It will make a very handy tractor with the loader on and what a difference from the old Massey, have you had any enquiries about the 590 ?
DISPATCHER haven’t received anything yet…
Cheers Wrighty.
Hey Chris this is going back some as well, looks like a thrashing scene on a farm and I can remember a visiting contractor with just such gear coming to do me dad’s corn in the mid 50’s, John James was his name and he had an old case tractor with which he pulled the thrashing drum and a stationary baler on behind, if he came to a steep hill on his travels from farm to farm he would drop off the baler take the drum to the top of the hill and return for the baler then join it all up and gel on. Very labour intensive it was at least 3 men on the baler, one feeding it and two on the wires to tie the bales, and then maybe two more to stack the bales, they had lengths of wire ties with an eye in one end, when the correct length of bale was through the chamber they pushed in a metal fork which had sort of open tubes in then they could push through the two ties and the man on tuther side put loose end through loop and twisted it, of course this was way before invention of knotters on todays balers, just a note of interest they were developed by a farmer who saw his dog playing with some twine or so that’s what I have been told. The bales were very heavy but this could be adjusted according to the preasure applied to the chamber on the baler. Of course many men needed on the drum one to pitch to the feeder on the top another to bag of the corn, men to clear the chaff etc and if it were steam driven waterman and they nearly always had a wire mesh fence round the whole thing with terriers to catch the fleeing mice and rats from the stack, oh what fun they had back then probably at least ten workers to operate an outfit like that, but good banter in the pub after the days work done, bugger me I should write a book with my ramblings but many on here could do that im’e sure, cheers Buzzer.
John some pictures like that in the book,we were originally from
farming stock , alot of old hauliers started there
wrighty:
Morning BuzzerDown in the smoke this morning tipping at Hanworth, and by eck it’s fair hot compared wi home…
Cheers Wrighty
Is that where Gilly on your squadron runs to daily from Ashbourne?
Pete.
DISPATCHER:
John some pictures like that in the book,we were originally from
farming stock , alot of old hauliers started there
Chris have you got a book on Hill’s history, if you have I did not know about it. Did you run cattle trucks if you got ant pics of them it would be good on here., cheers JD
PS. I used to be called “The Fat Controller” when I wuzz in’t office, cruel bunch them drivers.
Yes there is book we had about 15/20 cattle wagons at one time
eventually that side was sold to.Whitchards,we had a chippey
shop which use to make all the bodies
windrush:
wrighty:
Morning BuzzerDown in the smoke this morning tipping at Hanworth, and by eck it’s fair hot compared wi home…
Cheers Wrighty
Is that where Gilly on your squadron runs to daily from Ashbourne?
Pete.
Evening Windrush
No Gilly runs into Acton everyday out of Ashbourne…
wrighty:
Evening WindrushNo Gilly runs into Acton everyday out of Ashbourne…
Ah, thank’s for that.
Pete.
Buzzer:
Wrighty bit of a delay on the tractor as I have told them to hang on to it so they can fit a new loader on her which probably means after Christmas, the loader frame they can get straight away but the brackets about four weeks and they close for two over the festering period.
Cant wait but sometimes you have too.
DISPATCHER. Chris cut this out of the ECHO tonight and think I see Hill & Sons on the top at the front of the tram, am I seeing things or is this summit to do with your past history, interested to know cheers Buzzer.
Hi Buzzer,
Found this pic on the internet, somebody else looking for a new fore-end loader, damaged by hitting a cattle grid with bucket at speed!
pete smith:
Buzzer:
Wrighty bit of a delay on the tractor as I have told them to hang on to it so they can fit a new loader on her which probably means after Christmas, the loader frame they can get straight away but the brackets about four weeks and they close for two over the festering period.
Cant wait but sometimes you have too.
DISPATCHER. Chris cut this out of the ECHO tonight and think I see Hill & Sons on the top at the front of the tram, am I seeing things or is this summit to do with your past history, interested to know cheers Buzzer.Hi Buzzer,
Found this pic on the internet, somebody else looking for a new fore-end loader, damaged by hitting a cattle grid with bucket at speed!
Pete that loader is advertised for sale with the note that an experienced fabricator could sort it out but as you know once its bent like that it aint never the same again how ever good the man doing it is. Once when I had just done a clutch in an F89 I took on a local job with a SCAC trailer as that’s what we did in the early 80’s just to make sure all was fine. Leaving at five am to go to Pompy to pick up said trailer bobtail the exaust bracket broke and was dragging on the road, all I had with me was the rope on me lightboard so as I was betwixt the chassis tying it up just got out on to the diesel tank to jump down and got a direct hit up the derrrier by one of T.Cobb & Sons four wheeler, well I was lucky to jump clear but the back axle was knocked out, the Cobb driver went into the central barrier and then he woke up as he said to me I must have dropped off mate. After that we found it bent the chassis and it kept blowing gearbox oil seals so she had to go, just reminiscing again on life’s challenges, Buzzer.
Buzzer:
pete smith:
Buzzer:
Wrighty bit of a delay on the tractor as I have told them to hang on to it so they can fit a new loader on her which probably means after Christmas, the loader frame they can get straight away but the brackets about four weeks and they close for two over the festering period.
Cant wait but sometimes you have too.
DISPATCHER. Chris cut this out of the ECHO tonight and think I see Hill & Sons on the top at the front of the tram, am I seeing things or is this summit to do with your past history, interested to know cheers Buzzer.Hi Buzzer,
Found this pic on the internet, somebody else looking for a new fore-end loader, damaged by hitting a cattle grid with bucket at speed!Pete that loader is advertised for sale with the note that an experienced fabricator could sort it out but as you know once its bent like that it aint never the same again how ever good the man doing it is. Once when I had just done a clutch in an F89 I took on a local job with a SCAC trailer as that’s what we did in the early 80’s just to make sure all was fine. Leaving at five am to go to Pompy to pick up said trailer bobtail the exaust bracket broke and was dragging on the road, all I had with me was the rope on me lightboard so as I was betwixt the chassis tying it up just got out on to the diesel tank to jump down and got a direct hit up the derrrier by one of T.Cobb & Sons four wheeler, well I was lucky to jump clear but the back axle was knocked out, the Cobb driver went into the central barrier and then he woke up as he said to me I must have dropped off mate. After that we found it bent the chassis and it kept blowing gearbox oil seals so she had to go, just reminiscing again on life’s challenges, Buzzer.
Hi Buzzer,
I have a truck which is only 3 months old, been smashed up and since been repaired but having electrical problems and now power steering pipe leaking, as you say once its had a prang they are never the same, Cheer’s Pete
Hi John If you really want a boring read I could drop my copy round to
Tracey isl for you■■?
Thanks for the pics Chris, the tanker you showed was exactly like the one that collected the milk from Lackham Agricultural College which I attended 67/68 on a one year course, a memory jerker that, and a lineup of Thames Traders to boot. Can Remember E.E. Witchard who you sold the livestock haulage to well. It was quite a task building a cattle body from scratch and of course all wood back then no ally to be seen, must have been a revelation when they started to use that and a lot lighter of course, remember Thorne’s built to order boxes like that too.
Yesterday put the team in and went out for a drive of some 18 miles or so ably assisted by Mrs D, sun were out but it was still sharp with a bit o breeze and glad of a hot drink at the café on the way round, also topped up there egg supply while we were at it.
Today went and fetched home four big rounds of straw and got the veg for the week, then home unload into barn and away with the tractor to get haylage half a mile away and the shot I have posted is the view from the top gate of the river Hamble looking to the Isle of Wight, there is a viewing point ther and lots use it or sit for a while, cheers Buzzer.
27.11.16…
THAMES TRADERS, S’truth what vintage is / was that?? Short trousers ‘n’ Coronations spring to mind .
Hi to one and All, trust we find you well.
Regards to All.
Joe C.
Todays report is that I cleaned all the horses out, about six weeks worth of deep litter and this went into the cow barn, then a new bale of straw on top and they will tread it down in time. Also cleaned round the feeder and this went to the back of the shed, Then after a short lunch break it was cleaning up leaves and what a lot of them too, I use an old wheelie bin and a pair of clap boards for this task and all of them went under the cows so they will rot and go out when the shed gets emptied out, good way of getting rid of them.
Just seen the country file weather for the week and its going to get cold but at least no rain on the horizon, we seem to have lost our advance weather forecaster in Ireland, don’t know whats happened to Baldric, that’s it for todays news, Buzzer.
One for Wrighty,
pete smith:
One for Wrighty,
Great photo Pete not sure if William Bargh was related to Sam who started S J Bargh, would of thought so as Bentham is very close and about 6 miles from where I was born and brought up.
Been a busy day up ere dosing cattle and moving them about ready for calving, was also mucking sheds out until a hydraulic pipe burst on the loader so that was the end of that. Not the easiest job up ere finding someone who can make up said pipes, but hopefully we will be back on the road to do the jobs tonight.
Back in work tomorrow but I haven’t rung up to see where I’m bound for yet, I know two days goes very quickly when you’re having fun…
Cheers Wrighty.
Wrighty sounds like you been a busy boy, I don’t have those problems with oil pipes as we got a very good mobile man who is pretty rapid if you need him to be and he’s got fittings and a swager fitted in his high top van plus he likes a bit of folding so no VAT either.
Nice and bright here today but a chill in the breeze though, first job was to join up barbed wire where a branch detached itself and fell on said fence but a simple fix and all done in under an hour. Next on the agenda was replacing a gate post I broke of when I hit it with the topper on me way out last week but I had a post of the same calibre with hinges already fitted and the old post had been lifted out of its hole many times to allow the wide hay turner in, so cut it off to the right height and was going great guns till the hinges were different settings. Soon remedied that by drilling another hole for the adjuster bolt job done all but the latch but that will be another day.
Home on the trusty 590 tractor with a bale of haylage but when I went to turn in to the barn had no steering, well that was that just drove forward in a straight line and parked then phoned for assistance from me Massey man and he sussed it straight away, apparently the casings cracked and its jumping the splines a job he’s done a few times before for other people, They are picking her up tomorrow morning on a low loader to take for repair. good job I got the Avant in the shed.
As you say Wrighty it never all runs smoothly always something to mess the day up but we cope coz we have too, cheers Buzzer.
PS. Pete we used to have churn collections on me old mans farm and in the spring time when the cows were giving extra milk the haulier had a greed cage on top of the other churns and got another dozen or so bonus churns on. Also I now go and buy raw Jersey milk from a farm near me and it makes the porridge in a different class.
