The Tractor Twitcher

Lovely refurbished New Holland 8340 on display at Newmacher.

Had an absolutely brilliant weekend up at Aberdeen, great to catch up with so many good friends. Massive thank you to the organisers for their hospitality, and for putting on a fantastic show. Definitely need a few more weekends like the one just gone. Also visited Brian Stewart's (Mr Softie) collection on the way home which was epic to see. Lots more photos to follow.

Added three more Fordson Dextas to my current line up whilst at Spalding yesterday.

I would have taken a lot more photos with Mike's little camera, but as was the case throughout the whole of the day I ended up stopping for a natter with folk I hadn't seen in a long time. Truth be told there were lots of stands I should have spent a bit more time looking at, and paid more attention to, there was loads I missed, but I tended to stick to the stands featuring the custom made models I was most interested in. Overall it was a very enjoyable show, and great to see a lot more layouts and displays in attendance which were of very high quality. From a personal perspective the only thing I missed were the stands from mainland Europe that would have normally attended prior to Brexit and lock downs.

Out with this Claas Arion 650 separating beds for parsnips earlier today.

Photographing lots of new Deutz-Fahr tractors yoked to Kuhn equipment at a dealer demonstration day in North Yorkshire.

Thanks ever so much Paul, brilliant day for it.

Cracking day out in the fresh air at Rillington YFC's ploughing match.

Very smart looking combine mate.

Very nice work. 👌

Absolutely fantastic John! Like the look of that immensely.

Thanks Smithy, hoping to add a few more conversions to this line up now the UH 3080 has been re-released. 🙂

Size wise they match up quite well. The Replicagri adapters are about 1mm smaller in diameter than the inside of the wheels but fortunately there's just enough of a lip the glue them to. 🙂

My current fleet of modified UH Massey Ferguson 3000 series models.

Had a couple of UH Massey Ferguson 3080s arrive earlier today from Udimore, one of which i've glued a set of Replicagri duals to.

Very nice! Lovely to see 🙂

Had the latest incarnation of Britains John Deere 4020 turn up to join the others I have.

Very pleased with it Stan, spotted it on Martyn's eBay page earlier in the week just a couple of days after i'd been shown around a collection that contained two full size MP6s.

A G&M Originals Marshall MP6, from Martyn Reeve.

Last year's Britains Fordson E27N release lined up with several Scaledown based variations.

Fantastic! Lovely to see one of these miniaturised. Great work.

I think it's turned out really well. This is the photo displayed on the back of the box (albeit heavily cropped ) which I took as part of the tractor's first photo shoot following it's completion.

The likelihood is i'll keep the display simple, and line them up together alongside each other on a shelf around 40cm deep lined with coir matting.......... only just downsized beds slightly, and I don't really fancy replacing it with anything smaller, or have to sleep in the garden shed.

Thanks ever so much Mike. That was a very enjoyable photo shoot to set up.

My pair of Russells Anniversary T6.180s arrived today. One will be staying in it's box whilst the other will receive a set of wheels sourced from a UH New Holland T5.140 Blue Power. My plan is to recreate the photo shoot I completed for the latest issue of Classic Tractor. I purchased a Siku Pottinger Synkro 3030 cultivator to go on the back of the T6.180 which similar-ish to the Pottinger 3020 Synkro we used in the photo shoot. I'm then hoping to gather up three UH 7810 Silver Jubilees and have them suitably modded to represent those in the photos and have three matching implements converted for them. The implements that were used with the 7810 Silver Jubilees were a 3m Dowdeswell power harrow, a Reco subsoiler, and a Ransomes drag. The ultimate goal will be to have them lined up on some matting that looks like stubble cut to size to fit on a cabinet shelf.