When I moved to where I live now, in Devon, I soon got to know Steve Swift’s forestry operation just over the hill from me. Steve became our ‘go to’ place for logs, garden wood chips, and, at Christmas time, our Christmas tree.
It was not long before I discovered his life-long interest in County tractors, having spied an old 1174 tucked away in the back of Steve’s shed. So, we immediately had a common interest. In fact, as it transpires, Steve had grown up with Countys in his life, as his grandfather had several in the past – but it was on a County 1174 that Steve took his first lessons on how to
