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Exactly mate, at the end of the day they’re there to enjoy, not just sit gathering dust👍

They’re a nice little tractor Jack, I’ve a 240 and one of the yellow industrial ones, I can’t remember it’s number now, but like you say they’re getting harder to come by, so I can’t bring myself to weather them up🙈

Ah, I see it now, mind I’d never have noticed if you hadn’t pointed it out, should have had my specs on🤣It’ll make a nice little scraper tractor that, mine doesn’t have a cab so it’s not as pleasant on a wet morning 😉

The only problem I found Jack is that I couldn’t get a good colour by dying the sisal (which might have been down to the particular type that I was using?). I ended up just chopping the sisal and baling it, then I gave each bale a light spray of yellow followed by an even lighter dusting of white. It seemed to give a good match to our real straw bales, plus it had the benefit of stiffening the sisal slightly so that it was less fluffy at the ends

Thanks Jack, I can’t take the credit for those, I used James’s method as a basis to do them(Stabilofarmer) 👍

Thanks Ted, typical of a few tractors round our way to be fair👍

Thank you Paul, natural light makes all the difference 👍

Thanks very much John👍

Thanks Jack, I bet they were great in their day, but I wouldn’t want to use one now!

A few comings and goings👍

The finished article

You developing a stutter Alistair??😂

Looking well Jack, is it destined to be a scraper tractor?

Funnily enough, I’d never noticed them Paul, but now you’ve said they do look a little out of place

Looks a nice model Paul, I’ve always liked the look of those big Massey’s

Finally a bit of progress 🙈

No I think they’re spot on Sean, too many people seem to be obsessed by huge tyres that would never have been fitted in the first place🙈

Looks very well Sean, the 2725’s going to be a bit of a beast too👍

Very, very nice that Ted👌

The skid unit developed by IH in the 70’s for the 74 series was still around relatively unchanged well into the 90’s, passing through the 84, 85 and 95 series and finally finding its way under the 4200’s, so there’s certainly plenty of scope for milking the moulds! However, I do agree that although these tractor ranges were exported around the globe, rightly or wrongly they don’t seem to have the ‘appeal’ today of say the Massey 100’s or the Ford’s of the same era. Also as has been suggested, Europe were very protective of the IH tractors that they built at the time, hence why the Doncaster models never really gained a foot hold on the continent, so although some of the parts such as the XL cab have already been produced by Replicagri, I can’t see them going down the road of a Doncaster model. As for Britains and the direction they seem to be heading in at present, we’ll who can make sense of what they do most of the time anyway?😉

Got there in the end with the 101 winch tractor

Very nice work Jack, you should be proud of that!👍 As for the wood, it was fitted or available as an option on many barrel spreaders to give some protection to the barrel from knocks and scrapes when you were loading it. It was usually about 1.5 to 2 inches high, which roughly works out at about 1 to 1.5 mm in 1/32 scale, but I wouldn’t worry at all, I still think it looks grand

Very nice Paul👍

Looking well there Callum 👍

A few more recent ones, a rather well used 10’ Ifor Williams stock trailer (just needs its rear gates adding), a small farm-built dump trailer and a Ford 6600 stockman’s tractor, again rather well used!