MJB1

A 1/50 Volvo FH12 1993 World Truck Show model in metallic red, due to painted up in John Deere colours.

got a pic of that josh before you make a start on it ?

looks nice ,done a good job with that 

Sat in the corner with a lap blanket. .

Did you say toss?

I thought he was trying to get rid of a spider. . .

ah remind me not to shake is hand next time i meet him  \

i think i must add i'm surprised  so many young people dont 'get it'. it's not just all about hitching up & unhitching trailers & implements , reversing trailers ertc, the whole point of some of these courses are knowing the capability & safe limits of yourself & the machines you will encounter .

Ahh yeah, so it was a student run farm then basically?

I've just been doing a bit more research and found this...

http://www.lantra-awards.co.uk/catalogue/tracdriving.aspx

I looked at something on another website which basically said it was entering and exiting the cab (that sounds pointless) checking the tractor is safe, moving in forwards and reverse, hitching up implements, and working a front loader. I feel perfectly confident behind the wheel and am quite happy hitching up both trailed and mounted implements, adjusting the implement when in the field, reversing into tight spaces with trailed implements, loading trailers with the loadall etc, but like you said it would look better on my cv to a future employer and while i'm younger it might make people take me a bit more seriously.

it's those pointless bits that save lives, create the difference between a safe competent driver & a dead incompetent driver, the things we do everyday , that if done wrongly infront of an examiner could be  be a fail grade on a certificate.

silly things like moving a bale from a flat 8 formation to be able to bass on the next row with the baler , if an examiner saw you hop out from the rhs of the tractor you'd fail a competency course , because you'd be getting out in front of the baler pick up , you always leave the cab from the lhs of the cab & walk around .

you climb up into a cab using the hand rails , & you should exit the same way , but i see & i do it too , people just walk out of the cab & hop down the steps , i've also seen someone break their ankle in this way too

never disregard the silly pointless things ,it's usually it's the obvious mundane things that will catch you out 

i have a forklift refresher near the end of the month , it's the stupid obvious things i'll fail on 

normal people are happy with a ride on lawn mower  johny ,  ;D

quite a lot of horse power just to dig your lawn mate !

the howard machine is a rotavator & been a long while since i seen a spader & it looked good on the eicher mate 

:D  .. and I shall wear it with great pride... until I get a little peckish and eat it  :D

Thanks Rob.. I do appreciate the kind comment... I can't believe I wrote such a bloody long winded post  ... for god sake don't make your CV that long Jordan  :D

As an official 'old fart' I feel it's my duty to bore the backside off anyone mildy younger than me who is willing to listen to my somewhat insane ramblings 

also translated as  he's the one who sit's in the corner of the mod lounge with his tartan lapblanket & matching flask mumbling to himself while others either give him a wide berth or humour him, & toss him the odd crust from their sarnies.

sad really but we like having you around mark , we cant see how you would fit into the real world ............dear old thing .............another pepermint creme mark , or a trip to feed the ducks 

No problem. It was a joint effort really, as Frazer did all the bodywork

oooooohh matron i bet he did , ksnirk  ksnirk fnaarr fnaarr............... ;D

all you need now is a caravan for the trailer mandy 

nicely done , i bet the driver would have rather have the scania than the iveco in real life ......poor bugger  ;D

brilliant mandy brilliant , although you seem to have two missing, fly who would be curled up , & mist who would just sit waiting for something to happen , other than that brilliant  :) :) :) :) :) :) :)

like the green,  nice re-spray mate , got to admit i wanted a TGS (the newer equivelent to the narrow cabbed TG) i've ended up with a scania

a 4 page CV is a bit much really , but dont give up mate , there's fewer & fewer of us originally from farmwork still in it & unfortunately all the good jobs are dead mans shoes, it seasonal workers nowadays, just been to one farm today & is selling up at the end of the month , when i asked the tractor driver who'd been there for last 20 years what he's doing next he said he's off into town to assemble henry hoovers, he's well known & liked by the farmers & contractors alike , but there's just nothing about for him .

keep looking

if not here then raise your sights , ask tris or SPN about America or NZ  they might not help with an actual job , but may be able to help with a few pointers , the worlds a big place , go look at it

you can always go back to college in the future

got to say never given this model much more than a passing glance before , a the cab looked too tall & out of scalem , but the tyres have made a difference to it might want to get a topper on the back as they look ideal as lgp tyres , they wouldn't leave much of a foot print, well done ! think the roof might be too small to need 2 beacons though

considering if you are keping the britains bonnet decals the darker charcoal grey is the colour you will want , but you got to loose the 4020 tyres they look awfull

This isn't quite a conversion but i've made myself a little heat chamber so that when i am spraying in cold conditions i can put it in there and switch the light on, the light is a 100 watt bulb and lets out a fair bit of heat to dry the paint slightly quicker, i used it today on my 7930 bonnet and was very impressed with the finish after just an hour or so in there.

nice going there josh , damn good idea & possibly one of the first shown on here. like many members it's something some of us wish we'd had but never get round to actually building one !

now tell me, i have a trailer that needs a respray as the last lot of paint didn't take too well & is starting to peel off , if you could do it for me that would be great , the dimensions are , approx 35ft long & 12ft high & dont really want to pay more than £4500.00 - £5000.00  oh & send the bill to Mole Valley Farmers 

contracting

yes 

Got to hand it to you Mark this along with Sean at AshTree farm is one of the best ongoing topics we have here  :)

 

We find that ploughing gives us good germination results so don't want to mess with what works really Niels. We do have a min till option of sorts available but that would cost just as much as ploughing and drilling as it involves a TerraDisc pass, subsoiler pass and then the Vaderstad so uses just as much if not more fuel and more labour.

can see what you mean gav i thought a min till system was meant to be more cost effevtive then the ploughing route , but IIRC you have variable soils so i take it a min till wouldn't be viable for the whole farm anyway ?

still think the 69 looks better than the new deeres

wow really lost forwords thats an incredible display with such detail . cant fault it & the last thing it needs is more tractors lee ;D

the cattle lorry looks brilliant , but surprised to see a ford force tractor with a q cab in the shed 

(although i have seen a farmers home fit SQ cab on a ford 4000 in real life not pretty but it worked )

really nice going jordan , although maybe it's not a surprise anymore 

liking the snow scene :)

certainly looks the part now , cracking model !

love the ploughing shots gav , making me itch they are  \

David Brown

had a soundtrack of their own, a very boxy exhaust note & made a lovely sound

Leyland 804

with front mounted buckrake , listening to the suckback from the turbo when throttling off was great

Ford 8210T

i used to have the sunroof open to hear the constant whistle from the exhaust as she was singing with a JAG 62 or the bigger 75

MF 699

lovely smooth sound when ploughing, i used to have the roof hatch open to hear a gently undulating purr as she would pull hard then relax along the furrow

MF 698T hauling silage or on buckraking , always sounded great

Deutz 6.30

the best sound ever was from this aircooled beastie, either drilling with a powerhorrow drill combo or running at full chat with an old FH900  a sound i have yet to be beaten !

the most satisfying sound has to come from a Massey ferguson 168 simply because it's mine 

putting in balers to hold the bales together 

I recall as a child on grandparents farm pleating three strands of the small bale twine together to make a stronger kind of short rope.

i still plat twine , i would plat a lot more but i cant get mads neice's to cut the twine on the knots 

even on farms during a long delivery i'll plat twine , it's really quite relaxing , small bales are good , big bale twine is a little more challenging