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Due to join the fleet soon is this Valtra 6550 with Stoll loader, seen here in the yard of the previous/current owner:

Her duties are currently being fulfilled by this 6400 with Tanco T100 loader on loan from the dealer, in between literally 'braking' down

Get the 7600 on the sprayer - thought she had more than 400hrs :D

Thought you'd be the one to stick a post in when I'm not finished yet! >

More of a member's fleet really than member's tractor but here goes. This is a pictorial tour of our fleet of 'driveable' machinery, including the two Isuzu jeeps:

First up is the flagship 2001 Valtra 6650 with just over 4000 hrs. Main duties include ploughing, one-passing, spreading fertiliser, mowing, baling and hauling anything that needs to be hauled, but has been known to turn her hand to other things.

I've just had a juvenile moment

Well............I'd love to see and hear this in action, and I bet you will want to try this one out................how about...................squashing bubble wrap. Just imagine the noise..... :D

Aaaaaand.....you are doing the environment a favour by recycling all the air trapped in the bubble wrap. Mind you, it might be that a sheet of bubble wrap could become a collectors item in years to come. Imagine it...........the year......2100........and you have a sheet of pure pre-CO2 air from 2008. Forget the bottles of Champagne and 200 year old bottles of wine, we're talking of a piece of historical, irreplaceable air. By then people may pay hundreds of pounds for you to burst a bubble so they can "Snort" some 92 year old air.

Cor yeah.

     Oh yeah, Marky.........would it work as a wine or cider press, or even do tatties so you could make some potato "Wine" which our Irish friends should have a recipe for. Good stuff it is too.

      I am 55 honestly, its just that sometimes I have these flashbacks and juvenile moments. 

    As you would say,.................I'll get my coat...............Bye!   

It's called Poteen ;D

I put big wheels all round on a cabless Ford 2120 to make it into a County \

Good conversion ther Rab. We have a single one like the pic above that we use as a counterbalance with a bale on the back of our Ford 6610 when drawing silage bales. It also means you bring one extra on each run (we usually have a second tractor pulling the trailer and the Ford loads and unloads)

Local farmer and keen Valtra owner has just picked this up, his fleet consists of:

Silver Valtra T180

Blue Valtra T140

Blue Valtra T160

Red Valtra T170 (Sold last week)

Blue Valtra 6650

Green Valmet 6400

Red Valtra N series

Blue Valtra C Series.

That's my kind of farmer!!! :P

I just want to say that my brother bought a Powerfarm TW off ebay that was seized as well, I sent him a link to this page and he said he tried the tips on here and it worked a treat!

I suppose you could class this as POS. A recent eBay purchase. I bought it from the original seller who only had a poor picture of one of the other, Fiat half track, items. The other items were re-listed by the new owner with good photo's, I was unable to secure any of them

This is how it arrived with only the one foldout  wing section. The buyer who re-listed the other items described it as being made for the 1982 Toy Fair. Model is held on to base by wire through four holes. The logo and other markings appear to be cut from a box! Model No. and suggested retail price shown on base with a number 6 for what I cannot imagine The box is specific to this item and going by the letter K on it there were at least 10 other items to go with it  There were a lot of new releases in 1982.

Perhaps 6 was the number of boxes in a case/carton?

We'll have to get that put up as Marky's profile picture :D

In classic Homer Simpson style: Mmmmmmm, 8100 peat special :)

Are thoae type of slurry stirrers any good, thay looka a bit naff to me? I know a fella who has one, he calls it the propeller :D

shame massey have'nt got a grip on a global model numbering system, would be a lot easier to trace the tractors origins maybe

Maybe that's exactly what they want to avoid! :D

The bonnet styling is quite similar to the Brazilian Valmets \. How long have Massey had tractor manufacturing operations in Brazil?

Slap a bonnet on that and she is dead tidy

Not before you put the head back!! :D

this is what happens when a stonefork meets the front of ur tractor

Nothing a good panel beater couldn't sort out ;)

Kerting I believe is 'carting' or draying,drawing,hauling.

I know :. Point is it is CARTING not KERTING, regardless of how you say it in your part of the world. Not getting on to you Murray but you might as well spell it right as wrong, its the same number of letters

Murray if you can get more pics of the peat guys at work or anything I would be very interested mate 

Yes yes, I love peat stuff too!!!

Well why didn't you say so? :D I suppose this is going to a big estate paddy field where the drivers want the extra luxury of not having to breate in lungfulls of dust all day!!

What would you do only for me  :D

Often wonder do the buyers check they are working in the first place as some i know that have been sold for export are dead rough

Heard once they really only want the chassis and engine as all the seives and walkers etc are stripped out and rice gear is put in instead

Wonder why the cab wasn't taken off that 8000 series though

Try: www.mannerscombineparts.co.uk

as well

It was taken off, you can see that it was the last bit put in, after the engine. Get your glasses checked young man!!! :D

Looks to be just the rear wheels and the cab off a Jaguar really \ \

same i love doing silage first time i kerted silage i was 13 struggled to keep up with the chopper but i am fine now 

Murray can you please tell me what 'kerting' is???

Had this link emailed to me yesterday. Pretty amazing how they strip down the combines, even the rear hood and engine comes off!!

http://www.geoffrelphtractors.co.uk/loadingcontainer.html

I don't think I'd go match ploughing with a bar point \ \ But then if its what you have and its just for fun it would be good enough i suppose

intresting machine ol, being trailed ar ethey easier to use then?? do you still need a big machine to use it like a normal 8 furrow reversable or can you get away with a smaller machine to tow it

I'd say you'd want something pretty heavy to pull a plough like that as there wouldn't be any weight transfer to the tractor wheels as with a mounted or semi-mounted plough

I think my brother got a dealer boxed 5000 from toptractor

ah but the trailin shoe comes with a yoke on the top forget the name of it but it chops everythin that goes through it the only thing that it doesnt like r dry cow tubes,it jus slices them in half they wud still block the pipes 

It's called a macerator, apparently they're pretty easy to block too