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This brochure was the first advertising the then 'new' 1210 4WD. early ones had the David Brown front axle and was introduced in the Power Red livery, skid unit and wheels, in 1972 when Tennaco, a division of the Case Company, took over the David Brown tractors division. Soon after these axles were replaced by the Kramer MK1 and then the MK11. Some, but only a handfull, just before the 90 series was introduced in 1980 and showcased at Monte Carlo, were fitted with the Carraro axle. This brochure would date from 1972/3 in this form but there are later 6 and 8 page fold-out colour brochures for this model. I'll look through the brochures I have for more details. Not all the brochures carried a date code, earlier ones did but this was dropped around 1970. An example of the way to read the date code is where the publication number is printed, along side it there was 'DBT 1264', this means that it is December 1964. The brochure pictured I think is a single sheet and the specifications of the tractor is printed on the other side.

Arriving today, if the courier turns up, the new G&M Originals model of the 1950 David Brown Cropmaster diesel. This one will again be the prototype. Pictures in the near future.

I'm still waiting for the Implematic 990 and its derivitive, the Oliver 600. Let's get them on the shelf first!

Up fairly early this morning to service the AGA in the kitchen, slowly been loosing heat so I let it out late last night so it was cold enough to handle. Stripped out the burner and removed all the carbon that over time builds up and eventually blocks up the inlet oil pipe just below the burner. Service by a heating or stove Company, they charge anything from £95 to £125 to do the same thing, once you've watched it done a couple of times you can do it yourself, easy.

My collection to date has been amassed only in the last 12 years when I started seriously collecting farm related toys and models, would not even try to think of what I've spent on them over those years but they were more affordable then and for a few years later until dealers tumbled to it that it was a very lucrative field and manufacturers like UH have joined the bandwagon. Trouble is, with one collection comes another, dust!

Women!!!! nothing but trouble!, bleed you dry and still want more! It may have been mentioned earlier, but I am led to believe that the green Feruson T20 is the rarest one to find with the grey version coming second.

At 500 I wouldn't think he would be a member here from what I know of others collections. My collection is in excess of 3000, and that's just tractors, factor in implements, scenery items and figures then it would probably be around 5000 items. The lad needs to get out more!

It was about 7 years ago now, may be a little longer, one tends to forget detail but a local farmer in the next village whome I knew all my life, had some land around the village which he rented, his day job was with the Council, on the roads. He had 2 ex Council MF300 series tractors and one particular day he sopped in his field gateway, just off the main road, to open the gate. The gateway was on a downward slope and when he was opening the gate, the tractor took off and knocked him down. They found the tractor in the field, still running 4 hours later, the farmer was found dead in the gateway. It was never said what actually happened, some say that the handbrake flew off because it was not appled properly, others said that the handbrake didn't work anyway. The Ford driver was lucky!

If it's what I think it is, I have an earlier example but all metal apart from the 'engine' that is clear plastic with working crank and pistons, when you 'drive' it forward or backward that is. The backactor lifts off and has a pair of brass pins that slot into the 'box' on the back, this gives it it's electrical connection. The 'controler' is a long tin box that holds 2 'D' type batteries (or may be 3, can't remember now). On the lid of the battery box is a steering wheel which steers the tractor by means of a wound steel wire cable connected to the front wheels like the steering on a real tractor, and there are four press buttons, two one side of the steering wheel and two on the other side, one button infront the other. Two of these buttons are to control forward and rear movement of the tractor, the other two, one operates the backactor, the other operates the loader. The cable for steering and the battery wires from the controler to the tractor are contained in a clear plastic umbilical tube. Made in Spain by a company called Clemo. The example I have has been dated to between 1954 and 1958 it's still in its original box and in perfect working order. The example you've linked to on eBay, having plastick parts such as the wheels would date from around 1962-64. I'm not sure wheather it represents an actual tractor but the nearest to it would be either an early 'Steelfab' Ford based or Ford 500 series. The one I have came from eBay via Sweden.

You can give it a go but in my experience with sticking paper onto card, when you bend the card it tries to stretch the paper, it's better if you can print directly onto card. Most printers will take certain thicknesses of card or thickish types of gloss photo papers, look at your printers manual to see what it will take, thickness normally referred to in gsm, normal print paper is 80, thin craft card is around 180 and the box card, like what models come in is around 210 to 230gsm or thereabouts. If you do a lot of printing and use a lot of ink, shop around for your cartridges, I have a Cannon Pixma MP560 printer/scanner/copier that takes 5 cartridges, the three colour ones, a large black and a small black and buying them from the likes ov Viking, PC World, Staples and the like are around £11 for each and the 'compatables' are near enough the same price. Don't be put off compatables despite the printer manufactures recommending you buy 'originals', they say this to frighten you into buying them, compatables are im most cases, 99%, perfectly good as they have to be made to a certain standard, usually up to that of the originals, just keep away from re-filled and recycled cartridges, those are the ones that give trouble and can ruin your printer. Just thought all this might be helpfull. Take a look at this link, this is where I get my cartridges from, order one day, pay by card, delivered the next day free postage, they are good. Based in Paignton Devon, close to me, have a shop the bottom end of Newton Abbot. http://www.refreshcartridges.co.uk/

About 1:18 certainly a lot bigger than 1:16. I'm currently trying to locate the Ford tractor one, forget where I put it!.

Here is the front cover and one of the pagees of the David Brown one I have.

Never seen a combine model cut-out build but on the same lines as the tractor ones I've seen. I have a 1964 David Brown 990 Implematic one, still in the book form and also a 1970's Ford example as well, again still in its book form. Don't ever be tempted to construct it, keep it as it is and get it photocopied on suitable card and the same size and build from that, if it were mine, I'd have a few copies done. Nice find!

Most of the Dartmoor farmers still use a lot of small conventional small bales, especially hay. Although there are a great majority that bale a lot of hay and silage in the big bale form in the winter months it is near impossible to get out onto the moor with a tractor, even a 4WD tractor with a big bale either on the back or on the loader due to the terrain so feeding small bales via a quad is the better option as you don't cut up the ground and the sheep and out-wintered cattle are not standing around a ring feeder making a mud bath, National Park people wouldn't allow it. When the weather is particularly bad, even the moorland ponies need a bit extra so small bales fill the requirement.

The bull, calf and cow next to the calf.

I think that the string just ties on to the centre of the rear of the forks and through a little hole in the shaft at the top that the winding wheel on the side of the mast and then just knotted to stop it coming out of the hole, it then just winds the string around the shaft as you turn the wheel on the mast and lifts the forks. They used the same thread that was used on the Land Rover winch and the helicopter winch.

A little cooler here today at 24.4C. Forcast for the week is for the wind changing direction and returning to a more seasonable temperature, will have to watch the weeks forcast tomorrow evening on Countryfile.

24.4C recorded here today. Hot weather said to continue well into the second part of next week. Local news reporting from the little South coastal town of Sidmouth said that ice cream had sold out and a shop selling disposable barbeques had also sold out, the traders said that sales this last week have been far greater than most weeks during the summer.

It's been very hot down here in Devon today, hotter than yesterday. Temperature at 3.00pm peaked at 25.5C

The 18% moisture content I mentioned is for on farm storage but if you're selling the grain instead of keeping it for feeding then your feed merchant or buyer would visit and do his own moisture test. Different merchants vary in what they accept in respect of moisture content depending on what they are going to use the grain for and if they are going to mill it for feed then they damp the grain down anyway. Several years ago we used to sell our surplus barley to a local mill and they would take it with a moisture content up to 22% and still pay the market price, this was advantagious with a slightly higher moisture content as the bushel weight was a greater volume than at a lower content. If you sent your grain for storage to the miller if you could not store it yourself then you would be charged and if they did have to dry it to store in their bins you would also be charged for the drying. What our miller would do was to take what you could not store yourself, and when you bought your concentrates/feed from them they would reduce the price in using your grain in it but it was always known that you might not necesserally get your own grain back in the feedstuffs. Ther system worked well and very cost effective.

Harvest the wheat when it's ripe and had a weeks sunshine on it perhaps? In a more serious mode, it might be the design of the batch dryer that's the real problem. I'm not farmilliar with these so can't really offer much in the way of a solution, here in these parts we only used to store grain in barn silos which could be blown from the base with a cold air blower fan through a ducting arrangement in the base of the silo if it needed cooling a little if the moisture content was high enough to make it heat a little. Ideal storage moisture content is 18% but if the weather was a little inclement at harvest the bigger grain growers would hire in a proper gas powered mobile drier to get the moisture content right before putting it in the bin. I've still got my little moisture meter we used to use, handy little bit of kit and very accurate too.

Older tractors are very easy to start wheather the Lucas or whatever ignition key they use as you only have to figure out which way is run and which way is stop on the injector pump gate and use a screwdriver or spanner to short across the starter motor solenoid. The only sure way to stop them being started up is to remove the battery and also, incase the theives carry a battery, is to break the circuit in the wiring between one of the two solenoid wires by fitting a discrete connector that you can part or break this cxircuit by shortenining one of the wires by a few inches and make up a double ended connection with a length of wire in order to stop them from just connecting the wire back up because it would not then reach.

Report the situation to eBay through their 'report a problem' page. This has fortunately not happened to me but only a couple of times but just bear in mind that the seller may be having problems his end with his computer, he may be sick, in hospital or dead!, just give him the benefit of doubt for a time to have the opportunity to answer you. Don't worry too much if you have a PayPal account as your payment is protected and going through the right procedure they will reimburse your payment back to your account. If you think the seller is sus just send another message to him politeley asking him to send you the items within a reasonable time of receiving your message or you will take action against him and file a report. That usually gets the sellers ass in gear.

Very wet and very windy down here. Local news reporting trees and power lines down in Cornwall but we haven't had those sort of winds here where I'm at the moment but it is pretty rough.

Here is a set I purchased from eBay a couple of years ago. Haven't a clue who made them. They are made from white metal with brass tines/spikes. I had to make the towing bars and hitch ring from stainless steel wire as these were missing. The drag sections in the picture of the link you posted up look exactly like those that were on the Lone Star 'Farmers Boy' ones, I think I have some of those sections in my parts bin.