James T Posted October 28, 2006 Share Posted October 28, 2006 Used to be a few of these still working in the '80's when I was young Offset, PTO driven, greater width than tractor with long horizontal bar to which tines were attached. Hood over the top, probably could be adjusted. Skids and small wheels. Anybody think they know what this was? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie Posted October 28, 2006 Share Posted October 28, 2006 sounds like a jumbo its red? with yellow tines? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
batcher Posted October 28, 2006 Share Posted October 28, 2006 sounds like a golden pheasant to me or a fanted less bar's than the golden bit smaller overall i used to ted hay and you could add row up doors on the back and leave a lovely fuffed up row for bailing the drawbar used to move round to an inline posistion for traverling a little bit unstable at times you ajusted the wheels for work or trans it picked the crop up from the front over the top and left a fuffed up row so the air could drythe crop Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allis8550 Posted October 28, 2006 Share Posted October 28, 2006 Could be a Pheasant, used to be quite a few around here , would ted two rows at a time compared to say a wuffler which only did one. Had a gate arrangement on the back that you could close up for rowing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Powerstarâ„¢ Posted October 28, 2006 Share Posted October 28, 2006 One of those Britains Lely ones? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archbarch Posted October 28, 2006 Share Posted October 28, 2006 has to be a Pheasant although where my dad worked there was a similar machine to the pheasant alot tougher in design the tines were like conditioner tines. fairly wide aswell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
batcher Posted October 28, 2006 Share Posted October 28, 2006 If i remeber right it would pick 2 5ft rows with ease and had tines the fanted had 4-5 rows of heavy metel forks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James T Posted October 28, 2006 Author Share Posted October 28, 2006 Thanks for the info guys, is 'Pheasant' the model? Who is the manufacturer - Lely perhaps? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James T Posted October 28, 2006 Author Share Posted October 28, 2006 Answering my own question - Lely Pheasant - just saw a picture from a manual for sale on eBay. Interesting piece of old kit - don't suppose anybody has a pic? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NIGEL FORD Posted October 28, 2006 Share Posted October 28, 2006 Answering my own question - Lely Pheasant - just saw a picture from a manual for sale on eBay. Interesting piece of old kit - don't suppose anybody has a pic? There was a Cock Pheasant on wheels & a Flying Pheasant on skids:Blanch-Lely, from memory,four bars of tines (very prone to breakage- that's why we didn't get one!- whereas the Fanted had 2 helically mounted bars with strips of strip-steel bar tines that were mounted on very thick rubberised canvas that could cope with uneven ground better without breaking. We still had fields of "ridge & furrow" on the farm we bought in the late 60's that hadn't been ploughed for over 50 yrs then, which would have stripped the tines off a Pheasant and ****ed the baler knives.Previous to the Fanted we had a Vicon 2 row back-kicker tedder like an un-shrouded Pheasant that only back-kicked, not up and over.I've got brochures of them all but too busy to attempt to find/post them I'm afraid.....sorry to be a big tease! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NIGEL FORD Posted October 28, 2006 Share Posted October 28, 2006 Who changed Cock to Willy?.... I never typed that .... completely confuses the issue! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NIGEL FORD Posted October 28, 2006 Share Posted October 28, 2006 Oh come on ..... is there an auto- censure on here or summat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NIGEL FORD Posted October 28, 2006 Share Posted October 28, 2006 I'll try typing it as one word, see if that gets through....cockpheasant Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NIGEL FORD Posted October 28, 2006 Share Posted October 28, 2006 I ask you.... whoever heard of a willy crowing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IH885XLMAN Posted October 28, 2006 Share Posted October 28, 2006 have you ever thought of doing a traditional "hay tedder" NIGEL your average 3 pint linkage type with two rotrys on the back with ines and all ? would be a good model comming from you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
batcher Posted December 18, 2006 Share Posted December 18, 2006 Found my old one the weekend don;t think she will do many more acres now shame really was a good bit of kit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James T Posted December 18, 2006 Author Share Posted December 18, 2006 I'll try and see if I can find one over the Xmas hols I knew was tucked away in a corner of a field...great piece of kit. Thanks for the photos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NIGEL FORD Posted December 18, 2006 Share Posted December 18, 2006 I ask you.... whoever heard of a willy crowing? c*ck......now has that got through? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NIGEL FORD Posted December 18, 2006 Share Posted December 18, 2006 c*ck......now has that got through? Aw yes,.... at last! What do you call "traditional" Nige 'cos I would have said the C*ck Pheasant or Bamford "Wuffler" was traditional not a Haybob as we still have that design.Cen Davies does a nice ground-drive multi-bar rotating rake, Fisher-Humphries, I think. I'm not at all impressed with the recent SIKU turner. One day I'll finish the Vicon Trapeze I started back in the early '80's Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
batcher Posted December 18, 2006 Share Posted December 18, 2006 Do you mean the acrobat with the 4 wheels with tines ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NIGEL FORD Posted December 20, 2006 Share Posted December 20, 2006 Do you mean the acrobat with the 4 wheels with tines ? that's only the right hand side of a Trapeze. We used to row up ahead of the JD 5400 or Claas Jag 80 SP foragers with a Trapeze. Will dig out some photos one day on our 4000 & contractors Zetor Crystal 8011. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
batcher Posted December 20, 2006 Share Posted December 20, 2006 that's only the right hand side of a Trapeze. We used to row up ahead of the JD 5400 or Claas Jag 80 SP foragers with a Trapeze. Will dig out some photos one day on our 4000 & contractors Zetor Crystal 8011. Is that the one towed by the drawbar not the 3pl ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NIGEL FORD Posted December 20, 2006 Share Posted December 20, 2006 Is that the one towed by the drawbar not the 3pl ? No, it's fully mounted, when folded for transport the 2 rows of 4 wheels run up the back of the tractor centre, way above the cab.It's quite a heave for one bloke to fold up on his own. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IH885XLMAN Posted December 20, 2006 Share Posted December 20, 2006 Aw yes,.... at last! What do you call "traditional" Nige 'cos I would have said the C*ck Pheasant or Bamford "Wuffler" was traditional not a Haybob as we still have that design. Cen Davies does a nice ground-drive multi-bar rotating rake, Fisher-Humphries, I think. I'm not at all impressed with the recent SIKU turner. One day I'll finish the Vicon Trapeze I started back in the early '80's from NIGEL FORD I mean like the britains lely rotory tedder but "more realistic " proper gates on the back etc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SMurF Posted December 20, 2006 Share Posted December 20, 2006 Found my old one the weekend don;t think she will do many more acres now shame really was a good bit of kit We had 2 of them up until 12 months ago but (as many of you know what i'm about to say) we scrapped them bit of a shame as one of them wes prety well serviceable just needed tyres and some tines that one was stored in a shed and kept rather well must have been in there for 25+ years But the rules were adhered to and it was scrapped along with load of other old and interesting bits of kit shame realy as once they have all gone there gone forever Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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