Valley Axe Man

MMMMMHaving those Weeks and MF silage trailers on your farm, what chopper do you use to fill them bud?

Hi Sean, your trailers look like a grand job, 7 ton twin axle weeks would be just a bit bigger then your 6 an half, but would be grand for those of us that farm smaller acerages and still keep chopping in house rather than modern day grass gobbling monsters! Infact now i think about it, didn't you build a Kidd Fymax spreader too? i think it was you that had one at Toytrac a few years back

No Problem Bill, i just sent you a PM hope to see you some where bud

Theres a Toy Fair on too? I didn't know that!

Hi there, is any one going to Annandale Model Exhibition at the Richard Greenhow Centre Gretna, This year?, we making the trip up from the Valley with a display or two. Hope to see you there

Is anyone off to Shepton Mallet and The Royal Bath and West Showground for the 10th anniversary tractor show?

Hope to see some of you lot at Malvern, a couple of us from the Valley making a trip down to catch up with friends old and new! See you there ! !

I dont know of anyone making them at the moment, everyone seems to be making 12,14,and 16 tonner trailers, but some nice 7 or 8 ton trailers would be great i think, nothing too big and not nessecarily Weeks, but Fraser, Marshall, Horn, Triffit, Easterby,etc, trailers with a nice age to them.

Now Britains have re-issued Ford and International Tractors from the 70s and 80s some Weeks Trailers of the era would make nice matches, especially if coupled to a drag chopper of the day too, possibly a nice Claas Jaguar 62/62e with engine on. Not every one wants great fields for great big machinery, some like to remember and model the silage harvest taking 12 days not 12 hours!!!!

Hi there, just bought Uh New Performance Super Major, but it not stay standard for long, got plans for it and will be unvailed at the Chris Whitehead Memorial Show in April

Hi Ford Crazy001, hope to put some pics on soon, most of the Ford and Ford based conversion stuff that you seen was part of my late dads collection, my chosen route is Nuffield / Leyland / Marshall and the forestry displays were always a joint projects. It good to get a friendly welcome from over the water! Cheers bud

Hopefully i be about at a few more shows this year too, just take a bit of getting back into it again, whilst i had bit of time had a load of ideas for future projects, just got to decide which ones to tackle first!

Cheers Mark & Sean, yep i think i remember you at Toytrac 2010 Sean, we had Nuffield and Leyland display with Taarup Forager, you on FTF stand opposite with your scatchbuilt combines and were talking about putting a Scaledown Bomford hedger on a UH 7810.

I hope to be about when time allows bud.

Morning Sue and Bill, yep, im Mr Whitehead, Ribble Valley Model Farm & Construction, I think i seen you at Toytrac Sue, and I know i seen you a time or thee Bill, its taken a while but i here now with Damians & Hazels help!!!! thanks muchly. fingers crossed for a good turn out on 29th April!

Now then my dad be proud as hell of your support for his memorial show, it be great to see you all there for "A REET GOOD DO"

Morning all, The Valley Axe Man here, new to this job but hey we give it a go an we see what happens!!!! I been mates with JCB BLOKE and STARBRUSH and LAKELAND for a good few years an now finally got on to this internet thing!! who said we were behind the times in the valley! Some of you on here will have seen our displays when we have been on tour from our native Lancashire, from foraging to forestry, 1/87th to 1/16th, either Nuffield, Leyland, or Marshall (truly British Steel) or Fordson, Ford, Roadless, County and Doe. Lets see what happens next!!!