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I'm pretty certain you are right as My uncle had a later version with that type of four wheel drive. Unfortunately it wasn't very successful as when you lost traction on a front wheel, all the drive went to that one making it spin wildly as it was driven hydraulically. When this happened the four wheel drive became ineffective. It assisted as it wasn't positively mechanically linked.

Your comment about the relationship between safety and the Governments pocket sums up what I've been saying all along. Those tossers aren't really interested in anything unless it will generate revenue for them in the form of administration fees, fines, registration fees and more fines. If you have noticed; most of the new regulations carry heavy fines for not complying and they already have a good idea how much revenue this will raise before they are introduced. And before anyone says it, I am very safety orientated and concerned about peoples safety and comfort, but that should be the prime reason for introducing legislation. Our younger members probably don't realise how this Government is ripping us off. Things like prescription charges, reductions in what is available on the NHS in spite of what we pay in National Insurance contributions which is what they were for. Having to pay extra to dispose of our rubbish when we already pay council tax for that purpose and pay an inflation busting increase in council tax every year. Bloody cold hearted rip off merchants. There, I've had my say, I won't say any more or reply to any provocative replies, or I'll start using BLOCK CAPITALS AGAIN > > >

Walking up to the first stall at a boot sale that I stopped at and watching some person (For want of a better word) pick up one of the old Britains bale/tipping trailers in green and yellow and a pale green low loader trailer; and then be asked for 40p for them both. When he'd gone, out of spite I nearly told the stallholder how much they fetch on E bay May the fleas of a thousand camels infest their armpits. Grrrrrrrrrrr :'(

You have my sympathy regarding your damaged digit. I did a good one the other day, I was "Roughing up' one of our tanker brake drums with an angle grinder fitted with a 40 grit sanding disc, one of those rock hard 'Rhino Fibre' animal ones. Went to move the drum with the grinder still going and went into the side of my right index finger, far enough to grind through the edge of my finger nail. :'( I'm still trying to master the technique of picking my nose with another finger. As a result of this I've found that my little finger goes further up my nostril to get the 'Crusty bits. See! "Theres always a little good that comes from something bad", as my mum used to say.

More cute than funny. I was driving up the road towards one of our oil supply terminals and my headlights picked up something running across the road. (3.30 am) I thought "What the hell is that" ???There were three or four of them a little bit bigger than guinea pigs, they weren't ginow pigs (Thats what my grandson calls em) they definitely weren't hedgehogs because they weren't spikey, they wern't wabbits cos they didn't have big ears, they looked like piglets, but they looked furry. As they struggled to jump over the roadside kerb, (Chin height on them) I realised what they were. Fox cubs! probably only a couple of days old too. Never seen nuffink like that before. Aaaaaah Another foxy, funny and true story. I went up to Coryton refinery a few weeks ago and saw a chap I know on the security gate. I said, (L.O. Ron, hows it going?) Ron says that he's having problems, so I asked him why. He said,"It's that bloody fox. (They have some very tame ones around there) He said. "It kept hanging around so I gave it a chicken leg, that was fine. Then I went outside to check a tanker coming in, walked back into my office and the ****ing things sitting on my desk!!!!!!" He went on to tell me that he had the rest of a chicken carcass on him so he had to throw it so foxy wouldn't come back for a while. He said he'd get shot if his bosses found out the fox had been in the office as they aren't supposed to feed them. :D I could just picture it. :D

Many thanks for doing that for me. I will try and take some clearer pictures soon and have another go. I"m still using windows 98se which is a bit mickey mouse at the best of times and often isn't suitable for use with modern applications. I have some good pictures I'd love to put on show from a grass demo we did in about 1988 that may interest a lot of people and inspire a few of our expert converters.

Well, I can't get my *^%$ing computer to post another picture at the moment. I double click the photobucket image, come back to FTF subject. click on insert image, then click on additional options and attach, getting the image file from edit at the top of the page. That goes into the attachment box, I press preview excitedly, and guess what,------ nuffink :'( [Don't like puters, so **** it, I'm going to a car boot sale now. See ya later.

II roughly based the size of the bucket on those on a 249TS Sanderson Teleporter I demonstrated back in the eighties. The bucket we used was a 70 Cubic foot size,(Dunno what that is in pubic metres) and I used it on slurry and grain without any problems. That was full width of the machine, and the baseplate was about four feet long. Also the angle of the picture makes the bucket look even bigger than it is.

My first attempt at posting a picture Ok, its a really crap picture but at last I've succeeded in posting something. I knocked this bucket up ages ago as my first attempt at modelling. It does have a full tip angle and is loosely based on a Gurney and Reeve (Suton) bucket. I will try to take some better pictures and post some more soon. It also works well on my Sanderson. [

Tell us more? Remember a problem shared, is a problem halved! Oh, an' don't cry on your keyboard cos you might get electrical cuted an' we don't want that, do we, cos that would really bu**er up the end of a sh1tty day.

Know what you mean. I bought a 2 litre tin of New Holland Massey Ferguson Silver Mist, that was a light metallic green. Bu**er innit.

A letter from the Inland Revenue saying I didn't owe them a tax return for last years self employment, or the hundred pound fine they sent me for not sending them a tax return. Muppets!!! Not only have I been employed for the last three years and on P.A.Y.E. but they also had my cessation accounts for my business last summer, and paid me a substantial rebate for my last years trading loss. Believe it or not, they wouldn't take my word for it, and I had to get my accountant to contact them. My accountant wasn't too impressed either.

Britains Massey 2680 was probably one of the best earlier tractors they made. For an older Ford man, I think both the model and the real thing were handsome looking tractors. My Britains model is the Red and Grey one which looks a hundred times better than the white version. ::)God knows why they couldn't find some grey plastic. I really would like another red/grey one when funds permit. :'( The model was also very well detailed too. If you get hold of a September 2006 Classic Tractor magazine; it has a very good write up on a 2wd 2680 powering a Mengele trailed forager, and some "Arty" pictures of it in action. You may also be interested in an article in the collectors corner of the issue called "Wrecks to Riches" about a man called Roy Leetham from Hook in South Yorkshire. He has done some fantastic conversions and made his own versions of the MF 2720 and 2775, both in two wheel drive. He has also made numerous Counties, a Muir Hill 101 and 161, A J.J. Thomas Ninety Five 100 (Ford Based), a Ford 3000 and for the lovers of the newer New Holland tractors, he has made an articulated New Holland TV 140. Brilliant looking stuff.

Perhaps more than one if what I've heard is true. Rumour has it that the um--- er------- weapon-----shall we call it doesn't go back in its holster when it's been fired. I suggest calling the local Convent for a bus load of sixth formers to try and ease the problem, if that doesn't work you could get the Nuns to pray for it.

Question one------------ Did you drink it? Question two-------------Bit stiff today are we, nudge nudge, wink wink? Been told the effects are quite long lasting, thats ok till you need a poo. You'd have to do your No 2's first then c*ck your leg like a dog to do No 1's.

It's all part of the excitement of new toys when you are young. --------Best not to let yer mum see you do it though. ------------Still its better than the lad in the TV ad for soap powder or conditioner,-----that weird little bu**er was running around with his pants over his head. Now that is worrying!!!!

We had a new Massey trailer like that on the farm where I lived when I was a lad. It came with the bale ladders and extension from a firm called E.O. Culverwells (Massey Ferguson dealers) at Lewes in East Sussex. Didn't like the ladders or lades as some people call them because it was easy to get the bale strings caught up on the top of them. Seeing the fantastic detail of the model reminded me of the smell of a new wood floor trailer, both the Keruin floor and the new paintwork. Must have been a weird kid sniffing new farm machinery. Bit neanderthal really. Spect you can just picture it. C'mon be honest, how many of you remember the lovely smells of new machinery. Everything is exciting when you are a kid. I'd love one of the Scaledown model trailers but sadly can't afford one at the moment. When all the bills are paid there aint much left.! :'(

There was a lengthy article on pressure control either in Classic Tractor or Tractor and Machinery several months ago. I will try and find out which one over the weekend. I think it was specifically designed with trailed discs and four wheel trailers in mind and would have probably been intended for non European markets where more trailed implements were used. The article I saw showed it on a four wheeled trailer behind a 185 or 188 with cast PAVT wheels. Ok if the drawbar could take an upward force. Sadly I think most trailed implements of the time had their strength in the horizontal plane and would have been easily broken. Clever idea though!

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I wish I could buy one or two of them at that price as they seem to fetch silly money even in that condition on E bay. I recently restored one which my brother mutilated as a child, and managed to replace the linkage without splitting the two halves of the tractor as I was scared I'd damage the castings. I removed the wings by filing off the rivetted heads of the wing mountings, leaving the spigots to accurately locate the wings when refitted, using an epoxy adhesive to re-attach them, thus avoiding the hideous allen bolts often seen on so called restored tractors. I removed the wings to paint the skid unit effectively to try and get the factory finish on the paintwork. Believe it or not I painted mine initially with an aerosol of red oxide primer on a warmed up casting to prevent runs, and to prevent paint collecting in the corners of the castings and masking detail. I then used genuine New Holland enamel paint (brought in a two litre tin), brought a selection of cheap artists brushes from a pound shop and picked one with long flat bristles to paint it with. I painted it with the enamel paint leaving items like the bonnet till last and found that as this paint is fairly slow to dry, a really good finish can be acheived by either painting it somewhere cold (ie an outbuilding) or leaving it in the fridge overnight and painting it while it is still cold; the paint brush marks amost completely disappear as the paint has time to "Flood out" before it dries. To finish it off I suspended the parts with wire on a radiator to bake the paint on The results were very pleasing for me. To finish the tractor off, I fitted some Scaledown 14 x 30 rears and orange 6600 front wheels for the pressed steel wheel look and a repro cab modified so it didn't look like a top hat. The orange I used for the wheels was Howard orange with a dash of black to darken it up and look more like the original Fordson orange. If any one has some of them even in that condition for Two quid then let me know

A company called Stanhay made them. I think they were made in Essex and were painted a Mid blue colour. They were retractable by undoing the two nuts in the centre and reversing the tractor. They worked nearly as good as four wheel drive on our 3000. Not sure if Stanhay are still going but if my memory serves me well, I think they used to make potato planters and harvesters too. ::)I also think the Stanhay strakes were called "Stanhay Darvill"

Can anyone identify the cab model??????? ;D ;D

1 J.D 7810 looking really forlorn in the pouring rain. Another one with two rows of front weights and a Dowdeswell folding power harrow. Probably a 5 metre one. Saw a happy looking 135 (Fairly well looked after) charging around with a half earth mover tyre yard scraper, an sumfink I haven't seen before,-------calf igloo's, if you know what I mean. They are circular, about two metres across, about five feet tall, have a door in the side with bars to keep the solitary calf in and hoppers on the side to put their feed in. Aint seen anyfink like that before.

Back in the eighties Opico made or sold a plough which worked something along those lines. It had four almost flat, angled mouldboards which had a plastic liner over them, probably made of teflon or something similar. The idea was similar in as much as you could produce a one pass operation of ploughing and seed bed preparation at quite a high forward speed. I don't think we ever sold one down here in Sussex as the clay type land was too hard for it to work well. One farm I demonstrated it on was very successful as it had lighter soil, more silt based. If I remember correctly, I demonstrated it on a Ford 8630 when they were first on release with the new powershift gearbox. * Has anyone got a collection of Opico leaflets that may show this machine?

I have seen one similar to this, made by a company called Marples, if my memory serves me well. I haven't actually used one, but we took it in p/ex when I worked for Sussex Tractors. From memory the cutter bar was of a slightly different design and made in aluminium. It was quite light to hold for a short period of time but probably felt like lead by the end of the day. I also have a Teagle hand held hedge cutter in my garage, ie the pole type with a two stroke engine on it. One day I'll get round to restoring it along with my Mk 2 Tranny camper and Albion lorry. \