smithy

Not exactly sure but it was his main trailer and its orange , Richard Larrington is a character ,i have been there when someone asked about a different colour and he asked them to leave his stand , i was with him one day on his stand and a young lad was twanging a pipe on one of his trailers he was not happy i leant a few words that day  

8 hours ago, phil phoenix said:

Yes the R.L are top spec trailers, just wish that customers bought the rootcrops in a different colour as orange isn't a very impacting or eye catching colour. Virtually all the root trailer around here are orange, and we are talking easily 100 trailers on my patch!!  And yet R.L grain or maize or tri axle trailers in the locality are black, blue, green, yellow, red,  you name it.................but not root crops, very strange.

He wont sell them in any other colour ,gets really upset if you ask 

11 hours ago, Cornish-model-farm said:

You will have to learn the  Cornish language now Paul. Kernow d'agas dynnergh  (welcome to Cornwall)👍

I sometimes have a Cornish pasties but not made me speak funny 🤣

8 minutes ago, SirTainly said:

Have a good day tomorrow folks, we haven't made it, Disco has broken down again, so we're spending the hours waiting for recovery near Derby!

Sorry to here that allow i think them Disco have a reputation for breaking down , been raining here all morning allow stopped now and sun trying to come out allow ground is saturated 

All ready for next harvest, with 3 running I can get some done between shower's if this wet weather continues 

Bit wet around me at moment 

Should be there on the Sunday , got other things on the Saturday 

4 hours ago, Valley Axe Man said:

A couple of hours investigation work carried out on thowd 804, a good wash and then a bit of a run up the lane to the college and back has found the source of the oil leaks, wrongly diagnosed assuming it was the rear crank seal but actually the engine oil leak is from the rocker cover gasket and oil dribbling down rear if the engine block and along the lower chassis to the underside of clutch housing giving the impression of a crank seal failure, this alone wasn't the full cause of the volume of oil leaked as further investigation fount the orbital unit is leaking up the splines that the steering column slides into, contributing to the oil under the tractor.... That's not too big of an issue as know a man with the mandrel to get the seals in the unit without damaging them.... Also found the right hand half shaft seal leaking and theres a weep from around the PTO but that's been weeping for 5 years..... So a few jobs to do but not as major as I thought..... Which is a bonus 🙂

Think if you dont get orbital unit done right it acts like a hydraulic motor and steering wheel just spins around ,well it do on some case tractors ,think its a danfloss ? unit  

7 hours ago, robbo said:

This is something that I thought was highly unusual, picked up this morning at an antiques and collectors fair. A catalogue for Corgi models dated 08/59 and stamped on the front with a model shop in Bombay, d'Haveri Sports and Gifts.

I have taken photos of a couple of the pages showing the tractors and it amused me to see that you could join the Corgi Model Club for 2 shillings and sixpence a year, (12 1/2 p) when you would receive a badge and the Corgi Model Club magazine.

 

 

 

Edit: I have also just noticed that the MF65 on the front cover has the silver seat whereas the one on the inside pages has the rarer red seat

I can remember having the club magazine as i was a member , back then we never thought about keeping things like that we just looked at them then disposed of them and eagerly awaited the next one .  I was a member of the Airfix club as well  

1 hour ago, robbo said:

I seem to be getting really annoyed at the moment following on from our aborted house sale. 

On Saturday evening we had some of the grandchildren on a sleepover and they wanted a bath. Half way through running the bath, the water went cold so I was asked to have a look at the boiler. I opened the cupboard door to see water squirting everywhere and coming out of the sides of the boiler, not good!

I called the local boiler engineers as we have a maintenance contract with them to be told that it was cream crackered and had boiled its last. As a result we now needed a new boiler which they cannot fit until Thursday, it is also going to cost me a pretty penny as well.

As a result we have no heating and no hot water and then on Monday evening Mrs R was boiling the kettle to get some water for washing up when that also went POP. As a result I have had to go and buy a new kettle today, it never ends and it has left me wondering if I have run over a black cat or broken a mirror recently. 

If we didn't have bad luck then we wouldn't have any luck at all.

Things come in 3s , keep you chin up and i am sure things will change 

3 hours ago, phil phoenix said:

G&M have got the Britains John Deere 6R 185 in stock today Guys😎..............Just ordered mine off Grahams ebay feed, looks really decent.

I was talking to Graham today about some other things and he said the J/D had come in 

2 hours ago, Jack390 said:

Not sure if this counts, but got a display cabinet on order.

It only counts if you post up a photo of it full of tractors 😁

6am ish 2 part loads going in which clears heap up completely 

From yesterday,they run out of lorries at 6pm last night, they had all used up there' driving hrs ,one load left which is going about now ,5.30am ish so better get up farm and help him clean down his wheel's before he gets on road 

Was still drilling yesterday when I took a call to say this was on the way, first few loads was on brow of a hill so I had to stand on road and keep a eye out on traffic so lost a couple of hours drilling time but glad beet have gone apart from one load 

Monday morning I dropped off the tine drill and got the combination drill out , it's doing a good job but very wet in places,it won't get rolled and to windy to get any pre-em on and if we get rain that's forcast it will wash it in too deep 

Just got back home been a 21hr day for me ,journey down was fine as no traffic though the night but coming back hold up every where ,M25 was very busy and slow . Had a good chat with a few members on here ,some i know ok 2 or 3 others i got talking to for first time ,good to meat you all  

Few from show 

19 minutes ago, Jack390 said:

En route to toytrac, lovely morning for it!

Will come and say hello 👍. Sitting outside at moment,sun coming up nicely 

Coffee is cheaper here and taste better than the one on M3

Now at McDonald's,not exactly sure where but sat nav saying 15min away from showground. Just had a trader come in McDonald's asking for directions and they have pointed him in right direction 

Currently at fleet services having a expensive coffee,no one else here apart from man working in WHSmith. Not a lot of traffic about good drive so far