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you did well clicking the hare leaping over the straw swath

yeah , wondered that myself , this was a lucky ebay find

just got one of those purple rollers , first one ive ever seen , sorry no photos

some cracking tractors of all makes . the muir hill looks brilliant in ford colours , maybe they should all have been blue n white instead of yellow that pic of the 2wd 7810 on your first page is amazing along with the two Nuffield with silage trailers brilliant well done

spent last night snow ploughing , thought we be finished with this stuff by now , it rained heavy all day till around four pm then snowed , thoughts go out to those lads/lasses who are having to lamb in this crazy weather , it is truly awful time for them similar weather back in the mid 80s, my brother reminded me of a day when after a full days lambing we had less live lambs than we had at 6am that day

just drove up from hexham back to Allendale , visability was down to two feet in front of the car . the lad on the gritter was just in front n he told me he lost the road a few times , that wind is whipping the snow up , he also said the roads up to the durham and cumbrian boundries will be full

yes , gritters n ploughs are out but its my week end off from them but have a few hours left if things get bad . unlike the farmer , we get the working time directive thrown at us plus sodding tacho rules ,

hope you have decent gloves , see you aint got a gator yet

pretty much the same over the hill at Allendale john , fortunately the hill lads are a month off lambing , but as you say , they still need feeding n checking , hopefully all present and not buried behind the dykes with snow

i remember years ago , possabably the early 90's a lambing time like this and the yowes were dropping the lambs and leaving them , every bit of the buildings were full of sheep with weak lambs , even the hay lofts had yowes n lambs in . the fields were just pure mud , guessing farmers are also having to buy in more fodder n bedding at a premium price now . you mentioned frozen solid , I hated when the byres froze , that's when you find out just how much water a bloody cow needs , more so when on a hay diet

that's brilliant , big weight off your shoulders now

its a fact , we were probably happier than todays youth , my to sit in their rooms and hardly communicate with us and just live on social media , perhaps its our fault for letting them do this ? I know my parents never allowed us just to sit about , dad always had a job somewhere for us to do regardless if we were capable of doing it . happy days !

nice addition paul

excellent james

brilliantly done , excellent job

unbelievable eh , but look at the bidders feed back rating , new to ebay

don't blame him one bit

that's about 8 miles from my part of the world , going out with the gritter tonight and will be just over the hill top from there at allenheads and nenthead

is that a pic of kilhope water wheel and mine in that last photo set? ,

you could be right there james

Northumberland county council had rolba heads fitted to mitchigan loading shovels , there was a rolls Royce power pack mounted on to the rear of the shovel and drive shafts connecting it to the head , these were replaced by a jcb 416 shovel , the same blower head was used but an Iveco power unit mounted up front powered it , this was changed after ten years with 410 hours on it , today we have a case ih 215 puma with a schmit blower mounted on its front links

durham county council ran one of these a few years back , I met them on the Northumberland /durham boundry above allenheads when I was ploughing snow , the driver was sick of his life , bless him

looks canny does that

aye

excellent outfit you have there martin