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there,s also a lad with a leather coat, that would have been very rare back in those days
I think that tractor and horses were at a ploughing match in Canada in the 1930,s probably 1936 or later . It may have been on a University farm . Not sure of the make of the tractor.
Somebody asked me did any of the old machines survive . I was in Bradshaws getting an air filter and met Noel Glynn and I showed him these pictures . It was their Steam engine and they have it restored and they still own it . So 84 years later it is only two miles up the road .
Arthur
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I knew they were slow on the road but had no idea they were that slow...............:oops2:Somebody asked me did any of the old machines survive . I was in Bradshaws getting an air filter and met Noel Glynn and I showed him these pictures . It was their Steam engine and they have it restored and they still own it . So 84 years later it is only two miles up the road .
I think this is her 84 years on heading for Stradbally . It would have been a novelty for the Treshing Crew of 1932 to have their photo taken . They would be astounded to know their image would be bounced around the World in the next Century .
When the steam thrashing days were over they had a Lanz combine. It was a bagger, 7 or 8 ft cut and a 3 man job, a driver and 2 on the sacks. My memory of it as a small lad with short pants was sitting on the sacks going up and down the field. The cutter bar would choke up, so someone would climb down and kick at it for a while with their boot, until it started clattering again and off we would go again
had a john deere 710 , it was a lanz back end and a jd engine and front axle and they were the first european built deeres i think, a great tractor 1967 with power steering and 540 and 1000 pto also had a special road speed gear that not everyone knew about
AYF
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Was that the same kind of road gear as the nuffield's had? (Think it was nuffield)had a john deere 710 , it was a lanz back end and a jd engine and front axle and they were the first european built deeres i think, a great tractor 1967 with power steering and 540 and 1000 pto also had a special road speed gear that not everyone knew about
According to father it was so fast you either needed a death wish or some serious drugs to use it as the play in the steering system sent them everywhere. Plus stoping was a whole other issue!
Albert Glynn gave the brother and I a behind the scenes tour of the restoration work being done on the famous Eddie Broughan steam engine. He was a larger than life personality that thrashed corn all over the county and hauled beet to the factory with it. It ended life as the stationary boiler for the creamery in Ballon. That's where our milk went to back in the good old days of hand milking and milk churns!! There are still a few relics of that era around the place but luckily I was too small to be involved!!
Last time I saw it they are doing a beautiful restoration of it. Am looking forward to seeing it again next year.
Last time I saw it they are doing a beautiful restoration of it. Am looking forward to seeing it again next year.
don,t know about the nuffields but on this deere it wasn,t dangerously fast, you had to really floor the clutch to get it into gear, another strange thing about it was you had to have the pistons top and dead centre to split her when the clutch was being replaced but it took us a day of pushing and prising her before we found that out:sweat::sweat:
jf 850
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Great to be able to see a wealth of agricultural history again .
Can we look forward to some more instalments?
Johnny Morrison married my Great Aunt Ethel and he was immediately sent to Europe to fight in the trenches. She sailed to England to meet him and when she arrived he was already dead. They were married for less than two months. It must have been a lonely trip back on the boat to Canada . She lived to be over a 100 and died in 1989 and was still talking about him . When her second husband died after fifty years of marriage it was a relief to him not to hear about Johnny any more.
nashmach
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Was that Charlie Haughey coming down to visit you!
jf 850
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Did sell the chopper , to finance the schooner ? More leisurely pace of life , as you matured.
Thanks for sharing 👍.
The kvernland plough was got in 1990 and kept thre years and traded for a six furrow. John Deere 975 got it in 1988 . Brendan Kelly Bouldurragh loading burnt lime with a Cat 910 probably an 1135 on the other end of the lime spreader.
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jf 850
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Tell the more sheltered among us , myself mainly , burnt lime , why ? Is it faster , more potent ? Can't see that it was pleasant stuff to be spreading .