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There she is!!!!!!!!! C'mon, even if your not a fan of MF's you got be honest, it does look mean. Don't know much about the model itself but it was in a dealers yard in Kansas when we went up to look at a new rotary MF combine. Took the photo in October 2003. Thanks for putting it up Andy. Much better job leaving it to the pro!!

mounted loader. I think it was an American thing in the first instance. Had a frame with white roof built onto an open top tractor (most common were 165's and 5000's) with long straight beams to the carriage. Implements were attached via a pin on either loader arm and another on either crowd ram. Hydraulic's came via a pto pump. It was a gruesome looking bit of kit but with the lock of a 2wd tractor and fast hydrauics aswell as the reach it had over other loader tractors the thing is an awesome bit og kit really, a proper tool.

Sweeeet!!!!! They are the bees knees (a bugger if a big stone turns up though). A model of one of them behind a UH Fendt would make I a very happy man.

Terra-Gator 2103 with sludge cake spreader body. Tebbe 14t trailed spreader with twin horizontal beaters over spreading discs. Grain Drier.

Anyone know of any models of the Farmhand loader found fitted to many a 5000 in years gone by? Use one a fair bit on hay on my mates farm, be good if there was a 1/32 one around.

Who makes the TX66? (New Holland, I know that before I get the pi55 ripped!!!) The model you have is what I am referring to and will it be up for replacement soon?!!

farmmodels.net thats the badger!! Mmm, may have to look into that conversion then!!

Just wondered if you had made those alterations TM and how exactly did you get to having that 390, is it a 362 pimped? Would love to know what you did. That would be something I'd like to have a go at along with a 2640/80 with proper colouring on the chassis and cab and maybe even in 2wd formlike on that Irish website, the name has escaped me.

Damn those EMA ladies, too many chiefs and not enough indians!! Was just about to order my catoalogue through the link. . .. . . had my card swallowed over the weekend so thats put a spanner in the works!!!!! Had my cider visor on and couldnt see the keypad on the cash machine straight!!

WWW.EMA-MODELS.COM It's new and their aint much on there but I found it at last!!!

To be honest it is really, well it has been for me conidering the cock ups I have mae along the way!! A pack of 4 7.9mm Plastruct I beams cost me 4.25 from Antics in Bristol. They are about 50cms long and I have used 8 pieces (2 packets) so far, including waste. I think next time I may only build the end spans as they are more likely to be seen if both ends are left open. If the shed is roofed and cladded the rest of it isnt seen anyway really. Smurf is the one in the know, I'm sure he will post here during the week.

Downstairs Farm is mainly Winter Dog Hair, Spaniel variety as resources are plentyful. Upstairs Country Estate, sock fluff. Grown for industrial burning uses at the nearby Incernerator. Joking aside I am just starting up a contracting business focusing on cereal harvesting, grass and maize silageing and small bale hay for the equastrian market.

Gradually getting there. By no means perfect but I'm learning as I go!!! Couple of pics of the first bay being half done, spans and concrete (balser) panels in place. Third pic is just a close up to show how I have fixed the panels in place, blue-tac (THE SAVIOOOOOUUUR!!!) to hold it in situ while it glues, then added angle for further contact area and realism.

Fantastic set up there Richie. Realy impressive, the two Claas machines look so real parked up for the winter there.

No ridge and furrow up your way then I take it :D

Puts new meaning to the phrase "One pass system" hey NC?!!

Wow thats a great looking bit of kit ?. . ?wish I hadnt bought the JD now, oh ewhat the hell lets run two mowers!!!

Anybody got a pic they can post of the Kuhn mower please?

NICE!! Just what we want in 1/32. lovely bit of ploughing there to CTS. i only ever did a little bit of ploughing, contractors did ours then my boss bought a 5f Dowdeswell which I used on about 200 acres before leaving. Something I always wanted to get good at though, very satisfying when you lift the plough at the gate ready to leave the field then admire what you've done, do you stil find that?

I'd have to go with a drill/planter. A big Flexicoil or Deere drill like they have in the States with a trailed hopper buggy or a big Vadertsadt/Simba/Horsch like us English guys see up and down the land. For a vehicle however, the Ford 7810 is a shot in the dark but I think it really qualifies. They are as popular now in the metal for collectors and farmers alike. It's a cracking looking tractor if ever there was one and to see a precision model of this would be fantastic. The STX and JD T precisions are wondeful pieces of craft work, I have the JD and it is a gem but neither are classic which we can all identify with. Close rival would of course be the JD 3650 if it isn't to be a blue model. My own fresh suggestion goes completely the other way, Terra-Gator 2103. Monster, self propelled, artic steer spreader. (See my post in "real vehicles" or something) Tebbe spreader bof for us over here and something more suitable for you guys in America like a big fertiliser hopper or something.

Last one, me in the pilots seat letting her have it in a field of Milo. Sorry about the hickledy pickeldy size's, us novice's, eh?!

3. A closer look at the 660

2. Parked up one morning next to one of the three Gleaner R62 which we ran.

Right, try again. . . . 1. Pre cutting checks, we had to put a new cutter bar in for Milo, bit like cutting seed grass here in the UK, it has to be razor sharp.

I'll dig out some photo's of the Challenger combime I drove in 2003. A rotary Massey in essence but still a fantastic piece of kit with a hungry rota and very few moving parts. Should just about have time to add a few before my night shift. It's cutting Milo on November in Kansas. Will do some more when I have time. . . . Bugger, it wouldnt post. Try again tomorrow.