Idle Git

If somebody made a Massey 30 drill and not the direct drill version the production line would have to run 24 hrs to keep up with demand , which version tho , for me a mid 70's 15 row 😁

what a great 80's harvesting scene , love the Cooks sledge and grab , but unfortunately for me we had a browns sledge so I need to get constructing for when my MAP New Holland 276 baler turns up ,,,,,,,,,,,,, somehow Ive got to persuade Mrs Idle Git that we need to go to Hastings for the weekend , It will be lovely to have a stroll around the south east coast and then maybe a walk around a delightfull village called Udimore 😁

So ,,,,,,,, I've been wondering how to make a hundred or so bales of straw , I've found a couple of balls of 1950's sisal string which is still the same colour as it was when it was made , cut it into 10 mm , 15 mm and 20mm lengths , then I roll it between my hands and all the pieces separate and looks just like straw,,,,,, so that's the easy bit ,,,,,,,,,,,,,, now how to make those pesky bales

I would like a set for a future diorama ,,,,,,,,,, the frame work shouldn't be to difficult but theres the small issue of 125 rings and 125 breaker rings needed , what are the panels thoughts on best way to get a ring made , maybe 3 washers to make a ring albeit a mixture of 2 plastic and a metal washer for the rib

spent many a hour following one of these around the fields , it had been fettled with , bigger pulleys and such like and then the Fendt 615 had the magic spanner applied , what a outfit !!!! But in time the lure of a SP forager meant a Claas 690 turned up ,,,,,,, was fairly disappointing tbh , In time tho we had another Mengele chop our grass , wasnt half the animal , tho I think it was mare a case of the driver wanting to stretch the job over a couple of days

The Hitachi looks to have plenty of life left in it to me , still got paint in the bucket , must be year end and some money burning a hole in your pocket

Its funny how you remember your first tractor jobs , mine was to back the 65 with transport box up to a heap of mangolds and fork so many in , dad would then let me drive it across a field whilst he forked them out , he would always make me drive straight to a tree or something in the distance , when the last mangold was thrown out he would then mark me out of 10 for how straight I had driven 😁 hmmm memories !!!!!

So if I want to fill my tractor shed up with our tractor purchases since 1966 then I suppose we have to have 2 camps What I have already purchased County Super 6 Fergy 65 , Just need a loader for her Muir Hill 101 Ford 6600 Ford 550 digger Puma 240 but need another as we run 2 Class Matador What I need to collect Muir Hill 121 Fergy 2680 Fergy 3125 , although it almost doesnt count as it wasnt here very long , plough was boss of tractor Ford 7810 2wd Fergy 3655 JD 7810 Puma 210 had big shoes to fill when it was time to trade the7810 in but to be fair it was more than man for the job and did us well , even had a couple of seasons with a 6M vaddy rapid behind her. Puma 185 , had annoying intermittent fault which we never found the problem , very annoying and in the end we let it go when we needed a 2nd 240 Puma 165 Matbro Teleram JD 3800 Teleram equivalent

And a Matbro teleram , john Deere 3800🤣

Oooooooh a Fergy 2680 🤪 if im doing a collection of tractors we had over the years I will also need as well as the 2680 a Muir Hill 121 mk2 , fergy 3125 , 3655 , 6180 , John Deere 7810, Ford 7810 2wd , Puma 210 , 185 and a 165 So how many of my list can you do Trigger Mrs Idle Git thinks im turning into a very sad old man 😁 Might as well add onto my wish list a Vaddy 6m rapid , 5 m kuhn power harrow , 4.6 m cultipress , 12 m set of dalbo rolls , and a few combines along the way

I'm certainly in a red brick area , and if I want to build what I set out to then I've got many thousands of bricks to lay 🫢

I'm struggling with brickwork as well and a lot to do , I have found a silicon roller which has a brickwork pattern on it , in time I will experiment onto foam board which I have painted brick colour and then put a cement colour on the roller to put the brickwork pattern on , I might try and score in the brick pattern afterwards to give it texture ,

God help me ,,,,,,, the wife is very suspicious of oblong boxes , and I’ve only been interested in this new hobby for a. month or so will be interesting to see what’s in the plastic boxes tho

tried to upload a file/picture but for some reason it only lets me upload straight from camera🫡

Thank you , Its my first attempt at this , I've just spent the last week making a Scaledown Suoer Six County , now its nearly finished I will get back to the shed , Trying to do a diorama of home but soon realised that I had to do some jiggery pokery , the actual size scaled down would take up to much room so instead of 5 bay I've made it 3 bay , but so be it . So I've got to make 2 sliding door to go on the front of the Dutch Barn , find a material which will replicate fibre cement / asbestos roofing sheets , and then start looking into making a Ransomes continuous flow drier which lives in the one end of the shed with all the infrastructure that goes with it , When the Dutch barn and lean to's are finished I've got to work out how to bring the rest of the yard into the diorama , We are on top of a hill and there's a fair slope from one end to the other , I suppose that's when the real modelling begins , making look realistic , it looks all way to new at the moment , not enough rust !!!!!!!

and I was wrong , gracious in defeat😄

and I was wrong , gracious in defeat😄

I will have a closer look a bit later 😁

Not sure that it's a Browns machine CMF I think it's a Ritchie , happy to be proved wrong tho 😬 And yes the wife's away at work so it was safe to bring it out of its hiding place

I was on Barrys stand when you bought that 😁

So went to see Barry on the Udimore Stand and in the middle of the stand there were a pair of Ritchie 48 bale transporters , just started to have a look and in reaches Barry to take 1 out and wrap it up . now at sometime in the late 70's I remember going to the Royal Show with Dad and visiting the Ritchie stand to see this new method of transporting bales , 1/2 hour later a deal was done for the show machine , its serial number was 101 and they said it was the first one for sale and we would be then receiving it when they pack the stand up , quite handy when you lived just down the road from Stoneleigh . So I told Barry this little story and he told me that he had better wrap it up then , I told him that being a mere peasant I was only having a look but if it was still there when I walked around again then it was meant to be ,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Then a bit later I found a Ford 550 in a big line of pre loved toys , we ran a 550 as our main loader for a fair few years in the 80's so this had to gp home

Did come and buy a trailer of you mid afternoon james , I didnt realise who you were or else I would of introduced my self , Im the one whos going to try and convert your gen purpose trailer into a old Pettit 😁

Just got back home , my first model show and thoroughly enjoyed it , bought a couple of goodies home , pictures to come ,

although yellow the disc's look like a set of Parmiter discs , we had a set in the 70's , they were either mounted or you could drop the headstock which made a drawbar and then you could tow them , ours had wings on and were probably 13 ft wide , they wernt really heavy enough if the ground had gone hard so we would rope some old heavy timbers on the back to help them dig in ,