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As said earlier this is my LUXXUM brochure, tractors will be 100-120 HP

Picked up the new CASE LUXXUM brochure the other day will post a picture bit later on

Yes the David Brown is the one from my mates wood yard its developed a oil leak in cab which is to do with the steering wheel having to top it up every day so he asked if I could find the time to see if I can fix it . Yes tires are a lot bigger today on the front of modern tractors then the rears of these classics but that is only as the tractors are 4 times heavier than the golden oldies ,was at a meeting a few weeks back and a Fendt spokesperson said that as and when driverless tractors are accepted they could see them getting smaller again but more off them in same field to keep up with the workload all on GPS the video he showed us looked like Ants all moving about so it could be the future ,and as for Santa well I better go and lock my 474 up don't wont that disappearing down somebody else's chimney haha Thanks Paul

On the way home yesterday with the 474 I stopped at my mates to also pick up his David Brown/Case as it too has a steering problem (oil-leak under dashboard ) and it also needs its fuel pipes looking at as it keeps sucking in air and stopping ,first thing for both tractors will be a good steam-clean then get both in the barn at least I will have something to do over Christmas

Yesterday I borrowed another mates lowloader and picked up the IH474 to get it home to mine as it has a slight steering problem to sort out

This is the trailer which as in the above post I now own and will keep but cant use at moment as its at the back of the barn with loads of other stuff to move first

Long story short, I rent a small farm which I farm together with the one I own but I am supposed to be using this IH 414 to farm the land anyway its not really practical to do this but they cant be sold as such , so with the agreement of the deceased executors ownership has been passed on to me so that in theory I can trade it in for a better one which would be mine and any money from the trade in (trade in technically means we have not sold them)will be passed on to the reg charity that now owns the land that I rent, simples , so at this moment I own a 414 and also a IH474 together with a F W WHEATLEY 3/4 ton trailer . I picked this 414 up on my own low-loader the other day and dropped it of at a mates as he is going to give it a going over as its been parked under a hedge for the past 2or3 years and it will probably stay at my mates he has had it running but needs flushing out to clean out the dirty oils

Its always a slower job when going up in the world than when coming down

This is the front view with the garage door opening shown

A few more shots of the flats the ground floor is a enclosed garage space

Another job have been on is fixing up these stairs on some flats down Felixstowe bit of a puzzle getting the right bits in the right place as not only is there a left-hand/right-hand set in the 5 sets there is a slit difference in some of the sizes which is down to the builders of the flats not us ,the stairs was sent to the galvaniser's in the sets but come back all muddled up

While I was on chainsaw my mate Eric was on the splitter sorting out the bigger bits that I had ringed up just have to remember to keep your thumbs out of the way

I have been back up the wood yard spent a couple of days on the chainsaw halving the lengths so its a bit easer for my mate to cut on the saw bench

Yes it is a lovely trailer ,it belongs to a old mate off mine I have said to him if he ever wonts to sell it I will have it he use it for his small firewood business the wood I had in it is small stuff that he don't like putting in his loads so I cut it up for myself and bring home then the wife bags it up as the small bits fit the bags then we sell it outside the farm gate for a little bit off pocket money we also burn some off it ourselves

Spraying today while the weather is good bit more to do tomorrow and some more next week depending on the weather

and a dodgy looking character testing out his driving skills , I think he got his licence from woolworths as he run over a cow and 2 pigs

3 more from the show

I went to the Midlands Machinery Show at Newark last week as I had arranged together with a farming neighbour to meet a couple of machinery dealers up there and to attend a meeting to get my NRoSO points

Yes if only we all had a bit more £££

Spent a few days cutting up fire wood and brought this load of smaller stuff home to bag up to sell on

Whilst over in Holland we called in at a Deutz dealers

Whilst over in Zwolle I bumped into a couple of characters showing the models they had bought

A couple of weeks back I spent a few days on my dumper helping my mate as he had hired a 5ton digger to dig out some gateways to some horse paddocks and then back-fill with rubble and topped of with ash felt planning's

Spent a bit of time this morning grinding up some wheat and barley ,though the Hunts Hammer Mill which we feed to my Christmas chickens and the pet pig we have

I think there was a David Leech j/d on show up at the 50 year event