It’s always special when a group of like-minded individuals get together to enjoy their tractors by putting them to work.
This small gathering was no different–kindly hosted on John and Aidan Doyle’s farm between Chapeltown and Bishopscourt, Co. Down – assembling an enthusiastic bunch of Ford owners to cut silage with classic machinery.
Stephen Crawford supplied the forage harvester, as well as the power source, offering his restored duo of 1960 Taarup single-chop forage harvester and 1965 Ford 5000.
Taarup S 1500 has a cutting width of five feet and requires at