1972farming

I am always honest when it comes to tractors ,there are too many good repro parts out there which deceive the eye sometimes .

I would rather be straight and help people ,then they may help me one day .

yes unfortunately due to lack of space

I see you have the yellow DDN, do you have the yellow major 5000?

Not a genuine one ,I have bought a blue one and painted it yellow .

Where i want some

The cheapest ones have come off ebay and the most expensive from toy fairs when I was a bit greener !

Fantastic collection there. I'm a Ford/New Holland person lad myself but that little stash looks great...... ;)

Thanks for that NewHolland

i will defiatly be doing somthing in the next comming months had let myself down plus christmass has realy hit my ballance hard

but onwards & upwards as they say ,a bit of overtime the right resin i should be knoking out a DB by march maybee sooner

but that is my target

so fingers crossed? i should have some well' interesting models if no a laugh at my expence on here

thats what it is all about?

Do you build many models ?

Which manufacturers do you concentrate on ?

yes .I'm glad I got stuck into this forum more recently .

I've met some great people and shared some excellent info and saved a fortune because it keeps me off ebay !

yes ,I am going to try and make some time to build a few conversions again to fund new purchases .

I can't afford to collect without doing that or selling a few other models off .

Im with you on the britains models from the 70s

they were the best out and they have not been betterd since

that was a time when you realy did get what you wanted

o like your masseys in their boxes i olny have the 135 in a window box

youve got me wanting to collect them all again

Yes thats just the same as me when I see a pic of a nice Fordson like the clockwork one in the other section .

I've got to get one now .

i would love to move back only live 8 miles away just need 700000 pounds. :( :( to have the same place. :'( :'( :'(

Jeepers thats a fair wedge !

I have swapped homes with my parents ,they needed somewhere smaller and we (me'wife and 3 kids) needed somewhere bigger .

I bought a bungalow and my parents gave me their old house .

We promptly knocked it down and rebuilt a new one in the same spot .

Now everyones happy .

i keeped the boxs because my bed room was in the roof so the loft was closer than the bin thank god.

That was lucky !

the nearest town toyshop was 10 miles away lived up on the black down hills.

Thats a bit more remote than us .

In fact I have recently moved into the house I grew up in so my son is now digging all over the garden in search of my old toys !

So far we have only found a starsky and hutch ford torino !

still got all my britains from back then, with most of the box's :)

My best friend kept all of his Britains toys which spanned 1976-1985 in their boxes .

It took me two years to buy them all off him (and around ?1500) but he collects corgi artics so he is glad of the dosh .

yes I grew up in a small village ,the nearest town was 4 miles away (Ledbury) .

There was a good toy shop and I can remember pestering my mum and dad to buy things .

Pity I didn't look after them really .

The only toys I have kept are my lego which my children now play with and my old train set .

you did well to keep it that long,mine were all wrecked .

this age of tractors britains made i like the most. when britains was British :)

Yes I agree there .I started collecting in 2000 and bought anything and everything ,then changed to just Britains .

Now its mainly pre 1976 Britains ,I don't know where it will end !

is one of these mf 5** a 590. when i was young i just mist the old mf 135's so never had one till last year, off ebay . smaller than i thought. bit of a shock first time. :)

Yes theres an MF 595 ,MF 590 and an MF 595 with loader .

I can just remember having MF 135 as a child but only vaguely but I do remember having 595 s.

The 135 is a lovely little model I think .

Another classic example is when I bought my first DDN I paid ?150 for a very tidy Powermajor on rubbers but have since bought them ,not so tidy for as little as ?35 .

you seem to do VERY well tooooooooooooooooo :) :)

Yes in some cases I have been lucky but I have paid what I think was top money for others so it all swings around really .

The second MF 135 Industrial cost me ?150

it was ?46 with post and packing around the 22/3/05? ;D

That sounds better

two of the yellow mf's? :P I've got one with box. :) got it for ?68

You did very well there  mate .

The first one I bought off a friend in 2002 ,I paid him ?50 and he was seriously chuffed .

It was just beer money to him and I ended up buying a load of stuff off him for ?450 in the end .

Just to show I don't just collect Fordsons/Fords

if you say so 1972farming just dont tell the wife. :D

OK Mate your secrets safe with me .

Mind you if my wife knew how much some of mine had really cost ....................it doesn't bear thinking about !

dont know how much cant remember ??? ???. could do with front weights, all the weight is on the back ;D

For some reason ?42.00 comes to mind ,does that sound right OLD FORD ?

How did you manage to find it, the stories can't all be true then, ?can they?

Yes its true ,my mate who owns most of the conversions I have built is a tractor collector .He only collects tractors and when he bought up a big collection of Britains models I ended up buying or swapping the implements he didn't want .Thats how I came to get the green acrobat ,blue elevator,a blue muledozer and disc harrows and rollers in various colours .