MJB1

ah thats all i wanted to know

no i haven't but rather than sit back & see how well they fare with farmers & contractors alike for a while , it seems they're all the rage without a decent time trial , so what happens in a few years time , when contractors swap them in for conventional trailers because they cant carry the volume ? i really only wanted to know what had happend to suddenly see a great wave of enthusiam for a trailer design that had been about for a fair time ?

no smartness on my behalf or suggestion of anything , but then you being 16 years old your experience of trailers is obviously far superior to mine no really i don't get it , half pipe trailers have been around for years just wondered where the sudden interest for them came from

here's the price comparison for jul 86 & this was before the 7810 was out MF 699 4wd 97hp £22,200.00 = Ford 7910 4wd 98hp £25,622.00 MF 698T 4wd 94hp £20,000.00 = Ford 7610 4wd 98hp £22,565.00 MF 690 4wd 82hp £18,600.00 = Ford 6610 4wd 82hp £20,276.00

i'm sorry have missed out on something with these kane halfpipes ? are they an actual superior trailer or is it because somone has just happend to build a model version of one

well it is only 5 mins down the road , so it's not like i'm going out of my way !

peter, mark, there's another toyfair at the Blackbrook leisure center at taunton on the 24 of january, don't know what it's like , but maybe worth a look round when it comes i might be able to make it to west point , but don't know if i'm still on a xmas rota

nice going pete, like to se a normal modest farm , without 60 brand new 200 HP tractors in the yard very realistic in it's arangement of the buildings ,i like what you done so far thanks for posting :)

ooooooohhhh a proper tractor, stan ! now this i can enthuse over but sadly it does show just how far out britains were with this model & just like the MF3680 , it would have only taken a small number of tweaks to go from an average model to quite a good one a good one i didn't drive a 615 although i was a 612 pilot for a year , & an occasional 611. used primarily for deep sludge injection , these tractors were well suited for the job , with a good number of gears & a very advanced electro hydraulic system , turbo clutch & power down hydraulics which although not an obvious advantage was nice to have , I had the use of various tanker /injector combinations athough , transport tankers were normally of a 2000gal two axle rear steer design where as the injector tanks were single axle 1500 gal modified with rear huydraulic lift & a 3-5 leg flat lift subsoiler/injector combo. the fent found neither of these tasks too much for it & performed well on hill sides giving a stability that you couldnt get on higher centre of gravity self propelleds a few pics of a few of the fendts My drive a fendt 612 at farm in Tewkesbury, Gloucester it took 4 hours 10 mins drive from Crewkerne in Somerset , then drove a van up & back each day , for a CSG contract injecting sewage 3 of the fleet ,612,612 & 611 on contract to haul milk water waste from staplemead dairy at Frome Somerset the Fendt was the winner on this contract for us because they were fitted with 40K gearboxes , nothing unusual in that now , but back then many contractors were stuck with their 30K fords & masseys, & the JCB fastrac wasn't built then, although we did have a prototype on demo in an orange colour & the 612's saw them off as well aaaarrrrggggghhhh , an injector tank being used for road transport, awfull think to pull we called it the bouncing bomb as it wasn't fitted with a sprung drawbar , in the winter field conditions were a bit messy & when tankers had to be hitched & inhitched for swapping fields , the tankers would slip off their blocks or just sink into the ground , this is where the power down hydraulics came onto its own as unlike most tractors the hitch just rested on the groung & slid on the surface , the fendt would push the hitchcarridge down letting the hook , get in under the drawbar eye last picture of the 611 waiting to tip at chapmanslade frome with a transport tank ready to unload through an umbilicle system not far from where tri's house is !

ah as well as the farm thomas had last year he's venturing into construction models , so he's slowly collecting 1/50 plant at the moment

there you go gav you can make a gothic go-cart

nice pics bill, nice to see some wagons !

ooh................................ whats in here ? never really been in here ?.................................. i think i may have posted in here before , ......................................can't remember ....................................... .................... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . is anybody really interested in what each other's done in our drab boring little worlds ? 800 pages................................................................................. my heads going ................ numb

well i like the smaller wheels & the length of the loader grill guard an all & i'd fit a new loader to a 30 yer old tractor , ticks all the boxes for me i know the effect you were going for , i like the finished model , but please dont do it again the replies you are getting is doing my head in

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nice pics tim , & i've sorted yer avtar

& thats only when he's excited ;D sorry back on topic will mavis be big enough for a 39 ?

blimey mate i got to get down there with the 168 for a visit see havent seen a 200 forager for years matter of fact never seen one working before , seen a couple in bits but none running \

not to forget the obligatory tattoo on his bit's................... i'll let you do that bit \

i'm not sure if he didn't own a 3095 as well ?

ah he's fully trained , from the mjb1 'steep as hell learning curve mate' , as he used to ride round with me in a 3080 at cricket malherbie when he was a young'un that & he used to own a 3090 of his own as well

just to you at ease mark, tim owns a 590 & assorted MF implements & no fear of a ford or JD contaminating it's presence about time you posted up the aforementioned in the ftf member machinery topic tim

well me & gav had a discussion about this , for a start i can't be 100% it was what i thought i saw , but other than that, there's no reason why it can't be , after all the trantors were rated to 40mph so with all round braking it's possible it could exist

wansdyke was a huge affair, i took the last load of dairy cake there, it wasn't a happy place to be , nearly 1000 acres of maize was chopped down & ploughed in, the idea from the new owners was originaly to slaughter the whole herd but was persuaded to sell them , have been to farms that have bought some wansdyke cows , they recon it was a new lease of life for them as they'd never been off concrete , after milking the resident herd went back out to grass , the wansdyke cows headed for the cubicals took more than a week for the wansdyke cows to venture out to grass once they were there cowman said it was like watching giant calves at play !

oooof good going gav , webb looks very authentic did you know me & mad think you look like barry (but without the glasses) from the eggheads team on BBC2 \