Regulars
3 Welcome
Editorial update from Tony H.
12 News
Whats going on in the world of tractors.
18 National Road
Run Report
68 New lambs and old ploughs
Our smallholding correspondent reflects on the trials and tribulations of raising lambs.
72 Island Nostalgia
A visit to the Museum of Islay Life in Port Charlotte gives our regular correspondent the chance to reflect on the old ways and a much a slower way of life.
76 Ploughing - its in the blood
Jo Roberts is convinced that there must be more vintage enthusiasts per head on the Isle of Anglesey than anywhere else in Britain.
80 Model World
Bringing you the latest from the ever-growing model sales scene.
84 Whats on in 2009
Your events calendar May-June.
90 Letters and reviews
Your views and product news.
129 Rare Breeds
No 63 Whitefaced Woodland Sheep.
130 Next Month
Preview Julys issue of Tractor magazine.
Your Tractors
6 Maid of all trades
23,000 hours in 50 years, and owned by the same family from new - an International B450 that made its home in Dorset.
22 What good a horse without a cart?
When the owner of this delightful Saunderson bought it a few years ago, at the same sale was a matching fuel cart - so what happened next?
32 Tiny Toraktor
Forget Power Farming, the Trojan Toraktor was described by its maker as Power Gardening at its best!
36 Lay it down, roll it over, then do it again
A Fordson Super-Major road roller? Surely some mistake!
40 P for Potato
The registration LNT 437P means a lot to the owner of this Massey Ferguson 135.
44 British Tractor Wreckers
If youre looking for that vital part to finish your restoration heres a Canadian company that might help.
50 Nuffields are the best
The enthusiasm for tractors is worldwide and nowhere more so than in County Cork, Republic of Ireland, where Pat OConnell has a particular love of Nuffield orange tractors.
60 Waterloo brothers united
A newly restored 1934 John Deere GP Series 5 joins its 1928 Series 1 brother, both made at the JD Waterloo Works in Iowa.
64 Magic Marshall
Terry Hand couldnt believe what possessed him to buy a pile of old scrap on wheels, but just look at the restored Marshall Threshing Drum now.
99 Pulling the project together
With his Fisher Humphries plough now restored Harry Dodds attention turns to the Fordson that will pull it - but first it needs reassembling.
Farming Heritage
26 Fifty years of Carrington
We look back to a time when steam engines were number one and tractors didnt even go to rallies!
54 Mud turtle to Cats
This month Alecs Cuttings investigates the development of the crawler tractor.
Marketplace
94 Tractor events
Road runs and ploughing events.
104 Tractor Price Index
Veteran, vintage and classic tractor values - Lauson to Zetor.
108 Sales & Marketplace News
Around the auctions.
116 Tractor Marketplace