Hello Geoff
I do confess to going to ground a little especially up on the Quantocks, but I often view the forum and always enjoy reading your clearly written posts. I did enjoy the work of an EBME technician and found the 11 years I spent a worthwhile career that I would recommend to anyone interested in all forms of engineering.
Funny you should ask about the Fergie, my oldest son has an agricultural contracting business and had to power harrow and reseed a local council's playing field. He turned up this morning asking if he could borrow the Fergie to spread the grass seed over an acre as his tractors were too large for the seed spreader, so the Fergie does get the odd airing now and again.
I did start occasionally working for him but we had differences on how things should be done and my knowledge of operating all singing and dancing modern tractors was rather inadequate. (That doesn't stop him from lining up a collection of broken implements for welding/repairing though.) I spent a few summers tedding with a MF135 and a 35X, both had those wonderful sounding 3 cylinder Perkins engines, and using an old square baler with a sledge with a later MF but he has got rid of all the good old stuff and now has fancy New Holland tractors with all this new fangled electoronicals or some such stuff.
All the best Geoff.
Last edited by Barney; 18/07/17 4:55 PM.
