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Hey guys I have an option to buy these 2 models, a TW25 and a Valmet and snow plough. I haven't bought any models since the early 80's and want to get started again but have no idea of values or what they might be worth. They are both boxed and in mint condition.

Yep its that time alright...just watching the end of a tv program... as well reading the forum during the ads. Gotta love google earth

Live in Gadansk is brillant....love Gilmour. A link for video footage of the show.... http://www.davidgilmour.com/gdansk/index.html

Yeah its a great experience would recommend it to anyone...getting paid to see australia Heard of harvest haul, we had a few blokes with us for a few weeks who worked for them previously and weren't to happy with money and travelling accomadation....how did you find them? We'd work 20 or more hrs a day 7 days a week for 4 months without a break unless you were lucky and it rained for a day or two. I much preferred the driving the combines...a lot more to concentrate on watching for sticks etc the seeding and tractor work bored the crap out me after the novelty of the gig gear wore off. Especially in the north NSW plains where everything is flat as far as the eye could see. Love down the south, nicer scenery and qld was nice too except for the all contour banks in the paddocks which gave me the s**ts.

That pic with the ball is similar to the scrub we cleared. Nice pics of the dozer catcom3....seen lots of big dozers but never a ripper like that.

The photos were taken in various places in NSW and Qld, we were contracting so we moved around quite a bit. At harvest we'd start up north central qld above a town called Emerald and zig zag all the way down to the South Australian border. The harvest normally starts up north at the end of Aug and finishes down south around xmas or shortly after. Then the combines would be driven back up to Qld to start harvesting sorghum. This where the 80ft seeder photos were taken......google earth says this was taken in nov 2006 well thats wrong because the fields are green which means its winter, I was harvesting there at that time oct to nov. Plus a lot of the field layouts have changed with roads being ploughed to make bigger fields..more scrub has being cleared...dams have been refilled...this was done over 2 to 3 years before then...... From the road above the yard the property extends south swelling out east and west. All those roads you see are private roads. lat.. 29° 3'28.31"S long...149°10'48.25"E the fields you see here have all been knocked into one now... lat 29° 7'52.09"S long 149° 6'8.65"E Did a lot of work all around this area in prob 300km radius, sowing harvesting etc... Will find some more places over the weekend.

A beeline gps which are very expensive, I much prefered the trimble system which were a lot cheaper....a lot more user friendly and better displays with touch screens.

Y'all didn't think I was serious did ya ;D When direct drilling the rig is set up so as to place the seed between the stubble of last years crop, so you gotta have gps. Apart from the cost efficiency lots of farmers use tramlining so the tractors, spray rigs and combines all travel on the same tracks. Row spacings on dry broadacre can be very wide, these were at 6in but I've sowed wheat at 12in spacings in Qld. Before gps, in large paddocks they sowed from the headland in, going round in circles 'til they reached the middle. Example of sowing between last years rows and row spacing. The rig is a little 40ft gason rig pulled with a Case 395.

Setting up two rigs with seed carts ready for sowing.

This was taken outside the workshop before fitting the gas application system.

We didn't take this baby on public roads as it was too wide even when folded. It was only used on the property and even then it had to be taken cross country sometimes too avoid a few narrow bridges on roads over bore drains. When transporting it had to be driven very slowly about 8kms 9 max because there's a lot of weight hanging in mid air.

A lightning strike in north west NSW as a big storm is about to blow over. Lightning shows out there can be spectacular, one strike hit beside our house that night and the bang was deafening....frightened the crap out of us. This was a storm brewing at sunset in central Qld. Pic is a little grainy it was taken with my phone but I like the colours in it. A dust devil or willy willy as they're called in oz. This was the biggest one I've seen but by the time I stopped the tractor and got my camera it was fading away. If you look to the left you can see a tall tree in the distance to get an idea of the size.

Thats not good...wonder if UH will bring out the 7600 in 1:32 they're models seem to be much higher quality, hope they do along with some of the vintage implements they also do in 1:16.

Hope they get it sorted because for me its a big disappointment. I was about to order one each of the 5000 and 7000 and two of the 7600's until looked at some pictures on a US retailer site.....now I'm not so sure. Whats the point in having a model that doesn't steer? Can the hitches be retrofited with the old britains type?

All of the spraying I did was with clear solutions but I remember reading an article a few years back about trials with suspensions in South Australia on calcereous soil with great results.