February 2024

Tractor & Machinery

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Editor: Scott Lambert Tel: 01959 541444 E-mail: tm.ed@kelsey.co.uk Talk Media Sales Ben MacDuff: 01732 446725 benm@talk-media.uk Chief Operating Officer: Phil Weeden Publishing Director: Fiona Mercer Retail Director: Steve Brown Events Manager: Kat
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Tractor World 2024
One of the biggest and most popular shows in the calendar, the traditional season opener, Tractor World returns to the Three Counties Showground in Malvern a month earlier this year – on Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 February. Packing in interest and ins
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Welcome!
Happy New Year! Welcome to our first issue of 2024! I was lucky enough to have a couple of days in the workshop over the festive period, and it was at this point the reality of having a significant amount of ‘stuff’ caught up with me. The number of t
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Massey Ferguson To Preview Flagship 9S Range At LAMMA 2024
MASSEY FERGUSON WILL LAUNCH ITS BRAND-NEW FLAGSHIP MF 9S LARGE-FRAME TRACTOR to the UK market when it returns to LAMMA 2024 on 17-18 January. After more than five years away from the show, Massey Ferguson will showcase its new six-model MF 9S range a
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News
GOT A STORY? THEN WRITE TO THE EDITOR: Scott Lambert, Kelsey Publishing Ltd., The Granary, Downs Court, Yalding Hill, Yalding, Kent ME18 6AL EMAIL: tm.ed@kelsey.co.uk Cheffins has announced a large-scale auction on Saturday 18 May, in Worcestershire,
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Reduce Farm Security Risks
Simple steps to help reduce risk of loss, theft, damage, or injury can also help insurance premiums. With pressure on margins and continued volatility of input costs, twinned with shorter, darker days in mid-winter, the farming industry’s exposure to
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What Might Have Been
Most readers of Tractor & Machinery will know of County, or to give its original title, County Commercial Cars Ltd., and herein lies a clue to the origins of this highly innovative company. But this is not a history lesson about the company. A great
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White Silver elephant
In the first part of this feature, I documented the process in getting this Ford Silver Jubilee 7810 to the condition it’s in today, and in this part, I aim to explain the subtle differences between these silver tractors and detail the story of Ryan
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4WD for DX
Massey Ferguson’s 100 Series, the DX line, is the company’s best-loved range of tractors – with the 135 and 165 as the most popular models. It was designed at a time when two-wheel drive was still the norm, and indeed the 500 Series that followed did
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Welsh Power Play
David Francis has lived in Powys, Mid Wales, all his life and runs his own construction company, MP Paver Hire & Surfacing Ltd. “I was brought up in the country, and when I finished school, I worked on a local farm until I was 21,” he recalls. “I the
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Inbox
Dear T&M, In answer to Dale Harris’ question in the January issue, regarding whether he should paint the registration number on the front of his Ferguson tractor, as well as the rear, I have some points to make. Firstly, I must add that this informat
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The Decade Of Change
In the first part of this series, looking at how tractors developed in Britain during the 1960s, we saw how all the major tractor manufacturers of the previous decade carried their products over as the 1960s arrived. By the time the middle years of t
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Junior’s Picture Gallery
Thank you for choosing T&M – we are glad you like it! Dear Junior, This is my son Alan’s drawing of a Ford 5610 – his favourite tractor! He wanted to send it to his favourite magazine. He works hard to get his pocket money to buy Tractor & Machinery
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Smallholder Scrapbook
Ramsey Heights, in the south-west corner of The Fens, has been home to the Butler family for five generations. The land is now farmed by Ian and his two sons, Ashley and Leo, but it was Ian’s father, the late Clifford ‘Cliffy’ Butler that started far
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Model Corner
Christmas may have come and gone, but there’s still plenty to look forward to as far as Universal Hobbies is concerned. The French model supremo has just released two 1:32 models, with one to follow later this month, and another in Spring. The two ne
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Farming with Fiat
One of my key Devon tractor contacts is Phillip Arscott, Tractor Section Leader at the Honiton Hill Rally. Phillip has a notable tractor collection of his own, including a comparatively rare two wheel drive Ford 7810 Generation III. His collection al
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IH Ploughs For The’ 60s
With the adoption of the three-point linkage as the ‘standard’ way of attaching machinery to tractors, many of the first implements built to utilise this system were adaptations of trailed equipment – that had been towed via the tractor’s drawbar, or
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Tractor World
Tractor World takes place on 24-25 February, and we’ve got exclusive news of what you can expect to see, including a restored Ford making its debut. Mike Gormley continues his series on ‘what might have been’ at County, with a look at the machines th
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Festive Delights
It was a pleasure to be invited to several early festive road runs – the first of which took place on Saturday 9 December, at 6.30pm. The Ringmer Christmas Tractor Run was raising funds for Great Ormond Street Hospital and St. Peter & St. James Hospi
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Chailey Hits The Mark
On Saturday 16 December, around 25 tractors assembled for Chailey Classic & Vintage Tractor Club’s annual charity road run, in aid of St. Peter & St. James Hospice. The run started at Holmansbridge Farm, near Barcombe in East Sussex, with more than 4
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Workshop
DIFFICULTY RATING ONE SPANNER Easy TWO SPANNERS Moderate FOUR SPANNERS Challenging FIVE SPANNERS Nigh on impossible
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Finishing Mower Overhaul
For lighter, less arduous grass maintenance, rotary finishing mowers have become popular and have largely replaced cylinder mowers, which have a big appetite for maintenance. I recently acquired a 1.8-metre finishing mower, which had been replaced by
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A New Challenge
A common area for oil leaks on tractors is the power take-off shaft. If the tractor has had a hard-working life, the PTO shaft will have turned millions of times. It’s hard to know if the seal on this one had ever been changed, and I dare say we’ll n
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Experts’ Advice
Q I’ve owned my David Brown 880 tractor for around eight years, and so far it has given me good service. During the summer, whilst doing paddock topping, I noticed that it was becoming increasingly difficult to engage the PTO. It has now reached the
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Starter Motor Overhaul
In recent times I had noticed a falloff in the performance of the starter of my ’52 Ferguson TE-D 20. It has never cranked over particularly fast, and on a couple of occasions I have had to replace the starter switch located on the top of the gearbox
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New Products
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Howard Rotavator Refurbishment
In the previous issue we discovered that the chain case oil seal on the rotor shaft had failed, which was given away by the presence of oily grime. To access this, the whole rotor had to be removed from the main frame to allow the drive flange of the
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Welcome!
Entries are being taken for the H J Pugh & Co. auction at Tractor World, on Saturday 24 February, at the Three Counties Showground, Malvern, Worcestershire. This is the largest winter show of its kind, now it’s 22nd year, and so if you have tractors,
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John Deere Proves Popular
The final Cambridge Machinery Sale of 2023 took place on Monday 4 December, with around 300 tractors going under Cheffins’ hammer. Three quarters of the lots were sold by the end of the day, but the plant section of the auction was the best in years
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County Sells For £21,000
It was below freezing when Howard Pugh took to the rostrum for the 1,700-lot H J Pugh & Co. Festive Collective sale on Saturday 2 December, in front of a large crowd. The tractors did well for what they were, and Ferguson fans were well catered for –
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Rough Tractors Sell Well
H J Pugh & Co. was out on the road in Herefordshire, on Wednesday 29 November, to undertake a dispersal sale for Graham Bishop. Many of the lots were in hedgerow condition and the sale took some getting together, but it turned out well for the vendor
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Leylands Star
It was a quieter end to the year when it came to Euro Auctions’ final sale of 2023, on Wednesday 29 November 2023. 50 machines, of all ages, went under the hammer and the sale brought together some quality working tractors and some restored machines
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Price Guide
The prices are based on tractors sold at sales, on the Internet, privately and in some overseas markets too. Naturally, prices change as time progresses and it’s not always an upward trend, but you will get a good indication of what’s going on with t
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Sales Dates
11th-22nd January Timed Online Auction. Preston, Lancashire. Cheffins. cheffins.co.uk 12th January Timed Online Plant, Machinery & HGV Auction. Brightwells. brightwells.com 12th-13th January Collective Sale of Tractors, Plant, Implements, Livestock E
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Missed An Issue?
COVER STORY Restored Case IH 1455XL INSIDE Original Ford 5600, Michael Hoey collection, Deutz DX profile, MF’s shuttle COVER STORY MF 300 Series game changer INSIDE Original Ford 6600, Case IH 40 Series, Doe Show report, MB-trac story COVER STORY 198
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The Last Word
I used the time I had over the festive period to sit down and reflect on what went on in 2023 – both good and not so good. My rally season started off in late January, at the excellent Somerset Vintage & Classic Tractor Show, at Shepton Mallet. I no

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