Simon

Consider it being truly twisted then!! In fact, full on chinese burn!

Superb Adie. Is my old 2680 going into the 399? Hope so, looking forward to seeing it. Really is a stunning collection, could you be persuaded to get them out and post up some close ups of the collection one by one? Go on, you know we want you too! S

Smart arse!! Of course, it was the pillar drill on the end of the bench which you're painting that I was talking about Does Deere-est make them or get them from somewhere? Any ideas? Cheers

Where's the pillar drill from Jez?

Funny, I've always had fenders on the front and mud guards on the back. But then where we've had the extensions on the rear mudguards they've been called either mudguard extensions or fender extensions Which is odd now I think about it. I guess it's because they were always called fenders on the NH options list - a US hangover - and also at Renault. Strange!

The Tracfor was not quite a limited edition, it was more akin to a Popular Plus version of a Ford car. Tracfors were a sort of entry level machine with a few options fitted at a bargain price. Presumably the thinking was it would simplify the order and production process. As I recall, originally they were all white, but as they started to take off they turned orange, can't remember the date. While I never actually sold one, and by extension entered into a discussion about the colour, I can only guess they became orange to further cut costs of manufacture and to make them stand out less as a 'bargain' variant.

Super Luke, looks like you've had your paws on some great kit.

Revising the construction drawings for a new shop in Wadebridge in Cornwall, smoking, drinking coffee and scouring ebay for bargains.....

That's very nice. Is it a conversion or a released model?

I'm still waiting for mine, I've got one coming from Agco, just had an email from my man there who says they've not had them yet..... Getting impatient now!!

Bought it last week in Spar in Tenbury Wells..... was very well hidden though..... As an aside, magazine issues seem to be getting more and more futuristic! Before we know it we'll get next years issue coming out last year..... How come March isn't issued in March.... we're not out of January yet!!

Thanks Kiwi, JDC, glad you like them. Yes! They're a royal pain!! You can move them around using an ordinary round bale handler in cotton reel 4's but you can't really stack them like that. All man handling unfortunately, and they're practically impossible to grip when wet!

Thanks guys, looking back through them I see I was rather lucky to be able to fanny about doing all these things for best part of 10 years without having to worry about the bloody mortgage.... of course, now I have one that all goes out the window!!!I'll find you some more when I get a few minutes.... I like the TL, I used a friend's 6635 with a Quicke loader - essentially the same thing - for carting straw one year and it was a super little tractor. The TS was a completely different kettle of fish though and right up there with the 7810 for greatness I reckon. You need to persuade them to get you one!! S/H money still strong though. Ours lost about ?4K over the 5 years we owned it, paid ?22k, PX @ ?18k. Not bad! That's right, the old Dom had a nice big deck over the straw walkers, spent hours sunning myself up there while the old chap combined, lying back on the grain tank lid. Happy days!!

Glad you're enjoying them. Unfortunately the order's a bit random. I'll see what else I can find for you......

Deal. I'm happy.

Here you are then, last ones for today. I have enjoyed this, great going back through these old photos..... makes me want to quit the rat race and go back to it.... must be a way of making the numbers stack up somehow... 7810 on corn carting, loading off the Dom 85 with 10t Fraser, second one, at the yard with 10T Griffiths....

One of these!!! Go on!!! This one was in the running when we bought the 78. 78 was tidier, lower houred and fractionally cheaper. But I would love to trade the 78 for a low houred 98 when the time comes. They're just so pretty...!!!!!!!!!!! If that's the correct way to describe a german combine?!?!

New Holland 276 baler.... when it was on song it made a cracking bale. Of course, as seems to be their want, eventually the plunger gives out, making a big bang, lots of dust and throwing the baler a couple of feet in the air. Hence we make no more small bales!

Please turn over... The old man was NOT happy with me that morning....

It's not all sweetness and light at the Lynch though.... This is what happens when you're racing to beat the rain with a soft tyre on a 56 bale clamp trailer....

Crikey.... makes me wonder if we should have persevered with them! Here are a few more....oh, that was the 4135 with a Browns flat 8 grab on it before by the way.... Even the cars get pressed into action on our farm.... who says Discoveries and Range Rovers never venture off tarmac.....? And here, for one time only, is one for Marky.... my mate's 6180. He got married in the summer and guess what he came to church on..... Yes, his new 6480....

Here are some from the last days of square baling. This is the one operation I REALLY miss. It was bloody hard work but there is something about bale bumping in June which makes you really appreciate being alive.... One small hitch though, comes to us all in the end....!

And some working down..... midnight refuel and the morning after.... TS115 + Amazone KE303 power harrow

Little bit of ploughing, TS115 with Lemken DL110 4f reversible

Round baling/ TS115 with a John Deere 580 baler borrowed from a local contractor