An Interested Spectator

Looking good !!!

Any chance of gettting these large MF 100 series in 1/32 ?

Must admit a soft spot for the yellow MF's.

Yep, Ros cab/panels on Britains chassis

Nope, no UH

Been around a long time waiting for the last part to finish it

Ronan, Please do post the pics. Look foward to seeing them Adie

Word used several times above, but ....stunning....

Even less UH

Still no UH

Contains no UH

Luv it !!!

Cheers guys. Thanks for replying Adie

Bruny, What are the tyres you have used from please ? Looks good. Adie

A while back someone was producing a 1/32 post knocker. A top of the range mode typel, which might be used by a contractor. Does anyone know it anyone is making these at the moment, or does anyone have one for sale ? Cheers Adie

Nice, the company i work for sells the real thing.

Nice model. Some good work there.

one more

Bought one of Mr PDC's 699 conversion kits and cut it down to go on a Britains MF 595 chassis, with the intention on making a 690. But i have now been looking at pics of a 698, but i am not sure if this has the same dimensions as a 690. Any suggestions as to which model to go for. Obviously need to make my mind up now for the positioning of exhaust stacks etc. Adie

First, thanks to everyone who has replied to this topic, it has been a very good, and informative read. I have never worked in agriculture, but as my handle indicates, I am fascinated by the subject. From my outside looking in view, even as a youngster when my father work on a farm, I always questioned the economics of producing feed and bedding to feed to animals indoors during winter, and then removing and spreading their waste afterwards, particularly when nature had designed said animals to live outside. I am given the impression that some farmers are so concentrated on producing forage feed, that the art of managing grazing animals has been lost to a certain extent. Having read much about 'wintering out' the one thing that has struck me more than anything else is that those who have made it work have a total grazing management policy for the whole year cycle. Those who have been less successful with it, to some extent, appear to be those who have sown a couple of fields of kale to save a bit of money in the short term. A bit like mini till, those who embraced it whole heatedly made it work, less so those who kept a plough just in case. The rider for both those examples is, of course, that you have the right ground and weather conditions to start with. The reality of the future is likely to be that the cost of inputs will continue to rise far faster than the prices farmers receive for their goods. Which means farmers either have to expand to gain economies of scale, or go to a low cost production methods to cut costs. And until science comes up with another option, wintering out is really the only, low cost, option. The other problem for farmers in the future will be the amount of green houses gasses caused by stock farming. Producers may be forced to reduce the amount of co2 they produce, IE less tractor movements, to offset the methane produced by the animals themselves. Silage make become a thing of the past purely because of the amount of co2 from the diesel burned to produce it, to feed animals that then produce a worse greenhouse gas in methane. The above are the musings of a barely educated amateur. Please feel free to shoot me down in flames . As usual Cheers Adie.

Was wondering if anyone had any opinions on this, and if there were any applications of this in the UK. Note - none Americans might have to listen quite hard to the commentary ! Cheers Adie

One for the real farmers ! In terms of coping with being kept outside during the UK winter I was wondering which beef/dual purpose breeds are considered the most hardy ? The obvious ones are Highland, but what other breeds ? Cheers as ever Adie

Your bringing back some real memories for me. I spent more of my youth than I care to remember watching a white DB 990 with Sta-Dri cab pulling an in-line kidd and Weeks silage trailer. An MF 135 doing the running to the clamp, and another on the clamp. There is a beauitfully restored kidd local to the Taunton area of Somerset. Does a lot of the shows. Beleive it belongs to the Burston (spelling?) brothers. Really wish one of the model companies would make one of these. Adie

You can almost smell the mix of mud and diesel ! Cheers for the comments elsewhere. Adie

For anyone who might be interested.. 362 front axel and wheels. UH front and rear tyres/wheels. Siku hitch, paint and filler. The cab was a reproduction one that had got broken whilst in the bottom of the bits box.