jdc

You should come and plough here Marky - that's straight compared to mine 

As above.....even 50kg bags are hard to come by nowadays. I have some left if you pay the postage!!!

I grow seed from 'C1' - first generation seed which is kept very clean weed wise, inspected twice, harvested as per normal but segregated from any possible contamination, dried at a low temperature to preserve germination (normally around 98% or more) and stored until the merchant needs it.

He dresses it and treats it with a variety of seed dressings - normal fungicide, deluxe fungicide, insecticide, manganese etc. bags it up labels it with a batch number and sells it as C2 second generation.

I grow C1 for myself and get a mobile dresser in as below.

hurray johns back at last,hows ya doing mate long time no see

Apologies to all, but mad-time is over...I hope. Good to be back 

42 pages only now....

Nice motor....but it won't hold much veg 

:D - I reckon I would EVEN work on a JQ combine lads... there you have made me say it now...

I'm Mark and I'm a combine aholic 

Would that not be classed as sabotage?  ;D

Very smart trailer line up to keep the job moving too. 

It's not red  (NH  )

Servicing John 

Yep. Nothing major, mainly adjustments - but  pain in the rear. 

Looks well matched with your Massey Sean. 

Hmmmm, Marky, does Barry deserve a hi-tech piece of kit like this to go on some ropey old Fordson?  ;D

Spent most of the day inside a combine...

Yet another couple of bright ideas from the mjb school of design. 

That looks like a really fine piece of scratchbuilding - very impressive. 

I go with Eurodeere on that one - maybe not SKH but similar with two crumblers rotating at different speeds via chain drive between them. Brackets on front for rigid tines?

Sorry I missed it Jason - Happy Thirty-something 

It looks as if it has undersize wheels on.....

It's a big ugly so-and-so.....but I like it 

Typical - any antique machinery, jdc will know about it! 

I don't know why they didn't catch on as they were quite good at giving a certain amount of subsoiling whilst breaking up the surface and partially mixing the trash, without bringing up subsoil. In fact I think the idea was to leave the trash on top. They did have a high HP requirement and metal wore relatively quickly.

Maybe they were introduced at the wrong time when the first round of min-till in late 60s early 70s was proving to be problematical with the equipment/herbicides/drills available at the time.

Nice restoration job for you Marcus 

Happily spraying wheat, until some unforecast rain appeared from nowhere.......

We've only had a few light showers.....must be saving up our rain until harvest. 

You must've had a helluva rain down there - it's nothing like that up here (yet) but it's a complete pain when you have all that kind of stuff to put up with.......

Looks good in the Hardi colours, and all the trimmings. 

Just had the 'Insurance Lady' in this morning - now I'm officially bankrupt...

The McHale has been very good, over ten years it must've done 1,000s of bales and never been any problem. It has 2 KV tines inside the rollers so it can be used for other things as well. The clamp type grabs for vertical stacking seem to be in fashion here at the moment......

Good pics Gav - no excuse for anything less than excellent on the model now (as we would expect). 

John,

I like the French Cub it looks in good original condition. Was that taken at your local show yesterday that I said I might come come down to?. If it was I wish I had since I'm missing an air clearner top and I might have been able to get dimensions of that one in order to try making one or fabricate a look a like for someone to make in metal. I didn't get to the show I intended on Saturday since it poured rain alll down. It cleared up by lunchtime on Sunday so I went across to Stonehaven but it was only for cars buses and motorcycles on the Sunday.

On the M that must be a diesel engine that was put in. The chrome exhaust stack doesn't look right for that tractor otherwise nice.

I was the one at Paxton and turned out to be a good day.The cub was just imported and he hadn't started on it yet....I could PM you the owners name as you may know him, he has around 30 tractors now...

The Nuffield is a 1950, so must've been registered later.

The XA reg. is cropping up frequently so I assume it is as I didn't register it.