The Tractor Twitcher

given how little difference there seems to be between that technoma and berthoud i am surprised uh havnt done one yet, i can't see much difference in them

Aside from a "badge engineering" job they look almost the same, would love to see the Berthoud version modeled.

Here's another selection of photographs of self propelled sprayers taken at Cereals 2008.

Kelland's Agri-Buggy

Bateman RB26

S.A.M SLE4000

Knight

and finally a pair of Challenger platforms with Chafers on mounted on the back.

Matbro TS260 on the back of a rigid Scania, Case IH 1594 Hydrashift leading manure in an MF200 trailer and a Renault 95 - 12 on a little wooden trailer.

I'm getting to the stage now where I actually prefer working days to the actaul vintage rallies where you just get to parade around the ring. I can't wait for our local working weekend coming up in May where Ill be able to have a play with my International Farmall Cub with mower and trailing plough.

I attach a link for you of last years event

http://www.farmtoysforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=22092.0

Some fanstastic machines on display and working there Bill including your little Cub, makes me think it might be worth making the trip up if I can get the time off from work.

I'm of a similar opinion and that's no disrespect to those involved with "static" rallies or those that keep tractors and machinery purely for concours viewing. Newby Hall near Ripon was the first event of that type I'd attended in quite some time and I had a very enjoyable day at a great venue with everything very well laid out and there was plenty of unusual machines to take photos of.

However later in the year I attended "The Festival of the Plough" working day (first time i'd been back there in a while too) and had a brilliant time drooling over all the crawlers and Roadless tractors that were busy working hard all day, the sight and sound of these machines doing what they did back in their actual working lives was just enthralling, so i'm more inclined to look for more working events and ploughing matches to attend in 2009.

Wow Bill, your little MG2 looks superb, absolute credit to you, lovely little crawler. Here's a couple i've seen in the past, an MG2 at a local rally and a bit bigger one ploughing at "Festival of the Plough" a few years back.

Thanks David... I've owned my MG2 a while now in fact it was restored in 1985 ...24 years ago

I attach a link to a post I did on it

http://www.farmtoysforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=21539.0

Thanks for posting the link to your little MG2 Bill, amazing to see it in the condition it still is, love the hand painted sign writing, top class

Some cracking combinations there, fantastic work, 7495 looks very tidy.

Regards

David

John Deere 6810, 6910 and 6920s with a variety of trailers, Massey Ferguson 6465 moving a load of straw, Ford 7740 with a McConnell hedge-cutter and a Lamborghini 955DT.

Picked up the UH Claas Atles, Britains JCB Fastrac 3220 and Steyr 375 Kompakt today to fill in a few gaps in my collection.

Stunning work again Gerben, very impressive line up of blues. 

That sounds like a brilliant show.

It's a fantastic working weekend Bill, the year I went the themes were Saunderson, Allis Chalmers tractors and associated equipment, there were lots rather large crawlers belonging to Arthur Hinch ( i'll post the photos of these in my other topic) some nice HD series tractors. Ron Knight's harvesting equipment was amazing to watch, especially his trailed International 31T harvester being pulled by a Cat D2. Brilliant days action

Better sight on the booms and you can drive all they way up to the hedge for the field. No need for backing up.

i was service engineer for garfords  in my experience the boom lift frame /parallel linkage was prone to cracking and failure. the pumps sometimes required fair amount of priming. moving the priming tank up above the main tank cured that problem. build quality in my opinion was poor.

Thanks for the insight chaps on these unusual machines, much appreciated. There's a few Batemans and Househams in my neck of the woods but nothing like those machines.

Here's a pair of slightly more conventional self propelled sprayers from Berthoud and Tecnoma seen at Cereals 2008.

those were the days  you could leave your buckets out and they we safe   now you have to partically have a security gaurd as there always going missing  and there not cheap ither  \

Very true mate, those days are long gone.

I have had a play with the plough behind me Farmall Cub at a working day last year but as for the Ransome MG2 crawler I aint going to work it and get it messed up.

Wow Bill, your little MG2 looks superb, absolute credit to you, lovely little crawler. Here's a couple i've seen in the past, an MG2 at a local rally and a bit bigger one ploughing at "Festival of the Plough" a few years back.

And here's one of my favourite Catepillars from the past, a really tidy D5 on L.G.P tracks my Dad used on a bypass project near York many years ago.

Happy Birthday Mark.

Regards

David

Now for something different, a make and type of self propelled sprayer I haven't seen anywhere else other than on my trips to Cereals, the front boomed Matrots.

Matrot is a far more familiar name to me when it comes to self propelled Sugar Beet harvesters ( a few operated in the past over here) and not these interesting and unusual machines. Models shown are the M24D and M44D.

i love that jcb 3c

what a backhoe loader

You obviously have an eagle's eye to spot the one parked behind the Case Tracked loader  The other backhoe loader in this topic is an old Case. However as we are on the subject of JCB backhoe loaders mate, here's my Dad's pride and joy from early nineties, an E reg 3CX which was kept in really nice order.

These two photos were taken just at the bottom of the road from where I live, they show the machine on the site of a new Landrover dealership.

Posing on top of one the mounds Dad landscaped out of all the waste soil to make a little adventure playground for the Landrovers.

With regard to the picture of the MF 865 combine in this topic and for those interested, here's some pictures on Robert Fearnley's website showing the Clarke brother's machines in full flight.

http://www.machinery.uk.com/interestingpics/mfcombines.htm

http://www.machinery.uk.com/interestingpics/mfcombines2.htm

Thanks Nick, just asked him and he said it wasn't a bad tool. He was using it in some fairly tough going on some of the quarry shelves and on odd occasions it would start to pull the rear of the machine up.

Give my Dad a D8 to play on for the remainder of his working life and he'd be a happy man.

I bet that Komatsu sounded sweet pulling that scraper box 

It certainly did mate, although not quite as sweet as this 300hp monster

My Dad worked extensively on this big Komatsu D155 stripping top soil off in a quarrying operation about 10 miles away from where we live now around 20 years ago.

Another cracking post with shots of older plant...lovely ;)

Thanks BC, appreciate the comments, here's a nice "dozer and box" combination used on a sports field site around 12 years ago. The mode of power for the scraper box coming from a tidy Komatsu D65.

Instead of my alarm clock waking me up this morning bright and early, a tidy MF 8110 with snow plough did the trick.

Oh that is so nice to see those older combines being put back to work ;)

Thanks BC, if I can get the time off work, I'd like to go back to Little Casterton again, it was a brilliant day with some superb old harvesting equipment being used, and some rather nice crawlers and old Saunderson tractors too. 

yeah remember that issue, hell of a pic, prob i have is we swapped the combines every 3 seasons, so a lot went through the farms, given we had 2 at any one time, so i have sort of lost track hopefully when i get the pics i can see what we did have

Look forward to seeing those in the near future Sean. Here's a pair of lovingly restored Massey Harris Combine Harvesters on show.

First of all Ron Knight's 21 at the Little Casterton working weekend, the only time i've been, a few years ago now, some amazing old machines being properly worked

and finally a 31 on display at a local rally a several years ago.

mmm fergys very nice, been a long time since i saw a 865 or similar, think ? we had one for 2 seasons ,but not 100% on that, might have been a 760, such a long time ago now

The only ones I've seen recently were the fleet of machines operated by the Clarke brothers in Norfolk in Classic Tractor magazine, very impressive.

Now that 865 is a real combine.... phoar... I think I need to go for a lie down now  :o

I spent many a happy hour working on/in one of those beasts  *

They do look impressive, don't know of any others operating over my way, aside from the one mentioned which resides near York. A couple farms a little bit closer to home did run the smaller 665 model, but they've since been replaced. I do enjoy the style and lines of the older combines, not as keen on the curves of the more modern machines.

The MF 865 and others like it must be some of the most impressive combines ever build. You don't happen to have any pictures from one working or any like it do you? 

I'm afraid I haven't mate  I do the know the whereabouts of one about 20 miles away from where I live, belongs to farmer/contractor. Hopefully i'll see it working and some more on my travels and get some photos this summer.

Very very nice with those wheels fitted, really look the part.

Regards

David