The Tractor Twitcher

Thought the name was familiar. Glad you came out, it's great post by the way and interesting to read. We'll see you at Spalding for a cuppa down on Leveret's Farm 

Thank you Tris, I do enjoy writing, don't do as much now, but i've contributed quite a few articles to Yorkshire YFC over the past few years from my experiences as a keen "non - farming"  young farmer member.

Definitely looking forward to meeting you at Leveret's Farm and the rest of the gang at Spalding for a cuppa 

when you get as bad as mary and me mate then you  know your in trouble, we both have 1000 quid plus mfs on order from classic combines  :D :'( :'( :'( gonna have to do some serious overtime now

Wow, I think i'd need to push for a serious pay rise or promotion to afford some of Dr Andy's amazing feats of engineering, I'll keep drooling over the pictures on his website for the time being 

A few pictures from my ever evolving collection - My Cabinet and Desk.

Book Case 1.

Book Case 2.

that's a good way to be really... sooooo much choice... I could go into liquidation within an hour at Spalding  :D

That's what i'm worried about 

It's bad enough when I make my routine trip down to Ralph Yates's down the road in Malton just after I've been paid, takes a very strong will sometimes!

welcome on the forum

Thank you johndeere 3040

Brilliant... please make sure you come and say hello on the FTF stand David.. will be good to shake your hand

So... must haves... which ones 

indded it will marky, i will be there for sure helping andy out

I certainly will do Mark and Sean 

Hopefully as you will see from the pictures of my collection very soon I have quite a varied taste and lots of mini themes running through my collection.

I do seem to have quite a penchant for big American artics and 4wds of all makes and would quite like to add the Case IH 9150 and both recent versions of the 2470 Traction King to go with my Britains Quadtrac, they would look nice sat together.

Same goes for the Britains John Deere 8440 one of my most recent purchases, I wouldnt mind having an 8640 and 8430 sat beside it.

I'm also mighty impressed by the recently released Wiking models so I could be tempted, which one, who knows, I'm pretty spontaneous when it comes to buying models.  

Welcome to FTF, you have been browsing for a long time before taking the plunge

I hope you have deep pockets and long arms if you are returning to Spalding, a lot more traders there now

What a lovely introduction David... thanks for that... it's great to see you posting now too...

Glad you have come out of the shadows and I'm looking forward to reading your posts - if you need any help don't hesitate to contact me via PM anytime...

Any chance of some pics of your collection some time please  

Mark

welcome to ftf posting david, often seen you arround browsing,and glad you plucked up the courage to post at last

Thank you Super6, Mark and Sean.

Seem to spend most of my time on here admiring the amazing conversion and scratch build work from many of you guys on here aswell as keeping an eye on new releases, looking forward to contributing my thoughts and tales on here.

Can't wait to attend Spalding again one or two "must haves" on my wish list at the moment that hopefully won't leave me too bankrupt! 

Should have photos of my collection posted soon.

Regards

David

Greetings everyone

My name is David and I reside in Pickering, North Yorkshire. I work for the Co-op as a Duty Manager of a convienience store and seem to have a little bit of farming in my blood and blatent obsession for all things tractors, diggers and old machinery.

Although I don't ply my trade in the farming industry both my parents were brought up on farms. My Dad came from a mixed farm in the centre of Dalby Forest until he left to pursue a career in civil engineering at a young age and my mum spent her childhood on a large arable farm on Sherburn Wold.

My Uncle still works the land in Dalby on a farm that has seen nothing but the blue of Fordson, Ford and at present a pair of New Hollands a TS110 and TM140.

Whilst my retired Grandad can always be relied upon to talk about the old combines and the variety of International tractors he used to run on the Wold Tops, great stuff.

Much of my spare time is spent contributing towards a young farmer's club near York, stock judging, writing, public speaking and I've had stints as their secretary and last year as their proud chairman.

Being able to play with real tractors (mostly Fergies and Fords) on a friends farm local to the club also provides welcome escapism from the "indoor" career path i'm choosing to follow.

However it's my job and steady wage that goes with it that's allowed me recently to indulge and reinvigorate my model collecting habits.

I suppose you could call me a very young born again collector. Back when I was a little bit younger than the 25 years I am now, I decided I'd reached retirement age for carpet farming and sold all my "toys" at a local car boot sale. This contained quite a number of Britains models, various Fords, Fiats, Renaults, Massey Fergusons and a yellow County 1884.

It's something I regret massively to this day.

I did retain a small cabinet in my parents lounge with 15 or so 1/43 scale Ertl vintage and classic tractors and a couple shelves filled with tractor books.

Having read about "Tractor 97" in a magazine article I saved all my pennies and school lunch money and convinced my parents to take me on a little trip to Spalding the following year, absolute heaven!

I also attended in 1999 picking up a few of the Toy Farmer artics and various general releases.

In the intervening years, adulthood, college and trying to impress women slowed down my collecting progress but in the last year or so i've now built up a varied and cosmopolitan collection of mainly general releases from the major model manufacturers that stands at just short of 150 models.

Personal favourites are my Norscot Claas Challenger, Big Bud 440 on triples and New Holland T8040

I'm hoping to get back down to Spalding for the spring show this year as i've a shopping list that grows by the hour having discovered FTF.

Regards

David