The Vintage Scene - November/December 2021 - Issue 12

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NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2021 ISSUE: 12

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‘VINTAGE TRACTORS, MACHINERY & SO MUCH MORE!’

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Are you interested in Old Tractors, Sta琀onary Engines and Farm machinery?

Ferguson Club members wish The Vintage Scene readers & staff wish A Very Happy and Healthy Christmas and New Year.

Christmas

We will be at The Newark Tractor Show 13th/14th November where we will be able to welcome you and invite you to join us.

It will still be the best £20 you spend in 2022!

You can also join us online at fergusonclub.com, on Facebook, or by Emailing our Membership Secretary, Mrs Lynn Turner on membership@fergusonclub.com or even by phone 01964 562239!

The Na琀onal Vintage Tractor and Engine Club The only club that caters for all tractor and engine enthusiasts The NVTEC is over 50 years old and has been catering for the needs of Vintage Tractors and Engines throughout the UK during that 琀me.

We are able to o昀er members either membership of a local group, of which there are 30 do琀ed throughout the UK, or Na琀onal Membership where there is not a local group close by.

All members receive a copy of the club Magazine Vaporising which is published 4 琀mes a year, produced by club members and featuring reports from up and down the country.

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Welcome to the November/December issue of The Vintage Scene.

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Thomas Andrews, (Andrews Tractors) 2 Trendeal Vean Cottage, Ladock. Truro TR2 4NW. Tel: 01726·883195 Between 10am & 8pm ONLY Mon to Sat

Welcome to the November/December issue. Hasn’t 2021 flown by?

can, as well as reader stories.

We are all still suffering at the Vintage Scene office; having had several bouts of isolation due to Covid scares, we are now plagued with a very nasty cold bug! Perhaps some good frosty weather will kill off the germs!

My partner, Robin, has been busy stripping down ‘Alice’; no, not another woman, but my late Father’s old Allis Charmers ‘B’ which we featured in our last issue. You will recall that we had tracked her down, rescued her from a hedgerow and brought her back home all within a 24 hour period. Robin has been taking pictures as he goes and, will be featuring his progress in our next issue.

We attended the FFF&B Ploughing Match & Country Show, having our very first trade stand. It was an extremely well run event and a constant flurry of enthusiasts visited our stand. We hope to attend a few events in 2022, and look forward to meeting many of you then.

As far as the ploughing went, I understand that the ground was very good at the FFFs. There was much to see: Vintage Tractor Ploughing, Steam Ploughing, Horse Ploughing, Stationery Engines, Hedgelaying, lots of lovely stalls and of course some entertainment in the main ring.

My brother, Charlie was chuffed as he came second in his section, ploughing with his Trusty and qualified for the 2022 Nationals. Sam Hitchman pipped him to the winning post, and Barry Forster was also on the podium bagging third place and also qualifying for the Nationals.

This issue is again slightly bigger than our usual 32 pages. We have been inundated with event reports and we want to include as many as we

2021 has been a difficult year, filled with much sadness from the loss of my Father, the inspiration behind the creation of The Vintage Scene.

We look ahead to a better year in 2022, and give our heartfelt thanks to everyone for their support in 2021.

All that remains, is for me to wish you all a very merry Christmas and a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year on behalf of the ‘Dodd’ family (Pam, Charlie, Sharon, Callum, Aaron, Nathan, Robin & myself) and the Vintage Scene office staff ‘Freya, Hayley, Debbie & Zoe’.

Look forward to meeting many of you in person in 2022.

Heather.

Contents 4. Rusty The Tractor 6. MF35 8. Vintage Trailer Rebuild 10. Rousham Ploughing Match 11. Dingles Heritage Auction 12. A Step Back In Time 14. British Ploughing Championships 18. Diary Dates 20. 2022 Year Planner Part One

22. The 88th Cruckton Ploughing Match 24. Sheepy Ploughing Match 26. Sturton Tractor Show 28. What Have I Been Up To Recently 30. The Museum of Rural Lancashire Life Open Day 34. Me, Myself & My Artwork 35. Subscription Form 36. FFF&B Ploughing Match & Country Show 39. The Ferguson Club in Wales

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Rusty the Tractor

By John Selley, A Ferguson Club Member

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would never, in my wildest dreams, have thought that what I bought at 7.30pm on the evening of Monday 4th April 2011 would be so interesting.

The story starts in the morning of April 4th, when a friend came to my workshop for a spare part. He said that it would save him a lot of time as he wouldn’t have to break it out of a derelict tractor, but that it was rather sad that everything was going for scrap. I mulled this over until 7pm when I phoned the number he had given me. I had no idea whose number it was. The phone was answered and we talked, and eventually he said "where are you?" and I told him, to which he replied "well, it won’t take you long to get here" so I asked him where he was, to which he replied "leaning on a five bar gate!" I thought I was going to really enjoy this fellow’s company!

It was about 7.30pm when I got there and sure enough Ridey, for that was his name, was still leaning on the gate!

We went into this field and he showed me what there was, but I couldn’t make out anything because it was so overgrown. Anyway, we did find one tractor, mainly complete. and with a very unusual engine. As it was getting dark, we struck a deal and I bought all the Ferguson items that lay in the late David Thrower’s field. This comprised of a TEF hulk, a TED hulk, a backend and gearbox for a TEF, and two pallets of odds and sods. We collected everything in three loads on the Wednesday 6th April.

on the fuel pump side is ‘Bilchrome’ with the number 302300 above it.

So what exactly is the engine? I asked my fellow Ferguson Club members via our Journal and got a reply which said that an organisation was raffling a tractor fitted with a very similar engine. I bought a great many raffle tickets, but to no avail! We were even in communication with an ‘expert’ in Australia, but he didn’t know. A ‘helpful’ member suggested I just throw that engine away and put a standard engine back; silly fellow, that wasn’t any challenge!

In April 2012, I was at a show in Norwich. I saw a friend there who introduced me to Maurice, who immediately identified it as the engine fitted to a Commer/Karrier commercial vehicle.

He even gave me an engine workshop manual! Reading this manual told me it had a hydraulic governor and the engine

So what had we got? Rusty is the TEF, Serial number 285692, which dates him as being built in August 1952.

The engine is not original, but what is it? It is similar to the Ferguson 23C engine, but it has a much shorter fuel pump fitted. The serial number on the block, CCD 1753E, bears no resemblance to anything Ferguson. Also, cast into the block

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was governed at 3000 rpm (the TEF is 2000rpm) and produced 51 hp.

Week commencing Monday 11th July 2011, the engine was removed from the gearbox and stripping began. Jim Galley removed the pistons on Saturday 16th. Two pistons each took him two hours to remove, they would not move in the bore nor would the sleeve move in the block.

It appears that Massey Ferguson granted permission for Commer to build a similar unit. Fortunately, it takes all 23C parts which got us to the position of having a power unit back in the tractor but not running.

When I came to remove the cab, there was a tax disc holder with several old discs relating to Q577 HNG. So, I was able to recover that number. The last disc indicates that it would expire on 31st May 1990 and was issued in Bungay.

I removed the crankshaft on Monday 18th, and the camshaft on the Wednesday. I took an absolutely bare block to the engineering works on the Friday. Here they skimmed the block by 0.015”, recut the liner seats by the same amount and fitted the liners and topped the pistons. The crank had it's mains ground by 0.010” and it’s big ends just polished.

Subsequently the gearbox has been removed from the rear axle. Amazingly, all gears are selectable and even the starting inhibitor button is free. In fact, the gears appear to have done very little work. There is heavy corrosion on the underside of the gearbox where it has lain for probably 20 years.

This was the same for the sump, which had rotted through.

The dismantling was amazingly straightforward. I have no Oxy-acetylene, so everything had to be undone.

The whole tractor had many liberal sprayings with Swafega Duck Oil, and every nut came off; I wouldn’t say easily, but with persuasion with a lump hammer and cold chisel. Even the through bolts that retain the mudguards, when the nuts had been removed passed easily upwards and out. The mudguards will definitely play another day! The hydraulic arms are free.

March 29th was a milestone day as we got Rusty’s engine running. However, when we returned on May 10th we got it running again, but we had an injector being kept open so there was one heck of a knock! We have had it running since with a good oil pressure shown, but now have a faulty cut-out box which nearly caused a fire! I do wish these ‘pattern parts’ were of a better quality, and more reliable.

On Monday 11th October, we tried to fit a newly painted bonnet, but would you believe that the bonnet bolts didn’t fit! They would not start into the thread and were not the correct thread anyway! We are making progress, although it is painfully slow!

So, what have I got? I have found three other grey Fergies each fitted with a similar engine but with the longer pump. I had the head done and machined to take a heater plug for every bore. The tractor is nearly all back together, it really just requires the injector fuel pipes to be made and fitted, as John Shepherd says in his latest letter in the Spring edition of Tractor & Machinery, they are not available!

I phoned a vendor of such an engined Fergie and he very kindly sent me photos of the fuel pipes fitted to his tractor so at least I know how they go. So all this brings me right up to date with all the excellent letters which have been written on this subject. Thank you to all the contributors, I am now fired up again and really must finish it.

On 18th Jan 2021, we fiddled about and got the fuel injection pump and injectors fitted. Both these items had been fully overhauled. With the pump fitted we could now proceed to modify Agriline injector pipes to fit. We found that the pipe for injector 3 was ideal so four of these were used, and found to be fairly easy to reshape.

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MF 35 Clutch Refurb MF

By John Lindley

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have to say right from the start that I am no expert; I merely have some small mechanical ability and time on my hands now that I’ve retired, plus a few bob to spare.

Previously I did a partial re-build of my old TED 20, which was acquired some thirty years ago as a three cylinder (no.1 piston was in bits in the sump and the con rod was flapping around in the bore!). Anyhow, with the necessary parts obtained from (I remember not where) and the repair done, I’ve had thirty years of good service until recently when the gear selectors began to play up, but that’s another story (“Noises Off”) you may have seen that in a previous issue.

With that experience behind me, and time on my hands, I decided to look round for an MF 35 which would be more suited to running my Teagle “Golden Bullet” hedge trimmer; the restoration of which was again detailed in an article titled “Teagle’s Golden Bullet fires again.”

As seen in the Seller’s workshop after clearing a load of junk!

years, but it was good enough to bid on. I eventually paid £1,501:00 which gave me £74 change from the guitar; I was well pleased.

Now, the small world bit! When I went to collect it we got chatting again, as one does, and it transpired that he (Henry) “thought he knew” my face. Well, since 1976, when I came back from some time in the States, I’ve played bass for many of the local musical societies including one with which Henry had also been involved for some time (he was backstage crew), and that’s where he’d seen me. It also transpired that he worked at the same school as the wife of a very good friend of mine who I’ve known since the mid-60s, when we were at college together.

That aside, it was a non-runner, stuck some way back inside Henry’s workshop and buried somewhat deeper in detritus than the picture might suggest.

However, with the aid of my “tirfor”, we dragged it out and onto the trailer. (The trailer in question was sold to me by a customer some years back and I in turn, sold it to Tim, a lad who used to work for me; he in turn found it too big when he changed his van and sold it to Richard who was my business partner until 2001.) Richard had been training crews for the BT Global Challenge for some time and was asked to take over as skipper of “Quadstone” (the previous one had rammed another contender in New Zealand and retired) so he disappeared off to the Antipodes.

By the way, they came fifth overall!

I digress! Back at home, I thought that it might be a good idea to see if she would run, and that I hadn’t bought a complete lemon. So, I set about dismantling the fuel system, from the tank to the injectors. Steve (Dieselcare) over at Thurston sorted out the injectors for me and with the help of Bundy Bear’s video I refurbished the pump. With fresh fuel on board, all

I’d just had a stroke of luck selling my old Fender Bass on eBay and as a result I was quite flush, so I set about finding a 35 in earnest. I particularly wanted the three-cylinder version but, like a National Health Dentist, they are few and far between and well sought after. Mostly, I found either three or four cylinder versions were like the Teagle, hundreds of miles away, literally, but I persevered and, unbelievably, one turned up in Ipswich, just 3 miles from my house.

Now, you know the old saying “It’s a small world”.

How true that is; I talked to the chap selling it at some length prior to bidding, and arranged to go and see the tractor. It looked ok, nothing major missing and it turned over with the starting handle. There was no chance of it firing as it had stood for at least twelve 6

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pipework blown through, new filters and a new battery, it was time to turn the key; nothing!!

Wiring all appeared to be in place (a bit scruffy and oily) but after much messing around the fault was traced to the safety switch on the gearbox. With that bypassed (it still is), and some more bleeding, she eventually fired up filling the place with smoke and prompting a quick exit until it cleared. She was running though (after a fashion), so I was able to drive her outside for some tweaking of the pump timing.

Enter covid restrictions!

It was quite snug in my container, as you see in the picture, until the rear wheels were removed (the seat fell off with me aboard during the unloading!). I removed the lifting arms, the off-side wheel and brake assembly with a view to getting the half-shaft out. However, there wasn’t enough room to withdraw it, so I had to shift the whole kaboodle as far to the left as it would go (the process was reversed for removal of the near-side shaft.) Both assemblies were cleaned up and new seals fitted, during which time the axle/ gearbox assembly was given the “Gunk” treatment (still the best) and I used my old spray gun with boiling water to wash it off before applying two coats of zinc phosphate primer.

One of the main reasons for the strip-down was the clutch (it’s the dual clutch on this

tractor. The PTO one was seized solid and the main was dickie to say the least.). Someone had previously tried to free the secondary at some point, and totally mullered the plate. There is an inspection plate under the clutch housing, through which some adjustment can be made to the thrust levers, but preferably not with a lump hammer and cold chisel; when it gets to this state, there’s only one option, split the tractor!

So, as previously with my 20, two chunky wooden wedges were banged in between the front axle and the mounting bracket to keep her upright, and the clutch housing was supported using the drawbar on a couple of axle stands; this time though, I supported the gearbox on my piano trolley which made rolling it backwards a lot easier. After splitting and removing the clutch assembly, the problems were obvious.

While the clutch assembly was off, I took the opportunity to replace the rear crankshaft oil seal.

After a major clean-up of all the parts, it was re-assembled along with new fingers and pivot pins, plus two new clutch plates and, with the loan of a clutch alignment tool, put back on the tractor.

After a bit of shuffling back and forth, I got the two halves to marry up and connected all the many bits which were unscrewed to facilitate the splitting.

Then, with new oil in the box (and some trepidation) I turned the key and, lo and behold, she fired up.100% success; that was a welcome first and consequently celebrated with a glass of Aspall; bootiful!

With this rust removed, it wasn’t in bad shape

Two of the fingers were worn right through, the other wasn’t far behind

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Vintage Trailer Rebuild Vintage

By Carl Hargreaves

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ll us fans of vintage things, yearn for the nostalgia of the past (you wouldn’t be reading this magazine if you didn’t).

Well, one day I was trawling through the adverts of a “well-known on-line auction site” and I found a little old fashioned looking trailer for sale, not too far away from me. I have wanted a nice, but not too big trailer to put behind my vintage tractors for a while. The only trouble is the general condition of these things; they have mostly spent their working lives outside in all weathers or carting smelly stuff. Also, to be considered is the location of suitable candidates. When you factor in the cost of transport getting stuff home, a good deal can soon become an expensive hobby.

Anyway, I made contact with the man who had it for sale, and made the purchase. He informed me that it had wood worm in the timberwork, but the trailer had new wheel bearings, tyres and inner tubes; also the wheels had been shot blasted.

The trailer looks like it is farm built, which added to the attraction. There is no maker’s plate or anything to indicate who made it. Suffering from woodworm and a hole in the deck.

The timberwork didn’t put me off as we have a friend, “Tommy”, who is a retired Joiner in his 80’s. A true craftsman.

My idea is for the trailer to attend local shows and such.

Our friend Les Rynhart has a little event at his Museum of Rual Lancashire life, which I have attended in the past with some of our collection. An Ifor Williams behind a nice vintage tractor just doesn’t look rite. It’s all about the effect to gain the nostalgia.

Here it is as we arrived back at base.

If you look closely, the drawbar is slightly bent, probably due to an overload at some point in its past. View from the underneath showing the original construction

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All the metal work was in decent shape, so I started to disassemble the sides and remove the decking, but not before Tommy the joiner had taken some notes and pictures for reference.

The next job was to take the trailer chassis a mile up the road to Tommy’s workshop, and let him work his magic.

The timber we chose was Keruing; like the stuff they use on low loader trailer decks. It wasn’t cheap but it will last a lifetime and some… Like the old saying “Do it proper, do it once, do it cheap and do it twice” The timber arrived rough cut, and Tommy transformed it into something very special; far beyond what I thought would be possible. It has turned out so nice it would be a crime to put anything dirty in it!

Maybe I’ll use it for weddings or funerals??

I went over all the metalwork with a grinder, using a wire cup brush to clean up the chassis. Once this was done, I primed the chassis and then used Black Waxoyl like you would on the underside of a car. This gives a nice dull finish to the metal and is easily touched up when needed.

The original hinges and fixings were shot blasted and painted in 2pack black gloss to make them stand out.

If you notice on the drawbar, I bolted in some 2 inch box section under the original angle irons to stiffen the drawbar up. I then used square headed nuts and bolts to make it look olde world.

I also welded in a bracket for a screw jack which I picked up. The dull finish on the chassis makes the 2Pack painted wheels and screw jack stand out.

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The attention to detail is something else. I believe the routed pattern was from a template for kitchen doors. It’s a nice touch.

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Square headed stainless bolts were used throughout the project, so not to leave any rust stains on the nice woodwork.

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The Photos below show the finished trailer hooked up to the 1946 Field-Marshall series 1. The rebuild of this tractor was featured in the May/June magazine.

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Dingles Heritage Auction – Onsite, live and online!

Report by Clare Smith at Edward Buckland

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dward Buckland Auctioneers were privileged to receive instructions from the Fairground Heritage Trust to conduct a special reduction sale of surplus stored fairground art, equipment and vehicles at Milford Farm, Lifton on Saturday 9th October. This was also a great opportunity to resurrect what was traditionally a very popular heritage collective auction, with a special interest in steam and agricultural bygones.

The auction was extremely well supported with many buyers from all across the UK, and even France.

Coupled with Live internet bidding, this saw 80% of the Fairground items sold online plus over half of the overall sale.

The remote location again meant that anyone in the world could bid and this was a truly global event!

This technology can only benefit vendors and buyers alike and should be seriously considered if you are contemplating selling.

Two concurrent sale rings were operated, both with internet bidding, under the skilful gavels of Edward Buckland and Rob North.

Leading prices: • Foden S20 8 wheeled Lorry - £8500 • Ex Edwards Dodgems Truck No.12 - £5600 • Ruby Owen Military Trailer - £4000 • Gardner Generator set - £4000 • Cake Walk - £2200 • Rounding Board, Car No.6 - £2100 • Sprung Engine Lamps – £1550 • Gag Cards - £410 - £90 (Not including buyer’s premium or VAT) The auctioneers wish to publicly thank the Fairground Heritage Trust for their kind instructions, and the sale goers for their support.

If you are considering selling anything from one lot or a collection to a farm/business dispersal, then please do not hesitate to contact Edward Buckland or Rob North who will be more than pleased to assist.

LIVE – WORK - GROW

Photos from left to right: Ex Edwards Truck, Rounding Board, Moonrocket (Rostrum Shot) ,Gag Card, Foden and Ruby Owner Trailer.

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A Step Back in Time

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avid Anderson began his adventures in agricultural heritage under his grandfather’s guidance, “I was going to vintage rallies when I was young, and some of the older men would have given me old machines that were only considered to be scrap. We might have had to pull them out of a hedge so they were in rough shape and most of them had been converted for use with a tractor, but we restored them to working condition and gave them a coat of paint. One day a man rang to tell us that there was a Deering binder about to be scrapped and we could have it. It took a lot of work to restore it but when it was finished it was in proper working order. In 2002 I decided to grow two acres of oats so my Grandfather’s TVO Ferguson TE 20 and his 1962 MF 35 were used to plough the field and make the ground ready before I sowed it with a corn fiddle. When harvest time came around at the end of August we cut the openings with a scythe before we came in with the TE 20 and the binder; Grandfather

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By Willy Carson driving the tractor and me on the binder. When we finished our own field we went straight down to the neighbour and cut his field too.”

“In 2010 I was asked to make a dray, and when it was finished the customer brought his horses to take it home.

When I saw the horses at work it reminded me of my Grandfather’s stories about working with Clydesdale horses on the farm in his younger days and how his father had trained a team to pull the potato spinner down the headland and wait at the next drill while the spuds were being gathered into bags. This all gave me the idea that I would really like to own a pair of Clydesdales so I went with lifelong friend Edwin Murphy to some breeders and bought two foals, Jack and Bobby.”

“At three and a half years I started to break them, first with the mouthing bit and then with Canadian harness. I started them off, individually, just pulling a car wheel and

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gradually increased the weight. The next thing was to train them to work as a pair; that’s when the fun started and a lot of people said that I was mad to break two horses together.

The first proper implement they pulled was the chain harrow on grass. About this time I was unwell for a long time, and spending an hour out working with the horses was very therapeutic; Jack and Bobby kept me going.”

In 2014 Jack had hind gut ulcers and spent a fortnight in an equine clinic. David was told that he should have him put down but he brought him home and taking advice from an experienced horsewoman, turned to an old remedy to cure him. David dug up a sod of earth in the field and left it in Jack’s stable. Jack started to eat the earth and the minerals started to sooth his stomach. After a fortnight he had improved.

David then built a dray for Jack and Bobby which they pull at shows and to take Santa on his rounds at Christmas, but he knew that his real interest was in using the horses for traditional farm work. “I started ploughing at working days and in competitions, with Edwin working the plough and me on the reins. Edwin then handed the shafts over to a younger enthusiast called Deaglan Ferris who had learned about horse ploughing from his grandfather. Every hour I spend with my horses I learn something”.

“I bought a McCormick reaper and restored it to working condition. I have all the levers moving freely and all the settings work properly, but it wasn’t built to work in modern grass swards which are denser and lusher when the hay is cut. I do use it but just for topping in the summer.”

“I decided this spring that, since most events were going to be cancelled, I would grow some potatoes. We had been practicing with the plough in a square in the field behind the yard so, rather than just reseed it, it made sense to plant spuds. I had bought a set of horse drawn discs a couple of years ago which were in reasonable condition. The discs themselves were in good shape, the seat and the wee road wheels were still on it but the wooden bearings had rotted away. Edwin made new bearings from mahogany salvaged from an old mantelpiece and now it’s in good working order. I was able to buy a potato digger from a man who has a real passion for the era when horses worked the land and Victor Scott gave me a grubber, a drill plough and a set of saddle harrows so had I had all the implements that I needed to grow the spuds. Today we dug the last few drills of spuds and I have been learning about my horses and the techniques that were used in past times with old machinery, so it has been a good experience.”

David’s passion for his horses within the context of their ancestors’ heritage is obvious, and his desire to learn about the working life on a small farm as it was a century ago is infectious. We wish him, Jack and Bobby many more exciting adventures together.

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70 YEARS OF BRITISH PLOUGHING CELEBRATED WITH SUCCESS Report by Sue Firth, Society of Ploughmen

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he 70th British National Ploughing Championships were celebrated at the weekend and were a great success according to the organisers, when thousands of people visited the event held on land at Mindrum Mill, Northumberland on 9th and 10th October.

The site covered almost 300 acres in 14 different fields and was kindly loaned by D Harvey and Son. Visitors and competitors travelled from all over the country, as the event had been postponed for a year due to coronavirus and was one of the few shows to be held in the area this year.

With the two previous Championships ending in a good few inches of mud, the same fear came to mind earlier in the week when torrential rain stopped all organisation on the site for a day. However, it dried well and everything then went to plan and with mostly good weather over the weekend, it had made the hard land a little better to plough for the competitors.

First time plougher in the British Championships, Brian Baxter, from Forfar, Angus was the winner of the Reversible Final with 300 points, ploughing with a Massey Ferguson tractor and Kverneland plough. He beat Peter Alderslade from Gateshead, Tyne & Wear by eight points, a good win as Peter has won the title eight times before. Alan Critchlow from Scropton, Derbyshire came third with 277 points.

Ashley Boyles from Market Rasen, Lincolnshire won the Conventional Final for the fifth time, also ploughing with a Massey Ferguson tractor and Kverneland plough.

Ashley won by a whisker as he had amassed the same

Jim Elliott, Horse Ploughing Champion receiving his trophy from Society of Ploughmen President, Ian Harvey. points as Stuart Vickers from Sarn, near Malpas Cheshire. They both had 258 points, but rather than a tied place there is a ‘countback’ system in place where the aspects are worked back in a certain order to find the winner. Ashley won by having higher points in the general appearance of his ploughing. In third place, 12 points behind was Evan Watkin from Newtown, Powys who was unable to keep hold of the title he had won in 2019.

The Vintage Trailing Plough-Off Final was won by another Lincolnshire man, John Crowder, who lives at

Five Champions – the winners of the Plough-Off Finals, from left to right, John Crowder, Ashley Boyles, Brian Baxter, David Thomlinson and Charlie Nicklin.

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Ashley Boyles, winner of the Conventional Final Plough-Off with his daughters Pippa and Megan, receiving his trophy from the host farmer and President of the Society of Ploughmen, Ian Harvey.

Sturton by Stow, near Lincoln, ploughing with a Fordson N tractor and Ransome RSLD Major plough. With 251 points, he had a 10 point lead from past British, European and World Vintage Ploughing Champion, John Milnes, from Penistone, South Yorkshire, who in turn was 10 points ahead of Trevor Johnstone from Wigton in Cumbria.

In the Vintage Hydraulic Final, Charlie Nicklin from Congleton, Cheshire used his Massey Ferguson 35 and Ransome TS54 with great effect to gain 258 points, three points ahead of Richard Ingram from Atherstone, Warwickshire who had been the reigning champion. In third place was John Sivewright from Blairgowrie, Perthshire with 238 points.

David Thomlinson from Escrick, near York retained his title when he won the Classic Final for the second time.

David was driving a Ford 3000 tractor pulling a

Josh Bullard (aged 18) from Royston, Hertfordshire won the National Young Farmers Ploughing Championship. Pictured receiving the Continental Trophy from Ian Harvey, President of the Society of Ploughmen.

Ransome TS86 plough and he received 248 points, giving him a four point lead from Mac Simpson from Garstang, Lancashire. In third place was David Hankey from Wrexham.

The scores over the two days are aggregated to find the Champions for the Horse Ploughing and the High Cut Tractor Ploughing. The first was won by Jim Elliott from Maud, Aberdeenshire who was ploughing with Tom, a Shire X and Pat, and Irish Cob. Second place went to Martin Kerswell from Fordingbridge, Hampshire with his younger brother, David, from Buckfastleigh, Devon in third place. The High Cut Tractor ploughing champion was Ray Alderson from Darlington, County Durham, ploughing with a Ford 3000 and a Ransome RSLD No. 9 plough. Second place went to John Saunders from Carlisle, Cumbria.

The plots of the winners of the five Plough-Off Finals,

Heath Darley from Birdforth, near York ploughing with his Clydesdales, Billy & Buddy.

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the High Cut tractor champion and the Horse ploughing champion are then judged to find the Supreme Champion and this award was given to Ashley Boyles, who has won the title previously in 2017.

National and local companies exhibited with a wide variety of trade stands and there was also a new machinery demonstration area covering over 40 acres and an area featuring stationary engines, vintage tractors and equipment. Four Fowler BB engines were working, two named ‘Aries’ and ‘Libra’ owned by Stephen & Anne Kearton were ploughing, followed by ‘Tiger’ owned by Paul Marriott and ‘Master’ owned by A & AA Cook who were demonstrating steam cable cultivation.

the Society of Ploughmen, organisers of the Championships, said, “We would like to say a huge thank you to the Harvey Family for providing a site in such a picturesque part of the country. We were made to feel so welcome by our hosts and the local people and there was a wonderful atmosphere over the two days. Our sponsors were extremely supportive and our volunteers worked tirelessly for a week behind the scenes to ensure our visitors would have an enjoyable weekend, which I think they did!”

More information can be found on www.ploughmen.co.uk or from the Society of Ploughmen on 01302 852469.

The Championships were sponsored by Bridgesone/Firestone, Continental, Aztec Oils, Tama Farm Grown Solutions, Dales Agri Sales Angency, Cheffins, Friends of Ferguson Heritage, Cereals Event, A R Demolition, George F White and R L Smith & Sons.

Commenting afterwards, Sue Frith, Chief Executive of Stuart Vickers ploughing in the Conventional Plough-Off Final – he had the same points as winner Ashley Boyles, but lost out on first place by a whisker with the ‘countback’ system.

Steam ploughing – Fowler BB Ploughing Engine, ‘Aries’, owned by Stephen & Anne Kearton from Barnard Castle, Co Durham.

Ian Harvey, host farmer and the first President of the Society of Ploughmen to actually take part as a competitor in the Championships. He was competing in the Vintage Trailing Class and the Vintage Trailing Plough-Off Final on the second day (placed 7th).

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RESULTS of the 70th BRITISH NATIONAL PLOUGHING CHAMPIONSHIPS Mindrum Mill, Northumberland ~ 9th & 10th October 2021 REVERSIBLE FINAL PLOUGH-OFF

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1 BRIAN BAXTER, Forfar, Angus 310 2nd PETER ALDERSLADE, East Bolden, Tyne & Wear 302 277 3rd ALAN CRITCHLOW, Scropton, Derbyshire

1 ASHLEY BOYLES, Market Rasen, Lincolnshire 2nd STUART VICKERS, Sarn, Malpas, Cheshire 3rd EVAN WATKIN, Newtown, Powys

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1 JOHN CROWDER, Sturton by Stow, Lincolnshire 2nd JOHN MILNES, Sheffield, South Yorkshire 3rd TREVOR JOHNSTONE, Wigton, Cumbria

VINTAGE CLASSIC FINAL PLOUGH-OFF st

1 DAVID THOMLINSON, Escrick, North Yorkshire 2nd MAC SIMPSON, Garstang, Preston, Lancashire 3rd DAVID HANKEY, Wrexham, Flintshire

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1 CHARLES NICKLIN, Congleton, Cheshire 2nd RICHARD INGRAM, Atherstone, Warwickshire 3rd JOHN SIVEWRIGHT, Blairgowrie, Perthshire

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258 255

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SUPREME CHAMPION – ASHLEY BOYLES HORSE PLOUGHING CHAMPION – JIM ELLIOTT YOUNG FARMERS CHAMPION – JOSH BULLARD HIGH CUT CHAMPION – RAY ALDERSON VINTAGE CHAMPION – JOHN CROWDER

Points

248 244 236

Qualifying to represent England in 2022 will be: Ashley Boyles & Peter Alderslade in the World Ploughing Contest; Alan Critchlow & Clive Roberts in the European Reversible Ploughing Championships and John Crowder, Charlie Nicklin, David Thomlinson & Graham Sutton in the European Vintage Ploughing Championships Class 1 1st

One Way Ploughing

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PETER ALDERSLADE, East Bolden, Tyne & Wear

2nd ALAN CRITCHLOW, Scropton, Derbyshire 3rd MICHAEL CHAPPELL, Doncaster, Sth Yorkshire Class 2

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Semi Digger Work (2 Or More Furrows)

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Horse Ploughing - General Purpose Work

JAMES ELLIOTT, Peterhead, Aberdeenshire DAVID KERSWELL, Buckfastleigh, Devon MARTIN KERSWELL, Fordingbridge, Hampshire

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Oat Seed Furrow Work (Tractors)

RAY ALDERSON, Darlington, Co Durham JOHN SAUNDERS, Carlisle, Cumbria NICK POTTER, York, North Yorkshire

210 204 199

Class 10 Ford & Fordson Ploughing Championships st

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DARREN EASTER, Wakefield, West Yorkshire PETER GILSON, Driffield, East Yorkshire JOHN LEWIS, Meifod, Powys

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Class 11 David Brown Ploughing Championships st

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ANTONY BOLDAN, Goole, East Yorkshire COLIN HEWETSON, Wigton, Cumbria HOWARD DYKES, Howden, East Yorkshire

248 247 232

Class 12 Crawler Tractor Ploughing RICHARD COOK, Wootton, Bedfordshire CHRIS ARMSTRONG, Leek, Staffordshire GRAHAM SOPER, Totnes, South Devon

247 247 206

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1 JON COLE, Whitchurch, Herefordshire 269 nd JOSH BULLARD, Royston, Hertfordshire 229 2 rd 3 DAVID HANKEY, Wrexham, Flintshire 227 Best Young Farmer – st nd rd 1 - Josh Bullard; 2 - David Pritchard; 3 – James Magnay 1 nd 2 rd 3

CHRIS HUCK, Cirencester, Gloucestershire TIMOTHY HURLEY, Pensford, North Somerset PETER WALKER, Livingston, West Lothian

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RAY ALDERSON, Darlington, Co Durham JOHN SAUNDERS, Carlisle, Cumbria TREVOR ROBINSON, Penrith, Cumbria

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Class 4 Hydraulic Vintage Ploughing 1 RICHARD INGRAM, Atherstone, Warwickshire nd 2 JOHN SIVEWRIGHT, Blairgowrie, Perthshire rd 3 DAVID WOOD, Coldstream, Berwickshire Best Young Farmer – st nd 1 Tom Smith; 2 Fraser Cartwright

Class 9 Ferguson Ploughing Championship

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MARTIN KERSWELL, Fordingbridge, Hampshire JIM ELLIOTT, Peterhead, Aberdeenshire DAVID KERSWELL, Buckfastleigh, Devon

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NEIL RAMSAY, Earlston, Berwickshire GRAHAM SUTTON, Nuneaton, Warwickshire JOHN TAIT, Gullane, East Lothian

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In the case of a tie, the countback system is used to find the place winner

240 210 209

Horticultural Ploughing Championship

ANDY FORD, Isle of Sheppey, Kent THOMAS TWEEDIE, Biggar, South Lanarkshire TERRY OFFEN, Staplehurst, Tonbridge, Kent

270 241 240

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T The he 88th Cruckton Cr uckt on P loughing Match Ploughing Mat ch i

at Kinton Business Park, Shrewsbury on Saturday 18th September Report by Karen Pritchard and Photos by Mr Ted Duckett

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he 88th Annual Ploughing Match was held at Kinton Business Park, Kinton, Nesscliffe by kind invitation of the Warner & Suckley families. We had a perfect day from start to finish.

After our last match was cancelled in 2020 due to Covid 19, our hosts have been so accommodating and sorted another fabulous site for the match to go ahead this year. The weather conditions were just right, and we all enjoyed watching some great ploughing taking place throughout the day from our 92 Tractor Ploughmen/ Women & 5 Horse Teams.

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We also enjoyed watching a Threshing box demonstration from Andrew Goddard & his team and BBC Radio Shropshire`s Ryan Kennedy came along after we had set him a challenge, to see how straight his furrows were at Horse Ploughing; he did very well indeed.

A big thank you has to go out to the Cruckton Committee, judges & stewards, sponsors, agricultural machinery companies, trade stands and the general public, who all came & supported the Match. Thank you all for making it a great day & a very successful match.

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Sheepy Sheep Sheepy y Ploughing Match at Coleshill Road, Bentley on Sunday 26th September Photos by Sam Hitchman

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heepy and District Ploughing Associtaion ran their annual ploughing match on Sunday 26th September at Coleshill Road, Bentley, CV9 2LT.

Dry sand and pebbles at Sheepy. This being the first

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time for horticultural; just two of them, but well done for your efforts. It was a nice match, on top of a hill; good conditions and lovely views,although it needed some rain there was some excellent ploughing. Well done to all concerned!'

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STURTON TRACTOR SHOW STURTON on Saturday 17th and Sunday 18th July Photos by Kenny Wharton at www.kenpics.com

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his was a small event hosted by the Notts Area Friends of Ferguson club and held at High Pasture, Sturton-Le-Steeple by kind permission

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of the Evan Family. It was a very informal weekend to provide ‘an opportunity to meet old friends and make new contacts'.

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What have I been up to recently?

by Rebecca Carson man. He gave it to me because when he was younger someone gave him a tractor to get him started. His son ‘Drew’ helped load it onto the trailer. It’s complete but the tank bracket is twisted, a handlebar is bent and both tyres are split. It turns over okay but there’s no spark.

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irstly in summer Daddy and I went to the best show in the world … ‘Shane’s Castle’. The weather was great – nice, sunny and warm. We set up my engine and went to the auto jumble, not once but twice!

We had a ride in a trailer on the back of a steam traction engine… that was good fun. There were lots of different engines in the stationary engine zone including open crank Ruston Hornsbys, Wolesleys, Amanos, and Lister Ds obviously! At the auto jumble I bought a tiny Ronson can, which might make a good petrol tank for a Lister TVO conversion, a ball pein hammer, and a Mobil oil can.

My Allen scythe has the same spark plug as my Lister so we swapped plugs and the Lister ran fine with the plug from the Allan scythe. Daddy took off the flywheel to get to the ignition system. I found the plate to get to the condenser, but we have to order a new one.

Moving on from Shane’s Castle, I got a ½” ratchet from Paints and Components in Ballymoney. I bought this with some of my birthday money (by the way I’m 10 now!). I got an Allen scythe from Henry Shannon, a very nice

In the meantime, for my birthday present I received a Lister H3 water pump. It was seized so we put diesel down the outlet and left if for a week to work its magic. A few taps with the hide hammer gave it some movement.

Now for the strip down! We took the pulley off using heat with the acetylene torch. We tapped the pulley inwards which broke the bind on the key, then we took the key out. Daddy sanded the shaft with emery tape and off the pulley came. We took the brass greasers off and then the con rods with penetrating oil and lots of pry bar wriggling! Then Daddy built a key for the big brass plugs by welding some 20mm bar inside a short length of 25mm box section. More gentle heat on the brass and with the big adjustable spanner on the homemade key,

Checking the spark plug

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Removing the gear covers

That’s definitely coming off!

Strip down almost complete the plugs all came out. I took off the massive bulb shaped head thingy using the hide hammer and I found four shiny brass nuts holding on the gears which I unscrewed. We undid the four nuts holding on the gland caps and the rope seals fell into pieces. We don’t know how to take out the piston so we stopped working on the water pump.

In summer I asked Robert and John McKibbin if I could take my Lister D to their Autumn Threshing Day. It’s coming up soon and my Lister D isn’t running as smoothly as it did. We decided maybe the timing was off so we decided to reset it to 10° before TDC. I did the

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sums and figured out that the radius was 6.5” making the diameter 13” and circumference (πd) 40.3”. Ten degrees is one thirty sixth of the circumference which is about an inch and one eighth. We used masking tape to make a mark one and one eighth inches before the TDC line, reset the magneto drive sprocket and tightened everything up and now it runs smoothly again. Now we’re all ready for the last event of the year at McKibbins’ yard which always takes place on the first wet Saturday in November!!! I’ll let you know how the day goes in the next issue.

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Open Day at The Museum of Rural Lancashire Life, Southport on Sunday on Sunday 21st August Report b Report by y Les Rynhart Rynhart & photos by by his nephew, nephew, Robert Robert

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fter 2 years of lockdown we were able to run an Open Day on the 21st of August to raise money for Cancer Research.

It was raining a little as we put the gazebos up, four in total. We had to put up an extra one for the items we had obtained during lockdown.

to 4pm. We also had visitors from the Vintage Horticultural and Garden Machinery Club in Lincoln.

We raised £660 for our charity. So, a big thank you to everyone who helped make the event possible. Also thank you to my nephew, Robert for taking the photographs.

We had eight stationary engines from the North West Stationary Engine Association, which we are members of. We had vintage cars, but a few didn’t come because of the weather. A couple of vintage tractors, a vintage stock car with a Triumph Herald Engine and an eightseater personnel tank with guns. We had a ukulele band for the entertainment and a BBQ, a raffle, and refreshments.

We had a good flow of people during the day from 11am

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Me, Myself & My artwork

by Vicki Rogers

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started doing art when I was still in education, and I was interested in it because I wanted to look at the different techniques people used with their drawings & painting's. I used to go to an art gallery with my friends and get more inspired and I started taking it up when I studied the subject at college. I was there until June 2006, but took a break from it because I wanted to take it to the next Level.

I have love steam engines and so love going to steam rallies. I go to Dorset & Hampshire, Wiston, South Cerney, Shillingstone, and not forgetting my favourite and local steam rally ‘The Great Dorset Steam Fair’. I take my artwork along with me, and it has gone from strength to strength. One drawing even went to Australia, which was amazing because I couldn’t believe the owner when he told me because I thought he lived here in the UK. Along the way I have met so many steam people who have become my second family and I’ve never looked back since.

However, I did not get that far so in 2013 I attended the Great Dorset Steam Fair, which I have been attending since I was very young. I wanted to do something different in my life and one evening I asked one of the engine owners if I could come onto the footplate of their Engine. They were really nice, so I stepped onto the footplate and it was amazing just to see a living thing doing its Job as it would have done in the past.

Now, I help them out whenever I can at Dorset too; I crew on two engine's. Aveling & Porter Road Roller Old Rosie which is owned by The Westons Cider Company.

The crew who I help are amazing; they have taught me so much, and they even let me steer her around the play pen. I cannot thank them enough for that which to be honest is an amazing opportunity to do. My first time steering an engine was back in 2014, and I just loved it.

My dream came true; I found my ambition right in front of me, and in 2014 I helped a group of friends who have an engine of their own. I was so happy that I was living my dream!

During the first half of the morning at Dorset, I help out in the Showman's Line; an engine very close to my heart. The first time I saw this engine was back in 1991 as Frank Lythgoe owned her; he has five engine's and a Organ. They just looked stunning. I saw this engine in the line and thought to myself, I will help on that engine one day and the engine's name was Dolphin. After that I did not see her for some time.

Then in the winter of 2015 I decided to do art again.

I used to teach art classes at my local community hall and this was something I wanted to bring back, so I started doing it again. I knew something was missing though; I wanted to do something different.

So, with my ambition and my art which I'm currently doing I decided to combine the two and it worked! I started to take photos of my friend's Steam Engine's and drawing them. Seeing the end result was just amazing; it's something I’ve never done before. I have done well over 60 so far, and still going strong. I Love being hooked in the preservation world as it’s been around for a long time, seeing old vintage vehicles being brought back to life again and bringing back memories.

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Back in 2015 I got talking to one of my friends and he said the owner of this Showman's wanted help polishing and looking after her, so I took up the offer. I walked over to the Showman's Line and there standing in front of the Carnival big wheel was Dolphin. I couldn't recognise her at first and I had a photo on my phone when she was in Lythgoes ownership, I checked the number plate on the front of the canopy and it matched.

I was so happy that I got to see my favourite engine again after her 19 month rebuild.

I met my good friend Mike Dreelan who owns her. He and the Crew are just amazing; they have taught me so

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much and I can't thank them enough. I was so ecstatic that I was looking after a Showman's engine which I first saw back in 1991.

I have now taken a break from drawing engines and have started drawing Fairground Organ’s, which is a little bit different, but I thought I'd give it a go.The secretary of the Fair Organ Preservation Society got in touch with me to do an article about my artwork and it was published in their magazine. I was happy about this because it has given me the confidence to move forward with my hobby, and I love it.

I have now become the official photographer for the Southern Counties Organ Festival, which is held every year at Devizes in Wiltshire. It's lovely to meet new people who have the same hobby.

In 2020 we had 16 organ's turn up for that weekend, and this year we had 31 which is a record. We hope to smash that next year, but who knows? We also had miniature steam engine's and some commercial vehicle's, which added to the atmosphere.

I just can't believe I've come so far with my artwork and my hobby. I cannot thank my lovely steam friends who have given me something which I've dreamed of in the past and now it's become a reality. So, thank you so much to you all for giving me my dream. I hope to see you all at steam and organ rallies in 2022

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FFF&B Ploughing Society

Ploughing Match & Country Show at Manor Farm, Hatford on Saturday 25th September

Results HORSE CLASSES Class 1 – High Cut Class 2 – General Purpose

First Martin Kerswell David Kerswell

Second

Third

Daniel Kerswell

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TRACTOR CLASSES Class 3 – Garden Tractor Class 4 – High Cut Class 5 – Semi Digger Class 6 – Fully Mounted Class 6a – Classic

First Sam Hitchman Peter Shirley Bob Butlin Ollie Turner Hugo Hoyle

Second Charlie Dodd

Third Barry Forster

Class 7 – European Style Reversible Nigel Pantry Class 8 – European Style Reversible Richard Ebsworth Class 9 – Novice Mick Kirk Class 10 – Ford & Fordson Steven Witchell Class 11 – Vintage Trailed Paul Dudfield Class 12 – Vintage Mounted Ken Brain Class 13 – Vintage Mounted (Open) David Franklin Class 14 – Ferguson Will Corke HEDGELAYING CLASS Class 15 – Open Hedge Laying

Hefin Davies

OTHER Oxford Show Shield Wilkins Bros Cup Derek Stannard Memorial Cup Patrick Edwards Cup (Pre 52) Patrick Edwards Cup (Pre 63) Classic Tractor “Best Restored” Classic Tractor “Best Original” SA Hunter John Heyworth Cup R W Hobbs Cup Dowdeswell Shield Preators Arthur Carter “Champion Ploughman” Aubrey Cole Perpetual Rhone Poulenc Cup R Hinton & Sons Cup Sidney Miller Memorial Cup 36

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Jonathan Lander Harry Dodd Stephen Blackwell David Wright Stephen Braithwaite Francis Freeth

Paul Yates

Andrew Clemons

Richard Daniels Jon Marchant Gary Reynolds John Paul Nigel Stroud

Alec Wilkinson Adrian Norgrove Stephen Quainton Roger Seidel Martin Franklin

Roger Hawes Andy French

David Hemmings Chris Huck

Andrew Williams

Terry Underwood

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August/September 2021 Shows - Wales Photos by Peter Aston, Area Representative for The Ferguson Club

Club Stand and Demonstration in the ring at Usk Show, Monmouthshire

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Donald Mills ploughing Ferguson Class with the grey Ferguson Welsh National Ploughing at Llancayo Farm, Usk Monmouthshire

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