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would be great to see these fleets now the credit crunch has hit & the rise in fuel price hasn't dropped, hope you all got dream accountants & dream customers to run all this stuff , else the dream reposession man will think all his dreams have come true so then now the credit crunch is here , how many of you big fleet contractors is down to the one tractor with a hedge trimmer & round baler sat in the yard :D

err yeah i spose it is mate sorry peter \ like the write up all bar spelling me name wrong

the only ones i've seen also taper while on the trailer & i've not seen them with the taper covered either

ooh................. i spy with my little eye ..................... DPH :D

OK blake does this mean yer going to start knocking them out at £12.99 now then

sean i think the amish do tend to avoin modern machinery so i've heard , but it's the menonite comunity that wont have pneumatic tyres or indeed rubber on their land read this some where ?..........................? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? darren tebbit in CT went to the states ! had a pic of a C-IH maxum5140 ? on steel spade wheels , even when a dealer comes with a new tractor , wooden boards are put down to change from tyres to steels . but apparently lots of waranty claims are being submitted as steel has no give as opposed to rubber & the transmissions aren't liking it much !

good to see a decent model as you'll be hard pressed to see many real one's still working got a pic of one of these rusting away in a gateway somewhere \

blimey havent seen one of those for years mate no tris not for storage , you've bound to have seen them all it was is a flatbed 3t fergie trailer with a fabricated bin / tub ?which was strapped or bolted to the floor of the trailer , as said above about 2/3rds back the sides would funnel intothe grain shute , i supose bagger combines were on their way out bulkers were on their way in , small fergie trailers wern't equiped with high sides so was propably a quick fix till trailer manufactures caught upwith high sides. i would imagine many were scrapped , but i'll keep an eye out for one on my travels they do come round every so often

hmm doesn't look a very comfortable position for the coil to be mike , but thats where it'd sit on it's own frame , maybe the contrast of the green on the yellow makes it look this way. how'd you get on removing the coil brackets from the mainframe ? i found the flexi coil plastic to be a bit brittle compared to the supaflow

couse not mike , although i'm sure im not the first to do this either ! yes removing the mudguard does make a marked difference to the look of the tractor & yer right their absence increases the bulkiness of the tractor. sean front mudguards are retro fitted as they weren't offered as a standard fitting although i'm sure you could have specified them as an option although front mudguards wern't really a common sight in the uk at the time unlike euroland , anyway these old busses arn't a favourite for road work so rarely go fast enough to flick the dirt up ! the 2640 /80, still one of my favourites to work with & a great model to have

some good going there lee , not often these come about here for conversion .was thinking about taking the cab off mine & fitting it with siku linkage to use as a 780 yard scraper tractor

don't know about you mike but from the rear the whole tractor looks so much bigger with the wider tyres on , it also sit's a few mm's higher

yes mate still classed as agricultural mate , know of a few up round here as well still used for blowing

well i wonder who spec'd that body as it's got some strange configureation for the compartment sizes ! It's obviously an adaptation from an old 8wheeler with a 3rd axle fitted. It's very unlikely to have all the compartment gates in , but if it had the compartments would hold (from the back ) 3t,1t,5t,2t,3t,5t, = 19t thats roughly for cattle feed so for grain that trailer must be carrying approx 25T thats obviously why the 3rd axle was fitted ! so unless it's taxed as a haulage vehicle i'm with Gav , i certainly wouldn't want to take it past either a ministry or VOSA checkpoint \ next time i'm down round that way i'll keep an eye out for it !

does the trailer still have all the blower parts or has it just been converted to a straight tipper mark , cant see if it's got a pto shaft

welcome along paul , hope you got a healthy bank account ................you'll need one now & indeed a warm welcome to the massey massive , i'll appologise for the other colourfull members but they do have their uses , well after all it's good to look down on people less fortunate in their tastes :D :D

cant you just wait till the fires out sean :D

likeing that tristopher likeing that indeedy yes indeed

nothing there mate

doesn't look bad at all mike , but maybe the regular britain wheels not the MB Trac ones would be better ?

yes i saw them out in the field , but cant of taken much notice of them , they looked in place where they were , bit like a lot of farm equipment , that sort of thing is always there so you just dont see it so your display was spot on mate

not really mate as the supa folw linkage was broken , i spose i could have cut the frame to re fix to the flexi coil frame . been waiting a year or more for you to do yer bl00dy massey version of the supa flow let alone mixing & matching different machines :D may not have to do too much cutting mike as it looks like the flexi coil side rails are slid along the sides of the mainframe ,so i think with a little encouragement they should slide off just leaving a green frame , the tines will also fit onto the flexi coil without removing either of the coils anyway

yeah well nobody else will listen to me :'( :'( :D i spose you're my sounding board when i'm brainstorming mate

hmm.................. yeah....................thanks for that colm ok kids leave the flexi coil & find an old machio powerharrow &... http://www.farmtoysforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=12950.0

hmm missed this ? well done tris , i was messing about with silage sides for these trailers last year, albeit trying to modify the britains ones you got them looking spot on mate ,may give it a try at sometime