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The most common sizes of truck body I've come across on rigid vehicles, 7.5t-12', 16t- 21 or 24' (Four wheelers), 26t-28'-30' (6 and 8 wheelers) Artic trailers most common size bed length is 33'- 40'- and 45'. Sorry it's all in feet but I'm sure it wont take you long to convert it to metric. (I'm old) If you are going to couple the trailer to a truck, either a four or six wheeler, you have to remember the maximum length for a vehicle allowed on the roads in your area or country. Here I think the maximum combined length is 58 feet or thereabouts. If you are in any way confused about the sizes, contact me again and let me know in more detail what you have in mind.

Good news folks, I've just found an instruction book on E Bay for the Big Baler. With a bit of luck and my crafty bidding tactics; it'll soon be mine I will post up any interesting pictures if I get it. It wasn't a very good machine but interesting to look at and read about.

How's that one grab you. They did make a cabless Dominator 76 and hopefuly this frontal picture will help you get all the details right. I'm not criticising, jus' bein helpful. The truck would be a nice one to recreate too, but I don't know if anyone did it in 1/32. You could always make an authentic tractor unit out of an Iveco Magirus Deutz cattle truck or skip lorry. Manns of Saxham (Claas importers) ran Iveco Magirus artic units (Less the crane) about that time to deliver to dealers. If my memory serves me well, they used folding neck low loaders, made by King, not the semi low loader like the one above. They were 40' trailers and the headers were carried on a cradle mounted on the back of the trailer neck. My (Sussex Tractors) trailer was 18' in the bottom and had a 10' neck. Outriggers were also fitted to the lower deck.

I have a leaflet of the Massey 1250 which was posted on here earlier. The rear lights are identical in every way to those. Incidentally, ref the tyre problem discussed earlier about tyres slipping on the rims; the rims on this tractor are identical to the "heavy duty" rims fitted to Muir Hills and County tractors to overcome the fracturing of rim lugs. (After they'd stopped the tyres slipping on the rims) They were 14 X 34's. The early 1200's I've seen had completely different centres that looked like 165 wheels.

Dull, (like me) cloudy with a light shower early this am. Started raining mid morning and hasn't stopped since. P'ing down in Eastbourne breezy and cold. Eastbourne crawling with Japanese girls.

The Parmiter post is a bit further down the page from the implements subject. I'm sure it'll trigger a few memories for you.

Hope you soon get your scanner working Nigel, can't wait to see all your pictures and I'm getting on a bit so don't be too long. Did you see the post of the Parmiter factory. Ref the Flowell feeder. Did you, or do you know Richard Flower from Framfield?

The rollers shown in the pictures are Kidd. Twose rollers were water ballasted and had wooden bearings. Also if you look at the lead roller, there is evidence of yellow paint on the tip of the drawbar which was the Kidd colour scheme. The only solid filled roller I can remember other than Kidd were the Manns of Saxham (Claas importers) rollers which were Claas green.

Any chance of a peek please. We'd all love to see it.

I suppose this should really be in the nostalgia section. Does anyone remember the Howard Big balers that came out in the seventies. Does anyone have a leaflet on them they could post up. Howard also had a special grab for their bales and having just looked at the Freeman Baler reminded me of them. I haven't seen one for years and wonder if someones got one they still use or tucked away in the back of a barn somewhere. They were the first company to offer a big baler, and were rather crude. They gathered the crop in a chamber that had a fixed rear door and used that to compress the crop against. The chamber had a steel frame with heavy Keruin boards around it. I can't remember how the bale was ejected though. The big problem was uneven density and in short crops the bales often fell apart, but they were brave enough to try out the idea long before anyone else. There were large round balers like the Farmhand Vermeer type available and they worked much better.. By the way, have you ever spent a day baling with a manual tie round baler. Makes you really appreciate modern technology

East Sussex, Early drizzle, cloudy, no sunshine and quite cool with a slight breeze.

Just about everything from starting work at 2am today, being bu**erd about and delayed at the oil terminal, finding my trucks trailer brakes had developed the problem again that we thought we had cured yesterday. Having to work with a "know it all" know nothing pain in the butt, bad tempered, bottom licking (Bosses), hypersensative, tango whiskey alpha tango, suffering from a martyr complex, who still insisted on ringing me when I got home to tell me that the specialist I called in, didn't know as much about brakes as he did. > I could happily wring his bl**dy (Putting it politely) neck. He wants putting out of his self inflicted misery. When he went he said "Oh well, see you Tuesday, bout 2 am" I thought, wow! Lucky me! Aint that something to look forward to. @|X@%6 Anyone got any tranquilisers-------please--!! (Pass me she yawning smiley,if you bothered to read this far) GRRRRRR

Don't know about you, but if anything like that happens to me, I find it quite upsetting and spoils the day for me being the sentimental old git I am. I even hate running over rabbits, and can't help thinking that they could be mothers with kittens who will end their short little lives starving to death. :'( Sad about the pheasant and I wish you luck with the eggs. At least you'll have the joy of hand rearing them when they hatch. It's amazing the lengths mothers will go to, to protect their offspring. I keep having to swerve round fox cubs at the moment. (I do a lot of night driving between 2 and 6 am) Some of them so small they look like little piglets and some I've seen, actually struggled to climb over roadside kerbs. My biggest fear around here is hitting a deer. There are quite a few of them on the roadside during the night. Killing one would be upsetting but seriously injuring one would be worse, and I hate to see anything suffer. Being the coward I am, I wouldn't know how to put it out of its misery. One of the most awful accidents round here happened last summer. A cattle truck picked up thirty cows and heifers from a dairy farm which had to sell off its animals and en route, failed to take a bend and rolled over down an eight foot bank. It took vets and the fire brigade all day to clear up after that and it saddens me even now to think about it. Four of the cows survived and the farmer was so upset that he had the cows back on his farm vowing that they would remain there for the rest of their natural lives. Aint that nice. Good luck with he eggs, hopefully we will see some pictures if they hatch. (Yawning smiley)

Looks very like the early Opico Bush Hog. The Bush Hog had two very heavy swinging blades that were capable of cutting through just about anything. Rotovating---- no problem There was another one made Called the Jungle Buster possibly made by or sold by Wolseley. I seem to remember one of them was offered with chains to mulch heavy undergrowth.

Not a brilliant picture, but hopefully might be of some help to you.

I only have a leaflet for a Dominator 86-96, and they show the spec for the operators platform and list a cab as optional equipment

Funny you should mention that. In he early seventies when radial tyres started to become popular, we (SussexTractors) had problems with both Counties and Muir Hills doing the same. As you say the solution was to fit Knurled wheel rims. That got rid of that problem till the rim mounting lugs started cracking and shearing off. For a while the answer to that was a bridge gusset which fitted over the wheel rim lug. Not long after, a heavy duty rim and centre became available. Problem solved!!!

Hi, LadyFarmer. Thanks for posting the pictures of your tractor, I've never heard of them before. I've seen something like it used for forestry plantation maintenance, ie scrub cutting between the trees and thinning out. The tractor I saw was green with red wheels of Italian origin, Landini springs to mind, Just some "Geeky" questions about your tractor. What horsepower is it, and what do you use yours for. Are there any implements such as loaders etc available for it. Doesn't matter if you don't know the answers, I'm just curious.

Any pictures please, never heard of one before and it sounds fannyskating (Fascinating really, jus' me bein silly) P.S. I know this part is not supposed to have piccies in it, so perhaps you could post them some where appropriate. No! not there, that's going to hurt. Cheers me dear

07 Registered Mc Cormick CX 85 Multi shift Fitted with a Mc Connel PA 45 E hedge cutter. New Holland TS 135 A pulling a Fraser tandem axle trailer, looked like an 8 tonner with silage sides

Shouldn't have a problem once the oil's been changed, but just keep an eye on the oil, the next few times you use it. If it has a fuel tap; turn it off once you've finished using it. If not and it happens again, then the carburettor will need to be cleaned out or serviced. If it runs ok there shouldn't be a problem. Good luck.

Saw an 07 registered John Deere 6920S with a Griffiths tandem axle trailer. A regular visitor to our forecourt to fill up with diesel. It came in yesterday followed by a Ford 7810 with a fertiliser spreader on the back which I think was an Amazone. Had a chance too look around the John Deere today. Pretty impressive 650x65x38 rears. Still amazes me that with all the horsepower of tractors today, the pikup hitch hook is still the same size as a grey Fergy. Must be made out of some pretty good metal.

EAST SUSSEX Not certain, but driving down from Essex about 4.30 this morning; I think there was a frost in low lying areas. It certainly was very cold out there. Clouded over about 5.30 am, been cold wet and windy most of the day. Doing the grass a world of good, you can nearly see it growing.

Took the grandchildren to Newhaven beach today. Very cold and wet, rain went through our clothes, Looby (Robyn 2 and a1/2) had a little red nose with water dripping off it. I carried her like that, back to our car, while she scoffed some cheese biscuits, oblivious to the weather. Not complaining about the rain though, our Sussex farmers needed it and it's about enough to get grass and maize back on track. (Mostly dairy or beef round here). I,m beginning to wonder whether we will have this weather till the Heathfield and South of England Show. It's done it before so it wouldn't surprise me. Guess what,------ the sun's breaking through now