james f

Great stuff as always , but does anyone else have trouble downloading some of the photos

Interesting Doe style conversion on the first page

http://www.kingsmodels.co.uk/misc/misc1.html

:P

Any takers on this?

Before anyone gets worried, this isn't competition for FTF! A new forum was set up during the summer to discuss real farming issues, particularly Irish ones.

It is located at forum.irishfarming.ie

Unfortunately this forum hasnt taken off and has been pretty dead since it started. However it has not been very heavily advertised, and I thought some people on here may be interested in using it if they knew it existed, especially the Irish contingent. There is a similar forum that deals with British farming issues (not connected). I am not involved in the setting up or running of this forum, but I'd like to give it a chance before it gets consigned to the dustbin of internet history.

Oops, looks like I killed this topic. Looks like a tidy set-up that

Yeah the agri spec ones usually dont have stabilisers, but sometimes theyre badged a different model number as well? I'll have a look anyway and see what I can find out

I could have a look in my brochure collection at the weekend. Anything in particular you're after?

I'm surprised it went that high, tractors dont usually sell that well on ebay. Maybe the guy just wanted to advertise it, or else baulked at the fees!

It was a condition of sale that you weren't allowed put Fergies in the same field as an Armor-Salmon harvester. Most people used Ford 4000s with the single row, and Ford 7810s or TW15s with the twin rows. Massey never sold a tractor that could cope with such a beast of a machine (on this side of the water. I'm sure the 1800, 4880 and 4900 might have been up to the job.)

Bang on there Stan, my dad used to have a yellow mid-tip one that he pulled with a 4000. He used it to pull beet in one of the steepest fields we have. There is a local fella who never stops going on about what a great sight he thought that was whenever he meets us! (guess who Colm )

I notice sean is keeping quiet about his U-turn :D :D

James, James the majority of the time you would be cutting the dust would be blowing away from you, a bit of sun wouldn't do you any harm it would be better than sitting the sauna of a Cabcraft cab on a 1530 :D and as an extra bonus you'd get to listen to that roar of a 6cyl Perkins

Suppose you were cutting a field and the wind was blowing straight up and down the way you were cutting, then youd be getting a faceful of dust at least half the time. And dont forget all the dust that can be blown on top of you when emptying into the trailer. They put the cabs on combines for a reason ie. to make them more comfortable. Its called progress, and progress cant be bad

Couldn't agree more with you there mate - give me the old 500 any day

You'll say that until you spend a day choking on barley dust and the sun beating down on you, and spend a night trying to pick the chaff out of your hair!!

that looks pretty good OF, if the top was lower it would be a dead ringer for a sheep feeder. If you were doing another one I'd say do it wider, because feeders tend to be a good bit bigger than the bale any way, usaully about 7 feet across

Fantastic photos Stan. Ihave to say the TW15 is one of my favourite Fords from that era

Tim, is the 3000 a petrol model?

sure i will mate, will get this months on sat or sun so if i get two it dont matter

Subscribing then eh tm810? Just thought I'd dig up this old topic :

http://www.farmtoysforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=925.msg7246#msg7246

looks like one of those brush cutters to me

You gave me the brochures for them last year remember? AHWI is the make

Im sure we'll see this on www.farmmodels.net in the not-too-distant future  ;)

Any word on Farm and Site?

Could be a rare enough 654

Do you think colm? With that nose I put her down as a 754

My guess is those tyres should come off the rims with a bit of gentle persuasion, as long as you've got strong fingers. Getting them back without damaging the paint could be the difficult part though, make sure the paint is well dried ie. leave it a couple of days. If in doubt just take the tyres off and put them on again to make sure you can do it easily.

Crazy pit! Whay have they got a digger parked in the way??? ???

Clunky is not always bad you know. I'd prefer a reassuring mechanical feel to something that was slow and/or vague.

Then it definetly imperial

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