844john

I know what you mean, for all International and John Deere are closest to my heart, like you I still collect many other brands, I suppose it's just what takes your fancy really. I will admit that I do have a soft spot for Fords from the classic era, but I try to keep that quiet!

that's a useful bin, and a useful manitou as well, bet that was interesting going down the road mind ! It's chucking it down here now, but every cloud....

Very, very nice. I still like the green and the red very much, but I suppose the blue isn't bad either

Managed to dodge the showers and got it wrapped up just as the weather broke. Sometimes you are just lucky !

Well, knocked some second-cut down on Sunday, fingers crossed we miss the worst of the showers !

I like that green cupboard very much!

A lot of it comes down to nostalgia for the tractors that were new when we were younger I think. A couple of years ago I spent a morning leading topsoil with a Ford 7810, it was great fun to start with but by dinner time it was starting to loose its appeal a little. Due to problems with its trailer I then spent the next day and a half leading with a New Holland 7050 and I have to admit that even after a long day you got out and didn't feel tired. I still prefer the older kit, but just for shorter blasts!

I don't need any excuses !!!

Very, very nice Paul, the older gear just has more character I think, but if you have to sit on a tractor for 12 hours a day you can't beat the new ones....or maybe I'm just getting soft!

Thank you Paul, our Sam's obsessed with tractors and farming in general, not sure if thats a good thing or not !

Thanks Mark, I try to look after our gear, these old ones can run a long time but they do need to be maintained. She's just dropped over 9000 hours, we have a case 844 about three years older and she's only just done 1800 hours!

Thank you Martin, no,its not great is it, and it keeps changing by the day!

Mower on, just waiting for the weather to pick up and knock down a bit of second cut !

I'd just follow the smoke !!

A few from Sam's room

like that a lot Martin, you have to look twice to see its not the real thing. Not sure about the sticker on the front weight box mind !

That looks much better Mark, just make sure you don't slip her into gear, will make a right mess of your carpet !

Thank you Martin. At the moment it is being built with fully functioning loader and back-actor, but that might all change to a static model depending on how I get on with all the rams !

Scratch-built JCB 3CX extradig, will be based on one near to me that has a home-made headstock on the loader to allow it to swap its 4 in 1 for muck grabs, grain buckets etc.

For me it's another vote for the New Holland 8070 along with the Clayson 1540, but also an older International such as the 8-61 or 8-71, all bring back good memories

Looking better already Mark, who's ever seen a clean muck spreader anyway !

Thank you Sean, I really must get around to finishing it, its been sat like that for 4 or 5 years now, Schuco beat me to the finished article!

Thank you very much Paul, will try and get more of it photographed when I get time

Thank you David, the 6710 was the first conversion I attempted about 5 or 6 years ago and was based on a Britains 5000 chassis and the original TW20 bonnet and cab. A local farmer had one from new and I always thought they were a fine looking tractor, that was in the days when a 2wd tractor actually looked good !

he's half way there