JEP Posted March 31, 2020 Share Posted March 31, 2020 Have been having a sort out of some older photos, they are in no particular order, but l will try and add a few over the coming days. Apologies for the quality, some are pretty poor, well before the digital camera age...... I will start with a few from the hot summer of 1989, where I had a very enjoyable time as a harvest student in Oxfordshire. The farm ran their combines for 4-5 seasons. In 89 they had a Dominator 106, which was on its 4th season, and a New Holland tx36 on its second season. They were both 20ft cut, (the 106 was one of the very first 20ft cuts fitted to a 106 in the uk, as the driver told me when he was on his training course for the machine in 1986, at Bury St Edmunds, the tutor at Manns was insistent that the biggest header fitted to a 106 was 19ft!). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JEP Posted March 31, 2020 Author Share Posted March 31, 2020 The two combines where cutting a little over 2000 acres between them, and prior to the TX36 arriving, the 106 was working with a pair of Dominator 96's, so the TX effectively replaced the two 96's. The last couple of photos are from the 106 cab, behind the TX, and the other one is from the grain lorry cab, with the New Holland in the distance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JEP Posted April 1, 2020 Author Share Posted April 1, 2020 The farm ran mainly ford tractors, and during harvest the grain carting was carried out with two 8210's, although the older 8210 went back onto stubble cultivation in August, as a new 7810 arrived. The tractors were backed up with two lorries - a Bedford KM, and a Leyland Clydesdale. Some of the fields had quite steep banks, as they were situated along the Chiltern hills, so it was a case of picking the right spot when taking grain from the combines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JEP Posted April 1, 2020 Author Share Posted April 1, 2020 Next door ran two MF38 combines, one new for 1989, and the other on it's second season (as MF only introduced them for the 1988 season). I remember thinking how big they were in comparison to the Class, they really did seem a big combine in relation to what was around at the time. Grain carting was mainly a Ford tw 25, and a 7910. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tractorman314 Posted April 5, 2020 Share Posted April 5, 2020 Great photograph's, keep them coming. tractorman314. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dusty Dan Posted April 5, 2020 Share Posted April 5, 2020 Thanks for posting these wonderful old photos! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete132 Posted April 6, 2020 Share Posted April 6, 2020 Great to see the older photos. For me early 90's to 00's were the fondest of machinery memories! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JEP Posted April 8, 2020 Author Share Posted April 8, 2020 On 4/5/2020 at 7:28 PM, tractorman314 said: Great photograph's, keep them coming. tractorman314. On 4/5/2020 at 9:48 PM, Dusty Dan said: Thanks for posting these wonderful old photos! On 4/6/2020 at 10:30 AM, pete132 said: Great to see the older photos. For me early 90's to 00's were the fondest of machinery memories! Cheers Andrew, Dan and Pete, much appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JEP Posted April 8, 2020 Author Share Posted April 8, 2020 The farm with the MF38's, also ran a FW60, on ploughing and cultivations. If I remember correctly, the ripper was a flatlift, which was coupled to a simba tool carrier. The plough was a dowdeswell dp2. During the summer of 89, I got to know the driver of the FW pretty well, and on the odd days l got free on a Saturday afternoon, if the FW was working l would go for a ride on the big Ford (l was lucky enough to spend a couple of afternoons driving it with the ripper on the back, and l remember the de - accelerator pedal took a little getting used to, especially as the headland and hedge were approaching ) One final point re the FW, it was one of the very first FW60 automatics in the country, and this was the actual tractor that Ford displayed on their stand at the 1985 Royal show. Ford had made a stairway up into the cab, for ease of access (so even then we must have had health and safety issues ) and as a teenager l remember being sat in the cab in awe at the Size of the tractor. little did l think at the time l would get the opportunity to drive that actual tractor 4 years later. The tractor was switched from duals to singles and sold through the John Wilder group, and the round gold decal (below the front grill, and on the doors) was to commemorate 225 years of John wilder engineering (1760-1985). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Palmer Posted April 8, 2020 Share Posted April 8, 2020 great pictures,keep them coming JEP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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