Marmitemania

I also posted about the same problem, but I just substituted the pliers by puting the tractor in drive and gently turning the rear wheels, works just the same as you are still turning the motor like you are with the PTO but without any potential damage to the PTO, I to sprayed WD/40 through the hole but also added an extra squirt once the motor was running, this method also works on the combine and forage harvester as they do not have a PTO to turn, the post is on here but was 2 or 3 years ago.

Its not technically a new building its it? It looks like the old double shed with a gate and a fence instead of the panels. Looks like they do not have the gutter downpipes anymore either, still a handy building and another Britains realease.

I have 2 Sean, one 'Power Farm' and one non-PF, one has a bubble cab, the other with the later cab roof with lights in the front. Both have had a few little 'mods' but the guy I bought them off swore blind they were right, can't confirm that statement of course as there were no boxes with them. Bit late now but will post up a picture of them so's you can make up your own mind.

Brought the Britains Quadtrac 600, looks good and the back end has something resembling a hitch instead of the usual lame drawbar.

Steve Im glad you are leaving it as it is, they are quite rare and £60 was reasonable. I assume its unboxed at that price? Does the motor work? If not there is a thread on here somewhere detailing how to free it of and it usually works. Lay your hands on a yellow one if you can they are rarer still, I have two mint and boxed and I paid £5.99 each new when I was younger.

I have a Britains Deutz DX a metal cab and that is very nicely made and finished.

I think its the Willys army Jeep repainted with wider wheels, the trailer is the one that comes with the orange budget version Massey.

My mate who works for a Case dealer has just got me a 956XL, not in a dealer box though, don't they do this anymore? Quite pleased with it and will put a review on Rate and Review.

I will say 3500, but it could be the hour clock is broken or stopped, like all our old dumpers.

If that goes for the same sort of money as the Spading one then it should fetch around £50/60.

I brought the Farmmaster and the fastrac both boxed gold on plinth and I seem to remember paying £35 for the pair from Spalding a couple of years ago, but have seen them go for more than that for one on E bay.

I have this house mint and boxed a picture of it is in my Britains only collection thread, mum and dad brought it for me new in 1989 and mum seems to think it was around £25. My version is a lot brighter red for the roof tiles, maybe its because it has always been boxed or it just could be different paint.

I paid £5 for a boxed one at Spalding this october just gone, no cab though, still a bargin. I paid around £100 though for my other boxed one.

David I think this may be a Rapael Lipkin toy, and would probably be worth a fair bit if you had it today.

My top 5 owned models are

Massey 2680 : I think it was the fact it was very easy to play with because you could push it along and steer easily with the front mudguards that I played with it so much as a youngster. My favourite Britains tractor.

Kverneland variwidth plough: always looked good behined one of my yellow counties, even better that I have two yellow counties and two Kvernies.

Duetz cattle lorry: Just loved this as a kid, but then always had a soft spot for lorries.

Hughes ICI crop helicopter: Many thousands of acres dusted as a child.

Case Magnum farmshow 2009: Streching it slightly as Britains but I like this model, yes the stars and stripes paintjob is a bit brash but its different.

My Top five I would like are.

The Red, blue, yellow and green Valmets.

Gold Mercedes 1500

yellow Ford and Shawnee

Hesston fiat

Fordson Major.

plus many many others.

Finally being able to get back on here, we have had computer troubles for nearly a month and have now brought a laptop so i can sit in my comfy chair and look at FTF,   just 5 million unread posts to catch up on now.

Pete have you got the cab going spare from one of these damaged models, let me know if and how much? Thanks  . I would go and check mine but they are at my dads, I have 5 or 6 of the buggers , hope they are ok.

Im pretty sure I have a red buckrake but I think the one tyne has broken off each end. :'(

Generally spent the day feeling a little under the weather, been around the workshop and changed the headgasket on one of my dads cars (Im off work this week for a break) so far its been a busmans holiday as mums car snapped its driveshaft clean in two Monday morning so that was a good start to the week off, I can forgive it as its nearly 19 years old and done about 160,000 so its had its day really and she will be getting another very soon. Went and collected my shotgun yesterday as my licence finnaly came through after what seemed an eternity.

Surely if they are doing an ATV trailer they need to have an ATV to tow it with? Or am I just being dumb and have missed something, hopefully the Snoopy will be good and the new 3CX.

You need to put a claim in for that, Im not generally one for all this claim for this and claim for that, but that is just negligence. 

Bill and Manor Farm I can tell you it was perfection, I dont let them hang any more than a day or two and I think thats just right, with some nice roasted Maris pipers out of dads little plot it all went down very nicely and will be in regular supply now the seasons underway.

Oh James I wish I was coming for tea at your place tonight. Can't beat a bit of pheasant once in a while. ;)

Just finished plucking and gutting a Hen and Cock phesant from when I went beating yesterday, will be getting them in the oven in the next hour or so with some veg, roasts and baked pudding......... :P   ready for when the wife comes home from work.

The milk marque tanker had a chrome effect sticker and just a plain sticker.

so far i have the

blue mmb tanker

white dairy crest ?? tanker

shell tanker

red cabbed tipper

green cabbed tipper

yellow autoway tipper

red bed flatbed

and just won a white tanked milk marque on ebay, what would the other version be??

Cattle lorry with blue body and blue cab, Two varriants of the Milk Marque tankers, Dairy Crest tanker, flat bed in green flat bed in white cab silver body, Milk America tanker, tipper with brown cab, tipper with green cab, Skip lorry, Autoway concrete mixer. I think there are more but I am also listing these from memory.