Valley Axe Man Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 Now Britains have re-issued Ford and International Tractors from the 70s and 80s some Weeks Trailers of the era would make nice matches, especially if coupled to a drag chopper of the day too, possibly a nice Claas Jaguar 62/62e with engine on. Not every one wants great fields for great big machinery, some like to remember and model the silage harvest taking 12 days not 12 hours!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newholland Kid Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 Now Britains have re-issued Ford and International Tractors from the 70s and 80s some Weeks Trailers of the era would make nice matches, especially if coupled to a drag chopper of the day too, possibly a nice Claas Jaguar 62/62e with engine on. Not every one wants great fields for great big machinery, some like to remember and model the silage harvest taking 12 days not 12 hours!!!! Is someone going to be making them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valley Axe Man Posted January 22, 2012 Author Share Posted January 22, 2012 I dont know of anyone making them at the moment, everyone seems to be making 12,14,and 16 tonner trailers, but some nice 7 or 8 ton trailers would be great i think, nothing too big and not nessecarily Weeks, but Fraser, Marshall, Horn, Triffit, Easterby,etc, trailers with a nice age to them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tractorman810 Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 dads tractors do a lovely 5 ton pettite trailer, which i have, but sadly no one else wil be making them so i built my own, dads version my 5 ton weeks with silage sides minus silagesides and she will go flat bed to Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tractorman810 Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 and my 8 ton pettite twin axel minus grain sides Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tractorman810 Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 and my 6.5 ton weeeks mono body in mf 200 colours Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MuirHillyBilly Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 Looks wonderful those mate, brilliant detail, also can you tell me more about the little Massey pulling the blue trailer, with the fabric roof? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valley Axe Man Posted January 22, 2012 Author Share Posted January 22, 2012 Hi Sean, your trailers look like a grand job, 7 ton twin axle weeks would be just a bit bigger then your 6 an half, but would be grand for those of us that farm smaller acerages and still keep chopping in house rather than modern day grass gobbling monsters! Infact now i think about it, didn't you build a Kidd Fymax spreader too? i think it was you that had one at Toytrac a few years back Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tractorman810 Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 i do have a kidd fymax mate, and like the weeks shes missing decals at present, hard to get white on clear ones made ,not overly happy with it mind so may yet build a second one sometime in the future got to say i much preffer the older stuff to modern myself also got a early richard western dump trailer for my future beet diao ,the armer salmons part built at the mo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tractorman810 Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 Looks wonderful those mate, brilliant detail, also can you tell me more about the little Massey pulling the blue trailer, with the fabric roof? thats my old 185 i did a while back, the cabs the 2nd or 3rd attempt at a flexi cab ,really must sort doors sometime for it i guess Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valley Axe Man Posted January 22, 2012 Author Share Posted January 22, 2012 MMMMMHaving those Weeks and MF silage trailers on your farm, what chopper do you use to fill them bud? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tractorman810 Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 mf 200 naturally, although the spouts a bit to long ,another modification to do sometime :laugh: :laugh: do have plans for a new forager at some point, non mf to, just need some time, got the brouchure the other day for it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CX820Joe Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 A nice salop trailer being filled by either a Jaguar 62 or a Mengele SH40N...that would be a nice model sight. Perhaps with a County 1454 pulling the chopper Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Tractor Twitcher Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 Fantastic looking trailers Sean, personal favourite just has to be your Richard Western dump trailer. For me i'd love to see an older Easterby in 1/32nd scale and if we're talking trailed foragers my Jaguar of choice would be a 51......Just like this one that still earns it's keep locally every year behind a Ford 7610. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valley Axe Man Posted January 23, 2012 Author Share Posted January 23, 2012 When you sit back and think about it, modern silage machinery might be on top of the job but theres nowt like the sight or sound of a classic tractor just puffin a bit of black smoke out of it exhaust as it works hard powering a classic drag chopper drag filling, Diesel exhaust and fresh chopped grass mmmmm :) MF200 bit different Sean, and they Fantastic Pics David, just a pity Britains didn't cater more for The Classic Grassland Farmer! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tractorbob Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 i got 2 80s twin axel blue weeks silage trailers ...bought on at spalding 5 years ago (80s build by someone) and a very similar one from dan ..also got 2 massey 700 8 tonne silage trailrs from dan.. oh and a teagle titan silage trailer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Tractor Twitcher Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 When you sit back and think about it, modern silage machinery might be on top of the job but theres nowt like the sight or sound of a classic tractor just puffin a bit of black smoke out of it exhaust as it works hard powering a classic drag chopper drag filling, Diesel exhaust and fresh chopped grass mmmmm :) MF200 bit different Sean, and they Fantastic Pics David, just a pity Britains didn't cater more for The Classic Grassland Farmer! Thanks Paul, appreciated. Whilst I do follow a couple of contractors each year running self propelled machines with my camera there are still a few farms running their own trailed foragers. Hopefully i'll be able to find a few more of these smaller outfits over the course of this year. I remember during my carpet farming days using the orange Britains trailed example, even if all I did was take the maize head off it and pretend it had a grass header and have the Britains Claas trailer in tow too. It still made for hours of carpet farming fun...... that was until I discovered a Britains Power Farming Claas self propelled forager parked in the farm yard one Christmas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tractorman810 Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 yeah a mf 200 is different, but they are out there, being down this way i still get to see a good few farms running trailed foragers and old single / twin axel trailers makes tend to vary mind .does apeal a lot more to me that 6 jd's and bailleys following along behind a jag Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valley Axe Man Posted January 25, 2012 Author Share Posted January 25, 2012 That brings back memories for me too David, The old orange drag chopper, and i had the power farm claas too but some how the old single axle claas trailer didn't quite make a balanced pairing, There's a couple of modern day contractors locally to me but the real inerest is the couple of farmers that are still self sufficent, Theres a Jd with deutz engine on, a claas 62e, a couple of jf 1050s and a Tarrup 602b. all on medium sized dairy units. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valley Axe Man Posted January 25, 2012 Author Share Posted January 25, 2012 I know what you mean Sean, and unfortunatly all the mainstream model manufacturers seem to copy that by releasing the biggest of everything in a given product group, without anything suitable for the smaller carpet farmer or display. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FNHIR Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 (edited) I did some older wooden silage trailers, can be seen in http://www.farmtoysforum.com/forum/index.php?/topic/16892-silage-trailer/ Edited January 25, 2012 by FNHIR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valley Axe Man Posted January 26, 2012 Author Share Posted January 26, 2012 StarBrush (Phil) done a couple of wooden sided Weeks trailers with wooden greedy boards to go on his potato harvesting display. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fergie35X Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 Completely agree that some smaller trailers are just what is needed now that there are finally some decent 1:32 classic tractors appearing from the 1960's,70's & 80's. You only have to look at the Classic Combines website for what are v expensive examples in 1:16 that could be made far cheaper in 1:32 by Britain's or even better, UH. As mentioned before on this site: What about a NH 717 or 719 forage harvester or Claas Jaguar trailed. Perfect for the County 1474! Don't expect others to agree but why couldn't UH make a 2 wheel drive 590 rather than the 4 wheel drive that is far less common.!! Seen good conversion on web but bonnet is too long for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valley Axe Man Posted January 27, 2012 Author Share Posted January 27, 2012 Hi Fergy35x, yep your right, UH could or even Britains could do so much for the smaller farmer / collector of classic machinery and tractors Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Tractor Twitcher Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 StarBrush (Phil) done a couple of wooden sided Weeks trailers with wooden greedy boards to go on his potato harvesting display. Phil's trailers on his display, seen at Newark in 2011. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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