Regulars

3 Welcome

11 News
What’s going on in the world of tractors.

16 The Brit awards
We report on the 60th British National Ploughing Championships, Grange de Lings, Lincoln, 9-10 October 2010.

62 Tractor Talk
Your views and product reviews.

75 Model World
Henry Smith reviews what’s going on in the model scene.

78 Normal service soon to be resumed
Graham Hampstead is forced to put his feet up due to some ‘running repairs’ of his own and now has time to reflect on the past few busy months.

84 Weathering the storm
There is a certain romance to snow, reflects Polly Pullar as her thoughts turn to the coming Christmas, but it does tend to wear thin after three months.

88 Jones Balers
The late 1930s was a time when Britain really started to embrace the concept of modern farming - this is the story of two forward-thinking Welsh brothers.

128 Farming Focus: The ‘Turra Coo’
In 1913 the National Health Insurance (Collection of Contributions) Regulations (Scotland) act was passed leading to a rural disturbance that went down in folklore.

129 Rare Breeds
No.81 South Wales Mountain Sheep.

130 Next Month
Preview of the January issue of Tractor magazine.

Your tractors

6 The big one from Basildon
The model number 8210 first appeared on the sides of blue Ford tractors back in 1982, and from then until 1991 it was the largest tractor to be built at the Ford Motor Company’s factory in Basildon, Essex.

24 Double red
Two splendid Massey Ferguson 100s - 165 and 168 - owned by two friends in the same North Dorset village.

28 Small but vital
Compact tractors of around 30hp down to 10hp are often ignored, yet have been vital in the agricultural, horticultural and municipal sector, as Peter D Simpson explains.

34 Don’t put me out to pasture yet!
When compared to modern-day tractors, the JD 2140 X-E is something of a ‘dwarf’ and not too long ago this machine was cutting edge technology, but this particular tractor is still going strong.

38 Labour of love
Demonstrations bring life to any show, and to this end, the organisers of the Chipping Steam Fair did well back in May by setting aside an acre or two of marshy ground near the showground - a perfect setting for this Caterpillar D8H.

40 The answer’s always closer to home
When David Taylor eventually found time to indulge his passion for old tractors and begin his search for a suitable restoration, little did he know the answer lay only two miles down the road with this Ferguson TEF-20.

44 Fancy a coffee?
Built for the coffee plantations of Brazil, this bright orange Porsche has an interesting story to tell. Pete Henshaw talks to the man who restored it, and takes a look at a rare 2x2 trailer.

54 Paramount power
It is surprising how many different conversions of tractors from the past keep appearing; Gina Harvey visits Martin Fernihough to discover one of the rarest conversions she has seen to date.

72 One seeing is worth a hundred tellings
This is the headline of a Trusty tractor advert - originally credited to a supposedly great Chinese teacher from 2200 years ago who went by the name of Kung Fu Tze!

Farming heritage

20 Making hay the DB way
With a noticeable change in weather conditions over the past few years and the advent of big bale silage, traditional hay making is a rare sight today, so here is a sight to behold.

32 Classic harvest
After three bad years weather-wise for most of the UK and Ireland, 2010 proved better for harvesting in Derbyshire.

50 Ploughs and Cows!
Peter Squires chats to former ploughman, judge and Holstein-Friesian cattle breeder Harold Crapper ‘just round the corner’ in Coal Aston, NE Derbyshire.

58 On the tractor Case in Fife
The county of Fife in the arable east side of Scotland has always been at the forefront of agricultural mechanisation with tractors being widespread before and during WWII, and one of the most popular brands was Case.

92 War brings a new challenge
With a limited market for the large Gyrotillers and steam power disappearing Fowlers were driven to develop more traditional types of crawler in the second part of our look at the company through the pages of Alec’s cuttings.

In the workshop

82 Workshop
Richard Lofting states his case for rebuilding a Fergie water pump when you can buy a new one so cheaply.

Marketplace

96 Welcome to Athy
With 200 acres of ploughing, 400 acres of car parking, 80 acres of trade stands, 21 ploughing matches with almost 200,000 spectators over three days, yes it can only be the ‘All Ireland!’

100 Road runs, rallies and ploughing events roundup

106 Sales & Marketplace News
Around the auctions.

Front cover

In today’s farming world the 8210 would be seen as a very heavy, slow and cumbersome machine with only a modest power output, but in its day it was a very impressive and powerful machine that quite rightly deserved its top spot as the biggest Basildon-built Ford tractor to date. Turn to page 6 for the full story.

Regulars

3 Welcome

11 News
What’s going on in the world of tractors.

16 The Brit awards
We report on the 60th British National Ploughing Championships, Grange de Lings, Lincoln, 9-10 October 2010.

62 Tractor Talk
Your views and product reviews.

75 Model W....