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looks like yer volounteering mark , you say when & i'll get the parts & the three of us can get her done ! nice find with the T bar mark , looks good all fitted up

yes they did didn't they ! forgot all about that ! although with lisa rogers on it much of whats being built usually passes me by ;D

ive seen a similar application of these sidewinders before , but used on water, i think it was for military use the the fordson machine still survives ! would love to meet the man with the horse , then i could take a whip to him in the deep snow to see if he could go any faster

well yesterday i met tractor tim to collect his dung spreader for this years 2 hour marathon of horse manure dispersal, but didnt get any done as have a bobcat min-digger on hire to dig some holes for gate posts & get some ditching done ! today i are mostly be sitting on said bobcat got to say compaired to the JCB we had last year the bobcat is quite poor, it all works fine but the 2nd beam isn't long enough. the jcb will let you pull stuff upto the dozer blade to clean up any soil, the bobcat is off the blade by about 2ft so a shovel has to be on hand to finish, which is a tad annoying

eeerrr ah well thats the trouble you see mark, every time i see tim , i get really fired up to get things done , he's got a big shed i have a tractor , but i also have no time or money, i'm sure it will happen i'm just not sure when ;D

strange that , been delivering to the neighbour at banklands for ages & cant remember seeing it !

carefull mark , else we'll have to make room in out diary for the Histon collection as well as the coldridge colection ! :) you have any plans for the cultivator mate ?

been doing fine sp far mark , carry on as you are tris we've had those buckets at the mills for years , but without the hooks. their purpose was if you were loading loose into seperate compartments , but it was too much for the forklift drivers to have to keep getting off the seat to change buckets so now they just sit in the yard rusting , what a waste , i think i know of two of them , but most mills have had a surge on a clean up so may have been scrapped , , it would work well , as long as the soil was dry, the gravel would be fine though , if yer interested mark i could see if they're for sale , if they still have them , MVF wont be useing them again

whose is the deutz at tony's tim ?

another quality display Padraig thanks for shareing could do with a few ADT's though :)

not on my workbench it's back in a box that will probably never see the light of day again, an MF 362 modification from 4wd >2wd & wider tyres on the back

but the bag loops would hang on the hopper as they do now , by lifting the pallet you then unhook the loops thus not needing the extra height the hopper would need to be if you were loading the bag looped on the FL tines dont have room for a legged machine ? so where do you put that one when it's not used ? so that should really read as Marcus... scoop... brrrrrr (that's be driving)... lift.... tip... shake..... brrrrrrr brrrr... ;D you should have entered britains got talent , would be good seeing you do this on stage .........maybe next year

thomas b did you just say swell ? i'd agree with the others mark try the openside & put some legs on it , that way the forklift is free to move the full bags about i know your next argument would be that the loops on the bag would mean you would have to increase the height of the hopper to allow a lift clearence for the bag , but not if you put the bag on a pallet so you lift from the bottom tip & scoop er ............ scoop,tip,tip............... oh er ...........tip scoop tip, scoop,scoo.............. yeah it's not as easy as it sounds is it \

Wouldn't be surprised if they were selling them side by side for a while mark , like you say dealer stock . Back then it wasn't unusual to see dealers holding a dozen 'stock' tractors, apart from wheels & tyres , there wasn't the options that modern tractors have as they're now built to customer spec. Unlike modern tractors where they need a small nuclear power pack to power all the add ons , those tractors had the options of tyre & wheel sizes , one plough lamp or two, (not strong enough to light wembly stadium , but just srtong enough to attract the worlds population of mothswhile you were night plowing with the back window open ) an AM wireless or ear defenders possibly in a colour of your choice as long as they were red

i think he has a wife & two children if thats any help john ;D i have seen one in a friends photograph, but the Massey ferguson print was long gone & it wasn't that colour either , & maybe had a few holes \ actually to my mistake i thought it was a big urea fertiliser bag he said they were used to cover the bonnets when they were on ship for export , ? may have been talking out of his @&$£ for all i know : nice find mark

both those 565's were on a Wreg , so that would make them 1980

what, dont sell them to that nasty man Mr howard as he'll take you away & cut your cabs off :'( ;D damn good mowers sean, took a bit to get them going but once you got up tp PTO speed , it really swallowed the acres , the tarrup 309 we had just couldn't live with it ,the grasshopper was very fast & the compared to the tarrup was easier on fuel as well

something for the MF fans to argue over, a two door , two tone, two step coventry built 565 with its one door, two tone ,one step coventry built 565 sibling tidy 250 & a newer 5470

fish german built non starter AGRIA 4800 an all time favourite & rare as hens teeth now GRASSHOPPER mower :) another all time favourite of mine a tidy genuine CASE-INTERNATIONAL 1594 good old bus, JD 3120 & its younger sibling 3050

not bad at all mate , but i don't think it's a britains forager might be an old siku , might be wrong , but good machine to build , nice

does the waste have peak & trough times then mark or is it fairly steady most of the time ? as for the rain do the people buying it factor in a percentage if cardboard it wet? a waste recycler used to take all our baled waste from the mill i run from , but it's just skipped now as the disposal rate is too high . silly really , we could take the bales there by forklift as the yard is only 200meters down the road

we used to scatter chlorine granules to clean concrete mate although we did have to brush it about a bit