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thank you rick.............hence my recent absence..........deja vu he actually died with us having only driven down the 100 miles from his house to our local garage( he was getting his car( my old one) mot`d with the garage that i used ) that morning. he`d only just returned home 3 days before after spendin 9 weeks in the us with his eldest daughter. heart attack exactly the same as my mum whats the odds of that only 14 months apart , he`d only been in our house once before. air ambulance getting him to the hospital in 9 mins still couldn`t save him.

was really yesterday but en route to father in laws funeral runnin a bit late , missed not one but two mobile speed cameras on m74 flyovers.....not sure what speed I was doing.......mind on other things............

i think it looks a smart tractor now,few more appearing round our way again..two new dealerships appointed in place of one firm previously............I am wondering what that could be telling us though.

think i remember someone telling me the A4.236 had good oil flow through it which made it exceptionally well suited to fit a turbo to it. some great brochures there, never seen half of these foreign ones before

i cant remember how to check what number i am but its 40 something.........i found britains models on ebay bought something off either dave T or nathan coop................I think it was nathan tho told me about this place so took a look and signed up...........no idea when it was either dont you just love it being vague.........fraid as I think it was john lennon said, life is what happens when you are busy making other plans so much of my post content nowadays is about real life stuff rather than models due to me not havin as much to do with the models as I`d like. great place , a credit to Andy , mods and members alike, everyone who contributes , gives help, advice and opinions.long may it continue

ive had a fair bit off Geoff in the past without any problems but I haven`t bought anything off him recently

only ever had tractor loaders , ive never properly used a handler I always wanted a handler due to pretty much whats being said.............faster, safer in use,with 4 wheel steer more manoeverable,higher lift , longer reach. BUT ........................ having done a fair few thousand hours on tractors with loaders over the years, I`m fairly good with mine, the new one , claas fl80, 3yrs old almost,took a bit of getting used to after the fergie loaders , the grab has been a god send ,as I say BUT, nowadays I have no interest in getting a handler......give me my trusty old tractor and loader. yes they have limits but you havent got the versatility in the handler and when costs have to be kept to a minimum you have to take everything into consideration not least the insurance issues regarding legislation and the fact I have an employee who does his best but isnt one i`d be happy to let him loose on £40 000 worth of machine without some sort of training , again another cost.

some grasshoppers round here, terrible power zappers on the hills, folks really struggled.one guy even put a bloody engine on his so he only had to tow it. Taarups round here were the main ones with claas a close second or the smaller guys like us , had claas disc mowers,kuhn or bamford as they were disc mowers or Fahr Km22 `s. there was a kidd clipper at borgue nearby and various odd others.before the bamford disc mower dad bought in 77 he had a kemper drum mower, good clean cutter but something major happened and it was better to replace it, can`t remember what now.

Ive had plants arrive damaged too, sometimes you get on ok complaining, once i got full replacements full refund and kept the original boxes that after some tlc 75% came ok probably worth 45 quid, BUT on the other side, i have had plants go missing and complained to no avail.actually at the moment I have issues with an ebay purchase , piddly wee thing but still, (britains lawnmower won for 99p unboxed of course but still a bargain) it hasnt arrived and nobody is owning up to anything this is into the 3rd week. good repair job.........if you arent happy though, flog it on ebay and buy another paul!!!!!!

cool stuff mark , this just gets better, very realistic and all the floral garden stuff too, not cheap. The Imbers are great in there. My brother made a real log splitter just like DT`s very effective from a very simple pile of scrap and a hydraulic ram. you have some great ideas and put them to use with great effect, thanks for sharin!

dont know much about the auto fill etc,. big farm nearest here has just bought a BIG conor its 2800 or 3000 and put a smithy made boom on it.they have 5 tankers now.....next door to him has a new hi spec 2500 .I do know round here our bumpy steep fields used to split the tank from the chassis on the Abbey tankers in particular. All kinds of tankers around here . major, conor,star, fraser,hi spec, marshall,abbey ( ours is an abbey) tullow, NC,malgar,redrock,vicon even a massive jwt weston .

cheers mark, I hadn`t thought much about it til the guy offered to buy it the other day. might ask some of the local guys , some of them before have enquired after it

this came up out of the blue really and am really just seeking thoughts and an approx value from anyone with an idea.has to be better than my own !!! I have one on the farm here, its had a new floor so is far from original , has been well used, original rims but not tyres. It`s back door is there .it`s rusty and rough, make no mistake. I have been offered £500 for it from a guy who will probably know what it`s really worth. I also had an enquiry off a guy I bought a wee old quad off to use as a spare..he`s looking to take it off my hands , probably in his eyes as part payment for the quad....It cost me £520 off ebay BTW. I really hadn`t meant to sell it , it will only rust away sitting where it is as I don`t use it. I would like to see it done up now I think about it but don`t think I`d get round to it so would probably be best to let it go if the money is right.... Any thoughts please ,

well well well, this is truly fantastic , I doubt if any of us will see a better MF restoration.thank you for sharing. All your hard work is , in my opinion well worth it and as for Marky`s £10k . I have no doubt it would make at very least half as much again as that if you ever chose to sell, not that I think you ever will. really made my day this has. A point too on the pressure control, my dad was given one when he bought his 165 new back in 73 or 74 I can`t remember and it lay up in the old dairy loft still in the original brown paper it came in until a guy came back to work with us ( he first worked with the family in 1948! ) in 1984 just before I left school..........this guy is a genius , we used to say things took one graham power or 1.5 normal man power........he just laughed.anyways he was a pressure control freak too funny it wasnt as effective on the 565 as it was on one of the old 135`s we have a 1965 round fender version UK C reg not done up other than brothers rough paint job.he did reline the pistons in it 5 yrs ago .we didnt have a 4wd til 93 and used the pressure control up to a point until graham retired. I can`t say I ever really fully understood the intricacies of it all.I got the basics and at that time I got a lot of the hand working so didnt use it as much as I would now have liked to. A cracking piece of engineering and would I be right in thinking ( never thought about this before) more ferguson ingenuity and brilliance????? hats off to Mr H and his contribution to modern agriculture and BACK ON TOPIC : hats off to you Brian on your faithful restoration

wondering Jo if you laughed when you saw cerin`s face this morning after his dalliance with westons , was he a little fragile? happy new year all BTW

just in case you are gonna go and buy one, i have a jml exakt saw and it looks an impressive machine.........................however!!!!......... I havent used it much and found it quite difficult to use if I had got to try it before I bought it I wouldn`t have done so........perhaps with practise I will improve however. My old male brain was struggling with the 3 things,........keeping one finger on the safety lever for the blade guard, working the switch and pushing down straight on the saw body to let the guard come up clear of the blade to allow it to work wasn`t easy. \

did you mean if you had a keenan 140 how many cows would you reasonably run ....... something along the lines of for example ..............you`d have 200 cows or if you had 300 you perhaps be looking at running a bigger machine?

theres a site somewhere, sorry Ive lost the link, yes they are available, i looked as part of my research into getting one , if I did buy one and it did have rusty doors, how much would it be to replace and they were 580 each or thereabouts.

so john I`m then assuming , a tractor from the drier east too would be better than one from my neck of the very wet woods.............I could always stop the worst of any further of the wet by retro fitting fenders if it happened not to have any too. think i`ll pass on the 399 all things considered.

hubba hubba come to jakey ;D yes thanks thats good,so no horrid little quirk hiding away to trap the unsuspecting buyer.........the bigger one might allow a few extra hours on the clock even if a few horses had passed on , still be plenty left for my jobs til i felt it needed it and i could afford to get it sorted

guys thanks heaps once again, lack of support for the 3100 series so i`m guessing if i can find something to suit my eye and pocket then it had better be a 3000......i knew about rusty doors but wasnt aware of the gearbox trick (thank you marky) ,something to enquire about.Is there any reason why there seem to less favourable comments coming out on the 3095...........were they that much less popular? thanks again this is all good,very helpful stuff

thanks Gav yes colm, it would be used for fertiliser spreading,mowing, muck spreading,round baling silage, possibly some light cultivations......might amount to 4/500 hrs a year....see nothin major i have hills and do like the idea of a 6 cyl ........ 399 would be ok but was perhaps lookin for a few more horses so if if it had lost a wee bit power there was still enough left without a major refit at least for a yr or two................. I dont want much do I Mark, I like the look of the 3000`s, but would not turn down anythin decent just because of the look not too fussed about accessibility issues as i have the 590 and the celtis and 2 135`s so it wouldnt really need to poke about sheds much

thanks guys deal done hi spec bought , was the best all round deal really and firm i`m dealing with had one in stock at older price ................. thank you for your help

yes it`s me again..........ended up ordering a hi spec muckspreader, was best all round deal......thanks to all.................. in the same vein i have a need for a nice spare tractor,something decent to keep the hours down a bit on my claas.........it has to be an MF ............... no , please no grief about other makes , it won`t work so I am asking for advice on something a bit above my knowledge base, bein a stock farmer until quite recently 100hp was on the bigger side round here for us small guys. I`d like something reliable in good nick and from 105 to 125 hp, older is no probs as it wouldnt work everyday to any great extent so was thinking 3085 3095, and perhaps up to a 3125 ???if those sound about right........L to perhaps R reg good spec , in good average condition.tyres i can replace if need be so they arent so much of an issue. so whats most reliable, any of those tend to have big expensive to fix probs?.........and what would this sort of machine fetch in the arable areas. any readily available now. thanks in advance

thanks guys, yep the overall finish left a lot to be desired especially on a muckspreader but quite heavy steel .................have discovered today though I can get a very slightly larger 8 Cu as opposed to a 7.7 for less money with a very good offer on a Hi Spec from a guy we use a bit so i`ll probably get it from him but am awaiting prices from 2 others with what they describe as very good and excellent second hand machines one of them only 2 yrs old, other done very little work..............we`ll see thanks again