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not today but yesterday i saw an very nice MF168 hedge trimming on the road from Taunton to Wiviliscombe then up on exmoor a 575 rotavating & well used cab craft cabbed 265 with dutch harrows & following behind him was a donkey jacketed driver with baler twine for belt old chap driving his MF 35X drilling with an MF 732 ! brilliant

that challenger at dillington tim ? see tony still hads the JD conbine but has he swapped the JD6310 in for a new holland ?

stay away from the county jordan, big county = BIGGER bank account, look good & provided they havent been misused they're great tractors , but if something goes wrong , unlike a 35 or a dexta, you cant just park it in the garage & drop the front axle off ! same as anyting with a safety cab really , any backend problems could lead to having the cab removed & that means £££££££ to get done , why do you think i went for a 168 ! i would have liked a 590 \ 298 for a first tractor to do the rallies & ploughing matches you'd be bang on with a 35 or a fordson, & maybe a little international B series, they are easy to find & even restored ones arnt always too far from a decent price range & will save the time & pennies needed to restore it yerself if you want to go the collecting route , go for the t20 , there were loads of implements made for that tractor & you could build up a nice little collection for yerself . if you want to go the 'use it for contracting' route , then you'd be hard pushed to beat the international /case international 956 , simple to use, work on & bullet proof everything

are you telling me you recieved a garden tractor sent to you in that container ? hate to see the postage cost for that & thats one hellish roll of bubble wrap to pack it out ! ;D

very corporate johny ! nice website mate as lard fergo said the 2725 is a classic followed of course by the 699 ! need to get back to my own tractors really !

ah looks a bit more like it jordan , i think you'll learn much more here than the bigger outfits you were with before . listen watch & learn, it seems to have a bit of everything, & because of the size it will have time for you fit at a decent pace rather than just throw you in & just expect you to do it . Don't be to vocal about the last few companies though , there's nothing worse than hearing about how good or bad previous employers are as said , looks to be a reasonable set up, hope you get on well mate

i think the 9880 is 98HP when it was first released it was termed as a cheap MF as it shared the same cab as the MF series although it was very popular with dairy farmers as well as the blizzard 75 & 85 but soon fellout of favour when the legend series was introduced, as gone was the simple hard wearing style went out the window for the flash new electrics , that & all the legends weren't the most reliable machines.

that looks nice colm , seen quite a few over the years , but took a bit of getting used to seeing the all glass doors after the first models with tin doors, friend used to have the older version 9880 & then sold an ageing 698T for a 2wd blizzard75, he thought they were decent tractors ,ideal for his roundbaling contracts

nope but i know where to get a spare motor for my powerfarm TW now though [

deutz cab is a good call actually

you said you wouldn't bring that up in conversation , the bishop really isn't happy

yup sorry bob you didn't stand a chance :'( they only listen to tris as he hasn't yet reached the you must be this high to enter line at the FTF safety barrier

it ok paul he's 17 yrs old & right & you're too old to know what yer talking about obviously thats the trouble with being our age paul we know nothing :'( nice model paul PDC paul as in the model maker PDC Paul, but it's all wrong apparently , but i'd say it looks pretty darn good from where i'm sittting & i wouldn't change a thing . quality model

well your idea has certainly made her smile !

as usual johny you built a stunner ! :) :)

nice paint job , not the first pink JD we've had here though ;D

the chassis & running gear is JD green

ha ha indeed , dear lord : remember JD trucks are plain white , with a green,yellow & black stripe , on them , no pictures of tractors or harvesters on them bit later than a 93 FH

saw the real deal in a lay-by at the bottom of Thornfalcon Hill on the A358 heading toward Taunton , looked alright as it goes :) but yer model needs an upright exhaust now

why thank you kind lady

you've just broken a limited edition FH to convert to a crappy plain JD hauler ? must be mad

thanks for that mate , dont look too bad do they ! like that would stop me ;D

Well really Mandy, thats not quite grammatically correct is it :( ...but then what did i expect , some things never change ;D

nothing Ol , just wanted to see what a FH12 1993 World Truck Show model looked like before it was turned into something else is it a limited edition world truck show FH , or is it an 1/50 scale bog standard FH that just happened to be sold at the world truck show in 1993

whoaaaaaaaaaaa seriously off topic , now then back to the job in hand.............................. er back to the jobs or lack of thereof.............. [