I plan to go as long as i have work up to date

There was a lot of machines to look at at show and there was a lot of people on both days looking around . It would be nice in the future if other main tractor company's supported the show ,as for models Krone had a big baler and a forage harvester for sale and Kubota did on the morning of the first day have a small selection of models to clear but by midday on Tuesday they had all gone as myself and goody made them a good offer and cleared all the ones they had left ,not exactly sure how many but just got them all in Goodys truck , no other stands had models that we saw

I talked to vatra up there and they said they dont know anything about them ,i showed them photos from Sima .Anyway we are now travelling back home but i have made a call to a vatra dealership/salesman that i now and he is going to look into it

Yes you could get a kubota for 20 quid but its not a valtra Q