Samage
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Dec 17, 2006 21:17:04 GMT
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and tractors are getting very collectable... Old tractors arent quite what they're cracked up to be. It's true they're built like ... tractors ... but when they die the bits tend to be incredibly expensive and in many cases less available than some of the rarer old car bits. Why? Numbers. Cars were built in the millions and 10s of millions, tractors were built in the 1000s or very rarely in the 100,000s. A good example is the BMC mini tractor. A fantastic little tractor but if you see one today the chances are it will have a knackered engine. It uses a diesel variant of the A series and bits for that engine are like unicorn p00. They may have made hundreds of millions of petrol A serieses so bits are available for them but for the 10s of thousands of diesel variants it wasnt worth the effort of keeping spares support. There are similar examples for ford and ferguson tractors, and doubtless other makes. So if you want a tractor, don't get one out of the bushes like those ones unless it is as a spares donor. Remember something went wrong with it in the first place to put it there. Indeed, this is true. However, I'm very interested in trying to claim some of these - because as you say, enthusiasts may pay handsomely for the parts these machines could yield... ....or then again, they may not. ;D |
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Last Edit: Dec 17, 2006 21:17:58 GMT by Samage
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Indeed, this is true. However, I'm very interested in trying to claim some of these - because as you say, enthusiasts may pay handsomely for the parts these machines could yield... ....or then again, they may not. ;D Never forget that they may have made more cars than tractors but tractors don't rust away quite so spectacularly so there is proportinally a greater supply of tractor wrecks. |
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"Jeremy Clarkson, a man we motor enthusiasts need on our side like Lewis Hamilton's F1 car needs a towing ball and a Sprite Musketeer" My motor |
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 lots of tat there but the Banana loader on this Ferguson 20 is a valuable item  |
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Check out the wheel arch spatzzzz on that bad bwoy!11 Who'll be first to slam a tractor? Slator? Where are you? ;D
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Dec 18, 2006 11:51:43 GMT
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so so depressing  poor old T-20 equiped with a banana loader just rusting id love the yellow council MF-135 (assuming its a 135) any pics of the quarry stuff? |
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Samage
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Dec 18, 2006 13:03:15 GMT
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any pics of the quarry stuff? Fraid not, it's not what you'd call an easy place to get to. |
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Samage
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Dec 29, 2006 17:56:19 GMT
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Dec 29, 2006 18:02:48 GMT
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Looks like an ex-municipal Volvo FL6 cab in that last-but-one shot, I remember being allocated one of those when I started agency driving for a firm in Warwick, 900,000km and a special advance hill warning where it slowed to 25mph and started chucking steam out of the header tank at the first sign of a gradient! Great truck though, loved the challenge of driving it, and it always got me home!
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tofufi
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Dec 29, 2006 21:47:33 GMT
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Great pictures   It's amazing what people will leave behind... |
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On that pic of the blue crash helmet, are those spent cartridge cases lying on the table in the foreground?
Maybe I'm being silly.....
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1987 Maestro 1.6 HL perkins diesel conversion 1986 Audi 100 Avant 1800cc on LPG 1979 Allegro Series 2 special 4 door 1500cc with vynil roof. IN BITS. HERITAGE ISSUES.  |
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Samage
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They're solid metal, so I don't think so ;D
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lol ok,
*slinks away*
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1987 Maestro 1.6 HL perkins diesel conversion 1986 Audi 100 Avant 1800cc on LPG 1979 Allegro Series 2 special 4 door 1500cc with vynil roof. IN BITS. HERITAGE ISSUES. |
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isnt that 'wolfmobile' from teenwolf i spy ?
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