tractortim Posted November 26, 2012 Share Posted November 26, 2012 loving the old photos some slightly more obscure tractors with the 5288 and tw 20 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deere-est Posted November 26, 2012 Share Posted November 26, 2012 What Mike said, this thread is just superb and like no other on here. The range of tractors and associated machinery spanning your years in the seat is making fantastic viewing for just about every aged member on FTF I would have thought too. I love it. I only wish all of these tractors could be gathered in one field for a Hicksy's This is Your Life show!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Palmer Posted November 26, 2012 Share Posted November 26, 2012 echo the 2 previous posts,great topic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hicksy Posted December 3, 2012 Author Share Posted December 3, 2012 Got some more This was our new 7710 Think this was 1983 I was 18 then Before we bought my tw we use to hire in a tractor for the harvest which varied from year to year . This was one of the hire tractors What about this bute The next three photos were demo tractors This fergie was a awsome tractor back then a 2720 So was this jd 4350 I can still remember I had this for nine days on demo ploughed half the farm with it thought It was gonna stay with us so did the dealer I think. we were looking to swap it for the tw20 but funds did not allow it I guess Think I was 20-21 ish then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Palmer Posted December 3, 2012 Share Posted December 3, 2012 again cracking pictures,bet your glad you kept the photos phil,gives you and now us here on the forum a wonderful record of older tractors working,fantastic topic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hicksy Posted December 3, 2012 Author Share Posted December 3, 2012 again cracking pictures,bet your glad you kept the photos phil,gives you and now us here on the forum a wonderful record of older tractors working,fantastic topic Thanks again Paul, yes they are great to see I'm surprised I can remember a lot of the times when they were taken, picture quality wasnt great back then though was it but I guess that add to the memories , as I said in The past I have loads more I have found and must sit down over Xmas and get them scanned and saved to put on here, it's funny the pictures I am showing now was from my first job which when I started I was 15 I went there for the summer to see how I got on then they kept me on full time buy the by the next harvest I was on the big hire tractor as there old tractor driver had to take early retirement and I was there for six and a half years then moved on, but today we go back there and contract the farm now on a stubble to stubble basis and I still have a great realationship with the family, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deere-est Posted December 3, 2012 Share Posted December 3, 2012 Superb, so nostalgic for anyone but the memories for you must be fab!! If you could pick an era or a machine in particular to go back to, which would it be? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hicksy Posted December 4, 2012 Author Share Posted December 4, 2012 Superb, so nostalgic for anyone but the memories for you must be fab!! If you could pick an era or a machine in particular to go back to, which would it be? Hi tris I saw your question this morning at breakfast, been thinking about it today while I was ditching, I can't think of one single era or tractor, but I guess my stand out points for me were . 1 being paid to drive my dads ford tw10 ploughing while he was on a chain saw course at the age of 13. 2 when at my first job only as summer help suddenly became full time and they bought me my first tractor a ford 6600 . 3 third harvest in on my first job they stopped hiring tractors and bought me a ford tw20 that was a really good tractor for me. 4 being made redundant was the best thing that happened to me back in 1989 and starting work were I am now I guess that was one of the best eras? 5 getting my jd4455 was awsome always wanted to drive a Deere and that to was a good tractor for me. 6 bad point for me when my jd 8100 and the other tractor drivers jd 4955 and the tractor driver all went and I was left to do all the arable work on my own the job came kind of boring as we got on well and pushed each other along, 7 my jd 9530t awsome Sorry I couldn't give you one simple answer , it will be funny looking back 20 years from now wonder what I will say about my 9530 then, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMB Posted December 4, 2012 Share Posted December 4, 2012 Hi tris I saw your question this morning at breakfast, been thinking about it today while I was ditching, I can't think of one single era or tractor, but I guess my stand out points for me were . 1 being paid to drive my dads ford tw10 ploughing while he was on a chain saw course at the age of 11. 2 when at my first job only as summer help suddenly became full time and they bought me my first tractor a ford 6600 . 3 third harvest in on my first job they stopped hiring tractors and bought me a ford tw20 that was a really good tractor for me. 4 being made redundant was the best thing that happened to me back in 1989 and starting work were I am now I guess that was one of the best eras? 5 getting my jd4455 was awsome always wanted to drive a Deere and that to was a good tractor for me. 6 bad point for me when my jd 8100 and the other tractor drivers jd 4955 and the tractor driver all went and I was left to do all the arable work on my own the job came kind of boring as we got on well and pushed each other along, 7 my jd 9530t awsome Sorry I couldn't give you one simple answer , it will be funny looking back 20 years from now wonder what I will say about my 9530 then, That would have been a sight to see, wow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tractorbob Posted December 4, 2012 Share Posted December 4, 2012 flipping nora, i like that picture of the sq mowing my yoke in the late 80s was a 7610sq 2wd (G reg) with a grasshopper mowerit would fly up those feilds... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hicksy Posted December 4, 2012 Author Share Posted December 4, 2012 That would have been a sight to see, wow. Do you know what I think I made a mistake I think I was 13 not 11 think at 11 i was driving dads mf 595 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MF-ROB Posted December 4, 2012 Share Posted December 4, 2012 Love the Ford 7810 2WD that would be a good old tool for mowing as it would be easy to turn on the headlands Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deere-est Posted December 5, 2012 Share Posted December 5, 2012 I was half expecting to see a summary of different things rather than a single answer to be honest. After asking it I did think to myself you'd struggle to define an answer as it all looks so good!! Glad it gave you food for thought though, I should think you'd need some if that when on ditching all day! Back hoe or excavator? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hicksy Posted December 5, 2012 Author Share Posted December 5, 2012 I was half expecting to see a summary of different things rather than a single answer to be honest. After asking it I did think to myself you'd struggle to define an answer as it all looks so good!! Glad it gave you food for thought though, I should think you'd need some if that when on ditching all day! Back hoe or excavator? Hi tris I'm on a little 8 ton cat 360 nice warm cab too but it so wet every where least the ditches have gone down now I had to stop last week because this happen'd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hicksy Posted December 10, 2012 Author Share Posted December 10, 2012 Carrying on from where I left off with the old ones, Found another of he county hire tractor And the hire 8200 with a new haylock springtine think this was 1983 Some more of my tw20 And look burnt stubble ,those were the days Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hicksy Posted December 10, 2012 Author Share Posted December 10, 2012 Few more This was the sprayer i used on my first job 7710 and lely sprayer Our combine One of the farms 3 ford 6600 one of these was the first tractor I had bought for me to drive And this old girl a ford 4000 can't believe how things have changed in my 30 years farming Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Light Land Posted December 10, 2012 Share Posted December 10, 2012 Nout wrong with a good stubble burn,there are people here that would stop farming if they had to stop burning wheat straw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hicksy Posted December 11, 2012 Author Share Posted December 11, 2012 Nout wrong with a good stubble burn,there are people here that would stop farming if they had to stop burning wheat straw. We would love to have a good burn to help us get rid of the black grass will struggle with it seems to be taking over . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Light Land Posted December 12, 2012 Share Posted December 12, 2012 Agreed.It's funny Phillip the old timers didn't have many sprays or the like but if you talk to them they will say the land was cleaner than now days when they were burning and ploughing all the time because that's all they had realy apart from abit of 24D and the like.Grass weeds might be the death of one pass tillage trains here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardJW1 Posted December 16, 2012 Share Posted December 16, 2012 Phillip, I've just gone right through this thread and have to say you have superb pictures in there, I'm not really a Deere-Fan but neverthe less the photos are really impressive, machinery is immaculate and the fieldwork is professional........and the old pics from the 80s really bring back the memories - again fantastic! Richard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hicksy Posted December 16, 2012 Author Share Posted December 16, 2012 Phillip, I've just gone right through this thread and have to say you have superb pictures in there, I'm not really a Deere-Fan but neverthe less the photos are really impressive, machinery is immaculate and the fieldwork is professional........and the old pics from the 80s really bring back the memories - again fantastic! Richard Thanks Richard I was about to add some more Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hicksy Posted December 16, 2012 Author Share Posted December 16, 2012 Well got to we're I started my work after I left school will add more as I sort through and get them scanned, the next lot are from growing up with my dad the chap that taught me everything here is his last tractor before he moved onto stock work then later retired . This is his jd 4650 my favourite tractor of all time must find some more photos of this. This was his tw 25 another good tractor Dad foraging with his tw20 and a mf chopper Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hicksy Posted December 16, 2012 Author Share Posted December 16, 2012 Some more This was my uncle who worked with dad in his inter 956 This was the tractor I took my driving test in a ford 7600 Loved driving this ford 7000 Another of dads tw20 he just popped home for dinner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Massey Boy Posted December 31, 2012 Share Posted December 31, 2012 Some excellent photos in this topic, i love looking at pictures from the past. The tractors were brute, looks like your dad was hungry in that last photo he nearly ran over the flower bed haha! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
altrac Posted December 31, 2012 Share Posted December 31, 2012 They're some great photos there Hicksy, do you have a fancy camera or is it just a modern point and shoot type job? Reckon you might be just up the road from an uncle of mine who farms near thame Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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