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heavy rain here (ilminster somerset )

don't know why but these tractors hold a great ammount of appeal to many, me included , they just look the part nice pics

the 15's & 16's are fantastic tractors ,like the convo mate , done well there

getting to ivybridge to deliver feed to find the center bearing on the drive shaft has destroyed it's self , took 4.5 hrs to get it sorted & after being towed to plymouth volvo, i had a plesant surprise to find a VW golf 1800tdi , air con , cruise control,etc ,etc,etc,waiting for me to drive back to the yard in , oh darn did i really forget my yard key in the lorry ? ah well i'll have to drive this little beauty the rest of the weekend how annoying :D

didn't take long for them to start bleeding them to death then

no not really :D

no need to appologise MDFord , this is one of those topics that rears it's head time & time again . in a few months time , 'classic tractor topic will come round again & a newer member who hasn't read this will ask the same question ,rory will again say his bit as will the rest of us

judging by the potato boxes in the back round these tyres would be the widest he could go without damageing the rows & not haveing to resort to narrow ones for cropwork

thank you sir tristopher , but marcus / mate will do :D & now my good man go find me some young strumpet .....i'm feeling saucy ....................... :D :D

thats what we like to see david , bog sloggers at their best :)

although the space given to models in CT is a 2 page spread, why do we really need more ? CT gives a good summary to whats going on , but we get just as much if not more information on new models & releases here on the forum, there are very few releases we don't know about before CT gets to print an article about them , after all many of the conversion / scratch builders mentioned in the mag are members here, as are the likes of texas, who knows whats in the pipeline for general release. The members we have from the continent also give much valued input to what the model scene is like abroad , 'GreenSheet&YellowRims' has done some cracking scratchbuilds the like we wouldn't get to see in CT, 'kolpen' with his enthusiasm for all things remote control, & of course there's 'bennyv78' who trys to fit either duals or trelleborgs to anything that moves & of course anything that doesn't \ indeed it will only be a matter of time before we see his wheelbarrow fitted out with dual trelleborgs & 'mattias' with his cracking ford tractor conversions. The forum magazine 'Model Farmer' is still in it's creational stage & will have what you want covered from new releases to convo's ,collections & scratchbuilds. I personally think we at FTF are ahead of the game anyway

they still have a worn machinery yard mate

certainly be a nice couple of days drive home mart

i don't think rory said the model pages were disliked , more of the fact they didn't need to have extra pages printed to this particular section . i would think the majority of readers see the collection of toys or models as a sideline as to which has no bearing on the collection ,care & refurbishment of the real thing of which CT is orientated towards, in many ways to have a speial section for us farm & site magazine was available to which has all but dissapeared. this can only really be put down to either very poor circulation or an interest to a smaller audience to what we here think is actually out there. there are 1093 registered users on ftf & less than 2/3 actually post , as opposed to 3438 on tts who do have their own national magazine, for us we will have to wait for the time to come when a magazine for farm toys has enough interest which is financialy viable to produce. untill then rory has to keep the interst of the majority of readers . if indeed rorys poll was taken as a 'should we shouldn't we' vote, then from the results he'd be well within reason not to include a models page at all, at this moment in time i think we're very lucky to have the two page spread

what doesn't belong here mate , in this board , no scale limits are applied , so post away , looks promising , will a sprayer be mounted on the back ?

bit far for mart to travel for it i think ,well after all dorset is a bit more than an afternoons drive from him , it's only a 20 min drive from me ! we have a fair few contractors round here that use them & they are used hard especially at silage time , got lots of hills here & running trailers just pulls the guts out of them, i also know for a fact many are tweaked big time ,buglers are a good company though , i bought my 1494 from them & nothing was too much trouble for them , but i think scotland is a bit out of their area for a field service .

oooooh i wonder if dumlow can find me one of those instead of a 178 mark

try & contact 'Kolpen' as he's the chap who knows about these things

the weeks 5ton trailer was also offered as a tandem axle , sean , the sides come in two halves , bottom & top , the weeks trailer in blue had yellow wheels looks very good mate , must have taken some time to do :)

nice work as always greame , but it looks quite short ? 2850 maybe ?

nice pics dan , & i much prefered a buckrake on the front ,rather than the rear

those colours suit it well, nathan

fantastic job matty , you must be well chuffed mate , will look outstanding when they're painted up mate :)

think you may have trouble keeping up with the evo's & scoobies mate last week i was seriously thinking about buying that fendt 611 in the CT classifieds \

fraid not tris is a ford man \ but we keep him around coz he's funny :D