844john

A little batch of IH’s and Case IH

Finally finished the batch of 1454’s

A few recent projects, first up Muir Hill 101 with front blade

Have to say mate, I don’t think Paul’s done anything wrong here, I’m sure we all have models in our collection that we’ve bought cheap over the years that are worth a lot more now but we wouldn’t sell them for what we paid for them. I don’t see that as greed, just human nature 🤷🏻‍♂️😉

I accept that it wasn’t his fault at all that Hermes were stupid enough to leave it in our bin and not send us notification that it had been delivered, but the way he went about resolving the problem was very poor, as I said bordering on sarcastic. However, we got refunded through our bank , and there’s no way I would ever buy from him again, so in the end it’s his loss I reckon Jack😉

My advice would be to avoid, I’d dealt with him for years both on line and in person at the Lakeland show. Long story short we ordered a model for Sam’s birthday, got an email to say it was being dispatched and that delivery could take up to six days. After a week nothing had appeared, so contacted him. He came back to me saying it had been delivered and sent us a photo of the delivery site, which was inside our recycling bin at the end of our farm road, which is outside our property boundary on the grass verge next to the main road. The problem was that our bin had been emptied a couple of days earlier and the model with it. Explained all this to him, didn’t want to know, even sent a sarcastic reply saying that perhaps we should put a note on the bin next time saying not to leave any parcels in there, which really boiled my piss. Anyway, he made it quite clear that it was our problem and there would be no replacement or refund…..how wrong he was though!

Thanks Smithy, I don’t know much, but what little I do know tends to be about Internationals 🤣

They did Stan, synchromesh was introduced from the 74 series onwards on the 1 -4 gears, on the continental 56 series such as the 8/9/1056 and 844 the high/low/reverse was also synchromesh, making them quite advanced for their time. Sorry to butt Smithy, but I grew up with these tractors and we still have some now, so I’m quite familiar with them😉

The 84 series had the “lightening shift” pattern Stan the same as the 74 series, the H pattern came in with the 85 series. We used to have a Sekura cabbed 784 but with the Kimco 4wd front axle

Thanks Callum, yes making the most of the bad weather!

Thanks very much Stan, yes it’s quite obtrusive isn’t it. I would imagine the cabbed one got rather warm in summer sat next to all that hot oil!

Cab-less County 754 with Bomford loader, a couple of Kidd FYMAX 7 ton spreaders, and a County 1124

Thanks Paul, yes we’ll be there all being well👍

Thank you Barry👍

Thanks Callum

Have to say, it that was my tractor he was driving, he wouldn’t be back at work on Monday🙄

Another County 754, this time with a Sapper Bomford loader

Thanks very much Barry

Thank Ian, yes they’re a bit of a beast aren’t they!

Roadless 98, and after seeing Ian’s cracking straw choppers I thought I’d have a go at a slightly larger one to take big square bales

Thanks Smithy, I really appreciate that. I’m no David Bailey (or David Laley for that matter!😉) but sometimes they come out alright 👍

Thanks very much Jack👍

thanks Justin, there’s no flies on me😂