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That is how I understood it. I may be wrong and would appreciate someone who knows the facts to tell us all, and a mathematical scholar to check my calculations. Come on, some one must know the answer to this.

Something has always puzzled me about driving in America. In TV programs we often see teenagers going off to get their drivers license and coming back shortly after with a drivers permit. How does your system work from applying for a license to actually being able to drive a car unaccompanied. Here we have to apply for a provisional license, have driving lessons until our instructor says we are fit to take a driving test. While learning to drive we have to take a driving theory test which must be passed before the actual driving test is taken. In the UK you can drive a motorcycle of limited power at sixteen, a car at seventeen and a heavy goods vehicle at twenty one. Driving a car at sixteen here is unthinkable, and there was talk of raising the age to eighteen not so long ago. Tractor driving here is allowed at sixteen at the moment, but for how long I wouldn't like to say. Tractors are getting up to heavy artic sizes, weights and speeds, and it worries me to think of a young driver traveling at 50 kph in a seven ton tractor with a trailer on average weighing around twelve to fifteen tons behind it. From my school science lessons I seem to remember that the force an accident would create is calculated by multiplying the speed in feet per minute, by the weight of the object. Anyone know if I'm right, cos working it out my way at 30mph (44 feet per second)) multiplied by 22 tonnes would generate an impact force of 968 tonnes. Scary Perhaps you could start a post in the gen. discuss section explaining how the American licensing system works.

Ugly it may be, but in the pre heated 'Q' cab days, being warm would have far outweighed its appearance. Spect you had two choices, either freeze yer clangers off working all day on an unheated tractor, or fit one of those. Wouldn't want to drive one with a diesel leak on the engine.

The one I mentioned was John Mossop's at Rathfinney Farm Alfriston. I remember Geoff. Bit of a rascal at times but a very likeable person. Used to rear some very tasty turkeys too. Schindler axles were a very nice looking conversion. Quite compact with loads of ground clearance.

I know everything is supposed to be bigger and better over there, but isn't having a Heli-pad on top of your combine a bit OTT

R.I.P. my condolences to the owner. :'(

That's just waiting to be restored, complete with loader. What a lovely combination. It would be nice to see it and the loader kept together. Sadly most people would buy it to restore and take the loader off. One of Sussex Tractors customers had an identical setup on a 7000.........drool....drool. Only ever used as a loader tractor and had very few hours on it. It was one of the ex Birdseye fleet tractors. We used to sell about ten 7000's to Birdseye to mount pea viners on them. When they had finished with them a few months later; we used to buy them back and sell them with a few hundred hours on the clock. There was always a big demand for them

I'll second that. It looks very good. Nice touch of realism. Do some of them have loop frames inside them. If so perhaps you could make the frames out of copper wire painted black, held in place by epoxy resin through holes in the glass, then paint the ends of the wire/resin black so that it looks like the black buttons on the outside of the glass for more realism. Wacha fink?

Working outside under a truck, and getting COLD and VERY WET. > It's June for God's sake, can we have some global warming please

That's really horrible for any animal. One of my rabbits suffered fly strike. It's not readily visible on them as they sit down and don't move when they are affected. I picked one of mine up and put it on my lap to check it was ok and about fifty maggots fell out from under it. :o They had stripped the fur off the skin and made the affected area red raw. Fortunately they hadn't got under the skin or inside of her so I cleaned her up and she was ok after a couple of days. The trouble with maggots is that they develop so quickly and do an awful lot of damage in a very short space of time. Strangely enough I saw some sheep on Friday that had really mucky back ends and thought the farmer was pushing his luck leaving them in that condition. I hope he's had a look at his lambs since I saw them. How do you treat lambs for fly strike? (Sorry I'm from dairy farming background, sheep confuse me )

I thought the first picture was of a real tractor :o

Luvverly...................Got the keys..........................Just want to take it out for a test drive :D

Ok, now I'm really confused. Mine was the New Performance Super Major, without lights on the rear wings and Grey Fordson Major style wheels on both the tractor and trailer..................Wierd!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Would have been better supplied as a kit. At least we would have had the opportunity to build them correctly.

One worth mentioning, A 'Y' (1983/4) JCB Loadall with a Browns bale grab. Nothing unusual about that, I hear you say. Except for the fact that this one was two wheel drive. Aint never seen one of those before

Do you mean "twisted" the cab. If you have it'll take more than a loader to push it back. Sounds like it's more than ripe for a restoration now. Sounds to me like it's pretty well bu**ered, from what you say. :'( Try and get some pictures of it before your farm manager sacks you.

That Roadless was a real stunner, and what I think makes it look so good, is the correct shade of grey used on it. Most are painted in a shade that is too pale. Only one thing let it down, and that was those horrendously vile looking polished copper fuel pipes. The man spends mega bucks doing a fantastic authentic restoration like that, and completely ruins it with something from the traction engine era. yuk,

looks to be worth looking after. Seems to be in pretty good condition and well worth restoring properly. A bit of TLC, some paint, new decals and tyres and you'll have a tractor to be proud of.

The front wheels are the same as the ones we can expect to see on the 7000. They are the right size for the 7000. 5000's came out of the factory on 7.50x16's and the 7000 on 7.50x 18's. Don't know why the 7000 had bigger front wheels apart from the fact that it may have had something to do with the size of the rears which were 14x34's (Nominal size) Britains are using this size of wheel to avoid having to make two sizes of wheel for the different models. I don't particularly see a problem with the wheels really, but I'm not too happy with the "Gawky" front axle.

The tractor itself looks to be original and in good condition. If the paint is original it would be worth buying and putting the correct wheels on it assuming you could get the correct wheels (Fordson Major type, not the 5000 rims) in the correct shade of grey. The originals were a darker shade of grey than the 5000 rims. My opinion is based on comparing it with the one I've had since I was fourteen.

A friend of mine had his chain saw stolen from his pickup while he was doing a job. He gave the serial number to a few dealers in our area and it reappeared a few months later at a nearby workshop. He couldn't have it back until after the court case finished and even then he had to produce the receipt to prove it was his. Just to prove how callous thieves are; my wife is a home carer, and one of the old ladies who has to be taken out in a wheel chair; had the cushion stolen while her friends were loading the wheelchair into their car. The cushion was standing by the back of the car and they were getting her into it, when another car drove across the car park and stopped close enough for the passenger to lean out, grab the cushion and drive off. They are special cushions and cost about fifty quid. Sh**bags aren't they

Went to Sturminster Newton in Dorset to look at a 35,000 litre artic tanker trailer. Ok you can read the rest of it if you aren't bored already They advertised it as good condition. Would have been fine if the suspension had been overhauled, 2 new spring hanger brackets, all new bushes on 3 axles,,, four new tyres and one of the baffles in the tank wasn't cracked. It didn't have a safe loading pass either. It was an old one but had a very hard life. At a starting price of 7,500 quid, it was a bit of a non starter. 200 mile trip and a wasted day. \

Cheers old chap, that was interesting reading. Never heard of them before and they've been making them since 1955 . Clever old John Deere, jumping on the bandwagon, still, as they say, If you can't beat em....... join em

I'm off to buy one as soon as I can find one. Er.................um........................he hasn't got any of the new 6600's by any chance. :D :D :D Wouldn't mind one of those. (I ordered one last year) Might see the 7000's first. :D

Conjures up images of Staceys Mum, Wasn't that Mc Fly? Marky's right, pull the birds before you get in the water, especially if its cold. Pulling birds when you come out of cold water............. don't want bad publicity for Mr Winkie