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Had a lazy day yesterday and ended up watching the DVD called cars. It was great, and if you haven't seen it I suggest you send the kids to bed and really enjoy it. You will like the bit where the little rcovery truck takes Speed Mc Queen out tractor tipping. The tractors appear to be cows and when they are frightened , they rear up and tip over backwards, then they get chased off by Frank the Mad combine.  It has a very good storyline with a lot of detail in the vehicles, and hidden humour to keep adults amused. I liked the insects that were flying around in one part, they were tiny Volkswagen Beetles with wings. :D

    Couldn't tell you about it yesterday, cos Mrs  gets annoyed at the amount of time I spend on the puter, especially FTF. So what, its entertaining, free and you never know what or who you might come across when on this web site. Sadly she doesn't share my interest in farming, farm toys,  farm machinery, or trucks and thinks that at the age of fifty four, its about time I grew up. Pah!! No way!!

Well after a day rushing around with a pickered up r***piece, always worried how far away the next toilet will be . .. ..  . I managed to make all around Wiltshire without soiling my undercrackers, Salisbury - Bath - Swindon - Westbury - Devizes. .... now uploading music to my new lappy while tidying the rooms littered with farm models and bit's of farmmodels, locating passport, visa etc and getting stuff together ready for Monday 

Nothing worse than the trots when you are stuck in traffic. Best buy one of those butt plug thingys. Make it a big one otherwise it might be like firing a rubber bullet. Never mind, give it a couple of days and you'll soon be farting confidently again.

So you know someone who works for Locks do you. Had a race through Lakeside with one of them the other week. He had Kero boards on too so I tried to get to the bay before he did. The race started at Dartford tunnel when I tried to get through the toll booths in front of him but I got stuck behind a foreigner. Oh well maybe next time. Coryton isn't so bad cos they have more loading bays there. Next time you see him, tell him Will from United Petroleum says hello.  (P702 JVX) 

Delivered 27000 litres of petrol and 12500 litres of derv to seven forecourts. Just hope I put it all in the right tanks.. Yeh, I'm sure I did.

what you drive mate & who for ?I drive for a company called United Petroleum, an independant fuel supplier. Tomorrows drive is a Daf 85 430 with a 41000 litre tank, my usual one is a Daf 85 330 with a 36000 tank and the others are a couple of Foden six wheelers, 1 double drive, 1 rear steer, a "Narrow" ERF ES6 and our lovely old Leyland Freighter that you can turn around in peoples gardens. We do heating oil and petrol. When I'm not driving I spend my time doing maintenance on the trucks.

    Now tell me what you drive etc spect its something glamorous and 500hp +. Go on make me jealous!!

getting to a farm & told to blow feed into a trailer , the closest i could get to it was using all 6 useable pipes i had & then found i was under power cables  >

'kin idiots riding bikes (Pedal) in the dark with no lights on them at all. Meeting the silly twats at traffic islands and trying to avoid them with 41 tons of tanker. A lot of them are adults too, I wonder who their families would blame in the event of their death. They owe it to their wives and children to at least wear something reflective. How much does a reflective vest cost for Gods sake! I don't understand parents who let their children deliver papers in the dark without reflective clothing and lights. Do they not care about their children either!

      I honestly think its about time the police had a big crackdown on cyclists and their bikes roadworthiness. I dont want my driving career cut short by a mindless moron.

    The other thing today was a stupid woman driving a pony and one of those things with a seat on it, on bicycle wheels driving down a busy road. I was on a steep hill and the pony went nuts as I had to brake going past it, and releasing the brakes caused a rush of air from the trailer. I was the one that got the dirty look!! > >

Or possibly a hay/straw carrier version with a platform above the cab and a trailer with hay ladders fitted.  Oh to be able to make hundreds of realistic looking bales. There has to be something better than hard plastic.

Muck spreading in this oribble fog, got me fog lights on though ;D

Trouble with fog like that, is when you've been going round the field and can't quite remember where the gate was, so you have to drive round the outside until it appears.

Got to work this morning at 2am, checked over and started up my tanker only to discover that the airlines were frozen and couldn't build up the air or get the brakes off.

    Spent an hour and a quarter defrosting the brakes, ended up putting a long flexi pipe from one of our Fodens exhaust, to thaw it out.

    Drove up to Essex in freezing fog, had eyes like a bloody snail when I got there, visibility was about 20 metres in places. Came back with a load of heating oil, loaded our other tankers and went out delivering to houses after viewing the damage our new driver did to the side of a tanker, after scraping it along a very substantial brick gate pillar. Not pretty!! :'(

    Mended the throttle cable after it snapped on the truck I was using for deliveries. Went Christmas shopping at Argos.

                        NOT A LOT REALLY!!

Well as a certain new member who shall remain nameless came bounding in here peeing all over my fireworks       

I though I better get a squirt on a do something to mine as it has been sat in a box for so long. Here is the rear bogey as it has been for most of this year!!

Talking of fireworks, if they were like the ones I had this year, particularly the rockets, someone should have peed on them. We had three the first one hit the window of the house behind us and the flares exploded next to the frame leaving burn marks on it, the second just missed our roof and the third one went over our garage and exploded in the road behind it. Anyway enough bulls hit. Nice to  see your conversion is on the move again and I look forward to seeing more of it. Maybe I'll get round to starting mine soon given time. Keep us updated. Don't worry mine will be different from yours as I'm going to have a stab at fitting rear steer!

Hello all,

Britains float converted to six wheeler chassis and newray man cab fitted. Cab converted to RH drive and resprayed metallic blue, new larger mirrors fitted. There will be a trailer for this outfit in the future, when I get round to building it!!

I was thinking of adding 4 spot lights to top of the cab, what do you think? Possibly a silver stripe around the cab halfway up?

L.O. its Will. Bin Finkin. Firstly a belated thank you for putting the pictures on this brilliant site. Yes, I would like one for christmas. Just a couple of ideas, one you could paint the body silver with a  beige roof (Transluscent fibreglass) so it looks like an aluminium one and just to get it through the M.O.T. test it will need side guards and mud flaps which will make it look really up to date. A shortened bale trailer would look good on the back as they are on super single wheels and you could also shorten another stock body to fit. Reckon that would look pretty good. Whatya fink?

The tractor

When it comes to refitting them,they simply slot over the rivets again so they are perfectly located and again, glue them in place with epoxy adhesive. (make sure the surfaces to be glued are paint free). Don't try to use those hideous allen bolts, cos they spoil the look of the tractor. This is the gospel according to Will. I recently restored My DDN Super Major and, dare I say, slightly modified it by fitting 14x30 rears and picking out a little more detail like fan belts and hoses bonnet catches etc. For my first attempt; I'm  pleased with the result. I brush painted mine and the paintwork is really good. Good luck. I'm no expert just trying to be helpful and no doubt others may be able to give you some better advice. I may learn something too!

The tractor

You will find all the parts you need and more from www.farmmodels.co.uk. If the rear linkage is ok and you don't want to split the tractor in half; it is possible to replace the steering wheel on the column by drilling the column after cutting off the old one. Then gluing the  new one on using a suitable epoxy adhesive.  Don't cut off the old one till you have the new one! Ford tractor blue and grey paint is available from what are now New Holland dealers and is available in litre tins for brushing on, or aerosol cans of spray paint. The brush on paint covers beautifully if you do it in a cold place as it dries quite slowly and all the brush marks will virtually disappear.

    The rear wings on these are rivetted on to the base unit and if you want to remove them so they refit perfectly; the best method I've found is to buy a pack of what are known as needle files, (Miniature ones) carefully file off the rivet heads and after removing the axle shaft; gently prise them away from the skid unit. when they are off they can be painted separately to give a professional look to the job. Cont.