britainswomble

Oh well-----back to the Benylin then. Hope it goes soon.

hanks for your reply. The designer was probably ahead of his time on this one. When you think of the markets he aimed it at; I'm not surprised he got upset and ordered them all to be scrapped. It must be really demoralizing when you come up with an idea like that and the world markets weren't interested. At the time it was designed and built he probably thought he would be a world leader with such a versatile machine. Farmers of the sixties were probably too set in their ideas of what a tractor should be. This would have been a great stockmans tractor. No need for a Land Rover and a tractor to do the job.

It wasn't the cough that carried him off, It was the coffin they carried off in. Nuffin worse than a persistant cough after you've had a cold. Have a Scotch or two; it may help and may not, but who cares, it's a good excuse for a quick snifter.

That's a fascinating bit of kit, and I've certainly never seen anything like that before. Would I be correct in thinking that they would have been made in several power sizes as the picture in the leaflet shows a tractor with smaller wheels. Are the wheels on yours original as they seem to be higher than the chassis at the rear. The engine is unusual too; very adventurous using a V4 with air cooling as it's often difficult to get a good airflow round all the cylinders for cooling. I'm not so sure about having the air intake next to the driver though; I'd imagine it would be pretty noisy with it mounted there. Is the engine very noisy as it's air cooled? Was three point linkage and PTO standard on them? The Italians have some clever ideas for transport and machinery. In England we seem to be getting bigger machines all the time and trying to do as much as possible with them, in fact i wonder how long it will be before we see 100hp tractors on yard scraper duties with a 4m yard scraper. I prefer smaller machines which can cover a variety of jobs The Italians seem to design smaller specialist machines which are adaptions of other vehicles like the scooter trucks and other multi purpose cheap transport. This one's what you would call a tractor pick up, perfect for the small farmer. The Indians are pretty good at it too. I'd be interested to know how much work you had to do to the cab, bearing in mind the quality of Italian steel. It doesn't look as though the main cab frame would be too difficult to repair, but he doors would be hard to replicate due to the shape of the pressing inside the door itself. Thanks for showing us yours and I hope to hear more about it soon.

The hair I hate most-----not the colour, but the style---------eeeeyuk. You couldn't twiddle that; in fact I can't think of anything to do with it. Imagine sharing a bed with a tumbleweed head like that. None of yer nuzzling up to some soft silky hair there. It would be like having cobwebs around your face. That's a real old rats nest innit. yuk

Twiddles and back rubs-------------what more could you want. It's difficult to concentrate on anything when you are twiddled. Sensible conversation is difficult, especially when you really drift off into a trance like state. You almost become unaware of sounds and certainly don't absorb what is happening around you. One of my ex wifes friends couldn't even talk when she had twiddles, such is the power of this hypnotic practice. I love having my hair washed by my female hairdresser. It's as well they jam my head into one of those sinks with the cutaway in the front; otherwise I'd end up in a heap on the floor. :P

Having to go to work now. Going to spend a morning under a Foden getting cold and dirty. Got a safety inspection to do, recut some tyres, fit a new suspension airbag, change the fuel filters, straighten and weld the rear bumper etc etc. Oh to have a heated workshop. Catch ya later folks, I'll be back tonight.

Gosh, Luke Powerstar , how could you suggest that I could have copied that from someone elses computer. I can assure you that is all my own work and based on a lifetimes experience of pacifying ferocious and morbidly depressed females. (Mostly by being in my company or reading my posts on here.) The procedure itself isn't at all dodgy,and is very effective, but---------and this is a big but, (No not that sort of Butt) very occasionally as with all wild animals; it can go horribly wrong. A good technique is essential to quickly disable the brain of the female being twiddled, as they have been known to lull the twiddler into a false sense of security and having thoughts still in their heads; have been known to turn nasty and literally tear your clothes off. This situation is more likely to arise if eye contact takes place. What happens next is too sordid to be mentioned on a family forum. :o If you try this procedure I wish you luck, but be warned ----- it can go horribly wrong. Remember to pacify them quickly and empty their heads of all thoughts or you may have to pay the price, and lose time on here. :D

Is that a suitable and understandable explanation of Twiddles (As shown above -----cos I typed it in the wrong place) Aren't I a silly ar*e. [ :D

What you need is a really good cup of coffee, (only kids and old people drink tea ) a ***, (If you don't smoke, then I suggest you start) a great big cuddle, * a back rub, an' a twiddle. That should make you feel better. P.S.--------for our American cousins,--------in England the word ***, is slang for a cigarette, not what you would think. Some of us have a *** after we've eaten our tea. (Another issue to confuse you Americans, :D )

Getting in to work this morning a 4am and spending an hour and a half trying to get the brakes to build up air on my truck. -4C here last night, and the air valves were so cold, it took a lot of heat to free them off. Some aren't very accessible. The trailer was fine. \

I have never seen or heard of autodrive before. Do you have any more information on it. ie what it does, how it works, and whether it was intended to compete with Fords Selecto-speed gearbox. I would be very interested in any information you may have. Many thanks.

Getting in to work at 4 am this morning, starting up the tanker, waiting for the air to build up, pulling it out of the yard to lock the gate.......................and then spending the next hour trying to free off the trailer brakes which jammed on because the valves or airline was frozen . Picked my load up from Theale and delivered it, no problems. Got back to the yard and went to fill up the truck with diesel after dropping 3000 litres into our underground tank...............and guess what...........the pumps wouldn't work. Had to bleed and prime them first. Came home just after four.

Only just seen this topic. Do Bamlett still exist. S.T.'s used to sell loads of Bamlett mixers. They were PTO driven and had a very clever top link system which allowed the mixer to sit on the ground for loading. It could be partially lifted to move it around, and when raised to full height on the linkage it went into the discharge position. Very simple and very well constructed. Probably not that many second hand ones around though; mainly because they are too handy to have laying around to use when needed.

I've just had a juvenile moment Well............I'd love to see and hear this in action, and I bet you will want to try this one out................how about...................squashing bubble wrap. Just imagine the noise..... :D Aaaaaand.....you are doing the environment a favour by recycling all the air trapped in the bubble wrap. Mind you, it might be that a sheet of bubble wrap could become a collectors item in years to come. Imagine it...........the year......2100........and you have a sheet of pure pre-CO2 air from 2008. Forget the bottles of Champagne and 200 year old bottles of wine, we're talking of a piece of historical, irreplaceable air. By then people may pay hundreds of pounds for you to burst a bubble so they can "Snort" some 92 year old air. Cor yeah. Oh yeah, Marky.........would it work as a wine or cider press, or even do tatties so you could make some potato "Wine" which our Irish friends should have a recipe for. Good stuff it is too. I am 55 honestly, its just that sometimes I have these flashbacks and juvenile moments. As you would say,.................I'll get my coat...............Bye!

Another idea for your compactor, and something which is a major headache for the company I work for; is crushing 20 and 25 litre containers. Plastic "Cans" are a real problem to dispose of, because they aren't easy to crush, they are very light to transport, making transportation uneconomical as you aren't taking full advantage of a vehicles carrying capacity, and they take up a hell of a lot of space. I would like to invent a machine which flattens them, and shreds them; something like a precision chop forage harvester but running at a much slower speed. The biggest problem being the "Dregs" or last remaining liquid that always remains in the cans. In our case the waste being of an oil based nature; the liquid could be collected and burnt in something like a waste oil burner like the ones Kongskilde used to make. Not forgetting that you have to have a license to burn waste oil of course. Other chemicals like crop spray would have to be washed out and the residue dealt with by collecting the waste and having the chemicals disposed of by a specialist company. I would have thought that clean shredded waste of this type would be a very valuable commodity, as it would then only need to be melted to be used again. I don't know what you may think of this idea. I often dream up super whizzo ideas but never have had the courage, finances or contacts to try these ideas out.

As an ex Ford Tractor dealer employee until 92; I've never seen or heard of one either. Like the TW 5 (De-rated TW 10 for the European market), no doubt this was a de-rated 6700. The 6700 was 78 hp based on the 6600 with a flat deck cab. I would imagine the 5700 to be based on the 5600 which from memory was 72 hp and fitted with a rotary, rather than in line fuel injection pump for some other strange reason. Again a specific market may have had a reason for specifying a lower horsepower with a flat deck cab. Maybe something to do with tax allowances or grants available etc..............dunno? P.S. and it's got aircon too!!!!!!!!!

I'm so grateful that UH have produced a 1/16th Ford 5000, and hope to buy one as soon as they are available. I'll probably order one from Farm Models as they are great people to deal with. But here we go again. ...........same as always...........lovely looking model spoiled by poor attention to detail. It's got the wrong stickers on the tank cowling, the correct one should say FORD Super Major, there should also be another decal on the side of the front cowling, white background with 5000 on it, And worst of all, yet again; they've got the sodding seat wrong. >...........its in the "Tipped up" position so the rain runs off of it. No doubt it wont fold down as it should for driving. The seat cover moulded pattern is from the later "Force" range. The correct one had a thinner cover and a square panel moulded into the cushion with FORD lettering in it. It was also a darker shade of blue than the tractor. The colour is spot on for the later type seat though. If I was building a prototype of such a tractor; I would want a full working explanation of the bits an' pieces and would very carefully study a hand book and some sales literature before I moulded anything. It certainly is a lovely looking tractor and the answers to my prayers, as I and many more of us will never have the opportunity to own an Ertl precision 5000 as they are now fetching well over two hundred quid.........assuming you can find one.

No doubt that image will stay with you for a long time and regularly come back to haunt you. This is what I was talking about when I said I was a coward; scared to try and put something out of its misery for fear of increasing its suffering.

Absolute magic to watch. See........you don't need a couple of hundred grands worth of kit to make some silage. I bet the cab on the Leyland is very noisy, hot and stuffy.......... and the driver is enjoying every minute of it. (Oh how I wish I had sound on my 'puter) I'm a great believer in the older kit. It does the job just as well as the new stuff. You only need new tractors to keep drivers happy if they aren't fans of the classics. The older stuff is lighter on the ground and the end result is just as good. Ok it's not as fast but doing it yourself must cut down production costs dramatically. I don't recognize the forager, apart from it being a Kidd. Is it a precision chop and what year were they made?

While doing our weekly shop, I bumped into a young lad who used to be a regular visitor to my workshop during his lunch hours at school. Not long after he left school he went to Plumpton Agricultural College to start a course as a tree surgeon. During the first year he fell badly on his elbow suffering a serious compound fracture, which prevented him from finishing his first year. He went back the following year and during his course he developed problems and was diagnosed as having a brain tumour. This was operated on and found to be benign and told that everything should be ok. He recovered with no apparent side effects and went back for a check up; only to discover that the tumour was growing again. He had an operation in February last year, by what is supposed to be the top surgeon in the country; who has now told him that all the tumour has been removed, and hopefully it shouldn't return. Sadly for Phil, it had a price this time. The operation has affected his speech but that should improve with time. I suspect it may have affected his hearing too. It's really sad for what was such a fit and healthy young man, to be deprived of the enjoyment of what should be the best years of his life. He was always very pleasant and polite, and has never been in any trouble of any sort. He deserves better. As a non practicing Christian, I wondered if anyone with a better connection to God (Seriously) than I have; would be kind enough to say a prayer for a young lad called Phil Richard from Uckfield in the hope that he may enjoy a long, healthy and happy life. He certainly deserves it. Thank you.

It's been raining here almost non stop for 24 hours. Rivers are overflowing, fields and roads are all flooded, trees are falling down and branches are breaking off. Some of the roads have been closed while tree debris was removed. The river in Uckfield is like a raging torrent at the moment and very high. Some of the old people that live in the flats next to Uckfield mill are being evacuated tonight as with the rainfall predicted; they are expecting floods tonight. What happened to all the flood defence work the environment agency were going to do after the floods in 2000. Spose they thought it wouldn't happen for a long time and they could forget it. Flooding must be less frequent than it has been in the past when you think about it; otherwise they wouldn't have the raised walkways by the bridges over the streams; that we see so many of round here. Global warming............global claptrap.......this is just one of the wet winters we have from time to time. This is very much like the winters we had when I was a teenager, in the late sixties and early seventies.

Didn't know they had things like prefects any more. In the times of non competetiveness; I didn't think things like that were allowed in case it demoralized other students, ie making you higher status and an authority figure. I too was a school prefect. Do you get a special tie or a badge. It is a good system though. It allows teachers to have their breaks as they should and maintains dicipline within the school. You know who the bullies are and where the little weasels hide to have a ***. It also gives you a plus point on your CV and report as you are considered trustworthy and responsible. Well done young man.

I'm glad I'm not the only softie. We once had a discussion about vegetarianism, and I said I felt like a hypocrite because I eat meat and would have to be starving to death before I could kill something to eat. I would either try and frighten it to death or follow it round till it died and then eat it. What am I?

I'm sorry to say and ashamed to admit that I didn't end its misery. Being the coward I am and having a drivers instinct to avoid anything in the road; it was too late when I realized what it was, to do anything about it. In spite of my farming background; I haven't killed anything bigger than a rat, and I'm always afraid I will add to a poor animals suffering by not using the right technique to end its life. I would be more inclined to pick it up and take it to a vet to have it put down. How's that for cowardice. Now I'm ashamed. :(