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Now come on young Kris... life can;t be that bad mate... could be worse..

Look at Poor old Trissy.... 4ft 3" in his high heels.. and now he's gone and cut his bugle with a razor  :o

Technically, under, his bugle - could be his toe or anywhere in between - depends what he was shaving at the time 

How about this for absolute madness!

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1949-FIELD-MARSHALL-TRACTOR-Series-3-in-Green-NEW-BOXED_W0QQitemZ130195547183QQihZ003QQcategoryZ91592QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Ouch! 

Very, very nice, Tris. 

Just realised 'annual' is the wrong spelling  ;D

I knocked my box of model screws onto the floor today of the bench  :'( :'( :'( :'(

Tiny Tiny screws EVERYWHERE  :'( :'( :'( :'( >

Get a magnet 

Smart looking tractor, SL. Good to see her working for her living too. 

Just had my annual haircut  :o

cheers ben, Well thats what happens when My grand father had a say in the desgin aaahhh sure there never be anything bigger than a mf 265  :D

Had some of that too....'why on earth do you need a feeding passage 10 feet wide?' 

aye well it's based on his 9/10 fraser, sure thats his on top of the 2nd page

You'll have to get the 'greedy boards' on too. 

Looks dead right to me Sean....lovely job. 

They never looked that good in real life! Very nice. 

I think that was the main problem, the studs could vary as to how much they had been screwed in, and IIRC the stud is coarse thread and the visible part is fine thread.. We used to double nut them and screw the stud with loctite in as far as it would go then firm up the nut after a while. 

Updated 

http://www.lethamshank.co.uk/ftf/ftf_members.pdf

Big improvement Marcus. Do still have a 'swinging' drawbar to fit that hitch too?

Those studs under the axle could be a pain once they started coming loose - loctite and a big tube on a 3/4 drive socket fixed them 

Some lovely pictures there of your fleet - do you still have the 550

I wish!  I needed the cash when I bought the forklift.........and I got ?200 more than it cost new 20 years earlier. 

Daft young labrador + rabbits =  ;D

Nice one Sean - needed to be done. 

Look forward to the cab and maybe a loader?? 

I'm jealous John, thats one of my favourite jobs, well anything involving the use of chain saws is

You should try sculpting a Beet harvester from a log  ;D

Spent a day with the chainsaw tidying trees. Any branches at cab height or below are now gone.

Big bonfire tomorrow. 

Smart job, DP - looks the part. 

A couple more for Massey Boy 

A few lot more pictures, mainly construction though.....

http://www.baumaschinenbilder.de/forum/thread.php?threadid=17424&threadview=0&hilight=&hilightuser=0&page=1

I wish I collected model cranes now - wow

is that the samwe 3065 that you recently did up then john??

It is the same on Sean....still going strong. Had her on the dynamometer the other day and giving 80 at the PTO which means she's still over the 85 when new. 

ahh right , but i know for a fact you're not the only one to have that reason

MF lost a lot with the 61s and have never really reclaimed it up here, Perkins don't seem to be keeping up with the rest either....

nice pics

whys the 399 cab red and back isnt bit ment to be silver

That was one of the first (No 29) and had a raised tunnel in cab floor over gearbox. I think that they changed to silver with the Hi-Line (flat(ish) floor) cabs.

Cool, misty morning here, with the sun just breaking through - very pleasant. 

Just had a real long walk round the whole farm as it's such a lovely morning - dogs are lying here totally pooped.