ORIGINALITY IS EVERYTHING!
They're only original once. Time passes, the paint fades but history has a life of its own. If each dent and scratch could speak, imagine the tales they would tell. Andy Hayes, from Ballymena in Northern Ireland, doesn't intend to sand the tinwork back to bare metal, fill the dents and spray on a layer of shiny, new paint. Why hide a life story under layers of two-pack? He plans to keep the history of his tractors alive, for all to see.
"I grew up among tractors," Andy told me. "We had a TE-F 20 on our smallholding, where we grazed cattle and made hay. I also spent time on neighbouring farms, where they grew spuds and worked with livestock. There were a lot of Massey Fergusons on local farms. I remember dropping spuds behind a four-cylinder MF35, and an MF65 doing some of the heavier work."
Early experiences
When Andy left school, he went to work on a local dairy farm with a herd of 100 cows. Silage was a more prolonged operation in an era when most farmers harvested their own, and Andy remembers the Kidd double-chop filling
