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After waiting several weeks for some very expensive fertilizer to be delivered i got it spread on this field so i could finish my ploughing for the year this week ,the field is for sugar beet 2022 20211118_135131.mp4

Thanks Phil ,i might have a Puma one day or another McCormick but the purse is nearly empty at the moment . Yes the MXM has not been knocked about and as a 3rd tractor its ok

I had a good chat with PDC today up at Newark

Thanks for that ,i order one a few months ago ,its my fault that i have not picked it up as yet got a couple of other things to pick up at the same time

I nipped up to the Midlands Machinery Show at Newark doing the week ,it was good to have the show on again allow it was a lot smaller show than before Gov19 ,like i said it was good to have the show on but i feel it was not as good as i was hoping anyone else go ? anyone going to the vintage show at Newark this weekend i should be going tomorrow (sunday)

I used to have a machine exactly like that ,makes your back ache

Very nice model , i have one to pick up as soon as i get a free day

The E27n looks nice

National tidy your farm day coming up on Friday, so i started making this today

This is what i was doing last week ,i bought this ,looking forward to next harvest

Very nice Simon ,glad to see you are still collecting ,on a different note i was given a copy of your late granddads "SON OF THE SOIL "to read last week ,it was very interesting.

I have a few of them Billy Bookcases from IKEA ,mine are in white they are good cabinets and went together ok ,Thanks for showing looking forward to when your additions arrive

Ah with you now ,no not sorted that out as yet been really busy on other things that are going on at the moment ,will start looking shortly to see if we can find a good second hand one ,not sure at the moment about next years doe show being open to the public but i could look at new ones if i have not found one in the mean time ,it is something else we have bought that the wife said yes too ,i have a couple of photos i will put up shortly ,it is still on someone else's farm at the moment but planning on driving it home in next few weeks ,so watch this space ☺️

Thanks Sean ,i might have bought that tine drill in the auction that you sent me the link to but the auction house was not very helpful when i gave them a call so i left it alone , as for the other item if you go back a page on here you will see it (i think thats what you are on about ) , i have also bought something else last week did not plan to but was given a tip-off about it and after going to view the wife said we better buy it before the next person does ,i will put a photo up a bit later on

Yes its a shame ,i used to like this show

A few more for you Robbo

My neighbours lifting my beet for me ,and Anglia Grain Services cleaning up my grain for seed . VID_20210923_170956.mp4

I certainly did 👍

A model from the past ,a couple of months back Mr Goodwin came across someone that had a few of these unopened models sitting in a store ,so goody bought them and passed one on to me together with a carrier bag for my collection

I have two to pick up when i get time

Back on a wet day in august i took my mate Colin to J BROCK &SON (Chris Watson patch) to sort out some rear tires for his Same Leopard 90 ,while we was there we spotted this Kverneland TS tine drill ,the past two wet years i have had to have my mate colin with his weaving tine drill help me out so i bought this one

I like your combine ,i presume it was the fresh one you was telling me about when we meet up at Spalding toy fair

All 3 in action ,i am ploughing and steering with my knees while trying to film ,my granddaughter Jasmine is on the rolls with my daughter-in-law as passenger and one of my other granddaughters sitting on her lap ,and a mate of mine on the press with the MXU135 VID_20210912_153439.mp4 VID_20210912_160632.mp4 VID_20210912_161247.mp4

As i had sold my 4240 i bought of Mr Goodwin a MXM120

Back in the 1980,s i bought a lorry just like your bowser from RAF Wattisham just down the road from me and stripped it down ,sold the engine and gearbox for more than i paid for the hole lot ,then sold the drop box and the prop shafts for the pumping gear , then all the pumping gear that was mounted in the box on the back ,i then sold the tank and the box on the back to a local plant hire/construction company that was going to use it as a on site fuel tank as they could lock the back up with there fuel pump in ,they mounted it on a trailor that they already had ,i sold the two front wheels to my neighbour as spares for his Brimont trailor that he had ,i then sold the chassis and the tandem rear axles to another farmer as he was going to make a bale trailor ,there was two big spring loaded booms on top of the tank that reached up to the aircraft ,them and the cab i scraped ,took a bit of spare time over a few weeks to clear it all but i made a handsome profit on the hole lot ,i do wonder if i still had it complete today what it might be worth