ROY BAXTER RARE BIRD MASSEY FERGUSON 168 SHUTTLE
The history of Roy Baxter’s mixed beef and cereals farm in the Bann Valley in Northern Ireland is a bit of a grey area, well maybe just a little bit grey: mostly it’s red and grey. Roy explains, “My father farmed fifty acres here and the first tractor I remember was the wee grey Ferguson TED 20. It was bought new in 1954, along with a twofurrow Ferguson plough, and did all the work until he bought a Massey Ferguson 35X at a dispersal sale in the early seventies. There were only 1,500 hours on the clock and it had been looked after very well so it wasn’t cheap. The bidding went to £550 and everybody thought he was mad to pay that price, but it’s still here so it was a good investment.”
A long line of Massey Fergusons
This was the start of a long line
