844john

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 !

1 hour ago, MadMark said:

Nice to see a well kept tractor John, how many hours has it on the clock?

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!

1 hour ago, mb86 said:

Very tidy john. I have some to do as well but the forecast isn't great f

r next week. 

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 !

12 minutes ago, mb86 said:

Thanks john. She has 4th gear from a 7610 fitted so you'd struggle to get away from her. 

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

56 minutes ago, mb86 said:

My wife has a similar attitude to the models, I remind her about the horses she keeps spending money on.  brilliant model if your farm, I would have loved ine of here when I was little. In fact I still would.

I reckon they think we just haven't grown up Martin, mind they might be right, I keep telling her I'll let her know when I'm ready to become an adult  ha ha! I made the farm several years ago for our son as part of a bigger farm yard he has, trouble is he's 13 now and thinks he's getting too big for it, I keep reminding him I'm still not too old for it !

25 minutes ago, mb86 said:

1 hour ago, MadMark said:

Nice conversions John and looks like a nice collection you have.

Cracking conversions john, so is your collection. 

Thank you both, that is just the tip of a probably too large iceberg! There's upwards of 500 tractors and implements under our stairs and secreted around the house, plus our little lad will have well over 100, the hardest part is explaining to the better half why we "need" so many tractors!

Here's a picture of a model of our farm that I made for our son, again it's not finished !

Checking the stock this morning, there are worse offices to be in today!