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I noticed that. Are they really worth this sort of money?

Interesting observations about the Limosin, wild can be an understatement, add 'mental' and 'suicidal' to that. They can go bonkers, I've known them to break out and travel 2 miles to a secluded woody area just to drop a calf, I had a Limmy cow that did and would come back on her own to be milked and then disappear again until the next milking time, she did that for three weeks and came back then and brought her calf back with her, mind you, the calf was pretty wild, took another month to get near enough to it to get it penned up and another month to tame it enough to handle, if it had been a bull calf I'd probably have shot it for the deep freezer. Neighbour had a pretty wild Limmy steer that he was sending fat to market, he got it in the barn the night before to save time when the lorry came to load it but when the lorry arrived and they went in the (granite stone) barn for the steer, it had tried to escape by jumping out the little narrow slit opening that was about two feet higher than the steer and they found it hanging by it's head stuck in the opening, stone dead. I wonder how many Limosin cattle were destroyed unnecessarily in the BSE saga because of their wildness making them seem like they had it?

I think you've answered your own question really. Toppers with discs are normally used or meant for very short grass and those that I've come across are wheeled ones where the wheels are ajustable for height of cut and are trailed rather than three-point-hitch mounted, the discs normally have three short swinging blades on each and smaller discs and blades than that of a conventional grass mower and requires less power to drive. If your set-aside land is cut only once a year, Autumn, there would be a lot of tough mature growth which would best be cut with a swipe, either the chain or fixed blade type.

I've got one copy, 1977 edition, it was amongst a pile of other farming books that was given to me by a mate who worked in the agricultural mechanical department of a collage that was re-locating to another newer premises and clearing out all their old stuff including all the gear in the building, came home with 4 trailer loads of stuff which included all their work benches.

Got up fairly early and went to the big local boot sale, picked up a Britains Case IH Puma 225 CVX and a Britains Case IH Magnum 335. Both still sealed in their boxes for £22.50

A good project, will follow with interest. This type of Secura cab, as fitted to David Brown tractors, was actually marketed as the David Brown 'luxury' cab and is the same cab fitted to Fords which they called the 'AP' cab. The standard cab had a higher roof panel but a lower, flatter roof was offered as an option to make it lower profile.

There doe's seem to be quite a number of BFA studies listed on eBay at very reasonable and affordable prices. But how these prices vary looking at the same pieces offered by different sellers, makes you wonder where they get them from and what they pay for them as they are still making a margin of profit which must be enough to make it worthwhile after listing and end fees. Of course, it's a good idea to know what the prices are from the main retailers are to know if you're getting a bargain or not and being sent the catalogues and price lists is very handy to determine this. I save all the catalogues and price lists I get through the post for quick reference but if you see a study that you like I reckon that it pays to look at the main retailers websites which also serves as a dood guide.

Numberplates changed to the reflective type in 1973, L as on this one would be 1972 so year before the change.

It appears by the results that the majority of subscribers to the survey are holding back on purchases and will be making their choice of models to purchase depending on what new releases will be available in the near future.

This topic also has a strong relation and bearing on the 'where do you see our hobby going?' I think. The recession has had a slight affect, toy fairs that I have attended recently seem to have a few less tables, traders not traveling as far perhaps and public attendance has been down slightly and carrier bags being lighter in their purchased contents. I have bought no models as such since Malvern, a case of running out of storage space more than anything and being more choosey, or should I say more discerning in what I buy considering what's flooding in now. I'm going for the more limited stuff now and concentrating on earlier produced Britains that have eluded me up to now and attempting to build on my collection of Britains figures and animals.

In the garden today, netted the two rows of peas so they can climb up and then cut the lawns. Cold here today, frost early this morning as well.

Yes, to complete the pose. You could also pose her feeding a donkey or a cow or whatever animals mouth is the same level as her hand or thereabouts.

Nowadays there is a magazine for practically any subject you could think of, and then some. I guess the line has to be drawn somewhere of what titles to stock and as said, sales figures dictate what stays on the shelves and what's not. Each to their own, but there is a lot of rubbish on the shelves. One publication that has been 'tried out' by WHS is a DVD with a 'period' newspaper of events in history, one of which was 'the assasination of JFK'. These started off at £7.99 but don't seem to have been very popular as those left on the shelf are now reduced to £2.

She should have a horse in front of her behind a gate. Her proper title, according to the later catalogues is 'Girl Feeding Horse'. She first appears in the 1970 Britains catalogue as 'Girl With Bucket' and numbered 2039 in 'Farm Children'. Included in this title were, 2036. 'Boy with rope'. 2037. 'Boy with dog' and 2038. 'Girl with piglet'. In the catalogue it says, 'New addition, available in the Spring'. Catalogued with other items sub-titled 'Farm Accessories'.

My nearest WH Smith, which is quite a large one, stopped selling it after the second issue but that's just one store, best to take out a subscription and never miss a copy, just renewed my sub, they send you a reminder when it's due.

Today I had a good clearout! Loaded up all the scrap dead tractor batteries that have been accumilating over several years into the back of the S11A Landy and took them to the scrapyard, 38 in total, I thought I was going to kill the Landy as she was siting a bit low on the back and the steering was a bit light, well, it would be being loaded with 800kg. Making pretty good money, £200 they came to.

Yaxon produced a Same Buffalo some years back but I think it was 1:50 scale. Hard to find now but they are about.

Just bought this beauty off eBay, the other side of BFA, Country Artists, study of an MF135 and loader titled 'Hay For The Day'. A very large item by the description and number 438 of a limited edition of 650 from 1998.

It is an E27N, and I think it was the first one in this scale that UH released in the 'Hachette' series that has now been re-released as 'Tractors And The World Of Farming' in the U.K. The model you picture is not quite right as the back end resembles the earlier Standard Fordson elements of the real tractor modelled from may have been retro fitted with Standatd F parts or perhaps an early export example of the E27N. The black bands around the wheels are road bands, a legal requirement at the time to be able to drive a steel wheeled tractor on the metalled roadway.

Super. I've not tried any other picture uploading site other than the bucket, works fine and after you've mastered using it, it's quite simple.

Correct Bill, could have had 'First Cut' for £50 soon after it came out, from a shop locally that was closing down, went back the next week with the money and the shop was empty with whitened out windows, bugger! It will come, everything comes to he who waits they say, someone will want to sell theirs one day when they desperately need a gallon of petrol.

I ordered the new one 'A Tight Turn' this morning. It is not yet available but due to become available in June or July.

Went to the local boot sale today, very big, heaving with people, first one there I've been to this year. One item in this category I found for £2.50 was a pre-war Britains Highland steer, a little paint-worn but both horns intact so was a good find.

Will be ordering one of these tomorrow. That will make 5 David Brown tractor studies from BFA in my collection.

Massey Harris is the large scale (1:16) Lesney model, the 2 E27 Majors are Chad Valley, the clockwork ones. Malcolm Pegram is a plumber by trade I believe, he has produced some quite good 1:16 models over several years and he also has done some conversions of Chad Valley E27 and DDN Majors, mainly changing the rear wheels from rubbers to steel spud wheels, the last time I saw him with a stall was 3 years ago at Toytrack, the last one at Farmer Giles' and I think he was at the first Wincanton one.