Gav836

I think that may be nearer the truth there, i had a job stopping the Ford 8630 and lorry convo when it weighed in at 29180kg, moving it not a problem but stopping it was another matter :D

I think they are as i have some Britains lambs that look like that from the early 1990's, pretty sure that there is a goose like it as well that came with the farm playbase

someone told us that the fine was about ?1000 a ton for every ton over weight-oh dear! There was a 8000 series JD and 18 ton trailer carting into the mill when they were taking our wheat in this year, the lorry driver said that they threw the weighbridge ticket out as soon as he had gone, he was nearly 18 tons empty!!

i wasn't too far out then :D

researched it and edited post, thought i'd beaten everyone to it! Take a look on here- http://www.axial.hu/gepek/simba.htm

It looks like a Toptilth to me which is one of the trailed and mounted seedbed cultivators that simba used to make at one time.

Mines gavin1495 as a few of you already know on here. ebay allocated name but it'll do

not a problem, i'm off till thursday but i'll get you some when i go back

I can get you one next week at work, i use a farmforce furrow press with the chain type arm connection, any pictures you want of it let me know

blimey, don't ask for much do ya! :D

Thats good then cos i need that slurry, complete with guzzler :D

i said 30ish so get your own guess penguin boy :D

well i had a Ford 8630 gross 29 tons with the same lorry convo that the 8870 had at 42 tons, not bad going for a tractor that size i don't think, it even pulled it uphill on a field at that weight with a flat tyre

Did think about spreading some rotton sugarbeet bits what came from the beet cleaner, to say they stink is an understatement!! Think the neighbours would complain though, do like the sound of the slurry guzzler though :D

sounds like our Cousins combination harrow (pic in drilling sugarbeet topic) was until this year, front coil had smashed up 2 years ago so was just a shaft, works better now we have a new spiral on the shaft, strange that :D

bet you can see where you have been down a narrow lane! should think they chew the banks up like our discs do don't they :D

course i do, i have a little job in mind for it! Need to make a pitfall trap with it for the teenage lads who vandalised our garden last night :D

So am i close then Nath

i've seen them before, we owned a set where i used to work, never got used while i was there, we pulled them out of the nettles to see about reblading them but the cost was too much so we dumped them back in the nettles

I'd guess that you were around the 30 ton mark with that lot. My mate had a NH 8870 gross 42 tonnes with a lorry convo on the back full of wheat so more than possible :D

Nice pic Mart. They look like row crop tyres to me as the rims look slightly narrow to be standard fitment. Not unusual about my way to have wider than average row crops for bedforming work, chap i used to work for had a set on a Renault Atlas for bedforming/tilling in parsnips

i think the manufacturers should use students to test new machines as if they survive them driving/operating them they would be damned near indestructable

certainly looks rough, had they been using the intake elevator as a bulldozer? not seen one that battered before At least scrap metal prices are reasonable at the minute :D

There are a few people around this area who used to run or still do run flat 10 bale sledges/grabs. A lot of people now around here have gone over to mini hesstons or round now due to the easier handling compared to conventional bales

Hubba Hubba! come to Pappa! I just love those early Nuffields, i used to own 2 of them up till 2 years ago, a 1963 4/60 Diesel and a 1948 M3 3 wheeled TVO model that had been fully restored. Will post up some pics in a couple of weeks time if anyones interested. (after i've waded through the 40 or so pages you lot will have left for me to read )