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There must've been thousands of those made and no matter the manufacturer, the design is almost identical.

We have two sets here and still use one for sheep feed. They're still very accurate, under a pound.

If memory serves me right, they were each under a grain outlet from the steam powered fixed thresher in the 'corn barn', so I would imagine about the same age - 1891.

Did mine, like the last question 

The results from that will be interesting, but I bet inconclusive. 

My thoughts...there is a trailer for every job and you buy what you require. I bought a new one recently and was amazed by the differences in steel thickness - floors from 2.0mm to 4.5mm, sides varied by the same - axle size and manufacturer, brakes, hitch quality etc.

The volume differences in a '10tonne' trailer are large too.

So if you want a light trailer purely for hauling silage (for example) it will be a different beast  to one which will haul grain on fields or a 40k trailer mainly doing roadwork where stone or gravel is hauled.

i would say a trailer in whatever form grain,silage, bale etc is the 2nd most important part of farm equipment after the tractor, but is the most neglected, abused, least maintained,  piece of equipment on most farms? ???

Would agree on a lot of farms that is true but now with, say, a 5 t trailer with 14 t on board travelling at 40 k it cannot afford to be badly maintained - and there's no excuse. I tend to think that there's not  a lot wrong with a well maintained PUH and eye as the trailer should tow well and be doing it's own braking.

I have a 22year old AS Ace trailer which has been treated well and is still perfect, I did buy a Griffiths second hand and the sides bulged with a load of wheat - it's gone. Also have a Marshall QM  which is very heavy, good volume, tows well but the paint is a bit poor.

Received mine today - lovely models and I do like the little bags of alternative bits which are a great touch. 

I don't appear to have a little spring though.........

I know the Imber model is superb but the front wheels niggled a wee bit so had a play with the  5640 and removed part of the hub, they still turn but will not have the bearing life of the original. 

Lovely bit of kit Ricky.  I don't think I cold justify that though - I just have a couple of fans which do a good enough job and even then I have a fan heater in the booth to maintain temperature as the warm air is sucked out in minutes. 

Very nice, TM (the combine, not the moggy)  He does make good looking model.

Am I the only person who is still waiting for their order to arrive?

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Me too, Robbo, but the stagecoach only gets up here once a week. 

Interesting to look back on. I priced some of those up in '87 and after discounts there was not a lot in it. 

Same here, beautiful bright frosty morning. 

That would be a fair drive for me but would definitely be worth a look. 

As for the date, it's the first week of grass silage so that could make it a struggle too. . .

Silage in May - up here, no way. 

Tidy wee 550 - front axle bushes didn't last long with a loader on...

Smashing job, that looks beautiful. 

Fog - it was freezing but temp now 2 deg C

;D  - er... light relief.... er... I slipped and fell on my keyboard... and accidently hit the enter key.. and up popped FTF 

er... this wind came along and blew my mouse sooooo hard it actually clicked the left button and it was hoverring over my special FTF desktop icon at the time...

er.... someone else has been using my PC and cheekily logged themselves on as me... in fact.... this isn't me at all... see... look.... I don't look anything like that    my nose is much much smaller than mine... er... his....

OK OK... I was on my lunch break

Marky's day: 0800 - 0830 breakfast, 0845-0930 coffee break, 0930-1530 lunch............. ;D

Good swag Looking forward to them!

Smashing pictures - I don't comment often enough, but enjoy looking at them. 

Very nice Paul - good to see some models being 'downsized' to realistic tractors. 

Tremendous collection. 

Just how I imagined the best model shop in the world would look like. 

Now that looks like a very tidy job indeed. 

Lovely set of pictures Tim - the 590 seems to do all your work.

Glad to hear that, Sean. Fingers crossed.

Very smart and a nice little trailer too. 

Looks pretty bloomin' good so far, Gav. 

Would agree with all the above - time, photos/measurements, but also getting the right wheels/tyres for some odd models although this is improving. 

Probably also my impatience to get going and not drafting out some decent plans.......