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TRACTOR AND FARMING HERITAGE FEBRUARY 2014
Regulars
Heritage
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Welcome
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News
COVER STORY
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Don’t get me started
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All the latest from the world of tractors and farming heritage. Graham Hampstead turns over a new leaf for 2014 – but will it last?
Tractor Talk
All your news, views and comments around the classic and vintage scene.
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Get a grip with 4WD
Donald Bowler takes a look at the fourwheel drive derivatives of Fordson, Fords and Conversions.
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Next month
COVER STORY
COVER STORY
What do a golf course and an ice cream business have in common? Working classic MFs of course.
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A special Marshall
COVER STORY
Jonathan Whitlam recalls his first taste of tractor ownership – a Marshall 904XL straight off the internet.
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Dave’s Tractors
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The restoration of this green crop loader is all the more remarkable given it had stood unused for 50 years.
Graham Hampstead reflects on his humble beginnings as an apprentice engineer, which have stood him in good stead throughout his life.
Working Masseys
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The handy harvester
Reader memories of the Ransomes Faun potato harvester at work on the farm.
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YourTractors
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Confessions of a tea boy
Who killed Santa? Farmer Brown blew him up.
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COVER STORY
Green crop reloaded
122 Tractor widow
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Tractors in Winter
Stuart Gibbard looks at snow ploughing with tractors – a story of men and machines battling against the elements.
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Preview of the March issue of Tractor & Farming Heritage.
Dave Taylor tells us all about his David Brown 885, which he saved from the great scrapyard in the sky.
Drilling in retirement
Paul Havard ‘drills for fun’ and what better kit could he have chosen than a County Forward Control tractor.
Wallis Wonder
This 1916 Wallis Cub was one of the stars at the 2013 Newark Tractor Show; we talk to the man who restored it – David White.
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What a road run!
Bob Wilson tells us all about the Harry Ferguson Tractor Club of Australia’s tractor trek of more than 2000km.
Tractor Archive
More heritage memories from the farming literature of yesteryear.
Fiat 702
Workshop 90 COVER STORY
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Italy’s answer to the Fordson Model F in our veteran showcase feature.
Instantly yours
Daniele Casanova shows just how powerful images of old vintage machinery can be.
George’s tractor guard of honour
Polly Pullar meets larger than life character George Farron, who will help anyone and always makes his mark raising funds.
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Home Farm Diaries
Vic Mather’s David Brown Thresherman made £36,500 at auction recently. Pete Small tells us more.
Welsh tractors and THAT Farmall
We meet tractor enthusiast and restorer Emlyn Williams and the tricycle tractor that his wife just loves to hate.
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Thresherman reaps real rewards
The Home Farm Diaries
Do you remember February 1976? Concorde, Bohemian Rhapsody, or even the Morris Marina.
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Honey I shrunk the Fergie
Ben Phillips makes a direct comparison between two variations of the grey Fergie – the narrow TEL and the standard TED.
Reviews
All the latest tractor and farming heritage books and DVDs to hit the shelves.
Trailer for the main event
It’s all too easy to forget maintaining a vital piece of kit – the trailer.
100 Latest products
All the latest product releases to help you restore and maintain your tractor.
Marketplace 102 Canadian Massey Days COVER STORY
John Farnworth reviews two significant events last summer in the Massey-Harris homeland of Ontario Province, Canada.
106 Bracing in Bristol
Is it February already? The Cheffins Bristol Vintage Sale comes early this time round – November!
109 Classified section
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