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Super neat! It's not very popular here in Canada but in the States, there are competitions at county fairs and at toy shows where the kids compete in pedal pulling competitions. Is this what you plan to do with your Green Mochine?

Glad you liked the topic Marky. I just wanted to post some stuff that most of the lads wouldn't normally see out and about. As for the blade set-up, If you look at the last picture, you'll see to the right of the old pick-up, a sheer edge of snow. This is and egde left by my b-i-l's snow-blower, a little 4hp walk-behind model. It arcs snow up in the air and it drops snow onto undisturbed snow and that blown snow ends up being very packed. The same happens when snow is drifted by the wind, it packs in like blown sand. I spent ages trying to get my first "pass" cleared, the tractor would just spin out. I finally hit on the remedy by accident. Run over the snow a bit with the front wheels to break up the "crust" and the I could push it. Even so, it was like moving wet sand. The blade is 6' wide but if I took any more than a 1' cut the tractor would spin or slew round. When snow is packed, offsetting the blade is a no-go too because the tractor slews off to the side. Pulling it works well if the snow is fresh and not too deep and you just want to move it off to the side but if you want to move it a distance, you will get too much accumulation and once again, the tractor will slew. I was moving a depth of snow of 2'-2 1/2' and pushing it all 50'-60' from the driveway so the whole time I was working at 90 degrees to the direction of the driveway, only way I could do it Took me 5 hours. Sorry for the really rambling answer. Marky, if I found out you'd been in Western Canada and hadn't stayed with us, I'd be having to have "words" with you I hope you're not too clean living

Aye, it's a bit far Bill Just found out Mrs TOG has booked our flights through Transat and the downside is that the luggage weight limit is pretty low so I couldn't even smuggle it on in m' suitcase. Might have to leave some clothes in the UK on the way home to be able to get all my toy purchases home.

Much cool. Make sure to post pictures when the outfit gets working out in the field

That's my dad's truck, an '02 Ford F250 with a 7.3 V8 turbo diesel engine that puts out 275 HP, nice truck, leather interior, power everything but a bit thirsty. Mrs TOG wouldn't go with me if I'd taken my truck, a '92 Dodge with a Cummins diesel. It rides like a tank!

We're pretty sure she's a '74. If you believe what a salesman tells you ( ) when it was bought new, it pulled a swather and did a little bit of spraying. When the owner retired, it spent its time on a scrub-mower keeping a yard-site looking nice in the summer, eventually it sat idle for a while until it was repainted and traded-in on a ride-on lawn mower when the owner "moved to town". We bought it from the dealer in, about 1988. We used it for all haying operations, cutting, raking, baling and picking 10s of thousands of bales with a New Holland 1032 bale wagon. It spent quite a few autumns pulling an 8 tonne dung spreader too. Recently her duties have been raking hay, mowing lawns/yard care and running a Norse bale wrapper.

Thanks Marky Alice was built in (about) 1975, is 135 PTO horsepower and has around 8500 hours on 'er with her engine and transmission rebuilt about 3-4000 hours ago after the first half of her life was spent doing fairly heavy tillage work. The last 15 years or so have been spent on a smaller beef operation doing light tillage and haying work. I took the picture to accentuate her assets and to hide the odd small blemish (well, you do, don't you? ) The grill and front of the bonnet area have a few dents and the wheel-rims have terrible surface rust but I hope to do something about that this summer. She and Fanny should meet.........swop stories

We left the tractor with him as at that time there were a possible 6 more weeks when a large snow-fall was possible. Snow blows and drifts badly in that area and he cannot take the risk of being late for work. He had advertised locally for a farmer to clear snow from his driveway on a regular basis but recieved no replies. He will buy a tractor over the summer but this gives him time to shop around and wew weren't using ours. A 6 hour trip is not a really big deal here.

We bought this ol' girl back in August last year. We needed a second loader tractor for unloading bales in the yard at home. It needed to be big enough to power the 13' disc mower-conditioner and also had to have 3pt hitch. I had hoped to find a Deutz DX 120 but any I found were mega-money. This Allis Chalmers 7040 came up for sale very close to home. The owner knew I was looking for a tractor and contacted me but it wasn't what I had in mind and went to look at it just to be sociable. On closer inspection though, it was just what we needed.

It was almost dark (and -15 celsius) hence the less than perfect pictures.

My brother-in-law has bought an acreage outside of Winnipeg Manitoba. He has been having trouble keeping his driveway clear as winter has gone on however. Our International 574 sits idle all winter so Mrs TOG and I took it and our 3pt hitch blade down for him to use. It's a 6 hour trip and when we got there, the first thing I had to do was clear the driveway so I could get the truck and trailer in off the road

Very nice. What's gonna power it?

I remember having a set of those when I was a kid. The bikes and riders eventually got separated but the bikes showed up around the house for years. I also went through a Britains cowboys and indians phase. I believe some of that stuff is worth a fair bit of money now.

Looks top-notch as always nowadays Does the hand support bracket come as standard or is it extra? Seriously, Texas, do you know if the trailer rears up if displayed tipped without a tractor or couldn't the lift rams hold the body up?

Useful lookin' line-up there

Welcome Noel. When you're here, it's a good idea to leave your sanity at the door and move your sense of humour to the fore

Very nice indeed.

Hmmm....not familiar with that model JK, could you post a picture of it?

Come on UH, build that 1503!!

Be sure to check with your insurer. I figured that the dollar amount for collections or vauables was fine for my models until we realised that there would be nothing left in that amount for Mrs TOG's crystal and our small art collection not to mention her die-cast cars. Make sure the amount covers the collections of everyone in the house

Big-assed air drill, something from Bourgault.

The 460 with the loader looks neat.

Richard, the bale that came in my Siku Claas Rollant 255 Roto-Cut fits into my Britiain/Ertl John Deere 590 baler, so, if all Siku bales are the same size, Siku is the one to go for (I think)

OH YES!!!!!! COME TO DADDY * * Ahem, er thanks for that very interesting Deutz picture Paul. That is one outfit I'd crawl over broken glass to see working.

As always, thanks for the info lads I have a couple of extras for some reason, an '82 and an '83 catalogue. Both complete, pages in great shape, covers look like they have been sliding around the front seat of a rep's car a bit I'd like to swop 'em for a couple of pre '78 or 84','85 or post '86 catalogues if anyone is interested.