An Interested Spectator Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 Not been around or able to post for a long time now. Found this little beastie parked around the corner. Other than the fact it's Ford powered, for drainage, and old i can tell you nothing about it.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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SPN Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 It's a Barth K140. Yet another implementation of the excellent Massey 135 Ford 5000 skid unit! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Ferguson Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 :D - so how does it work then Stan... does it lay drainage pipes as it goes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPN Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 Yes Marky, it can lay drainage pipe, or comms ducting. All pics hijacked from [url=http://www.dmjdrainage.co.uk/index.php]DMJ Drainage Ltd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FB Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 seen a few or maybe the same one, out this way laying land drains, Mark, one was in that field near Ely where left is A10, right is A142 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Ferguson Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 Thanks boys... Looks like some beast... I'd love to see one in action... Be lucky to catch it working if it's a Ford skid I suppose \ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
britainswomble Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 more The "Ford" unit this is based on would appear to to be a County 1164. It certainly has a County bonnet and fuel tank cowl. Probably has the six cylinder engine too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JC Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 Now that is something I want to re-create in 1;32 sometime Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tractorman810 Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 the farm had a couple of feilds done with somethink along those lines a good few years ago, we had to dig the last few meters with the jcb into the ditches as it couldnt get in that close, was a hell of a machine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JC Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 The fields around here were done with one a few years ago, more interestingly the outfit consisted of an articulated **10 series bubble cabbed ford with a side discharge hopper on the rear for the limestone and I'm pretty certain it had AWD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tractorman810 Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 they used to have a small tracked machine for laying cables at work when i first started,only about 3 - 4 ft deep though how deep does that thing lay the drainage then? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPN Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 The fields around here were done with one a few years ago, more interestingly the outfit consisted of an articulated **10 series bubble cabbed ford with a side discharge hopper on the rear for the limestone and I'm pretty certain it had AWD. The name escapes me just now, but there was one featured in Classic Tractor in the past year - actually the story was about an 1884, but the owner had one of those 8210 based dumpers as well. I remember seeing one down Civilpek's way in the 90s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gav836 Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 I spent a fair amount of time walking behind a Mastenbroek drainer a few years ago on the farm i used to work on. He bought an older machine and drained the whole 400 acres with it as it worked out cheaper than getting a contractor in. We used to lay the pipe in at anything between 3 feet and 6 feet deep, it was all guided automatically by laser level on the depth side of things, all the boss had to do was steer it. I just walked behind to check the pipe was on the trench bottom and mark where we sliced through old pipes. Happy days, i used to enjoy doing it and listening to that beast of a Deutz air cooled engine purring away Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archbarch Posted February 3, 2007 Share Posted February 3, 2007 i used to work for a land drainage contractor years ago for a brief while, two Mastenbroeks my job was to run alongside with a Muir Hill and stone cart the machine i worked with was a trenchless machine, stone put into the hopper behind the (Tile) blade as the pipe was laid so correct level of stone on pipe only left a small slit which the machine would reverse over to push back together if you get what i mean.then the field would be Mole ploughed. interesting work but i was glad to get back to farming. there is still alot of drainage done in the Fens, Gs have loads done when they take on new land Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdc Posted February 3, 2007 Share Posted February 3, 2007 We had some drains done mny years ago with one and I think it used a laser (v. hi-tech at that time) to maintain a level drain bottom. They also had dump trailers which had side conveyors for placing gravel on pipe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
britainswomble Posted February 3, 2007 Share Posted February 3, 2007 I dont know if any of you from the Surrey, Sussex or Kent area remember a company called Trenchless Drainage from Goudhurst. They had a slightly different machine,still doing the same job, made by a company called Bruff. I seem to remember this was mounted on a Roadless 115 and it was winched along behind a Ford 5000 with a ground anchor on the back. I remember going out to Godstone to collect the 5000 which had broken in the middle after it was stood on its rear end and dropped sideways when the trencher hit an immovable underground obstruction. Poor 5000, the two halves didn't separate so I chained them together with chain binders and winched it up on to my truck once we had stood it up the right way. Spect Nigel Ford will remember them. The owners name of Paul Restoric comes to mind??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deere-est Posted February 4, 2007 Share Posted February 4, 2007 Familiar name on the side aswell, one of my college friends family business's Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
An Interested Spectator Posted February 4, 2007 Author Share Posted February 4, 2007 Deere-est, Yes it is them. The main contractors in the Wells area. Posted some of their kit making silage back last summer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PDC Posted February 4, 2007 Share Posted February 4, 2007 I'd like to see that behind a Fastrac at 40mph :o :o Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rich.new holland Posted February 4, 2007 Share Posted February 4, 2007 we got one of those down the farm ,thinking about it i cant remeber were it is now \ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deere-est Posted February 5, 2007 Share Posted February 5, 2007 Deere-est, Yes it is them. The main contractors in the Wells area. Posted some of their kit making silage back last summer. So I remember yes, and good pics they were too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SIMON. Posted February 5, 2007 Share Posted February 5, 2007 THAT FIELDS ABOUT TWO MINS FROM MY HOUSE WHERE DO YOU LIVE APASSMORE I'M JUST UP BY BROWNS GARDEN CENTRE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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