The Tractor Twitcher

Thanks ever so much John, that's great to hear. Only ever seen one rusting away in the back of a dealers yard. Look like a very clever piece of kit.

FMC pea viner at work on the same farm.

Back to the older scanned images I have from this large farm in Lincolnshire. Next up this Massey Ferguson 3680 and Opico square plough at work in the early nineties.

Case IH Optum 270 CVX and Pottinger Terrasem C6 drill on demonstration at NORMAC 2018.

John Deere 6215R and JCB Fastrac 4220 with Landquip fertiliser tanks and Grimme GB215 potato planters at work together in 2018.

Fendt 6275L at work in 2019.

Claas Lexion 750 at work on a showery afternoon in 2019.

Cracking little tractor for the job, which took over from a 1943 John Deere BN on this farm not all that long ago. It also does a bit of spraying set at the same track width. Really looking forward to seeing their Massey Ferguson 174C rolling their sugar beet in this year and their MkII Massey Ferguson 65 being used with a modified front mounted Ferguson hoe.

One of my favourites of their fleet is this lovely original 1980 Massey Ferguson 565 with just 2221 hours on the clock. It's mainly used for drilling sugar beet with this old Accord precision drill.

If anyone has read the latest issue of Classic Tractor you might have seen the fleet profile I completed on Newark arable farmers Brian and Charlie Wright who run rather a lot of classic and modern classic Massey Ferguson tractors. Their fleet includes this rather nice 590 that's used for secondary cultivation work and rolling.

Challenger Stealth MT775E and Vaderstad NZ cultivator at work in 2019.

Case IH Puma 195 and Claas Quadrant 5300 valer at work in 2019.

The recent UH County 1884 forerunner.

John Deere 4050 spreading pig slurry on the same farm.

More from the same farm in Lincolnshire back in the eighties. A pair of Massey Ferguson 1250s spreading muck with Hillam rotating barrel spreaders loaded by a Hymac 580D.

A couple of PHD Farm Models conversions I brought home with me from the last time I was at Zwolle in 2019. Fendt 612LSA on aluminium wide wheels and Deutz-Fahr 6.31 on wider Michelins.

Massey Ferguson 690 rolling on the same farm.

Opico imported Hesston swather at work in Lincolnshire in the late eighties.

Great work so far Chris. Looking forward to seeing how this turns out. 🙂

Ford 8210 I spotted on a trip to Suffolk in 2019.

So sad, but what a fine send off to give him.

A & A Farm Services Krone Big X 630 at work in 2019.

International BTD20 and BTD6 bulldozers on display at Cleveland Land Services. In their reception area was arguably the most impressive 1/8th scale model i've seen in a very long time. A replica of the BTD20 constructed for the company's 50th Anniversary by Davis Designs.

A small selection of photos from Cleveland Land Services fleet of equipment I completed a testimonial on last year.

New Holland TX66 at work in 2019.