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Thanks Paul, looking forward to it. Nothing in devon at the moment, but that can change

thanks Joe, just had a quick look, some great stuff. I wish i had the skill to do some of this work. Your T'gator is something else. By the way our web site is really rubbish and out of date, being re-built this winter.

Hi Joe yes we had them on 900 rears 710 frot The 939's will be the same, and the 724's will also be the same, monster tyres!

Its mostly stubble, odour is a problem over here, so spreading on grass and not incorporating causes issues. We do a bit where we can. We spread about 350,000 tonnes a year so try and get as much done out of season as possible, tough though! Especially in Kent, where 2 or 3 lexions are eating acres and Quadtraks or chanllengers are then chasing us round the fields!

We only spread for proabaly 5 months a year, weather dependant. We work in 10 counties overall so get about a bit, we spread compost and papaer sludge too. Paper sludge is how i git into it years ago, We have a busy year with the trucks, never a dull moment there, 52 weeks a year!

Some pic's, enjoy!

awesome spreader, the 230 is a beast, we were worried out it being top heavy and being hard to drag on a wet stubble, but with 939's on the front we should be ok. We do alot of sewgae cake and hope to get 23 tonne in them.

wow, firstly i have to say thanks for all the help with the picture uploading, i will have a go in a bit, but secondly i cant beleive that Terragator model - that is exactly what we run, even down to the wooden greedy boards- i'm very very impressed with that. i feel i should make an effort and picture the collection, i have a worn out debit / credit card to show for it! our new 230 spreaders will be coming in Black, (Black Beauty fendt black), with red wheels, the 939's will come in as Black beauty's (to join the 2 x 828's and 2 black beauty 724's that we just ordered for the lime spreaders), so hopefully will look amazing (fingers crossed). The 2 x 828's we have look brilliant, as per my photo, they are in black with lime green spreaders.

Thank you, yes 1/32 is certainly my addiction, i spend far to much on it like we all do i guess. As soon as i can work out how to get some photos on here i will, and i will take some of the collection and upload them, been lucky enough to gain a large dbp collection too which i'm really pleased with.

We currently have 150 Lowlanders, but we have just ordered some 230's! Massive. Fendt 939's to go on the front of them! We have had one Bunning just did 1000 t this year, average is somewhat lower though. Superb kit - self steering, wiegh cells etc etc. nice stuff. How do i load photos up? I'm having a thick moment and cant do it? Going to get some dinner in a min but will upload some pictures when i return!

Hi and thank you very much for the replies, i've been a Britains alholic since i was old enough (probably since 74 - 75), lost interest for a couple of years when the teens hit, but got back into it with a vengance. And e bay helped with trying to fill in the gaps in the Britains collection, and of course now we have UH & all the other model makers out there which is great. i will try and work out how to put some pics up, the collection is a nit big though but i will do some of it. i will also see if i can minimise some of the Terragator pictures to load up, we have 2 four wheelers, Challengar T'gators, the rest of our spreading fleet is Fendts & Bunnings. Great kit! And we have 8x4 Scanias too for moving cake. All good fun!

Hi Tris, Thanks for that, just had a look - wow there are some amazing models there. The Grimme is great!!

Hi everyone, Newly joined to FTF today so thought i'd introduce myself. Kentish based and been in farming all my life which has now lead to the waste industry, recycling various materials to Agriculture. We have Terragators and Black Beauty Fendts out there spreading away! On the collection front i'm a 1/32 aholic. Buy all the new stuff as it appears and have slowly but surely managed to find pretty high amount of boxed Britains items going back to good old days!!! Have some gems! Looking forward to FTF. Cheers Charlie

Hi everyone, I'm new to FTF but have been collecting for far too many years now! Looked at FTF lots but only just joined. With reference to what we would like to see coming out I have been waiting for years for 70's & 80's kit to appear, it seems to have started slowly but surely, but please lets have some of these - Grimme 2 row spud harvester with canvas graders top, Ransomes faun spud planter, 6 metre MF 30 drill, 4, 5 & 6 Dowdeswell reversable, Bettinson 4 metre drill, 4 metre Lely roterra, 80's potato grading line, lely centreliner with bag crane, JD combines 960, 985, 1075/85, 1177/88. Perhaps some fo these should be made by UH or similar so we get quality? cheers