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Your *mucking up* looks carefully applied and looks just right for these machines! Opening the rear window and sunroof can't have been easy either! I'm surprised you managed to cram those big Britains drivers inside though, I could only fit my wee combine/dumper/Unimog man!

Then I had to move because in came the farmer in his Sekura-cabbed 5610, to stack them on the trailer behind his slightly tidier, bubble-cabbed 6610: It could have been last summer looking at this week's forecast

...a baling/wrapping team, so I drove over and parked at the enterance. They were quite far away and had just about finished, but I think a NH TVT190 (??) pulling a 9000 series big square baler, followed by I think a TS115 operating a McHale 998 wrapper.

Last of these: And a quick recording : Over the way I spied:

Then I heard the harvester team arrive. There were a pair of New Hollands drawing but I only caught one on camera being loaded as the field was so small (they were done in 20 minutes). FR9050 loading a T7.185 on a 14 tonne kTwo Roadeo:

Photographed yesterday when the sun was shining, local contractors Pither Agriculture working in the fields above. Starting with a T6070 (Plus or Elite I couldn't tell) rowing up with a huge 4-rotor Claas Liner 3000:

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Thanks for uploading this Tim, it's always great to see David Browns (or any classic tractors, personally) working together, especially in such an intimate(/cramped) setting. Surprising those two-wheel drive machines didn't struggle more going up the hill, and some of them ploughing quite deeply. Looks fairly wet too. Oh, and what is the ponderously slow cabbed DB with the narrow wheels? Thanks

Did you put any weed block under the gravel Gav?

After a linkage and other parts at some stage, would be fantastic if HLT sold these.

Lucky to get as far as they did, they were totally outclassed by the Italians

Attaching an auto vent thing to the greenhouse

Ah it's got the quick hitch then, though most of the quadtracs I've seen have had a clevis drawbar as well

I must have been looking at the Ertl one then

Going to do anything with that linkage?

Over 8 hours strimming and raking

Hmm saw one of these yesterday on the hard shoulder, it was on the M5 near Bristol though.

And:

Calmsden Farm. A smaller affair, this is all I could viddy when I jumped out: And some more interesting blues I spotted in a woodyard on the way:

Abbey Home Farm. I think this is only a fraction of their machinery, but I didn't get much time to look around:

I was a bit late due to a long pub lunch, but I nipped over to Abbey Home Farm and Calmsden Farm, both north of Cirencester on the Stow road. At Abbey they were still doing trailer rides as I arrived, but had otherwise packed up for the day. I got a couple of photos though, primarily Massey Ferguson but a few blues I spotted en route which I'll post up elsewhere.

The current Britains hitch isn't much worse -perhaps even superior- than the backend of a Universal Hobbies tractor, which is ghastly for a supposed model yet UH seem to have no intention of changing it.

Constructing a 1:32 3000 gallon pesticide tank.

They did after I got my clumsy little mits on them