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Looks good James, certainly different from the last time I saw it. Hope no blood was lost on the marker discs :D

thanks Tris, there's at least 2 more ideas up my sleeve at the minute for the oldies so watch this space

Looking good Paul You know what i believe i could, I'd fit one to anything given the chance

We used a bit of wood when we changed the blades on our Jaguar 900 but i held the wood while the other chap worked on the blades, no one is allowed to work in that area of the chopper alone, bosses orders

I'll second that one, a real pocket rocket of a tractor with that 5 cylinder engine

Thanks, a levelling board will be added, forgot to mention that bit earlier

We worked on the drag it from the stinging nettle principle, if one machine wouldn't do the job on that farm there was another one in the nettles that would :D

I used to use a 5150 Pro on a 4m power harrow, really nice tractor to use and drive and it pulled well. Looked good with the chrome exhaust it had on it. Brakes tend to be a weak point on some of them though \ You can't fault the older Renault tractors if you want something powerfull and that you can get in small spaces a 106-54 or 103-54 is good, ours spends alot of the time on the feeder wagon now

Cheers Paul I've covered several acres with one of these as well and would say that they are still a better tool thaan some of the more modern machines out there and very cheap to run. Thanks, Its the same about here, next to no one uses them about here either, they just can't cover enough acres in a day \

I've had it suggested to me about making some implements for the older tractors like the 5/7000 being brought out by Britains this year. I quite liked this idea so I've spent the last hour or so making up an old dutch or levelling harrow out of some plastruct and a couple of crumblers off a spare Lemken Gigant i had laying about, it still needs some teeth putting on the bars and a headstock made but let me know what you think of it so far

Did you get on alright with the silicone Sean

Well definately don't get a Same, the one my old boss had was a heap of trouble. As Smish says an MX would be a good tractor although they are quite basic still and not much further forward than a 5150. Don't discount an early 60 series New Holland as we had a 97 8560 that done 8000hrs with few problems and pulled like a train. One i would recommend going by experience at workis a Renault 106-54, the one where i work now has done 9000hrs and never been no trouble. It will pull a 16 ton trailer as well as the 836's we run and you could get a decent late model one for between ?7-12k with under 3000hrs on it, they have a bombproof engine and backend on them so shouldn't give any trouble

My tractors been rattling and knocking on the front axle for two months but they wouldn't do anything about it, the JD was the same, a few drips of oil and they wouldn't investigate, the machines just have to be used until they fail in a big way. I had to drive the Renault with a blown head gasket back 25 miles towing a 10 ton spreader as they wouldn't send a low loader back, if i stopped at a junction too long the guage went in the red but they don't seem to care

We still had the Renault 640 and loader but we needed both tractors to go on a 50 mile round trip after silage bales as the other 2 renaults in the yard were in dry dock, one with a head gasket and mine with play in the front akle drive shafts, the JD loader was in dry dock too with a bad oil leak. Its the usual story about our place, everythings had it and is used and not repaired until it goes big style \

Must be a Massey bug going round Martin, I went to start our 3080 and loader the other day and it just kept crankink over and blowing out diesel smoke, never did find what was wrong with it, i walked down the yard and got our mechanic he gets on it turns the key and the old barsteward started first time, its done it before apparenty \

I'm sure someone posted a couple of pics of some on here a while back that were rare. I don't think green was a particularly rare one as it also came with the log grab i think Found it!! http://www.farmtoysforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=3588.0

Red Red/black cab Green White Blue I believe that the blue and white variants are the rare ones, i'm not too sure that there wasn't a yellow one as well \

They are all part of the same American group ALAMO, I believe they own Spearhead, Twose, McConnel and i aren't to sure if Bomford aren't a part of them too now \

could give it a look i guess

no, thats what i was thinking, would work out cheaper than buying loads of adaptors only to be left with 50% of the sets

I have a couple here, maybe i could try casting them in resin or would it be too brittle

you must be joking!! I'll not be wasting my beer on them little blighters :D

I may do that one Sean. try using a salt shaker, its much more fun :D :D

I have altered the hopper slightly now so it is more funnel shaped at the bottom, let me know what you think to it

yeah, may have to bring that up with him, got to go back this week. Its quite a large site there and a processing plant from what i can make out