Cheshire Farm Models Posted January 17, 2018 Share Posted January 17, 2018 Here’s some flat 8s I built for toytrac. Real good model for a classic loader tractor. I think for toytrac this year I will build/convert a suitable loader tractor for them. Maybe a Mf 590 with Mf 80 loader would suit well, something along those lines anyway. I Hope you all like them. I’m Still making these to order. Cheers Sam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mb86 Posted January 17, 2018 Share Posted January 17, 2018 Another cracker Sam. Like you I need I sort out a loader tractor for mine! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_emmons Posted January 17, 2018 Share Posted January 17, 2018 Looks great Sam My only loader Tractors are a Wiking Claas 650 and Vatra T174 or an old Siku Massy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
844john Posted January 17, 2018 Share Posted January 17, 2018 very nice again Sam, mind you, "sweat bombs" do seem to be almost a thing of the past now. Oh dear..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheshire Farm Models Posted January 17, 2018 Author Share Posted January 17, 2018 43 minutes ago, mb86 said: Another cracker Sam. Like you I need I sort out a loader tractor for mine! Cheers mate. I just don’t know what to go for Martin. Nothing seems to appeal to me as of yet. Maybe a 3040 John Deere with opu cab and loader ?? I have built one which I will post pics of just not 100% sure What to go for Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheshire Farm Models Posted January 17, 2018 Author Share Posted January 17, 2018 33 minutes ago, b_emmons said: Looks great Sam My only loader Tractors are a Wiking Claas 650 and Vatra T174 or an old Siku Massy Thank you Brian. I really like the aiming claas 650s! All wiking models are exceptional I love the linkages ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheshire Farm Models Posted January 17, 2018 Author Share Posted January 17, 2018 33 minutes ago, 844john said: very nice again Sam, mind you, "sweat bombs" do seem to be almost a thing of the past now. Oh dear..... Cheers John your right there, I used to use a browns flat 8 and a Cooke one. They do have modern “flat 8” makes the old ones look tiny though. It’s a huge thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
844john Posted January 17, 2018 Share Posted January 17, 2018 1 hour ago, Cheshire Farm Models said: Cheers John your right there, I used to use a browns flat 8 and a Cooke one. They do have modern “flat 8” makes the old ones look tiny though. It’s a huge thing. I remember as a young lad stacking thousands of little bales each year with I think it was a Lawrence Edwards flat 8 grab on a 4wd International 785 with a Kat loader ( what a loader they were!)- I think that's where my love of the smell of Hy-Tran comes from as that's all you could smell once she warmed up! The flat 8 sledge was a Meijor behind an International B47 baler pulled by an LP cabbed Ford 4610, and often you had to ride on the sledge to make sure the swinging gate behind the baler tripped each time. Then leading them in with a Ritchie 56 transporter on a Nash 684. Happy days! Actually, the more I think about it the more I like the idea of a diorama based on it all, just frightening to think that was 30 odd years ago now, just seems like Yesterday! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheshire Farm Models Posted January 17, 2018 Author Share Posted January 17, 2018 37 minutes ago, 844john said: I remember as a young lad stacking thousands of little bales each year with I think it was a Lawrence Edwards flat 8 grab on a 4wd International 785 with a Kat loader ( what a loader they were!)- I think that's where my love of the smell of Hy-Tran comes from as that's all you could smell once she warmed up! The flat 8 sledge was a Meijor behind an International B47 baler pulled by an LP cabbed Ford 4610, and often you had to ride on the sledge to make sure the swinging gate behind the baler tripped each time. Then leading them in with a Ritchie 56 transporter on a Nash 684. Happy days! Actually, the more I think about it the more I like the idea of a diorama based on it all, just frightening to think that was 30 odd years ago now, just seems like Yesterday! Lawrence Edwards ! I think they had the edge with flat 8s they made one with a pivot didn’t they so you could pick your bales up and rotate it ? Can’t rightly remember. Sounds lovely proper classic set up can’t beat old school, as I say my diorama is fairly large and the machines I make suit the style of it. Each part of my layout is based on memories, little things like the maize clamp with railway sleepers as it was similar to the one I first buck raked on. And I’ve pieced it all together and made one big diorama. I should really upload some photos when it’s done ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tractorman810 Posted January 18, 2018 Share Posted January 18, 2018 19 hours ago, 844john said: I remember as a young lad stacking thousands of little bales each year with I think it was a Lawrence Edwards flat 8 grab on a 4wd International 785 with a Kat loader ( what a loader they were!)- I think that's where my love of the smell of Hy-Tran comes from as that's all you could smell once she warmed up! The flat 8 sledge was a Meijor behind an International B47 baler pulled by an LP cabbed Ford 4610, and often you had to ride on the sledge to make sure the swinging gate behind the baler tripped each time. Then leading them in with a Ritchie 56 transporter on a Nash 684. Happy days! Actually, the more I think about it the more I like the idea of a diorama based on it all, just frightening to think that was 30 odd years ago now, just seems like Yesterday! pretty much the same as i did,but a mf 698t on a mf124 baler and cooks flat 8 sledge,a 2wd mf 290 on 80 loader with cooks grab stacking and one of the 2wd mf690’s dragging them back with a cooks 56trailer, but we modifyed it a tad so it took 64 .i am 1/2 way through the fleet so far, sledge built just waiting finishing, 80 loader and browns grab sorted all be it on a mf575 at the mo,the 290 is started, blaers on hold so a modiyed replicagri markant is in place,and the cooks trailer was built ages ago,but due a new one as all the new stuffs built for the new bales i have Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
844john Posted January 18, 2018 Share Posted January 18, 2018 Lots of red there as well Sean, just the wrong shade! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dm434 Posted January 18, 2018 Share Posted January 18, 2018 we had a browns grab on a nash 674 , over time it went to a nash 784 then a case ih 4230 , bales out of a nash 445 into a browns sledge Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tractorman810 Posted January 18, 2018 Share Posted January 18, 2018 2 hours ago, 844john said: Lots of red there as well Sean, just the wrong shade! all we ever ran, had various mf combines and tractors over the years , had a mf 30 combine when we sold up, alomg with several other mf tractors .only thing that wasnt mf powered was the jcb 3c ,and a alleys self propelled sprayer we had ,that was ford based i think . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
844john Posted January 18, 2018 Share Posted January 18, 2018 1 minute ago, Tractorman810 said: all we ever ran, had barious mf combines and had a mf 30 combine when we sold up, only thing that wasnt mf powered was the jcb 3c ,and a alleys self propelled sprayer we had ,that was ford based i think . I can't say too much Sean, our little 475 nash has a perkins engine......the shame of it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tractorman810 Posted January 18, 2018 Share Posted January 18, 2018 oo the shame my uncles and grandad swore blind nothing was better than a mf,i guess in those days pre 6100 series they may have been right, the neighbours were fully ford ,and had the same views there on their kit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
844john Posted January 18, 2018 Share Posted January 18, 2018 I have to admit I do still have a fondness for the 135, a cracking little tractor. I bought one when I was in my late teens, and sold it a year later for twice what I paid for it to buy a car.......wish I'd just kept the tractor now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheshire Farm Models Posted January 18, 2018 Author Share Posted January 18, 2018 We had an old salopian bale trailer, it had a dolly up front and some hefty floats on it. And oddly a mesh floor ? Maybe not so surprising to some but I’d not seen this before. No one could fault it, just a rare looking design to me ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheshire Farm Models Posted January 18, 2018 Author Share Posted January 18, 2018 1 hour ago, dm434 said: we had a browns grab on a nash 674 , over time it went to a nash 784 then a case ih 4230 , bales out of a nash 445 into a browns sledge Here’s the browns replica sledges I make. Might give you some happy memories mate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dm434 Posted January 19, 2018 Share Posted January 19, 2018 14 hours ago, Cheshire Farm Models said: Here’s the browns replica sledges I make. Might give you some happy memories mate. excellent builds , ours if I remember right had the rear wheels on the outside of the bale sledge Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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