Lord Ferguson Posted October 31, 2007 Posted October 31, 2007 Here you go ladies and gents... some more cracking pics from the "Nigel Ford archives" - they should be attached to a topic about the reco mengele forager... but I'm blowed if I can find it... if you can please post the link... or move it yourself (mods).. Anyway... shut up Marky... and let Nigel do the talking... Quote
nashmach Posted October 31, 2007 Posted October 31, 2007 That JQ looks well on top of her job there That Mengele SPFH would be a rare breed now Quote
Eurodeere Posted October 31, 2007 Posted October 31, 2007 more great pics. Glad to see you saw the light and went green :) Quote
noel Posted October 31, 2007 Posted October 31, 2007 What lovely pics. Thanks for putting them up!!! Not a lot of those machines about these days! Noel Quote
NIGEL FORD Posted October 31, 2007 Posted October 31, 2007 more great pics. Glad to see you saw the light and went green :) aaahhh, but we didn't... the green tractors are the forager driver's, an old primary school mate who we teamed up with for silageing contracts though we did agree to have our trailer in green and yellow to keep him happy. This must have been around '92 with the trailed machine and '94 with the SP which was pretty rare then and a make-do step-up to the JAG 840. Quote
ihatepoundland Posted October 31, 2007 Posted October 31, 2007 Great photos again, when were the 7600s retired? Quote
NIGEL FORD Posted October 31, 2007 Posted October 31, 2007 Great photos again, when were the 7600s retired? She went in the farm sale May '99. Robert Wraight bought her so I expect she went for export. Or were you meaning the manufacturing date :Sep '75- June 76 when the Q cab came out. Quote
ihatepoundland Posted October 31, 2007 Posted October 31, 2007 Right the first time I admit the the plural was a bit confusing...for some strange reason I thought you had two Quote
NIGEL FORD Posted November 1, 2007 Posted November 1, 2007 Right the first time I admit the the plural was a bit confusing...for some strange reason I thought you had two we had a 6600 this era from new Jan'76 then found this about Nov '82 down on the Beaulieu Estate, it was there old dog tractor on drilling and hedging duties but I tidied her up and after a year or so put the 7610 engine in her followed by the Schindler PLK axle a year later. We had 2 7740 SLEs new in Nov 95. A 2wd 7600 (also pre-Q cab) and the 6600 were traded in for these leaving a 2 wd 4600 (also pre-Q) and the 4wd 7600 to see us out 'til the '99 farm sale along with the Fiat-Allis and DOMINATOR 80 etc. Quote
NIGEL FORD Posted November 1, 2007 Posted November 1, 2007 Where was the 76 pic taken Nige with the load on its own...on the drive at KINGSWELL Farm, Beech Estate where I was born. Alongside the SP Mengele at Beech Farm, Battle, my landlords main farm. Quote
NIGEL FORD Posted November 1, 2007 Posted November 1, 2007 the trailed Mengele SH40N pics were at FAIRLIGHT PLACE FARM, on top of the hills at HASTINGS for Richard Ashworth when he had one of the highest yielding holstein herds in the country, now MEP I think. .I'll have to dig my diaries out for some accurate dates. Quote
MJB1 Posted November 1, 2007 Posted November 1, 2007 lovely pics nigel , the big deere's are certainly a rare sight nowadays, & the 76 looks great :) Quote
Eurodeere Posted November 2, 2007 Posted November 2, 2007 Optical illusion I know but the first pic of 7600 looks like it's a 6 cylinder. The wheelbase seems to be a lot longer than a factory fit 4wd. Were the pre Q-cab tractors much cheaper than than Q-cabbed models second hand? Was the 4wd axle easy to fit? Quote
NIGEL FORD Posted November 2, 2007 Posted November 2, 2007 Optical illusion I know but the first pic of 7600 looks like it's a 6 cylinder. The wheelbase seems to be a lot longer than a factory fit 4wd. Were the pre Q-cab tractors much cheaper than than Q-cabbed models second hand? Was the 4wd axle easy to fit? yes and much lighter too so the power/weight ratio is much better especially with the 10 series (+ tweaking up!) in her.The wheelbase on the Schindler PLK is actually less than the 2wd because of the rearward sloping trumpet housings that reduced the turning circle by the 2 factors mentioned in another topic somewhere(?) :Allows the inner wheel to turn a greater angle without the U/js getting "knuckle-bound" and shortening of the wheelbase. I would always haul more grass a day than the other tractor(s) as I could turn easier at the clamp and get back to the forager before the other one was full (+ I didn't cut my side down so far on the trailer after we converted them from in-line front loading when we ran the 3765 JD trailed forager. ( before the SH40N More pics to come sometime!!) Hence I was always topped right up 'cos the other b***er couldn't get back in time....but then he wouldn't drive as hard as me either 'cos he wasn't getting paid by the acre. I really should write a book sometime... Quote
NIGEL FORD Posted November 2, 2007 Posted November 2, 2007 Oh,and the 4wd was not easy to fit, requiring a double split of the gearbox to put the drive gear on the output shaft before bolting on the transfer box into the side plate that originally was the handbrake on the pre-Force 5000 but was just a dip-stick in a plate for the transmission oil on these tractors. Still it gave us the chance to shim up the gearbox while we were at it as she was about 6000 hrs old when we put it on. Quote
Lord Ferguson Posted November 2, 2007 Author Posted November 2, 2007 A couple more pics from Nigel Ladies and Gents.... Da Daaaa... Quote
Udimore Posted November 2, 2007 Posted November 2, 2007 Oh yes thats the pic Nige was telling me about last night * Quote
Powerstarâ„¢ Posted November 2, 2007 Posted November 2, 2007 Nice to see a mix of old and new machinery! Any more photo's of the JD trailed outfits? Quote
NIGEL FORD Posted November 4, 2007 Posted November 4, 2007 Nice to see a mix of old and new machinery! Any more photo's of the JD trailed outfits? Yep,......' sending some to Marky now,.....he'll be SOOOOO pleased not to have to post up some more blue ones. Quote
NIGEL FORD Posted November 4, 2007 Posted November 4, 2007 Oh, ... and they're from 1989, with a tweaked 4040S & the 3765 forager and the trailers as they were originally made as front loaders and in the field in front of the farm house and to the east of that one too. You will spot the poor bit of ground on the brow where there's only half a crop in one shot taken from the cab roof of my 7600. Quote
britainswomble Posted November 5, 2007 Posted November 5, 2007 Will we see the pictures of Mike Cushing's SF 80 soon then Nigel. I bet there aren't many people on here who have ever seen one. With the shape of it; it shouldn't be too difficult to scratch build one, and wouldn't that look great in a seventies diorama. I would love to find a leaflet on one, as there couldn't have been that many made. No doubt a header from a later model would overcome the hardest part of a scratch build. The rest of the machine was very angular and easy to reproduce; assuming you have the skills necessary Quote
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