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Iv'e heard that a certain amount of these silver McCormicks have had to go back to the dealerships as there has been a problem with the paint peeling. Anyone else heard anything about it?

I think that the booms may fit as they clip together in a very similar way. The slide mounting for up and down is practically the same as the Chafer sprayer so I reckon they would fit. You could use the boom and mounting on the Britain's Chafer as the tank is held to it with a small screw, would not need much adapting.

Like I said, not my doing, my mate Samp. He can't seem to get Photobucket working for him so in the meantime I will post up his stuff. Back to the mower, if either of us can find some cheap, there are several types of convos that can be created from these, will keep looking out for some to do.

Regarding the Claas 2000 'World' forager, I got one from my local Claas dealership for ?32 and it was the last one in the country. I asked about one and the rep said he had none in stock at that time but would phone up to Claas U.K to see if there were any left and that was the one so he kindly had it sent down to me. Pays to have freinds in high places.

Here is a Vicon mower that Scamp has created using a Britain's disc mower for the base. He has asked me to post it up for all to see. In the raised position. In working mode.

Thanks for the positive comments. Was going to put some more pipes on but thought there was no need to go OTT. Two hoses coming from the front seemed enough as one represents the hose coming from the tank to the shut-off and the other going to the booms as the booms would have integral piping for the spray nozzles anyway.

Put some decals on each side now.

One that I have been playing about with today. Started out as one of those Tim Toys and is now an Allman sprayer, or it will be when finished. Got to tidy up the paintwork a tad and create a decal for it, it will then be ready for work spraying the spring barley. . Before and after pics.

I think it is a matter of what you are used to. We milked cows for a living for 38 years and everything centred and revolved around the cows. In the autumn and over the winter months 'till the end of February an Uncle used to bring over a flock of sheep and lambs to fatten on the grass keep. I think the trouble was that the sheep came straight off the Moor and were used to ranging and did not respect gates or hedges and we spent more time chasing sheep than anything else, this it where my dislike of sheep stem from. Cows have, in my oppinion, more character and individuality, you just have to show them who's the Boss.

You say about kicking cows, years ago when I was just a lad we had an old very cranky cow that would try and kick your head off when you went to put the cluster on to milk her so what my father would do was to put a heavy tow chain around her kicking leg ankle and tighten the other end around a post so that she could not kick. Over a period of time, she got so used to having the chain put around her leg that when she came in to be milked she used to lift her leg for you to put the chain on.

I hate sheep! Always have, always will. I say that the best place to keep sheep is in the deep-freeze, sods can't get out of there! We call them grass-maggots down here. When I was at Agricultural College years ago we were told to read a certain book from their library on sheep husbandry. The text started with this question. "How long should you keep a breeding ewe? The answer was, "At least 2 days after it dies". Summed it up really, the rest of the book was a waste of time.

Ought to tag those DEFRA buggers, wonder if they would like being tagged several times. Me thinks they would cry 'human rights', what about the poor sodding animals?

Depending on what sort of tags you were to do. If you give them metal tags, which would be in keeping with their era of production, all you would need to do would be to just have a very thin brush and just paint a very small 'stripe of brassy gold or silver paint on their ears to 'represent' a tag. Or if you were to go for the plastic type of tag for the later plastic cows lets say, just paint a small triangle in yellow? on the inside of the ear to represent the tag and a small round dot on the outside of the ear to represent the other part of the tag. Obviously the size would be too small to actually put letters and numbers on but I recon this would look ok, if it looked crap you could always paint it out or wipe it before the paint's dry. Worth experimenting I would say.

Hey, Britfarmer, just had a thought, you'd better put tags in those cattle ears and send off for the passports otherwise you'll have DEFRA on your back. ;)

The Jersey's, Ayrshires and Belted Galloways are terrific, mind you, the rest are damn good as well, all you need now is a bit of copper wire to make nose rings for the bulls. Ever thought of doing a market diorama creating a pen and auctioneer? I reckon that would look smart.

I think that the Ros Agritec green Merlo Roto 40.25 MCSS handler is a better model, all metal and in 1:32. 4 stage extending arm, stabalising legs that extend with screw-down feet, cab tilts and platform rotates, crab steering, engine hood lifts to show good engine detail. Comes with some jib attachments as well, pallett forks, basket (platform with rails) and an extention crane jib. I'll post a pic of it if anyone wants to see it. Hell of a model.

This subject was discussed a little while back, if you put in a post search it should come up.

A Trantor was like a JCB Fastrack. You will find an article in one of last years Tractor & Machinery Magazines, used a Leyland/Perkins engine. A chap in Dartmouth has one.

Most modern Transit vans in 1/43rd are Cararama I reccon.

I see that there is someone selling some Transits on Ebay, 1/43rd scale white right-hand drive, buy-it-now price of ?14.99 FOR FIVE, post ?5 and a few odd pence. Are they worth a punt?

Nice one Finn. Only trouble is that here in the U.K you would have a bit of trouble getting it around the roads and through field gateways. Here where I am my smallest field is 2 acres and the gateway is 6 feet. Most farmers have widened their gateways to 12 or 14 feet but most are 10 feet but we still have difficulty getting more modern equipment into fields as the roads are only 8 foot 6 inches which does'nt give you much 'swing'.

Thanks chaps. I presume the one you got NH is the orange and blue one. This one, as you know was a limited edition which does come up on Ebay from time to time and usually makes a decent price. The rarer one to find is the Somerfeild (or something like that name) orange and blue one, these are a bit better as they have steering but make a lot more but they are around. The 'Appleyard' Nuffield Morris Minor is fairly common and can be found at boot sales and toy fairs pretty regularly. The Ausin A40 David Brown van has long since gone now as they only did them for a short time around 1999.

Here are three production tractor service vans. (Vanguard/Lledo. Morris Minor Corgi) This Austin A40 was done by the D.B. Club. (Vanguards) This last one, a 1959 Morris LD 150 was about the right colour so I made up the decals, not perfect by any means, will do better ones for it sometime, promise. (City Models)

Been looking around the postings at vans liveried as 'tractor service' vehicles but seems that all you out there hav'nt done many. It's a bit hard to find any in an equal scale to the tractors especially older period vans, put a Vanguards/Lledo Ford Pop (the blue and orange one or green and brown one) up to a Corgi and it's about right as 1/43rd scale vans are plentiful. The difficulty is in finding these vans in 1/32nd. I know that there are vans, Transits mainly, from Britain's, the late Corgi vans can be found in 1/35th scale which are acceptable. I have five tractor service vans in my collection of which only one is my own creation. I Will get the camera out and post some pics. Oh, and by the way, production tractor service vans are very hard to come by as not many were made, so if you have any, hang on to them.

Oh, and by the way, 3/32nd of an inch is 5mm. Bring back the old days!! :'(