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    The Lynch & Marlbrook - Farming with Simon

    in Farm Talk

    Posted

    just stumbled over this topic, great pictures of the farm and your machinery simon (that ford 7810 back afew pages is smart) , must come and visit oneday ...  ;):)

    Let me know when you're about next Rich and I'll take you for the tour, I'll run you across to Marlbrook too mate  :)

    I ought to do some updating on here, not touched it for a while!  :-[

    UH New Releases 2010

    in Universal Hobbies Models

    Posted

    Well I'm not going to be ordering one of these... I'm getting a little disappointed in the amount of 'utilisation' UH are putting their tool too on this unit... I'm drawing the line at the white one and that's going to be it frankly.

    Simon... the 825 was produced in France (first tractor produced at Beauvais) for the (primarily) French market... it was also sold in reasonable numbers in North America as the MF25 too... pretty much the predecessor to the MF130 tractor... also produced in France... also sold in the UK from 1964 onwards.

    My god I am boooooooooooring  :-[

    I'm saying nothing...  ???

    Was it pure MF or badge engineered....? Even for the French it's an odd looking thing...  ???

    To what extent has the recession affected the hobby?

    in General Hobby Discussion

    Posted

    Oh I don't know, it seems that the older you get the prettier girls seem to be and I've always said why cover a pretty face with all that unnecessary scrape. O naturelle, that's the way to go! It has always facinated me that girls from around 14 years of age spend the next 20 years trying to look older and the rest of their lives trying to look younger, too much like hard work I say.

    Tim, welcome to the club of not understanding women in the slightest.... that makes you officially 'normal'! [bet you never thought you'd be called that!]  :of  ;)  :laugh:

    Our Schlueter tractors

    in Tractors

    Posted

    thanks for posting Sebastian, its good to see them working.

    I have no experience of Schluters but the more i see them the more i like them, would love to spend a day on one.

    Likewise Simon, there is something about them.... And as Tris says, that little one with the loader is lovely ...  :)

    To what extent has the recession affected the hobby?

    in General Hobby Discussion

    Posted

    I've read that in this recession women's spending on cosmetics and skincare has actually increased -perhaps it is the same with men and their hobbies ie. a determination not to let a lack of money intefere with something you enjoy/deem important?  ...hm just an idea :-\ :blank:

    You're not wrong... my wife sells cosemtics and when this recession came along we bricked it a bit, I suggested that luxury purchases such as cosmetics and cushions would be the first things to collapse.... how wrong was I?!!! Doesn't seem to have affected it at all.... there are loads of new girls signing up and they all appear to be doing well.... go figure!

    To what extent has the recession affected the hobby?

    in General Hobby Discussion

    Posted

    You make a fair point Alex, but Harry Potter?!  ::)  ???  ::)  :laugh:  Unlike many of us you have the benefit of extensive and, by the sounds of it, a high standard of study. Lots of us don't have that insight and we form opinions only by what we see and experience in our daily lives of 'pay in, pay out, what do we get for it'  ;)  :)  Lots of us still think students are hippies....  ;):laugh: :laugh:

    That being said, you're right, our economy is not anywhere near as bad as many other near neighbours' and if we refocus our borrowing & spending, [both as a nation and as individual consumers] we could well be 'all square' relatively quickly [one must look at exactly what the GDP consists of though before taking a final judgement, many of these countries with higher debts as a % of their GDP don't perhaps have the same levels of recirculatory economy [like that one? I made it up!  ;);D ] that we do here... for instance they may not have huge public sector employment which we do which could twist the figures somewhat.... the NHS is the nation's largest employer isn't it? That must have a bearing on things somehow? I wouldn't stake my life either way but I wouldn't 'trust' any published figures 100%...] The secondary issue is, a country lives and dies by export and differentials in the standard of living. We only really manufacture premium products.... our customers must be affluent for this trade to continue... we might be OK, but if our customers are bust, then so are we.... granted, Greece has never been a huge buyer of XKR's, DB9's & supercharged Range Rovers, but it's something which needs to be taken into account, particularly as more of us start trying to save to purchase rather than borrow, that will cut our personal spending at home as well....

    Back to the subject in hand.... yes, it has then surely affected the hobby.... Not least because it has seemingly exploded in the last couple of years, just like house prices and technology.... More people became involved with the hobby seriously and more of us curbed it pretty quickly when things got tight. If we had a sales graph for the UK the last 5 years [maximum] would probably see a huge spike. This has likely affected those retailers who bought a lot of stock on the back of the rise in popularity more so than the smaller traditional toy shops who had a steady market of only mildly interested collectors....

    I have bought sod all in the last 18 months, whereas I used to happily spend 2 or 3 hundred quid each at Spalding and Toytrac, not to mention the 80 quid or so travel & subsistence costs associated with it..... I was also picking stuff up off the shelf and ebay throughout the year, but for a long time now, nothing. I went to the Brum show the other week because it was close and didn't cost me a lot to get there.... but I didn't take any money with me! There have been sooooo many lovely blue things I would have bought in the last 12 months had i the money, but I didn't so I, well, didn't!

    We're not on the breadline, thank god, I've still got my job and our order book is stacked out for the summer, the mortgage is always paid on time and I haven't defaulted on the finance on Mrs H's car, the Disco is bought and paid for and we are getting by fine, there are many far worse off than us and I thank my lucky stars we've held it together... it got close in the winter.... but it has made us refocus things drastically.... come the end of the lease my car is gone and I'm out the company car scheme, it's just too much of a commitment for the business, and for what? A new number plate and fancy wheels? on a GERMAN car?! Second hand JLR product for me next.... We haven't been able to afford a foreign holiday, but with the Euro-zone so expensive why would we want one, we had an early season week in rainy Devon and that was lovely.... I think we are all just being more careful, even if we don't realise it, and for me, cutting out my splurges on toy tractors was the first thing to be done!

    Birmingham Farm Model Show 2010 - Images

    in Events and Shows

    Posted

    damn it, another show i missed >:( !....to be honest, i wasnt aware of it!! :'( :'( :'(

    Great pictures Andy, some cracking displays, i'll have to get to the next one, i take it Marky's resting now with the camera?!!!

    Agree with you Marky, only as Mandy posted the pictures up of the road works scene ;D ;D ;D , but i bet it was better in the flesh??

    so the next one then is Spalding then toytrac?.....looks like i may get there this year then?

    Ben, do you live on the moon?  ???::);):laugh: :laugh:

    straw and hay ,silage bales

    in Custom Model Methods/Tips/Help

    Posted

    great idea Graham

    teddy bear fur ... just so happens my mum works in that line of bussines (making teddys)

    may have to get some "off cuts" and try this, this summer

    Presumably if we crossed her palm with the right sort of silver Rich, your mum would probably get some for us right? And I'm bound to be close by to you or vise versa sometime very soon so I could get hold of it from you....  ;)  I am formulating what some may refer to as 'A PLAN'....  ;)  :laugh:

    Kverneland Plough Decal

    in Farm Talk

    Posted

    Best start with your local KV agent, we used to be able to get replacement decals as standard parts orders... Alternatively, if they're not available anymore and you have one as a pattern then get a local sign company to do them for you....

    britains massey 7480

    in Britains Farm Models

    Posted

    No matter if the model is out dated to the production machine, nice to not skip a range anyway...

    There are lots of hoops to jump through to getting a model to market... don't know if it's the case with this one, but when UH launched the 5480 they were all geared up and sent the pre-prod to MF at Stoneleigh [which I got my paws on] where it got a few thumbs down and had to have some minor changes made, something like that can add months to a programme, even if it's just something simple like the mirrors being the wrong style or the decals aren't quite right, as a whole new mock up needs producing, sending to the licensor, approving, sending back, putting into production.... cue months of thumb twiddling waiting for confirmation.... and after one thing gets picked up, more people take an interest in making sure subsequent improvements are correct, exponentially increasing the time taken to get it resolved.... aaahhh, the joys of business...!

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