CX820Joe

I paid with Apple Pay - is it as easy to recover the money in that case? I will wait and see though, I am a little paranoid about these things

Hi. on Sunday I saw a seller had 3 of the Britains 100 years John Deeres for sale so bought the 3650 there and then. The following morning the 3050 and 3640 were still there so bought the 3050 as well. The prices seemed very reasonable (49.99 and 39.99) - maybe a touch too good to be true but seller had 100 % positive feedback and quite a few ratings. i had messages regarding both on Tuesday saying they being marked as dispatched and that tracking would be uploaded once they had been taken to the post office. In the mean time (Wednesday) I had an offer on the 3640 too which I accepted. I sent the seller a message to say thanks for the offer and that I had bought the 2 other models and apologised if they were already in the post and then they were having to send another parcel out. There was no response to this message. There has been no delivery as yet which is not so concerning as it has only been a few days since the posted notification but I now see the sellers other items have all vanished off eBay - I think there were hundreds listed, some farm models and also model railway stuff. Does it sound iffy or am I just being over cautious? If the items don’t turn up I think I am protected ?

You can just about see it in the attached screenshot- looks like the US type quick attach

Very nice I have to say, quite weighty too. Hitch is standard Britains one. i would recommend it

There have been a few tractors going through the town with slurry tankers today - NH T7.225 Blue Power, JD 6150R and 6930 and Case Puma 160 amongst them. More interesting was a Dark Grey Same Explorer which passed here with a McHale bedder attached.

Another Amazon purchase - very nice it is too

Looks brilliant Ian

PS I really must make an effort and make a proper background for these photos

Some classic tillage kit: JD 8400 and Kuhn power harrow JD 4450 and Bomford Superflow Ford 6640 and Nordsten drill

Agrimanuals has the attached - only 4 pages so maybe it won’t have it?

Had these 2 today. I thought I ought to get the 8400 before they all sell out. Very nice imposing model but the front linkage is going to need a spot of glue. the Marge Case Magnum is a replacement for one which came the other day which turned out to have misaligned steering. The replacement one isn’t perfect in the front axle department either so must have been a bad batch but I will put up with it.

Found this photo of the JD 4960 due later in the year

I have bought a replacement for my battered old Fiat Hitachi loader in the form of a Volvo L60H, and also something I’ve been wanting to get for a while, a Britains Ransomes Nordsten drill which is in very nice condition

I would like to add weights to this model but I think the DT ones with the headlights would sit too high up possibly? I wondered whether the ones in the HLT picture would look better? Screenshot from YouTube of a real 4450 by the way

Britains John Deere 4450 from an eBay seller from Ludlow, bought yesterday and came today

UH didn't have a stand there apparently, but did make some announcements. The piece in CT says they plan to release the four or five combines 'in time for harvest'. Didn't state if that means the 2024 harvest though!

Just reading the Nuremberg report in the latest Classic Tractor which says that as well as the TX 66 and Massey 760, UH also plan to release an NH CR11 and Fendt and MF liveried Ideal combines

Just came in the post

Britains Bomford Superflow off eBay

I’ve just been watching the Farming With Ford DVD and one of the featured tractors is a Ford 9700 - what I was wondering is what visual differences there are between it and a TW20? It looks to me as though the 9700 had a different front axle and rear wheels and taller air cleaner but otherwise very similar?

There is an article in the Oct 2023 Classic Tractor on a contractor who has used 50 Deeres in the past. Can see two 4450s in his list, one from 1984 and one from 1987

Just replied in your topic Paul but was sent Monday and came today. Parcelforce delivered it. Maybe there wasn’t an issue as it was through eBay - I think the postage was twice the cost of the actual item though so not a cheap way around it by any means.

I just bought a weight block off the same company (albeit via eBay) and it was sent Monday and arrived today - wasn’t a cheap option mind.

Bought one of these front weights from Universmini via eBay

I have had these today