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Greta job Mark. I envy you fellas who can buy a model to modify without the postage doubling the total cost of the model :'( Can you explain how replacing the bottom of the original linkage has resulted in the modified version being able to hold up the heavier 3PT equipment. Or have I got it wrong and the 7000 doesn't have that problem.

Dude 5 miles down the road has (or at least had last year) one of those. It's all red though. It doesn't do much anymore. I don't think he uses it much because getting parts for it is difficult now. The local dealer closed down.

Now thassa nice model One of those will be winging its way to Manitoba, Canada i'm sure.

Complete mix and match of tractor make and sort of the same for model manufacturer except I notice most of the older Ertl stuff is all in one spot on the shelf and all the UH is under glass keeping dust an' sticky mitts off. DBP stuff is in its own glass case too. Quite a bit of UH stuff is still in boxes ( :'() while I try to negotiate with Mrs TOG for display cabinet space..............

AAAAGGGHHHH!!!! Get some duals on that thing! Woah, does that look strange. Really good pictures.

Some interestin' pictures there Matty. What make is that there baler eh? If it had been a North American picture, I'd have bet that it was a Gehl baler. \

I have a few unboxed Gama Claas models in the basement. I have a conventional small-size square baler, (I would guess it's a Markant) a round baler, would guess a Rollant 62, maybe smaller and a forage wagon. There is also a single rotor rake too. I would say the balers and the rake are about 1:20 scale, definately not anywhere near 1:32 and the forage wagon is somewhere between, say, 1:25 scale \ The square baler has a mechanism not a lot unlike the Britains balers that move 3 (provided) plastic square bales along above the pick-up area and into the bale chamber and out along an elastic band and out the back of the baler. Very basic models but quite robust when used as toys I would expect. Mine were horse-traded around half a dozen toy shows in Manitoba and Saskatchewan over a two-year period until I bought the bunch of them for around 12 quid, the lot, I think. We also had a real Markant, super baler. Bought it used from a dealer for 80 quid, it worked perfectly, he said he just couldn't move it \ we used it for 3 years and sold it at our farm sale before coming to Canada for 450 quid. We won't talk about the white-washing we took on our 1 year old Leley Lotus tedder though :'( Short story though, my Gama models are all noticably bigger than 1:32 scale britainswomble.

That b****y ref giving Chelsea a penalty this morning > > There was no way in "downstairs where its hot" that that was a penalty > > CRUD, CRUD, CRUD!!! :'(

Thought it was taking you a long time to post in this topic I was beginning to think you'd fandangled serial #1 of this model or summat

Great pictures John! You put some real thought into the composition of those. good subject matter too I like the hairy coo picture, Mrs TOG and I were on that road on holiday in June, took the train from the station down in the valley (love that road!!!) to Goathland.

I don't need to take pics. If you look in the ROS section of the forum, a few topics down, there is a thread called "ROS baler pics", you'll see some fine pictures there including a couple of opinions of the model.

I'd say it is very close or even on par with the UH Claas. The drawbar is separate from the baler, I assume this is so you can mount it above the PTO a la Europe or below, like the rest of the world! It is well decalled, like UH goodies are, the pick-up wheels caster and the side shields (at least, the left side, it's still in the packaging ) open up to reveal the side of the baler. Like I said, I like it plenty. No promises, but if I get finished (real) baling in time this evening, I'll try to take a few pictures of the model and post them up.

Good pictures James, you from Dumfriesshire?

That's a nice looking plough, if the model is of high quality, it should sell very well. Thanks for the info Texas.

I bought one (from Toptractor UK ) and I'm well pleased with it. It's still in the box due to lack of displaying space at the moment :'( otherwise, I'd post some pictures. It looks spot-on to me. For my money, ROS are the dark horse in 1/32 scale farm models, second only to UH in mass-produced models. Most folks have a "oh yeah, ROS, I'd forgotten about them" approach though.

I was going to go off on a rant about these terrible model-makers doing so many colour variations and practically picking the pockets of us under-paid, under-appreciated and under-the-influence model collectors, then I took a look at the tractor. It's quite nice, I may have to get one of those

This actually happened a couple of days ago..... The look on the old guy's face when I passed him with our Deutz DX 4.70 with the New Holland 855 baler in tow. He was driving a Case 970 with a Case baler on the back doing about 12 mph, "b****r this", methinks and whipped out to pass at a flying 18 mph. Just as I got level with him, he glanced over and, boy did he do a double take when he realised it was another tractor. :D

I feel sorry for all the folks getting flooded out in the UK. Over here (not gloating, I promise you!) for the last few days, the heat has been terrible. 40C / 100F with the humidex added in, it feels like 51C Crappy haying weather, it's so humid, there's hardly any drying at all. We got a good thunder storm last night, maybe that will clear things out.

That's exactly what I was thinking! They're giving Ertl a run for their money on the variations angle too

Geeze!! an' I was one model away from being caught up on my Universal Hobbies purchases. How does that song go......"I get knocked down but I get up again, you're never gonna keep me down....." :) :)

Glad I could help

Absolutely concur with everything you said Britainswomble. The only thing I'll add is, get yourself the Claas Variant 365 baler as well, its a stunner too.

Now that's COOL Marky I sure appreciate you taking a a short walk on the Dark Side for me.. Didn't hurt too bad did it As for the problems, some of us owners do that to keep up the exclusivity of the brand. Wouldn't want every Thomas, Richard or Harold owning one y' know. Well, it's either that or honesty Nice outfit, thanks mate.

Ok, gonna give answering this a try but bear in mind, we don't own one. Swathing is done in my area (the very north end of the North American grain belt) to atrificially ripen the crops. If the crops were left on their own to dry out standing, most years, the farmers wouldn't get it all combined because they'd run into the cool, wet weather of late fall/early winter. When the farmer swaths the grain crop (making sure the crop is mature) he's wanting it to dry down much like a farmer cutting grass for hay. I was talking to a friend a couple of days ago who had just bought a straight-cut header for his combine last year after 30 or so years of swathing and he reckons both have their place. He says if the standing crop matures by itself and gets rain at just the wrong time, a quality grade will be lost whereas if it is swathed, only the top of the swath gets wet and the grade is generally saved. He says that there is no doubt that straight combining is faster and more efficient. In our area, farmers are actually moving towards sraight-cut combining and away from swathing. Some are dessicating with Roundup to dry the crop out "on the stalk" and, for whatever reason, we have had earlier, drier harvests in recent years and some have been able to straight cut without using a dessicant like our southern neighbours. Swathing of all the cereal crops is/was done and the vast majority of farmers swath their canola (rapeseed) and flax although some are experimenting trying straight-cutting canola. I hope this is of some help.

Everything is right with the world. That's a nice outfit, thanks phensey