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A few pictures from a while back of granddad sawing wood up on the bench....so enjoy! the Tractor Grandad driving and my brother riding shotgun.. plenty for the fire watch the fingers just ticking over!! the tractor again

A few photos from down the farm I took today!....Mostly of the third hand rust bucket machinery we own. its Just something a bit different to most farms today . bullock and lambing shed the hay-barn and tractor shed the goose paddock Yes it is still used ! the landdrive muck-spreader,... again it does still work ! The tractor topping around the duck runs. the tractor in the horse meadow topping. any one know how to rotate the pictures cause i ain't got a clue!

Grandfather did a bit of topping today with the tractor....i managed to grab a couple of photos once i finished cleaning the bullock shed out (plus i needed a break ).

partly my own foolishness partly the black taxi cab doing bout 60 mph down a narrow track, i didnt see pulled in on the junction before extremally quickly swerveing back on the road, if i hadnt he would have been flatpacked by the deere. bloody Peed me off that did! Modified-watch the language!!!

yer Jacob is a good mate of mine, I do the modelling and supplied him with the photos and he photo-shopped them for me.

nothing!.........It wouldn't fit though my gateways

possibly, I am quite new to the hobby and have not been to any model shows as of yet at all. so who knows? maybe..... sorry only just read this! its very loosely based on east week farm in Throwliegh near okehampton, it was a council farm which was ran in a very similar way by my great grandad on my mothers mothers side! one of the last men in Devon to stop using horses for proper farm work.

Commoners rights allow the owner of our holding to gather resources and graze livestock on Dartmoor, we are allowed so much peat so much sand so much wood and so much granite from the national park per year. we are allowed to graze are livestock for so much of the year on the moor too. I Hate shearing anything! We get a gang in. it takes less than a day to whizz though our little lot

Nope the neighbour carted them in on his deutz and unloaded them, we don't have a loader see. they are from a German company called Busch, i purchased them from a model railway shop on the isle of Wight when i was on holiday.

She's a 1968 one She's done just over 2500 Hrs and is completely original, she is rough round the edges but runs like a clock. The sheep are a local breed ill get some photos when i can promise . I know of Pete Francis, you know the manor house hotel its near there on the Hatherleigh road.

Peacewater... down dry lane.... behind Ashbury golf Course. The tracto goes up on the moor on occasion and I drive though Oke all the time on errands!

My Name is Henry,I am 17 years old. After introducing my toy farm layout(lower Narratons), I thought I might explain my own background and inspiration for the layout. Me and my grandfather have a small farm in Devon near Okehampton. The farm totals around 25 acres and we hold commoners rights, we have a flock of 83 Dartmoor long-wools, and 4 south Devon suckler cows. we have 2 tractors a Ferguson Tef20 (the diesel one) and MF 135 with a Duncan cab (The hideous cab!) We have various brands of implements in various states of disrepair. We eke a living off the poor soils. And I have to relief milk on farms for additional income else I could just not get by. Here is a picture of our 135, sawing wood in our lower meadow.

Had a delivery of round bales from the lowlands, so one bay of the shed is full. The back garden of the house. just to show the scale of some of the models on the farm.

I've extended the main field and track. also i have added a Nissan hut like those on many moorland farms, everyone loves military surplus! After finding this on the internet a tattie harvest scene is on the cards. but its a lot of money! :'( http://www.gaugemaster.com/search_results.asp?searchstring=preiser+%ACho%AC+%ACagricult&style=main&andor=View&method=kws&strType=Preiser&searchtitle=Agriculture%2C+Animals%2C anyway back to the farm John was doing some topping, I think He's nipped off to get a spare knife. the new paddock and hut in all its splendour.

The ground cover is woodland scenics,the yard is fine turf-earth and the upland is a mixture of fine turf-weeds and fine turf- green grass. Sheep graze the moorland slopes behind the farm. john loads the muck trailer..... eventually!