What a fantastic afternoon! Well done to all the workers. The breakdowns were just part of a great memory. I'm editing my contribution right now and should have it out for a week on Sunday. Happy Christmas.
Nothing like keeping it simple! - and enjoying what you're doing without a computer chip in sight (except for the camera's!) Looking forward to what you have in store for us in '25! Have a Very Merry Christmas and a Happy and Safe New Year 🎉
Wow! That brought back memories from the 50s of sitting next to my great uncle Fred on a dual-seat Cropmaster - freezing cold and muck flying everywhere. Uncle Fred used to say it took longer to clean the tractor and the spreader than to spread the muck! Happy days! Thanks for sharing, Steve - happy New Year
@kenshort8901 are that's good I like it when people say they've experienced what I recreate it makes it all worthwhile for me, I did but as a young boy, and where did he go 🤣 still playing with his toy's 👋
@@FenlandCrusader That young boy now has bigger toys to play with. It's great that you share your enjoyment of the vintage farm equipment with us. I guess you, like me, had Dinky muck spreader as part of your childhood farmyard collection...
A great video that was put together nicely. I used one of these muck spreaders on our farm until 1979 when it finally gave up the ghost. A simple, easy to maintain machine. Cheers from NZ.
This is amazing. its really good see vintage tractors doing something other than ploughing. All your hard work on the loader really paid off it worked well
A pleasure to watch all them vintage tractors and spreaders working even with a few breakdowns ,bet they weren't out of service long , Happy new Yr steve and family ,I'll pop down 1 day on the wife's tractor davidson Have a good time all ❤
Great achievement Steve, what a picture all that gear working like it used to! I see mr casterton vintage with you chaps, so we will have his version to enjoy soon. Great watch mate👍
Great video Steve i really enjoyed that, it took me back to my younger day's on the farm, Dad had a dairy farm milking Ayrshire cows ,all the calf pens had to be mucked out by hand and loaded into the Bamford muck spreader and hope that the bed chain didn't break, which did happen occasionally, Hope your having a great Christmas and all the best for the new year.
Great video Steve giving a real flavour of the job in the 50s and early 60s! Shame the Ns played up but at least the spreaders worked well with no broken chains! Hope you had a good Xmas all the best for 2025!
Lovely video thanks, the modern muck spreader won't last that long !!! I used to use one of those spreaders in the 70's, unfortunately we used to load it by hand. Never did us any harm though, kept us warm. 👍
Nice to have something decent to watch at Christmas. Looks like the Fordson tractors were the most reliable (ish ) 😊 thanks Steve . Happy Christmas and new year
@mattbray-bx7ns thanks matt it was a cold day the vaporizers weren't running hot enough so eventually the plug's oiled up and went off a cylinder so that put pay to them 😀
Hi Steve lovely loader on the Major I had the same one on a Ford Nan (8N)back in the seventies did a power of work with from cleaning out sheds to loading dung spreaders from dung heap out the field to burning bushes after hedge cutting. Great video thanks for sharing
When our horse had an accident with a truck my father bought a Fordson Standard ex War-Ag, much later our first spreader was a David Brown Albion I bought from Chelford Machinery Sales and rebuilt it, later I would buy a Fergy TE 20, then a IH 275 then a IH 414 and a Howard Rotopreader, Happy days.
Well done Steve, wish it had been abit drier for you lot but you did bloody well, Only us bloody lot will know how it felt to use this stuff and appreciate what we have these days, but by christ, mucking crew yards out by hand then using something like what you are doing was a damn godsend, mine back in the 60’s was a grey fergy with the banana loader, then progressed to a N4 Nuffield universal with the same horndraulic loader as yours, then back to a grey fergy with the mil loader then a David brown and loader then much later, a big upgrade…Collins teleshift, still have that, then we also have the JCB loadall 520-50 and that’s up to date!
interestng. Remember my father having one of those in the sixties. Had bought it second hand. Became very troublesome a few years.. My memory is of it always broken down
@ballyhoulihanagrivideos397 hahaha I know what you're saying, we over come most breakdowns with good maintainance and don't overload them, the chains will break every now and again but there getting old and worn now 😅
What a great way to spend the day 💪 makes such a difference in difficult conditions to have someone that knows how to set a spreader into a muck heap so the loader driver doesn't have to steer very much 👌 can't remember Steve did you put bigger diameter hoses on the loader because it certainly was lifting and lowering ata good rate 👍 merry Christmas to you and your family and a Happy Healthy New Year when it comes 🏴🕛👍
Just subscribed been watching your vids since end of november, im hooked, you realy hold my intrest and ive learned some stuff , and you have even kicked started my euthusiasm to get and finish my super major!! Looking forward to you putting roadless kit under the e27n, also would like to see your set up for the post knocker on the back of a major!??
@GaryBishop-p3z thanks Gary I'm pleased I've rubbed a little bit on you that makes it all worthwhile, I'm also looking forward to it but it's another thing getting to it hopefully this coming year 👍
Thanks for the vid man, quite an eye opening experience going back in time.. could you create a system where you can stack up the 3 spreaders? Then covered in the space of 1 spreader. Merry Christmas!
@julianhawker7672 ok that's interesting, it's funny that they was all running ok prior to filling them all up on the day and it does make you wonder but the farmall was filled up and it ran ok, so the green one does oil up then having said that last year it ran all day on threshing machine no problem but pulling hard and plugs all seeping oil out the threads, not sure about orange one cos it blew the coil and I hadn't got a replacement 🤔 but as the years gone by they've got worse, possibly time to pull them to bits and sort out gumed up oil rings?? And grind valve's in thave all got good compression
@@FenlandCrusader I,ve been doing it with saw's and small stuff for a while. Had some problems this year with bigger petrol stuff, fuel pumps and carbs etc. I,ve recently been given a conical tank with a drain at bottom and now going to stick a jerry can at a time through it to remove ethanol from petrol for all old kit.
@bobpaterson1845 well the green one has started to oil it's plug's up so it wants striping down to have a look at the oil rings, i would imagine that they are gummed up. The orange one decided to blow it's coil so we'll see what happens with that. Thanks Bob 👍
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What a fantastic afternoon! Well done to all the workers. The breakdowns were just part of a great memory. I'm editing my contribution right now and should have it out for a week on Sunday. Happy Christmas.
Bless your heart Brian i think everyone had a good day we'll just say it was eventful, hahaha thanks have a great Christmas 🎄 and new year 👍
Nothing like keeping it simple! - and enjoying what you're doing without a computer chip in sight (except for the camera's!) Looking forward to what you have in store for us in '25!
Have a Very Merry Christmas and a Happy and Safe New Year 🎉
@chrishughes8011 thanks Chris pleased you enjoyed it 👍
Better watching you muckspreading than Xmas telly great video that has made my day !
@johnd7288 are thanks John pleased you like it 👍👍
Wow! That brought back memories from the 50s of sitting next to my great uncle Fred on a dual-seat Cropmaster - freezing cold and muck flying everywhere.
Uncle Fred used to say it took longer to clean the tractor and the spreader than to spread the muck! Happy days!
Thanks for sharing, Steve - happy New Year
@kenshort8901 are that's good I like it when people say they've experienced what I recreate it makes it all worthwhile for me, I did but as a young boy, and where did he go 🤣 still playing with his toy's 👋
@@FenlandCrusader That young boy now has bigger toys to play with. It's great that you share your enjoyment of the vintage farm equipment with us.
I guess you, like me, had Dinky muck spreader as part of your childhood farmyard collection...
@kenshort8901 yes it's a shame i can't post pictures on here I'll put one up on the next video of my tractor collection one sixteenth scale
A great video that was put together nicely. I used one of these muck spreaders on our farm until 1979 when it finally gave up the ghost. A simple, easy to maintain machine. Cheers from NZ.
@robmorgan5876 thanks rob they used to be everywhere but quite hard to find now and prices are on the up👍
This is amazing. its really good see vintage tractors doing something other than ploughing. All your hard work on the loader really paid off it worked well
@philgardener7018 thanks Phil we try but it doesn't always work out better luck next time 👍
A pleasure to watch all them vintage tractors and spreaders working even with a few breakdowns ,bet they weren't out of service long ,
Happy new Yr steve and family ,I'll pop down 1 day on the wife's tractor davidson
Have a good time all ❤
@matthewshaw5792 thanks Matt your to kind 😊
Great achievement Steve, what a picture all that gear working like it used to! I see mr casterton vintage with you chaps, so we will have his version to enjoy soon.
Great watch mate👍
@Dave.w-ev9qn1962 bless you Dave yes carnt keep him away, thanks 👍
Great video Steve i really enjoyed that, it took me back to my younger day's on the farm, Dad had a dairy farm milking Ayrshire cows ,all the calf pens had to be mucked out by hand and loaded into the Bamford muck spreader and hope that the bed chain didn't break, which did happen occasionally, Hope your having a great Christmas and all the best for the new year.
@ChrisNicholson-lg3uc thanks Chris I'm pleased that it's touched a memory that's invaluable 👍
Absolutely fantastic
@charlieperkins8124 thanks Charles pleased you like it 👍
Great video Steve giving a real flavour of the job in the 50s and early 60s! Shame the Ns played up but at least the spreaders worked well with no broken chains! Hope you had a good Xmas all the best for 2025!
@AshleyVincent-o5n thanks Ashley, out of all the things i expected the spreaders to have broken down not the tractor's 🤔🤣 have a good un 👍
Great to see the vintage equipment working Happy Christmas Steve
@stephenheyes4324 thanks Stephen you're welcome 👍
Lovely video thanks, the modern muck spreader won't last that long !!! I used to use one of those spreaders in the 70's, unfortunately we used to load it by hand. Never did us any harm though, kept us warm. 👍
@IanPothecary-dx1jd ar well done I've never loaded one by hand but I've had to dig more than one out to repair the chains 😅 thanks Ian 👍
Nice to have something decent to watch at Christmas. Looks like the Fordson tractors were the most reliable (ish ) 😊 thanks Steve . Happy Christmas and new year
@mattbray-bx7ns thanks matt it was a cold day the vaporizers weren't running hot enough so eventually the plug's oiled up and went off a cylinder so that put pay to them 😀
Excellent video - great effort by all - the E27 with the new bucket worked a treat! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you all!
@charleshart6992 thanks Charles appreciate it 👍
Hi Steve lovely loader on the Major I had the same one on a Ford Nan (8N)back in the seventies did a power of work with from cleaning out sheds to loading dung spreaders from dung heap out the field to burning bushes after hedge cutting. Great video thanks for sharing
@johnt7232 thanks John, handy tool's to have 👍
When our horse had an accident with a truck my father bought a Fordson Standard ex War-Ag, much later our first spreader was a David Brown Albion I bought from Chelford Machinery Sales and rebuilt it, later I would buy a Fergy TE 20, then a IH 275 then a IH 414 and a Howard Rotopreader, Happy days.
@africadreamin that's a nice story, thanks
Well done Steve, wish it had been abit drier for you lot but you did bloody well, Only us bloody lot will know how it felt to use this stuff and appreciate what we have these days, but by christ, mucking crew yards out by hand then using something like what you are doing was a damn godsend, mine back in the 60’s was a grey fergy with the banana loader, then progressed to a N4 Nuffield universal with the same horndraulic loader as yours, then back to a grey fergy with the mil loader then a David brown and loader then much later, a big upgrade…Collins teleshift, still have that, then we also have the JCB loadall 520-50 and that’s up to date!
@glennlingard7851 well that's progression for you, other than a crawler the telyhandler is hard to beat, thanks for looking, here's to 25👍
@@FenlandCrusadercheer’s Steve same to you.
Happy Christmas to you and yours FC, looking forward to more good videos..🚜🚜🚜
@@ashtonthornes1418 thanks pleased you like them 👍
interestng. Remember my father having one of those in the sixties. Had bought it second hand. Became very troublesome a few years.. My memory is of it always broken down
@ballyhoulihanagrivideos397 hahaha I know what you're saying, we over come most breakdowns with good maintainance and don't overload them, the chains will break every now and again but there getting old and worn now 😅
What a great way to spend the day 💪 makes such a difference in difficult conditions to have someone that knows how to set a spreader into a muck heap so the loader driver doesn't have to steer very much 👌 can't remember Steve did you put bigger diameter hoses on the loader because it certainly was lifting and lowering ata good rate 👍 merry Christmas to you and your family and a Happy Healthy New Year when it comes 🏴🕛👍
@bobpaterson1845 thanks Bob, no i didn't when we finally got all the air out of the system it went ok, not as strong as a horndraulic but ok 👌 👍
Just subscribed been watching your vids since end of november, im hooked, you realy hold my intrest and ive learned some stuff , and you have even kicked started my euthusiasm to get and finish my super major!! Looking forward to you putting roadless kit under the e27n, also would like to see your set up for the post knocker on the back of a major!??
@GaryBishop-p3z thanks Gary I'm pleased I've rubbed a little bit on you that makes it all worthwhile, I'm also looking forward to it but it's another thing getting to it hopefully this coming year 👍
Brilliant 👏
Thanks 👍
Very nice video. 👍🚜
@Davidbrown330 thanks David appreciate it 👍
a interesting video steve merry christmas
@petergardner2334 thanks Peter have goodun
All that rotted FYM on the field can only mean one thing.... Potatoes next spring. Lovely video
@gareth2673 thanks Gareth there will be a few that's for sure 👍
Thanks for the vid man, quite an eye opening experience going back in time.. could you create a system where you can stack up the 3 spreaders? Then covered in the space of 1 spreader. Merry Christmas!
@avit24 well that's a good idea, food for thought 🤔 I'll look into that, thanks have a good un 👍
Do you think your carb troubles are down to "modern" fuel ? I plan to start removing the ethanol from the petrol for my old machines.
@julianhawker7672 ok that's interesting, it's funny that they was all running ok prior to filling them all up on the day and it does make you wonder but the farmall was filled up and it ran ok, so the green one does oil up then having said that last year it ran all day on threshing machine no problem but pulling hard and plugs all seeping oil out the threads, not sure about orange one cos it blew the coil and I hadn't got a replacement 🤔 but as the years gone by they've got worse, possibly time to pull them to bits and sort out gumed up oil rings?? And grind valve's in thave all got good compression
@@FenlandCrusader I,ve been doing it with saw's and small stuff for a while.
Had some problems this year with bigger petrol stuff, fuel pumps and carbs etc.
I,ve recently been given a conical tank with a drain at bottom and now going to stick a jerry can at a time through it to remove ethanol from petrol for all old kit.
at that time the british s farmers bought made england machineries ! now they got only usa or bosschs machineries it is sad
@@vallerinsheichersh1272 i know what you mean 👍
Hope nothing serious wrong with the two invalid Ns 🤞👍
@bobpaterson1845 well the green one has started to oil it's plug's up so it wants striping down to have a look at the oil rings, i would imagine that they are gummed up. The orange one decided to blow it's coil so we'll see what happens with that. Thanks Bob 👍